Family Home Evening is a night where we all gather to cheerfully and cooperatively bask in the glow of family.
Sometimes it happens that way.
Here are three FHEs that went pretty well:
- Book of Scripture Picture Match--After talking about the different books of scripture, I wrote the titles on a big flat whiteboard in roughly the order they were written. Then I pulled out pictures from the Gospel Picture Kit and everyone guessed which book of scripture they went with, and I laid it in the right place. (and contrary to what my husband thought this was not an easy way for me to organize my mess of pictures....really.)
- Book of Mormon "Who Said"--Short on time--I finally pulled out "Who Said" for the first time. A game by Covenant that has 2 sets of cards; one with pictures and names of people (good and bad) in the Book of Mormon, and another set with scripture quotes, reference, then a picture of who said it. So we laid out all the people cards, and I would select 3 to choose from and read a scripture quote. We played 2 teams, and if they got it right they kept the person card. There are many versions, and this game would be easy to make on your own. Both of these FHEs were great for assessing what our children (9, 6, and 4y/o) already knew and easily pause to talk if they didn't understand something.
- Read from our Spirit Journal--a blank book we started way back. It has spiritual experiences in it involving our family. I put everything from our 4y/o praying and finding her lost bug catcher to when people have generously served our family.
