It's General Conference time! I always look forward to the inspiring messages we hear from the Prophet and the apostles on Conference weekend every six months.
To get the kids into the spirit of things, I constructed a little tent reminiscent of the Nephite families listening to their prophet, King Benjamin.
I also invited the kids to play Conference Bingo with charts that had a variety of Gospel topics on them. When they heard a speaker mention a topic on their card, they put a checker on the corresponding square. After the session ended, they could bring me all of the checkers on their sheet and purchase prizes for four checkers apiece. Prizes included little slinkies, bags of crackers, and coupons to choose dinner one night or skip chores on Saturday. Only Joy played Bingo the first session, then when Daniel and Anna saw the cool stuff she earned they wanted part of the action in the next session. I hope that as they listened for their Bingo keywords, they also absorbed some of the stories and messages the speakers shared.
On a side note, every time one of the apostles or a member of the First Presidency spoke, Joy wrote a take-home message from their talk in a special note page she created with her Khan Academy coding skills. It would have been faster and easier to write it all on paper, but I thought it was cool that she made the effort to prepare a special note page for Conference.
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