Come, Follow Me Activity Sheet for EASTER {April 5th}

    These original activity sheets that align with the Come, Follow Me lessons each week are totally free and easy to print from a Google Doc file.   They're designed to print double-sided 2-to-a-page and are perfect for introducing or reviewing the concepts from the Come, Follow Me lesson.  Our home ward hands them out along with the sacrament programs on Sundays, others use them in their family or Sunday School lessons.  I hope they add an element of fun to your gospel learning and help to engage even the most reluctant learners.  Make sure to come back each week for the latest!   

This activity sheet is based on the CFM lesson for April 5th and contains a coloring sheet, word search puzzle, and fill-in-the-blank scripture.   

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 How fun to have Easter and General Conference on the same weekend!    I have lot of Easter ideas posted here on this blog, so rather than reinventing the wheel, I thought I'd just link to  a list of Easter resources and ideas that I compiled last year.  If you're looking for a little more, here are some scriptures and questions you can ponder together.  

SOME SCRIPTURES TO READ THROUGH

FIND PEACE AND JOY THROUGH CHRIST'S ATONEMENT
Moses 5:9-10 (Adam - find joy on earth through God’s plan)

Psalms 16:8-11 (Joy comes through walking with Christ)

Psalms 30:2-5 (Giving thanks and praise to Christ brings joy even though we have challenges)

Isaiah 12:1-3 (Joy comes through salvation possible through Christ)

Isaiah 25:9 (Joy through salvation possible through Christ)

Isaiah 40:28–31 (strength renewed and wings as eagles - through Christ)

John 14:27 (Christ gives peace)

John 16:23 (Christ has overcome the world and can help us find peace)|

Alma 26:11-12 (Ammon finds joy in miracles wrought by Christ’s strength)


ATONEMENT HELPS US OVERCOME SIN, DEATH, TRIALS, AND WEAKNESSES:

D&C 19:15-16 (we will not suffer if we repent)|

Isaiah 61:1-3 (liberty to captives and opening of prison to those that are bound)

Ezekiel 36:26-28 (give us a new heart)

Matthew 11: 28-30 (give rest to the heavy ladened)

Luke 1:49-51 (Lord does great things for us)

Romans 8:35-39 (nothing separate us from the love of Christ)

Alma 7:10-11 (Christ suffered for us to know what to comfort us in our trials)

Alma 11:42 (Christ’s atonement looses the bands of temporal death)

Alma 58:11 (Christ’s ministry provides promise of our delivery)

Moroni 10:32-35 (we can become perfect in Christ)
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SOME QUESTIONS TO PONDER TOGETHER:  

Why do we celebrate Easter?

Why is the atonement important for us?

End with D&C 59:23 “But learn that he who doeth the works of righteousness shall receive his reward, even peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come.”

When we walk with Christ, we can have joy now, see his miracles, and know that we will eternal life in the world to come!

THIS YEAR'S EASTER MESSAGE: 


Click here to access this week's original printable activity sheet on Google Drive.  



Have fun learning the gospel together!  

EASTER Teaching Ideas/Resources and a CFM Activity Sheet (Apr 20)

 This blogpost features some resources, teaching ideas, and an original half-sheet activity page to complement the Come Follow Me (CFM) reading for  April 14-20, which is EASTER themed.    Click here for an index and links to my CFM blogposts for other weeks.

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 EASTER RESOURCES AND TEACHING IDEAS
Here is a collection of some of the best ideas I've found for teaching about the true meaning of Easter with your families or classes.  Most of these are tried and true  (with the Redheaded Hostess kit being the only exception).   Let me know if you use any of them or if you have any resources you'd add to the list!  I'd love to hear how your lessons go. 

1.  This takes a good deal of prep work and effort, but having an Easter Seder with your family or class would be a unique and powerful way to talk about the Atonement.  We did this as part of an adult Sunday School class a few years ago and loved how visual and hands-on it was. 

 https://powerofmoms.com/easter-seder-a-new-spin-on-an-old-tradition/

2.  This Easter Walk with Jesus requires much less prep than the aforementioned Easter Seder and it was something my kids loved when they were young.

3.   A Special Easter Message for 2025

4. Lessons on the Atonement (#1 {better for kids}, #2 {good for older kids/teens})

5.  a fun Symbols of Easter lesson, an Easter coloring book

6.  Easter Tree Activity:   I found this activity in a 2004 Friend Magazine and thought it would make for a great hands-on activity for either a family or a church class. 


7.  Red-Headed Hostess Easter Kit (for purchase):  If you're just looking for an all-inclusive printable pack that includes study guides, activities, visual aides, teaching ideas...this is a great resource.  It costs $5.50, but it could potentially save a lot of work if you are looking for something ready to go.  

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PRINTABLE CFM ACTIVITY SHEET
These activity sheets are designed to print double-sided and cut in half.  They're perfect for reviewing or introducing the content found in the Come, Follow Me reading each week and would be great used in a classroom or home setting.   I have no children at home, nor do I have a calling working with youth, so I copy these to be handed out with the sacrament programs each week. 

 HERE IS THE LINK FOR THE ACTIVITY SHEET IN CASE IT'S NOT SHOWING BELOW:


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Be sure to bookmark and come back each week for new teaching ideas and activity sheets to go along with the CFM reading.  

Enjoy learning the gospel together! 

CFM Activity Page and Teaching Ideas for April 3 - 9, 2023 {EASTER}

 The New Testament is all about Jesus and Easter is all about Jesus, which means that this week's Come, Follow Me studies is doubly all about Jesus.   See below for some great resources to help you bring the spirit of Christ into your Easter season!  

PRINTABLE ACTIVITY PAGE --including an Easter word search, coloring page, and scripture fill-in-the-blank.  These activity pages are great for handing out with the sacrament programs, as attention activities in classrooms, or as a fun discussion starter for your families as you talk about the CFM reading:   


OBJECT LESSON:  
1.  This takes a good deal of prep work and effort, but having an Easter Seder with your family would be a unique and powerful way to talk about the Atonement.  We did this as part of a Sunday School class a few years ago and loved how visual and hands-on it was.   https://powerofmoms.com/easter-seder-a-new-spin-on-an-old-tradition/

2.  This Easter Walk with Jesus would require much less prep and it was something my kids loved when they were young.  https://thegoldenseven.blogspot.com/2011/04/take-easter-walk-with-jesus.html

QUOTES:  

"However late you think you are, however many chances you think you have missed, however many mistakes you feel you have made …, or however far from home and family and God you feel you have traveled, I testify that you have not traveled beyond the reach of divine love. It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ’s Atonement shines." – Jeffrey R. Holland

"No mortal can cry out, "He does not understand my plight, for my trials are unique." There is nothing outside the scope of the Savior's experience. As Elder Maxwell observed, "None of us can tell Chrsit anything about depression." As a result of his mortal experience, culminating in the Atonement, the Savior knows, understands, and feels every human condition, every human woe, and every human loss. He can comfort as no other. He can life burdens as no other. He can listen as no other. There is no hurt he cannot soothe, rejection he cannot assuage, loneliness he cannot console. Whatever affliction the world casts at us, he has a remedy of superior healing power." Tad R Callister, Infinite Atonement

"Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives." Bruce Hafen

VIDEOS:
The Peace and Hope of Easter from President Nelson:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bACX8BXHuEs


 
Lifting Burdens:  The Atonement of Christ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coef8G5ax6E 

An Apostle's Easter Thoughts on Christ:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpFhS0dAduc  

Church Bible Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAuaSpJ7zGs 

OTHER RESOURCES:  
See here for the catalog of other Come, Follow Me posts and here are some other Easter posts I have--including an Easter Walk with Jesus, a fun Symbols of Easter lesson, an Easter coloring book, a couple lessons on the Atonement (#1 {better for kids}, #2 {good for older kids/teens})

Have a wonderful Easter!   

The Atonement and the Tree of Life

The Atonement and the Tree of Life

SONGS:
"Christ the Lord is Risen Today,"  Hymns, page 200
"He is Risen," Hymns, page 199
"He Sent His Son,"  Children's Songbook, page 34

ATONEMENT SCRIPTURES: 
Alma 34:9--the atonement is necessary or we will perish
Alma 34:14-16--mercy can satisfy the demands of justice
2 Nephi 9:26--atonement saves us from hell
Doctrine and Covenants 88:6--Christ can comprehend all things
Mosiah 13:27-32--why we cannot be saved by just keeping the law of Moses
John 3:16-17--God sent Christ to atone for us because He loves us

EASTER FHE LESSON IDEAS:
Christ's Atonement--with the Parable of the Ketchup
Easter Walk with Jesus--go on a family walk and find objects that symbolize Christ's atonement
Symbols of Easter--a fun lesson to help tie the Easter Bunny into the true meaning of Easter
Easter Coloring Book--a simple coloring book about the life of Jesus and His sacrifice for us

OBJECT LESSON IDEA:
Drops of Awesome

QUOTES: 
"No mortal can cry out, "He does not understand my plight, for my trials are unique."  There is nothing outside the scope of the Savior's experience.  As Elder Maxwell observed, "None of us can tell Chrsit anything about depression."  As a result of his mortal experience, culminating in the Atonement, the Savior knows, understands, and feels every human condition, every human woe, and every human loss.  He can comfort as no other.  He can life burdens as no other.  He can listen as no other.  There is no hurt he cannot soothe, rejection he cannot assuage, loneliness he cannot console.  Whatever affliction the world casts at us, he has a remedy of superior healing power."  Tad R Callister, Infinite Atonement


"Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives."  Bruce Hafen

"I suspect that many Church members are much more familiar with the nature of the redeeming and cleansing power of the Atonement than they are with the strengthening and enabling power. It is one thing to know that Jesus Christ came to earth to die for us—that is fundamental and foundational to the doctrine of Christ. But we also need to appreciate that the Lord desires, through His Atonement and by the power of the Holy Ghost, to live in us—not only to direct us but also to empower us...

The gospel of the Savior is not simply about avoiding bad in our lives; it also is essentially about doing and becoming good. And the Atonement provides help for us to overcome and avoid bad and to do and become good. Help from the Savior is available for the entire journey of mortality—from bad to good to better and to change our very nature."  Elder David A Bednar

“It is through the grace of the Lord Jesus, made possible by his atoning sacrifice, that mankind will be raised in immortality, every person receiving his body from the grave in a condition of everlasting life. It is likewise through the grace of the Lord that individuals, through faith in the atonement of Jesus Christ and repentance of their sins, receive strength and assistance to do good works that they otherwise would not be able to maintain if left to their own means. This grace is an enabling power that allows men and women to lay hold on eternal life and exaltation after they have expended their own best efforts.”  Bible Dictionary

"There is one who understands, who sympathizes. He was misunderstood, rejected, knew supreme loneliness, was poor and had not a place to lay his head, suffered anguish and conflict of mind.  He understands.  He can give pardon and bring peace."  Marion D. Hanks

VIDEOS ABOUT EASTER AND CHRIST'S ATONEMENT

 

Take an Easter Walk with Jesus

“Take an Easter Walk with Jesus”—walk outside, and find and place the following items in a bag while you talk more about Jesus’ atonement.  We do this early in the day as a prelude to an Easter  family home evening.  

A BRANCH—a week before his crucifixion, as Christ entered the city, the people waved branches from palm trees

SOMETHING PRICKLY—his “crown” was made of thorns

A PIECE OF WOOD—for it was out of wood his cross was made

SOMETHING NO LONGER ALIVE—for the Savior truly died

WHITE LINEN (may need to find this at home) —Christ was wrapped in white linen before being placed in the tomb

A STONE –it was a huge stone at the opening of the tomb that the angel removed

SOMETHING LIVING—to remind us that Christ surely lives.  He died and was resurrected. 

 Some of the beautiful sights we saw along the way that gave us the opportunity about the beauty of God's creations. 

Here is one of my kids' collections from the walk. 

My kids really wanted our dog, Rocky, to be the living thing they found as part of the walk. 

Easter Coloring Book: with Scenes from Jesus' Earthly Life

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This is a printable Easter coloring book featuring scenes of Jesus Christ's life on earth. The story of Easter is told simply at a young child's level, with a coloring page to accompany the text.

Click here to see my FHE LESSON INDEX and come back often to look for new lessons and ideas for teaching your family the gospel!

EASTER COLORING BOOK WITH SCENES FROM CHRIST'S LIFE: 



This is just a random visual aid that I had, that could be used for retelling the Easter story or for a quiet activity to keep in a church bag. 

EASTER TOMB VISUAL AID




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Jesus Christ's Atonement FHE Lesson (Perfect for Easter)

We always use this lesson about Christ's atonement the week after the fun lesson about the Symbols of Easter.  While last week's lesson reminds the kids why we celebrate Easter and how to see the teachings of Christ in the fun of Easter, this lesson focuses more about helping children to truly understand the significance of the atonement in their lives.    I think that "The Parable of the Ketchup," in particular, is perfect for helping kids to understand what the atonement is (although for very young kids the story may need to be summarized to a shorter length).  The Visual of the Pits is a powerful hands-on activity for delving even deeper.  I say this almost every week, but this is one of my favorite lessons.  :)

*Check out the newly added  Atonement and the Tree of Life, which includes scriptures, videos, and quotes about the atonement. 

Click here to see my other ready-to-print lessons.  

***If you're having trouble viewing/downloading/printing these lessons, feel free to email me at wawadehut@gmail.com and I will email you the PDF files. *** 

JESUS CHRIST'S ATONEMENT FHE LESSON

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Symbols of Easter FHE Lesson

***If you're having trouble viewing/downloading/printing these lessons, feel free to email me at wawadehut@gmail.com and I will email you the PDF files. *** 

This fun lesson has become a family tradition in our home.   The kids love the story of how the Easter Bunny came to be and I love how it gets them to recognize the symbols of Easter in the fun and hubbub of the holiday.    

Click here to see my other ready-to-print lessons (with more to come every Monday).  Upcoming lessons include The Atonement of Christ and General Conference. 

SYMBOLS OF EASTER FHE LESSON

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