Living the Law of Consecration
Idea by Heather
 

Have ready a bag of candy for each girl. The contents must be exact. Then play some game in which the bags move around from person to person. For example pass the bag until the music stops...hum if you must. When the bag stops then have the girl hand it to the girl next to her. You can make up your own ideas of how to move the bags. After the girls are really watering in their thoughts for the bag have them return the bags to the Leader/Bishop. Each girl has to have a family for this game which may be her own or you may make up a family for each girl. When the bishop gets the candy he meets it back to the girl according to need. One child has six siblings and one child has one. Therefore the amount is different but sufficient for her needs. It is a good time to expound on this principal.

Anyways, I used Hershey Kisses for the candy and had them say the Articles of Faith as they passed the bags of candy around. Then I told them that I was the Bishop and that they had to give me all that they had according to the law and I would distribute them according to each family's needs. I had them use their own families (mom, dad, brothers, sisters) to determine how many candy each girl got. I have 3 girls who are sisters so we had to improvise a little bit for them.

This was a great object lesson and each girl seemed to get a lot out of it. Even my 5 and 3 year old daughters were able to grasp the concept.  I got the idea off of the LDS Activity Days and then adapted it a little bit.  Everyone enjoyed it.