FHE Fun

Since February is the month that we think of hearts and love, we had kind of a themed Family Home Evening lesson and activity last night. I used this scripture chase activity and it was really fun. I had no idea that the word "heart" appears in over 1000 scriptures. We talked about why it's important to show love to others and be kind, starting with our own family. I had a small chocolate heart that I gave to everyone after we were done.

After that we did a quick little activity of making each person in our family a simple little mailbox/note holder:

We hung them up on our pantry door where we can see them all of the time. The purpose is to leave each other little notes (or treats ) when we see them doing something nice - or just because. Kendle was excited to see that she already had a little note waiting in hers this morning. We didn't have a lot of time to decorate these, but you could make them with hearts and other things for Valentine's Day if you wanted. It was super simple, just one piece of construction paper per person, a glue stick, a marker, and stickers or whatever else you might have on hand. It will be interesting to see who gets something in their mailbox next.

*Harry Potter party was fun, we munched on treats and popcorn and Kendle kept pointing out all of the things she remembered from the book. Her eyes got VERY big at the end of the movie when things start to get a little creepy, especially the part where Professor Quirrell takes off his turban and Voldemort's face is on the back of his head. I thought her eyes would pop out of her head. Riley and I were trying to not to laugh. We all had a good time, even Morgan got a kick out of some parts of the movie - he liked the music and the owls, oh yeah and about ten pieces of licorice!