2. Opening Prayer
3. Poem or scripture reading
John 10
For Younger Children: The
Good Shepherd Flannel Board Story, Friend, Jan. 1999
For Older Children: A
Shepherd's Love, Friend, April 1982
Do one of the above lessons.
Show your family the candy cane. The candy cane represents the
shepherd's crook. It bring the stray sheep back to the
fold. Jesus
(GAK 240 Jesus the Christ) is the Good Shepherd. In John 10:4, it
reads: "And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them,
and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.". Everyone is
very important to
our Heavenly Father and Jesus. How can we be good examples to
others? How can we be missionaries? (How can we help Jesus bring
his sheep back to the fold?)
5. Activity:
The bell "rings out to-guide lost sheep back to the fold".
Let's
pretend we are in a field. Give a bell to each person being the
sheep. Give a family member a stick that has the end wrapped with
aluminum foil (curve it to look like
a crook). Have the sheep hid. Have the shepherd find the sheep by
ringing their bells. Repeat this as
many times as you like.
6. Treats:
Make sugar
cookies or dairy-free
sugar cookies bells or candy canes with your children. Frost
and decorate them. If you make candy cane cookies, frost
them white and make strips by sprinkling colored red sugar
on them.
Eat candy
canes
Take a plate of cookies or candy canes to a non-member family's home or a less active family in your ward.
7. Closing Song: (A Christmas song or Other
Sheep Have I, Friend, Jan. 1977)
8. Closing Prayer
Other Resources
The Meaning of
Christmas
The True Meaning of
Christmas Go down to "Reason for the Season"
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