Also see: Cheating, Integrity


 

"Oh what a tangled web...." activity and treat idea... 
Take a Trip to Honesty-ville (An idea for a Primary Quarterly Activity)
The Lying Snake



Family Home Evening Lesson on Honesty
Honesty Family Home Evening by Natasha Zandbergen
Honesty is the best policy
Honesty Family Night 
Honesty from Church Manual
Honesty-The Lie Monster (Family Home Evening Lesson/Sharing Time)
We were having a little trouble with our children not being honest with us. We addressed it during FHE. We talked about how it was so important to always be honest because if we aren't, it is hard to believe you when you are. We then let the kids play out "The Boy Who Called Wolf". Everyone got a chance to be the boy and everyone got a chance to be the towns people. They also got the chance to say, "Because you weren't honest with us before, we don't believe you and won't get fooled again." It was pretty powerful for our children. Having them act it out was much better for them than just telling the story would have been. (Idea by Linda Leary / ga04102007)
Where there is honesty, other virtues follow



Honesty and Trust - Game idea for preschoolers, elementary and teenagers.  These games would go along well with a family home evening lesson or sharing time.



Honest Hearts
Plastic spiders or bugs with the following attached: "Tell the truth and avoid getting
caught in a web of lies."



Am I sinking?
Better throw it out
White Cake Lie



As Good as Our Bond
Be Honest (with an honesty train)
We Believe In Being Honest by President Gordon B. Hinckley
We Believe in being Honest



A cover up (great object lesson for kids)
Do you want some cake?
Little White Lie
Staying Firm
 

One Liners
Quick Quotes



Be Honest
Honest and Truthful at all times
Honesty, January 1987 Friend
I believe in being honest from Sept. 1993 Friend
 

A Penny's Worth of Honesty, February 1994 Ensign
An Honest Boy, March 1987 Friend

Camel Story
Honest Morgan from March 2007 Friend
I can trust you, or can I?
I will be honest - from the June 2006 Friend
I wouldn't cheat - From October 2006 New Era
Jacob Hamblin - A Trustworthy Pioneer (for young children)
Matt & Mandy (simple story from the Friend)
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The Cherry Tree (George Washington)
The Emperor's Seed
The Empty Pot
The Honest People of Ammon
The price of Integrity
The Symbol of Honesty
True....or....False
Which Tire?
Who you are is as important as what you do



As Good as Our Bond by Sheldon F. Child, Ensign, May 1997, 29–30
Be Honest by David Bednar
Ethics and Honesty by David B. Haight, Ensign, Nov. 1987, 13–15
Honesty–A Moral Compass by James E. Faust, Ensign, Nov. 1996, 41–44
Three Towels and a 25-Cent Newspaper by Bishop Richard C. Edgley

We Believe in Being Honest by Gordon B. Hinckley, Ensign, Oct. 1990, 2–5
We believe in being honest by Mark E. Peterson



Pinocchio - This is a great movie to help young children relate to honesty.  Explain that our noses will not grow like Pinocchio's, but each us has been blessed with a conscience.