"In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners. Disability, death or other circumstances may necessitate individual adaptation. Extended families should lend their support."
-The Family: A Proclamation To The World
Malachi 4:6
6- And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
1. I have a fam’ly tree
With branches by the dozens.
I have grandpas. I have grandmas.
I have uncles, aunts, and cousins.
2. When it’s reunion time,
No matter what the weather,
It is such a happy day
When the fam’ly gets together.
1. Display several photos of extended family members. Ask who they are and tell each ones name.
1- Why are Grandmas and Grandpas important?
2- Why are Aunts and Uncles important?
3- What about nieces, nephews and cousins?
2. Ask your children what things they can do with their Grandparents to help strenghten the relationship:
Family get-togethers
(reunitons, birthday and holiday celebrations)
Working and doing chores together
Recreation activities
(board games, puzzles, playing catch, hunting and fishing, shopping, takings walks and drives)
Chruch-oriented activities
(attending church together, baby blessings, priesthood ordinations, baptisms, temples endowments, sealings)
Family-oriented activities
(Writing and sharing personal histories, vising extended family, discussing ancestors)
Phone Calls and conversation
3. Play a memory game. Place all of the pictures out on the floor. Have everyone close their eyes or leave the room. Remove one of the pictures. When they come back or open their eyes, they will need to figure out what family member is missing.
4. Grandparents and extended family can be great role models and be friends and playmates to their grandchildren.
Testify of the importance of extended family and how we need to get to know them.
1- Look at old family photo albums.
2- Play Water Balloon Catch
Popcorn S'Mores
Scripture
Malachi 4:6
6- And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Hymn
I Have a Family Tree-Primary Song # 1991. I have a fam’ly tree
With branches by the dozens.
I have grandpas. I have grandmas.
I have uncles, aunts, and cousins.
2. When it’s reunion time,
No matter what the weather,
It is such a happy day
When the fam’ly gets together.
Lesson
Gather some family photos of extended family members. Explain who each person is and then play a memory game.1. Display several photos of extended family members. Ask who they are and tell each ones name.
1- Why are Grandmas and Grandpas important?
2- Why are Aunts and Uncles important?
3- What about nieces, nephews and cousins?
2. Ask your children what things they can do with their Grandparents to help strenghten the relationship:
Family get-togethers
(reunitons, birthday and holiday celebrations)
Working and doing chores together
Recreation activities
(board games, puzzles, playing catch, hunting and fishing, shopping, takings walks and drives)
Chruch-oriented activities
(attending church together, baby blessings, priesthood ordinations, baptisms, temples endowments, sealings)
Family-oriented activities
(Writing and sharing personal histories, vising extended family, discussing ancestors)
Phone Calls and conversation
3. Play a memory game. Place all of the pictures out on the floor. Have everyone close their eyes or leave the room. Remove one of the pictures. When they come back or open their eyes, they will need to figure out what family member is missing.
4. Grandparents and extended family can be great role models and be friends and playmates to their grandchildren.
Testify of the importance of extended family and how we need to get to know them.
Activity
1- Look at old family photo albums.
2- Play Water Balloon Catch
Treat
Popcorn S'Mores
This stovetop recipe adds popcorn to the original campfire version of s'mores and turns the familiar snack into an easy, portable treat.
Note: Kids can form the popcorn s'mores into balls using plastic sandwich bags as gloves.
Note: Kids can form the popcorn s'mores into balls using plastic sandwich bags as gloves.
- Ingredients
- 1 cup light brown sugar, firmly packed
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 cup corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 10 cups freshly popped popcorn, cooled (do not use air-popped popcorn, as the kernels are too delicate for the hot syrup)
- 1 (10 1/2-ounce) package mini marshmallows
- 2 cups mini graham cookies (we used Teddy Grahams)
- 1 cup chocolate chips
- Instructions
- Combine the brown sugar, butter, and corn syrup in a medium saucepan and cook over high heat for 5 minutes (this mixture gets very hot). Remove from the heat and stir in the baking soda.
- Combine the popcorn and the marshmallows in a large metal or heat-resistant glass bowl (not plastic; the heat could damage it). Drizzle the sugar mixture over the popcorn, then gently stir in the graham cracker cookies and chocolate chips.
- Let the mixture set until cool enough to handle, then using buttered plastic sandwich bags on your hands, form the mixture into golf-ball-sized balls. Store in an airtight container. Makes about 30.
- Combine the brown sugar, butter, and corn syrup in a medium saucepan and cook over high heat for 5 minutes (this mixture gets very hot). Remove from the heat and stir in the baking soda.
