Why it's important

Idea by Deanna Holdsworth
 

I did the lesson centered on the Word of Wisdom so we read that section out of the D&C and we talked a lot about why the Word of Wisdom is so important. I was hoping to do the food pyramid charts and have the girls glue on the different foods but no matter how hard I looked I couldn't find magazines or such that had each of the different foods or if I did find things I couldn't find enough. So, I contacted my local health department and asked if they had anything with the food pyramid on it and they said they had some nice color handouts and nutritional things geared towards the ages of my girls.

So, I got those and they were wonderful!! I wound up only getting handouts for the girls and not any for myself or the other leader and I wished I had gotten them for us too because they were great. I handed them out to the girls and we discussed the food pyramid and it went really, really well. They didn't see how they could eat all of the recommended food servings but when we started to discuss all the different types of food they eat they quickly understood that they do eat better than they thought. I bought some fresh fruit and had it all cut up into bowls such as strawberries, bananas, pineapple etc. it looked so beautiful sitting on the table in the bowls . I had the girls line up and help themselves. I thought if there was any left I would make fruit salad for my family that night. Do you know, those girls ate every last bite of everything I had out!!! They gobbled up the fruit and there wasn't anything left. I thought the lesson went very, very well.

We did a lot of talking but the girls stayed connected and they didn't tune out. I even had something for them to color, a pretty picture of a fruit bowl I got out of a family home evening idea book and I put a scripture quote on it. I was going to have the girls color in the picture for fun but we spent so much time talking and sharing that there wasn't time so I had them take it home to color it. I really fussed over this lesson because it was simpler in nature in the respect that I didn't have anything for the girls to actually do with their hands except for the picture to color but you know it turned out so well and I really believe it's because the lesson was based on the scriptures and the spirit was there and that's all that really matters.