The Lesson
This week, the Come, Follow Me for Individuals and Families manual asks us to read Matthew 10-12, Mark 2, and Luke chapters 7 and 11. Read these scriptures before getting together with your children so you can know how to best teach them. In the Latter Day Parables, Auggie declares Sunday’s are boring. Mom reminds him of the scripture Matthew 12:12. “Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.” May, Mom, and Auggie think of different things to do on the Sabbath day and ultimately decide to bake and deliver cookies. As they bake, they come up with more ideas!
Explain to your child what the scripture means when it says, “it is lawful to do well.” After reading and discussing the story, try the Sabbath Day Cookies Activity. Start with all the cookies Velcro-ed to the cookie sheet. One by one, have your child remove a cookie and go over the picture beneath the cookie. Once you’ve finished the Sabbath Day Cookies Activity, come up with different ideas for your family on the Sabbath together. Better yet, eat some delicious cookies as you think. You can write these ideas down or have your child draw a picture of an idea (she could draw a picture of the family going on a walk).
What You Need:
- Cut-outs of Auggie, May, and Mom. Print them out on cardstock, cut out, and laminate the cut-outs. If you printed them yet, go to the Original Latter Day Family page. Save your cut-outs in a Come Follow Me 2019 Binder for future use.
- Sabbath Day Cookies Story. Provided below in the Quick Clicks are both PDF and Word copies for you to print out. Store the stories in your Come, Follow Me 2019 Binder.
3. Sabbath Day Cookies Activity. A free colored PDF is available to download in the Quick Clicks below. Print it out on cardstock, cut out, and laminate. Attach each cookie with Velcro to a Sabbath Day activity picture. You can save your activity in your Come Follow Me 2019 Binder.
Quick Clicks
For the Original Latter Day Family Cut-outs page, click here.
For more lesson ideas, click here to see The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ thoughts on this subject.
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It’s so fun to hear how everyone plans to incorporate the parables in their lives! I haven’t heard from someone who is using these for a primary class yet! How exciting! That age group is exactly what I’m aiming for!