NEW TESTAMENT 2023 KIDS CFM ACTIVITY PRINTABLES BUNDLE (JAN - JUNE & JULY-DEC)
This Come Follow Me 2023 Kids Activity Book for Families & LDS Primary gives you simple, easy Come Follow Me printables for church and home.
With activity suggestions for every week of the month (Jan-June), you'll always have something quick and easy to give your kiddos to further engage them in the lessons each week while giving them plenty of variety* and fun while learning!
(42+ PGS of fun for Jan-Jun & lots more July-Dec! - Get when you join the printables library).
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Jesus suffered for me because He loves me. (YOUNGER PRIMARY)
In Gethsemane, Jesus Christ took upon Himself my sin and pain. (OLDER PRIMARY / FAMILY)
What would you be willing to give for someone you love very, very much? Our Savior, Jesus Christ, loves us so much that He gave His own life for us. Jesus suffered and died to save us from death and our sins. This loving act is called the Atonement. Because of the Atonement, we can repent of our sins, be forgiven, and become clean and pure, as Jesus is.
Sing together some of your favorite hymns or children’s songs about the Savior.
Use any of the additional items pictured below while you read the scriptures about Jesus' suffering in Gethsemane.
I can follow Jesus’s example by being obedient to Heavenly Father. (OLDER PRIMARY)
Not my will, but thine be done. (FAMILY)
Object Lesson - to help children and adults think about the choices that we make.
Use house plans, a recipe, a dress pattern, etc., as an example of the importance of plans (i.e. God has a plan for us - we should follow His plan, His will)...compared with making it your way.
[Extension: Make it hands-on by letting the kids actually try to build or make without the directions. After a few minutes, stop and ask if they 'd like some help. If time, give them the instructions and build with the plans).
Help the children memorize the phrase “Not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke 22:42) and discuss what it means. What can we do to obey Heavenly Father’s will? Do we choose God’s will or what we want ourselves? Help the children identify some reasons it is sometimes hard to do what Heavenly Father wants. What blessings have we received by being obedient to Heavenly Father, even when it was hard?
Share experiences when you learned to say, “Not my will, but thine, be done.”
Share experiences of obedience in the scriptures with the Obedience in the Scriptures folder game.
Object Lesson - By obeying God's will you come closer to God.
What You Need: balloon, matches, clear cup
Blow up the balloon. Light some matches and blow them out then stick them in the cup. Place and hold the balloon on top of the glass. Tell the kids the glass is us, the Balloon is God & His will, and the matches are us doing God's will. Help the kids notice the balloon gets sucked into the glass (as we obey God's will, we come closer to Him). Pick he balloon up and point out how the cup is stuck to the balloon. (When we accept and follow God's will, wherever we may go, God will be with us. And wherever God moves, we move with Him).
* Sing "Kindness Begins with Me" and "Love One Another" as you use the Ways to Show Love/Be Kind hearts - choose a heart and discuss what kindness, or lack of kindness, is shown in the picture.
* Use the "Love Thine Enemies" bundle - teaches kids how Jesus showed love to His enemies along with a fun color, cut-and-paste activity on ways we can love our enemies.
How would we answer Pilate’s question “What is truth?” (verse 38).
Let kids fill in the "What Is Truth?" activity page - available in the CFM 2023 Kids Activity Book along with reading/listening to (hymn) these resources:
John 8:32 - And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Doctrine and Covenants 84:45 - For the word of the Lord is truth, and whatsoever is truth is light, and whatsoever is light is Spirit, even the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
