Jesus Christ Is the Son of Heavenly Father

For our Active Faith to accompany this LDS Primary lesson, Jesus Christ Is the Son of Heavenly Father,  as taught to 3 year olds, I pondered on a method to make this message meaningful to these young children.  After a few days the idea came to me to make this book that draws a parallel to Jesus' earthly life and heavenly parentage, and that of each child's.  Since it is the beginning of the year and I have been out with illness for the past two weeks, I thought it would help the children get to know me by making an example book using my own pictures.

Materials Used:

• photo album (I purchased these 4X6 photo albums from the dollar store)
• printed pages (click here to print the pages)

Here is my book:

For the children's personalized pages in their books, I chose coloring page type visuals.  Before handing out their books, I gave each child the four different pages to be colored.  Once a child finished coloring their pages, I inserted their pages into their book and presented them with their completed book.

Here is the version of the book that each child received:

On the "I am a child now" page the child draws a picture of what they look like currently.

The boys received this page.

The girls received this page.

We had fun as a class "reading" our books together, finding the matching pages and helping each other to find the right page.  I challenged the children to share and "read" their books to their families.

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