I'm a Mormon and we have this thing called enrichment night also known as *family home evening* It normally takes place on monday afternoons and we are suppose to do something fun together that would also be religious. I am holding family home evening and I don't have any money right now. So let me get straight down to the question: Do you know of anything fun that would be spiritual and free and able to be done within an hour?
Thank you so much. You don't have to be LDS to answer.
2007-03-05 11:56:10 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
One thing that I made one time during a Young Women activity was an FHE jar. On slips of paper, a theme, hymns, scriptures, and discussion questions were listed. When we needed a fairly short, but meaningful Family Home Evening, we pulled a slip of paper form the jar and simply did what it said.
2007-03-05 13:26:31 · answer #1 · answered by cdaae663 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it's fine outside, take the kids outside and do a scavenger hunt....talk about how Heavenly Father made the earth and everything in it and how we are responsible to use it wisely, how we need to be grateful and how beautiful the world is. End by playing tag or running around or something like that.
We had a night of fire preparedness...we got a fire drill together and had a plan of how and where to meet in the event of a fire.
Also, other emergency preparedness meetings are an essential idea. And this is something you should include your extended family on. If something truly catastrophic happened (say Hurricane Katrina) where would you go? If you were separated, what's your meeting place? What's your secondary meeting place? How do you keep in touch with no phones? That sort of thing.
Play games. Look at books, especially the illustrated scriptures. (Can you tell I have two little children?) Talk about Heavenly Father and Jesus and the Holy Ghost. Sing Primary songs. Work in your garden together. Learn to bake bread. Talk about canning. Talk about things you can do for the elderly, the shut-ins and other people who need a little sunshine. Write letters to missionaries and grandparents...even if they live close by, it's nice to get mail! Tell the story of the life of a modern-day prophet. This year we are studying President Kimball. Paint or draw pictures. Get your camera out and take individual pictures of each child. Talk about how they are unique and special. Pull out a picture of your temple and talk about the beautiful blessings of the temple. Write a story together. Write a song together. Have everyone share something that no one else in the family knows about them. Have everyone talk about their goals. Write letters to be opened a month, a year, and five years from now.
The possiblities are endless. Good luck and have a great time! Family is the one of the greatest blessings of mortality.
2007-03-07 22:28:05 · answer #2 · answered by Fotomama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take a game from home that includes more than 4 players, and turn it into LDS version. Like Scattagory. Use only Book of Mormon items/people/verses. Also, include Prophets or historical LDS (Joseph, Hyrum, Emma, Brigham). Also works for Picture It (or what ever that game is called where you can draw pictures but not speak). Goes for a long time, especially if you're having fun.
2007-03-06 00:14:09 · answer #3 · answered by Red 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll just give you one example of what you could do for family home evening, it's what we did last week, and it could be spiritually uplifting assuming everyone involved is willing to avoid contention.
It's a game called bus stop and I'll do the best that I can to explain it. So all the participants have to agree on categories. If you wanted it to be more spiritually uplifting, you could pick more spiritually motivated categories. After that, one person times while another says the alphabet in their head. When time is up, the person who was saying the alphabet tells all the participants the letter that he or she left off on when time ended, this will be the letter that will be used. One person then sets a timer and everyone writes down one thing from each of the categories that begins with the letter that was randomly selected. If one person fills out an answer in all of the categories before time is up, they call out "bus stop" and everyone else has to stop at that point. After this, everone tells everyone else their answers. If your answer in common amongst anyone else you get one point, but if your answer is the only one, you get two points. You can play as many rounds as you want.
I hope I explained everything to you sufficiently. It also may be noteworthy that I attend a YSA family home evening, and this may not be suitable for small children.
2007-03-05 20:17:59 · answer #4 · answered by www 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ok... get a brick.... discuss all of the sacrifices made by those who constructed the Nauvoo Temple... then have everyone in the family take a turn holding the brick and telling every other member of the family what thay appreaciate about the sacrifices they make for their family members... do this by pioneer candle-light....that oughtta do it.
2007-03-05 20:01:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reading bible verses doesn't cost anything
A short movie of the family type - rated G
A family orientated board game
You could ask the Bishop...
2007-03-05 20:03:20 · answer #6 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋