General Conference is coming up again and once again I personally am getting excited to listen to the messages that our Prophet, General Authorities, and Church leaders have to share with us. I don't know if I just love Conference time, but I am getting warm fuzzies already, just thinking about it. Most years, watching General Conference has meant that my husband and I gather our children around and do our best to try to keep the kids busy, so we can maybe get a word or two that the Church leaders are sharing. The kids married and then some of them came back to watch General Conference with us, and then there were grandkids, who came too. I can't think of a more wonderful thing to do together as a family, but I do think we need to consider that if our children, who have little attention spans are not kept busy and engaged with conference activities, nobody gets anything out of watching conference. Gratefully the Ensign comes out the next month with the talks, and we can enjoy them to their fullest then.
So... keeping this in mind, I wanted to share some sites where you can go for printables to keep your children busily engaged in Conference with activities, and more.
LDS.org has some cute ideas for children. Here is the link to the page and an example of some of the ideas follow. http://www.lds.org/general-conference/children?lang=eng
This site has a darling and colorful journal to copy for each child with activities in it.
General Conference Activity for Kids http://lds.about.com/od/familyhomeeveninggames/a/fheg_bingo.htm Here is a page of the printable as an examplel:
Conference Bingo http://lds.about.com/od/familyhomeeveninggames/a/fheg_bingo.htm
Preparing our Children for General Conference, Mar. 2009 http://www.lds.org/ensign/2009/03/preparing-our-children-for-general-conference?lang=eng
Enjoy!!!
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