Doctrine (What?): Jesus is our Creator. He created the world as a place for us to be tested, because He loves us. His creations include the sun, moon, stars, land, water, animals, plants, and people.
Principle (Why?): We can feel God's love when we view the creations of the earth.
Applications (How?):
- Display a picture of Jesus and pull out a wrapped present. Ask them who gave them this gift? (Jesus!) Have them open the present. Inside have a picture of the earth and creations. First pull out the earth then have each child place one of the creations on the earth.
- Bring several stuffed animals in a bag. Make the animal sound and have the children guess the animal then give each child an animal. Talk about how Jesus Christ created animals and that He is happy when we take care of them. Pretend to take care of the animals by giving them a hug, feeding them, giving them a drink, washing them, and putting them to sleep. I was surprised at how much the kids in my class LOVED this and they even calmed down and got quiet when we put the animals to bed (one even ran over and turned off the light). You could also sing *The World is So Big and talk about "animals big and animals small."
- Jesus Christ also created animals in the ocean. We took turns fishing for each of these creatures. Over and over again during the lesson I emphasized this sentence "Jesus Christ created _____ because he loves me!"
- Go on a walk outside and find items like grass, sun, trees, dirt, rocks, and flowers. We did not end up going outside but I had planned to show them the sign language for each of these creations in the classroom and then repeat them outside.
- Bring a step stool and a picture of a mountain. Then have each child "climb" a mountain.
- Color the book at the end of the lesson.
*The nursery leader in my ward conducts music time for each nursery class and does an AMAZING job. She incorporates songs that go with the week's lesson so I don't usually do music during my lesson since she is so comprehensive.
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