Personal Development Lesson Pages + Powerpoint for Latter Day Saint Goal Development Lesson.

So somewhere between Covid and our ward splitting (a couple times) I am sad to say we hadn't really taught the children in our ward properly about the Child Development Program. 

We decided to hold a special meeting with parents right after sacrament during senior primary's usual class time to go over the program, make sure everyone had a development book and we passed out a personal development handout and give parents and children some right to brainstorm and right down goals. 

I used the papers for this lesson, but since I know a lot of people would much prefer a PowerPoint, I also whipped that up. 

Here's the flow of how we taught the program: 

At the end of the lesson, we gave parents and children about 10 minutes to fill this out. We had this laminated front/back and also gave a dry-erase marker to try to make it fun for the kids and so they can switch up their goals anytime they want to. 

And in case you're more interested in the PowerPoint... this is the flow on super speed. The animations are set to move forward upon the click of the mouse. 

ALL the files for this lesson (paper, PowerPoint, and handouts) are available HERE

Articles of Faith Bracket Tournament - Four Minute to Win It Games - EASY prep, BIG fun Article of Faith activity!!

Articles Of Faith Bracket Tournament: Easy Prep + BIG Fun “Minute to Win It” style games. 

All you need is 30 cups and cotton balls + 15 minutes to prep

Steps: 

1. Fill out a bracket with all the players. Start a new bracket for each game.

2. Play each game until there is a champion. 

3. Each match that is played, the loser answers an article of faith trivia card. 

We had 14 players and it took us about an hour to play all four games. You can ask the Article of Faith question while the next group is getting ready for their turn. 

Trivia cards come with 96 questions... 16 cards for each of the following categories: Fill in the Blank, 

Which Number, True or False, This or That, Guess Who, Finish This. Answers to the trivia question are right on the card for the leader to see (since the leader will read them). Keep and reuse these trivia cards!! These come in hand whenever there’s extra time.

The FOUR games we played: 

We had everyone do this game all at the same time. 

files for this activity are found HERE

Latter Day Saints Primary Basics Bundle - Timeless and Reusable year after year - The for the "no-actual binder" Primary Presidency Binder Bundle

 Latter Day Saint Primary Basics Bundle for the minimalist/practical Primary Presidency! 

While this is primarily an Activity Days blog, I know a lot of leaders out there wear a lot of hats... and this bundle can hopefully make it easier for all leaders, but especially those multi-taskers to have the practical basics of running a Primary program... without the stuff you don't need! 

I know of lot of Primary Presidencies utilize technology - google docs and texting and whatnot for how they operate. In this packet, I tried including everything we ACTUALLY USE outside of the google doc.

 I used colors from the Personal Development color scheme so it's still very on theme... but timeless. This packet can be re-used year after year, regardless of what the Come Follow Me topic is that year. 

Here is what I came up with for this packet: 

1. Room and Chair Signs

We really only use this for the first month or two of the year while everyone is getting used to their new classes. Designed to be cut, laminated and a magnet taped on... so these can easily hang on a metal chair in the primary room and then on the metal door frame of each classroom 

BUT if you don't want to go through that effort... where these are only used for a short time, tape and paper would work just fine. 

2. Assignment Bracelets

So the only assignment we actually hand out in our ward the week before is TALK. Then we just ask a volunteer for prayer and Article of Faith (or ward does Article of Faith and not scripture). But in case other wards prefer to assign all the things, they are all here. 

These are designed to be put taped on a child's wrist so hopefully the assignment makes it home to a parent to can help them with their talk for the next week. We also send a reminder text to the parent on Saturday.

 

3. Article of Faith Signs

I would laminate these and then each month pull out a different card. We have one child come up to the pulpit and say the Article of Faith before we all sing it together. 

4. Happy Birthday Cards 

I made 6 different cards so depending on what your ward decides to gift each month (if you do) you can pick which size birthday card works best. 

5. Child Development Handout

Whether you have an awesome Activity Days program or not... I think this tool is awesome to help get kids working on their goals! I would give this handout to all senior primary members each January. Bonus if you can laminate it and give a dry-erase marker with it.

That's it! I really couldn't think if anything else we actually use! You can get this bundle here.