December can be busy and crazy! So hopefully adding these jokes to your next family home evening will lighten things up and add some laughs. A great gift to give is my favorite joke book Rejoice! Clean Humor. It has a great collection of all kinds of amusing things. FHEasy: A Year of Weekly Teachings […]
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Free Independence Day FHE Ideas
The United States Independence Day is next week! Here’s a free, fast FHE on to help you celebrate! It’s one of the family home evening ideas from my newest project: Family Night Made Easy: A Year of Instant Lessons and Uplifting Activities. All 52+ recipe-card-sized cards are formatted like the one on the right. The […]
Favorite FHEasy Object Lessons
Object Lessons: A Great Teaching Method Object lessons win the prize for a memorable family teaching method. An object lesson is a lesson where a physical object is used to illustrate a point. Here are my personal favorites: The Floating Orange, Is It Immersed?, Both Sides of the Stick, and Just Pick Up the Treat […]
Ideas for Easter FHE
Easter is next Sunday! The celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ! The reason Christians have hope and belief in life after death! Hallelujah! This is a wonderful time of year and a great reason to celebrate in our families. And … like all holidays in the United States, it’s been very highly commercialized. So […]
Quick Video for FHE Tonight!
Wow! Wasn’t general conference amazing? In the last talk of conference, Elder Cook said: If there is one preeminent objective of general conference, it is to build faith in God the Father and our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. The talks that I heard definitely helped me feel closer to Heavenly Father, the Savior, and […]
7 Christ-Centered Christmas Quotes
In my first family home evening and family scripture study book, I had a whole month of FHE lessons and scriptures devoted to Christmas. It was great! The problem was that things went right over my kids’ heads since they were pretty young at the time. Book two was tailored to kids ages eight and […]
3 Tips for Avoiding Christmas Chaos
I know. It’s still November and we just had Thanksgiving. Why are we talking about Christmas already? For those of you familiar with my FHEasy principles, you know I like to be ahead of my game. And, let’s face it, if we don’t approach the Christmas season knowing what we want to do and experience, […]
Make Thanksgiving Shine
Living with an attitude of gratitude is encouraged by many leaders in the spiritual and personal success realms. In honor of Thanksgiving next week, I’ll share some favorite quotes on living with thanksgiving, but today I want to point out that Thanksgiving is couched between two of kids’ favorite holidays: Halloween and Christmas. How can […]
Sunday-Sundae Object Lesson
Today I want to share with you a fun object lesson that I use in FHEasy in the “Sabbath Day Observance” lesson: making a yummy sundae (BTW – This activity was adapted from Richard R. Eubank’s book Is There an Object to Your Lesson?, page 66.) Set out a couple flavors of ice cream and […]
Quick FHE Conference Followup
Wow! What an amazing conference! For the FHE following conference we simply talked about what stood out to us as we watched conference. My two older girls and my husband all talked about Carl Cook’s story about his grandpa hollering, “Per ‘er in compound, Dorothy!” They remembered the visual of the gears working together. I […]