FHE: Follow the Prophet: Enoch

We've been pretty hit and miss with FHE since Adelia was born. I'm really hoping we're getting back into the swing of things. We're still working on our Follow the Prophet song...I love that that song has so many versus, it just makes planning so much easier when all I have to do is pick one. :) Tonight we did Enoch.

So of course we started by singing the song, the Enoch verse goes like this:

Enoch was a prophet
He taught what was good
People in his city did just what they should
When they were so righteous that there was no sin
Heavenly Father took them up to live with him.

Then we read the Enoch story out of the scriptures (which actually happens to be in Moses chapter 7, I always thought it was in the Bible. Go figure.)

For the activity, I showed the kids a picture of Jesus and explained that Jesus lives up in Heaven with Heavenly Father. I put the picture on the back of the couch and told them that was going to be Heaven, and down on the floor was Earth, where Enoch lived. I told the kids that Enoch and his people were trying to build a righteous city. We got out our white board and our wooden blocks.  We told the kids that being righteous meant doing good things that would make Jesus happy. We asked what are some things that make Jesus happy? And prompted them to come up with things like scripture study, prayer, going to church, taking the sacrament, listening in nursery, sharing toys with each other, helping Mom, etc. And for every thing they said they got a block so they could "build a righteous city" on top of the white board.

When they had a decent sized city built (and rebuilt, since Ivan knocked it over a couple times), Aaron lifted the city up into Heaven to be with Jesus (up on our couch).

We sang the song one more time, and called it good. I have no idea if they understood any of it, but they did have a lot of fun building the city.