Lamanite Lemonites - Make Lemonites out of Lemons

Alma 23-27

The people of Ammon and the Lamanite conversion. 

Every year I get a ton of lemons from our lemon tree.

I literally had a wheelbarrow full of lemons.  I had made lemon juice.  I had made lemon candy.  I had made lemon squares.  I still had a ton of leftover lemons, so when I saw lemonites on the 

LDS Seminary Teacher Group page

I just HAD to do it!  I know that it's not as spiritual as most lessons, but once in a little while it's nice to do something fun.

Here's how we did it.

List of supplies:

colored feathers

pipe cleaners

small dixie cups

toothpicks

small marshmallows

adhesive googly eyes (I did not want to use a glue gun)

The adhesive googly eyes came in a package that I got at Walmart

 but here is a link on Amazon.

The students had a great time.

As the students made the Lemonites I gave the lesson.

I really tried to give it the twist of making something sweet out of something sour.  I made this handout to go with the lesson.  Each student was to write a way that they could make a sour problem into a sweet problem.  It's a way of looking at problems as a growth experience for our good.  

 I printed them out on yellow paper.

I had the students fill out the lemons with ideas.  

We put the lemons on our tree of life that I had on our bulletin board.

I also served them some lemonade

with some lemon squares

and even some lemon peel candy  

Please check out my other Book of Mormon ideas by clicking here.

Free printouts for a LDS Missionary Welcome Home

I have had all of my children return from missions and have never made signs to print for them.  Can you believe it?  Now my nephew is returning home from the Philippines the day before my granddaughter's baptism and I want to be ready for both.  We are having both parties at my house so I need some quick change ideas.  In preparation I made these signs early so we can change it out quickly.  I thought that others might appreciate being able to print mission homecoming signs quickly so I am posting them on my blog.

Printing:

To print these out just click on the picture to make it large.  Then right click and save it into your pictures or copy and paste it into your printing program.  

I have two sizes.  The large ones we are going to hold.  The small ones are for a banner.  You can use them however you would like.

Here are a couple of blank pages that you can add their mission, or your own idea.