Aug A Priesthood Power (Jenkins)

 For this lesson, I'm going to focus on Priesthood Power.

I found this really cute song from The Friend 2018 that has a video. I'm not going to teach the song, but use it to support the pictures on the handout. I'm banking on the kids wanting to watch it again, which I think is a great idea. First we'll talk about all the pictures on the page (I beefed up the amount of pictures to match the video). It's a half sheet because we just have a little table in the room. pdf here


After we talk about each picture, I'll get out the puzzle pieces (precut so no one is decapitating the prophet, they ARE six). Hmm, maybe the kids will be distracted by the puzzle pieces. Perhaps I'll be flexible and let them make the puzzle first. It's double sided because I wanted to point out that because the priesthood was restored, in particular, the Melchizedek Priesthood, we have temples where we use the Priesthood to get even more blessing in our lives as well as move closer to our Heavenly Father through the covenants we make. Then we'll use the puzzle pieces as markers for when we watch the video/song. Last time I tried to use M&Ms, and some don't like M&Ms. My kids grew out of food motivators, so I shouldn't be surprised. Have them cover up the picture the song/video talks about. Last time we ate the M&Ms as we came to the picture, but these puzzle pieces will hide the pictures too much. 

It will be a little tricky sending this through the printer twice or double sided, or you can glue the two sides together. Younger kids might need less puzzle pieces and less pictures to focus on. puzzle pdf here

This week's real handout here

"With Priesthood Power" video, lyrics, sheet music PDF here


If there's time in the end, we can color the line drawings on our picture page. All pictures are taken from the church website. Thank you again Beth Whittaker for your plethora of pictures you've contributed over the years! 


Comments

  1. W/Love KAugust 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM

    At the last minute, I decided we would just point to the pictures during the video, half participated. We talked about them before hand, but I really had a hard time getting their attention. Perhaps there were too many pictures and not enough pertained to them. Before I got out the puzzles, I asked them if they liked puzzles. Half did and could do it on their own. The other half got help from teachers and they liked it. But one student felt like it was a competition and bad that he wasn't as far along as the others. It's hard to share, but it's also hard to have your own.

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