Priesthood Ordinances and Temple Work Bless My Family

Happy June, Primary Friends!
Summer is coming, and that means great weather, no school, and LOTS of free time!  I've uploaded the June 2014 Newsletter, and here are some other things you can do if you're feeling bored.  (By the way, don't use that word if you can help it!  If my mom ever heard us say we were "bored", she had a whole list of chores for us to do!)

Anyway, summer vacation is a great time to work on memorizing the Articles of Faith.  Here's a great interactive tool to get you started:  Articles of Faith Memory Quest

Here's a short play you can put together with some friends or for Family Home Evening: The Magical Marvelous Magnificent Club

Try the Salt Lake Temple Puzzle or you can color online, too.

Read My Dad, My Friend, and think about how you can prepare to be a mom or dad someday.

Here's a fun logic puzzle from the June 2008 Friend:

Gifts for Father

Each of the four Collins children, including Amanda, decided to make gifts for their dad. One of them made a giant chocolate-chip cookie. From the clues below, can you discover who gave each gift?

1. Elizabeth doesn’t bake cookies.

2. Stephen did not make the picture frame, but his brother did.

3. One brother made the scripture bookmark and one of his sisters made the card with heart stickers on it.

4. Alex and Stephen want to be just like their dad.

1. ____________ made the giant chocolate-chip cookie.

2. ____________ made the picture frame.

3. ____________ made the scripture bookmark.

4. ____________ made the card with the heart stickers on it.

And finally, our song this month is Truth From Elijah.

Families Are Blessed When They Follow the Prophet

Hello, Primary Friends and Families!
I'm a little late getting this posted, but here's the May 2014 Newsletter.  Here are some of the fun things I found while I was preparing the newsletter this month:

Follow the Prophet Seek & Find

2 Word Puzzles

Follow the Prophet Maze

For Mother's Day, here's a cute flower craft and a breakfast idea for your mom, grandma, aunt, or any other special woman in your life.  You can also watch this video together.

Finally, here is our song for this month:

Right-click on the song, and choose "Open image in new tab".  It will be larger and easily readable.  (And printable too!)

Jesus Christ Is Our Savior

Hello Friends!

Happy March!  Spring will arrive later this month, and I know I am ready for it!  I've also got the newsletter ready for this month, and as always, I'm excited to share it with you: March 2014 Newsletter 

 Sing along with the song for this month and look at the beautiful photos and artwork.

Here are some other neat things I found:

Young Jesus Teaches in the Temple

Family Home Evening Idea: the Atonement

Read “Rescue” (March 2005 Liahona and Friend) to find out how one boy learned more about the Atonement. Either make copies of the activity “Remembering Jesus Christ” (March 2005 Liahona and Friend) for each family member or cooperate as a family to complete one framed picture. For each section of the frame, name a way you can better remember the Savior.

Here's the Good Shepherd Game. There are instructions for 2 different activities.

For a treat, try making Ice Cream Sheep. Scroll down to the bottom of the page

And finally, here is my favorite Primary song about the Savior.


See you in Primary!

Love,
Sister Ellis

See What's New!

Hello Primary Friends!

I'm going to try something new.  There are always so many things I want to include in the newsletter, but I just don't have the room or multimedia capability on a single sheet of paper!

I thought I'd start a blog where I can include little "extras"--videos, Family Home Evening ideas, and other fun stuff I find as I put together the newsletter each month.  Parents and kids, you can read all about what you'll find on this blog to the right of this post.  It's just right over there  ---------->

To start, here's a link to this month's newsletter:
February 2014 Newsletter
You can download and print it, or just take a look.

And here are a couple of those "extras" I came across:

Learn the song for February:

Get inspired:

And have some fun with this Missionary Maze!