General Conference weekend was wonderful. I love the spirit that is felt in our home as we listen to our leaders. I was excited for this conference weekend especially because I wanted to make sure Jason understood what conference was, why we watch it, and who we were listening too.
We started out by having a special conference family home evening the Monday before. We had a lesson on watch towers and how Heavenly Father gives us a prophet and apostles who are like watchmen on a tower, warning and teaching us because they can
see more than us. We then read about
King Benjamin who constructed a tower to stand on to teach his people and how his people set up their tents with the door facing the tower so they could listen to their prophet. We constructed our own paper tower. We taped pictures of of our prophet and the apostles on the watchtower and made sure to tape it on the wall next to the T.V. so we could look at it and remember while we watched conference. Our lesson ended with a marshmellow/toothpick tower making competition. Benj won by a fraction with a
slightly taller tower than mine and Jason said he couldn't quite make a tower so he constructed the water pipes that ran through all of the tents so the people of King Benjamin could drink from drinking fountains :-).
Saturday morning before conference started we set up our little "reverence" tent in front of the t.v. I also put together a basket of goodies for Jason to work on while we watched. I printed out a packet of activities from
Sugardoodle, put in some file folder games, and included some snacks. I also made some prophet/apostles flash cards that Jason flipped through when there was a new speaker. He put a sticker on the person talking and we quickly read on the card who it was and some fast facts about him. I also discovered a fabulous new website called
Scriptures 4 Kids. Jason had fun quietly playing that through some of conference as well.
All in all everything worked great and helped my little 3 (almost 4) year old stay quiet and reverent. He was excited to work on his conference things and I know Benj and I felt the spirit thanks to quiet children that let us watch and listen. Thank goodness both sessions coincided with nap time for the most part for the girlies!
We love fall! We especially love October because of the fun things we get to do like go to pumpkin patches. Jason had his first field trip with his preschool class today. We had fun at our favorite fall location, the Lake View Farm.
