Want a fun way to tie family home evening to St. Patrick’s Day? How about a whole activity using THREE-leafed clovers? It’s one of my very favorite things to do for family home evening because it helps my family focus on our “small” daily blessings. Looking for and appreciating only the “big” blessings is like […]
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Favorite Images for FHE Starters
Showing pictures is a GREAT way to start or enhance your family home evenings. Below are links to some awesome images you can use for family home evening. Chocolate Treats for FHE or Valentine’s Day Since its February and the month of Valentine’s Day, love, and chocolate (at least for lots of people I know), […]
10 Fun Jokes for FHE
December can be busy and crazy! So hopefully adding these jokes to your next family home evening will lighten things up and add some laughs. A great gift to give is my favorite joke book Rejoice! Clean Humor. It has a great collection of all kinds of amusing things. FHEasy: A Year of Weekly Teachings […]
Favorite Videos for FHE
Watching a good video can be a great way to start or enhance a family home evening. Here are links to three of my favorite videos on the temple, a kid-friendly introduction to pornography, and what Elder Uchtdorf always keeps in his pockets. Enjoy! “Focus on the Temple” used in FHEasy’s “Agency and Accountability” lesson, […]
Favorite Quotes to Use for FHE Starters
Sometimes all you need is a good quote to get family home evening going. Here are three of my favorites on kindness, gratitude, and the temple that can be good discussion starters. At the end is one of my favorite quotes about family home evening. Enjoy! President Monson on Kindness used in FHEasy’s lesson on […]
Favorite FHEasy Object Lessons
Object Lessons: A Great Teaching Method Object lessons win the prize for a memorable family teaching method. An object lesson is a lesson where a physical object is used to illustrate a point. Here are my personal favorites: The Floating Orange, Is It Immersed?, Both Sides of the Stick, and Just Pick Up the Treat […]
Fast Mother’s Day FHE Ideas
Mother’s Day is next week! Here’s a free, fast FHE on mothers. It’s one of the family home evening ideas from my upcoming project: Family Night Made Easy: A Year of Instant Lessons and Uplifting Activities. All 52+ recipe-card-sized cards are formatted like the one on the right. The left side of the image shows […]
Favorite Fast FHE Treats
“The ones with treats are better” I once read a book by Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard where she said something to this effect: “There are two types of family home evenings – those with treats and those without. The ones with treats are better.” If you agree, you’re in the right place! While I don’t require […]
FHE and Middle School
Reaping what we’ve sown My oldest daughter is almost through with her first year of middle school. I can’t tell you how grateful I have been for family home evening this year. While we’ve talked about dating, drugs, choosing friends wisely, and working hard at gaining an education before, those topics have never been so […]
Mom’s Birthday FHE Ideas
What do you do for family home evening when someone in your family is having a birthday during the week? Well, it’s my birthday this Saturday! The big 3-7. In our family, whoever has a birthday during the week gets to pick the FHEasy lesson, something from the family-home-evening-activity box, and the FHE treat if […]