Make a "He Is The Gift" Paper Box to Hang on Your Tree

I did this project with my seminary class and with my family, but it would be great to do as a church activity. First I showed them the "He is the Gift" Christmas video.  To see the video click on the link below:

http://www.mormon.org/christmas

 Then I had them make a box out of paper.  Inside the box they write what their gift is to Christ this year.

I printed mine on a parchment paper to look like the 1800's but you could use any style of paper that you like.  

Here is the printout:

I printed mine on card-stock, but I think that a nice thick colorful paper would work just as good.

Once it is printed cut along all of the edges. 

Then write what your gift to Christ is in the middle. 

Fold it so that the printed side is on the inside of the box.

Glue all of the edges together then decorate with paper, ribbon, markers, stamps and a bow.  I had the students put a string on it so that they could hang it from their Christmas tree.

Here is the finished gift:

Here is an example of boxes done with many different colors of scrapbook paper.

Visit my fun and free Christmas page for more ideas.

Christmas Nauvoo Style

This year for my seminary class I decided to celebrate Christmas with a touch of Nauvoo. 

 I found this amazing article on the LDS.ORG web site. 

 Here is the link:

 https://www.lds.org/new-era/1973/12/from-a-nauvoo-pantry?lang=eng

I took the exact article and retyped it in and old typewriter font and then printed it out on old looking parchment and handed it out to the students.

Here are the printouts for you:

Front:

Back:

Christmas with the Prophet Joseph Smith

I also found this great article from the Ensign about how Joseph Smith celebrated Christmas: 

https://www.lds.org/ensign/1978/12/christmas-with-the-prophet-joseph?lang=eng

I told a few stories from that.  In this article is the story of Porter Rockwell showing up at a Christmas party.  It was a good time for me to introduce Porter Rockwell to my class.  I also played them the song about Porter Rockwell called "A Modern Day Sampson" from the CD "A Nashville Tribute to the Prophet Joseph".  To see the band's link just click on the picture below.

Treats

For a treat I provided hot chocolate and ginger snap cookies, since ginger snaps are one of the recipe during that time period.  



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I also researched the type of Christmas decorations that were popular during the 1800's and found that they were usually handmade paper ornaments.  Since this Christmas the Church is promoting the "He is the gift" video, I decided to show that video and have them make a "He is the gift" box to hang on their tree.  To see how to make one just click on the picture below.

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D&C Scripture Mastery #9 D&C 19:16-19 Word Search and Puzzle

I printed out the Scripture Mastery below on multi-colored papers and handed them out to the students.  Then they each cut it out to be as difficult as they wanted.  I print them in different colors so that if they mixed up their puzzle with their neighbors they would be able to tell their own.  Then each student practiced putting the puzzle back together. I gave them all a baggie to store pieces in.

To use these printouts for yourself just click on them to make them larger.  Then right click your mouse and save it into your pictures, or copy and paste them into your printing program.

I also gave them each this word search puzzle to work on.  All the words of the scripture are in the puzzle, but each word is only in the puzzle once.  So repeated words will not be in the puzzle an additional time.

On the back of the word search I printed all the Scripture Mastery that we have completed so far.  The students are to write the scripture reference below each clue:

Here is the target front for D&C Scripture Mastery 9:

Target back:

The Seminary in a Sack item for this scripture is a sacrament cup.

To check all the Seminary in a Sack items click on the picture below:

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The Book of Mormon Project - Bookmarks for your favorite scriptures along with your testimony

The CES challenged the students to mark their favorite scriptures in a Book of Mormon and then to give it to someone that they had prayed about.  We wanted to do this as a Seminary with the "Meet the Mormons" project.  We gave the students a Book of Mormon along with this handout so that they could mark the Book of Mormons at home.  Here it is:

After the students have cut out the bookmarks and the testimony box, have them highlight their favorite scriptures.  Have them place a bookmark by the favorite scripture with an explanation of why they like that scripture.  Then have them write their testimony in the testimony box and glue inside the front of the Book of Mormon.  Challenge them to pray about who they should give it to.  Make sure you make one for yourself!

Here is our "Meet the Mormons" Notebook that we put together:

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Create a "Meet the Mormons" - "I'm a Mormon" Book

With the new "Meet the Mormons" Movie that is out, and all of the fun "and I'm a Mormon" videos that are out, our Seminary decided to make a book to give to our Stake President.  Here is how we did it:

Here is the cover of ours:

We printed everything out on white card-stock.  If you want to use the one below, 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 print program.

I designed a more generic cover if you would like to use it:

Then on the first page we put this song.  It is our Stake President's favorite song:

Here is another version done in the chalk board style:

Then we made copies of the page below for each student. We had previously taken pictures of each student so that they were already to go.  We then had them each fill out their own.

Here is a sample one that I did of my daughter:

After they had completed an "I'm a Mormon" sheet we sent them out with a Book of Mormon and this handout to help them know how to prepare for sharing it with a friend. Just click on it if you want to get a copy.

The students had a lot of fun making the book 

and our Stake President loved it!

I hope yours turns out great.

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Missionary Munchies Printable

I made this printout to use with the avery 5163 address labels.  To use it just click on it to make it larger.  Then right click and save it into your pictures, or copy and paste it into your printing program.

Missionary Munchies

I attached them to fruit snacks that I bought at target.  I thought that the fruit snacks were perfect since they were shaped like little fruits.

How to let the Seminary Students teach themselves with no help from you! -Doctrine and Covenants 38, Lesson 42 & 43 Lesson Plan for Seminary

On Halloween I surprised my class by making waffles.  I knew that I would be busy, so I broke up lesson 42 and 43 into small parts so that each student had a section.  I have 26 students, so I needed to use both lessons.  The parts that we didn't get to we finished the next day.  This is how I assigned who got what part of the lesson.

You could do this with any lesson.  I adapted my lessons from the manual by make a few small changes and then broke it up into 25 separate parts (one for each student). I printed out the lesson as it is typed below.  I cut up the lesson by numbers.  Then I folded each part of the lesson and wrote the number on the outside of the folded paper.  I placed the papers in order in a small box and placed the box at the top of the sign in sheet.  As the students came in they took the number out of the box that corresponded with their sign in number.  

Here is the lesson that I did.  It is almost exactly the same as in the manual, except a few little quirks to accommodate having all the students teach it.  To use it click on it to make it large, then right click on your mouse.  You can either copy  and paste it, or save it into you pictures and print it in your printing program.

Lesson 43 & 43 Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Page 5

I hope that this lesson works out for you.  

It really worked out great for my class.  The students always impress me with their knowledge. We got all of it done in time, and I was free to cook waffles while the students taught.

To view LDS Seminary Manual's Lesson 43 click here.

To view LDS Seminary Manual's Lesson 42 click here.

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