Lesson 17

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1. Click here to share your ideas on how you'll present this lesson.

2. Primary 2 Lesson Cards

3. Handout submitted by Melissa Dillon

4. Object Lesson - Priesthood Shoes

5. Lesson Helps from LDS.org

6. Draw some rocks on paper and write one of the blessings we receive through the Priesthood on each rock. Place the rocks in a line down the middle of the class room to represent a road. During the lesson pick up each rock and talk about the blessing written on the rock.

7. The priesthood blesses my life

8. Coloring Sheet - Priesthood Coloring Sheet

9. I made little books using cardstock for front and back pages (1/4 page size) and several sheets of paper for the pages.  I had several small pictures of baptism, sacrament, blessing a baby, administering the sick, etc. that the children could color, cut and glue in their book, or they could draw their own pictures on the pages.  I got the pictures from The Friend on the church web site and probably some of the other good web sites that have LDS Primary pictures on---I can't exactly remember where I got all of them.  The children seemed to enjoy making their books and it gave us an opportunity to review the Priesthood ordinances as they colored and cut them out.  I also found some clip art of angry waves in an ocean and a dark cloudy sky and printed the sky on hard cardstock.  I printed the angry waves in an ocean on plain paper and glued it to the bottom part of the card stock but left a slit open in the middle to put a boat in.  I found a boat in clip art and printed it and attached it to a wooden stick and put it down in the slit.  As I told the story of Jesus calming the storm, I was able to make the boat rock and seem to be tossed with the waves.   I also had a picture of a calm sky and ocean that I could put the boat into and used this as I told the story of Jesus calming the storm.  I  wished I had glued the calm ocean and the angry ocean back to back with slits so I could put the boat in either side by just turning the picture around.  The children in my class loved the visual aid and I don't think it would be too hard to make smaller ones for them to take home and you could encourage them to use their visual aid to tell their family the story. (by Sue / ga05152008)

10. Ashley writes, "This is for Primary 2 Lesson 17. Sue submitted an idea (see idea #6) but didn't have any attachments to it. I just put together the pictures of her boat visual that I thought I'd offer in case anyone else didn't want to go searching for them."  [pdf] [Word]  (Idea by Ashley Crummett / ga05082010)

11. Stilling the wind and waves by Wendy Beus

12. Jesus Christ calms the storm by Wendy Beus

13. Make a house out of paper.  Once they've made their house, have them draw their family inside. 

14. Begin your class with the lights turned off. Ask if they anyone noticed something unusual. Turn on the lights. Talk about the power of electricity that gives light. Discuss what things in homes run on electricity (stove, refrigerator, fans, tools, and so on). Explain that your going to talk about a different kind of power, a power stronger than electricity: the power of the priesthood of God.

15. I started the lesson showing a picture of Superman (found this idea from a Friend article)...and talked about how this CARTOON character has "superpowers". I then said we were going to watch a little video about someone who has real power. I showed the first few minutes of the video Finding Faith in Christ (showing Christ as he calmed the sea). I told them that it was through Priesthood power that the Savior was able to calm the sea. I then had them roll a dice/cube with little pictures drawn on each side (the children in the class aren't real sure about their numbers yet). I had attached the same little pictures on the back of the Big Pictures: blessing of a baby, blessing the sacrament, baptising a child, etc. They will roll the dice and find the picture that matched and we took time to talk about each picture. I then told the story in May 2000 issue of the Friend: "Fear in the Night" which talks about a little boy who received a Father's blessing as he was afraid after watching TV news."  (Idea by maynormom on LDSJrPrimary Yahoo Group)

16. Happy Clean Living

17. Power of God (video clip)

18. The Power of the P-Reese-thood handout from Older and Wiser



19. Priesthood Blessing Book by Jordan WoudenJordan Wouden

20. Laughing and Losing It

21. The Priesthood helps me by David Hill - Power Point Presentation
   
22. Attention Activity - Jesus Calms the Storm