To see/download the lesson plan which includes the 2 inch punch tag for box, scripture list and a template to create a box, click here.
I like to explore how many different kinds of love there are when Valentine's Day rolls around. Romantic love is only one of hundreds of kind of love in the world. This year I decided to talk about the love we can have for God's word, our scriptures.
Nothing (or hardly anything!) can equal the girls' love of CANDY, so we put these two things together.
The lesson talks about how sweet God's word can be to our spirit. It also acknowledges that reading the scriptures can be a difficult task for an 8 year old girl. But like many daunting things, practice really helps! The scriptures I chose are short, and hopefully easy to read and understand, even for an 8 year old.
We did take some time in our lesson to talk about how to find scriptures: they are online, can be downloaded in apps for phones, Kindles and iPads, and many of the girls received paper sets of scriptures at baptism. Some know how to use their scriptures really well, and some were astounded to know there was an index where you could look up where to find 2 Timothy.
The wedding favor boxes I found at Walmart made the creation of the box and scripture treasure sets much easier. I had originally planned to have the girls cut out and fold a template, but this was a lot faster. The fact that the boxes were sparkly was just a bonus!
The lesson plan includes 36 scriptures, so I recommend buying the big bags of Lifesavers. I bought 2, we had about 12 girls come, and had very few Lifesavers left over. 12x36= a LOT of Lifesavers.
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