Behold Your Little Ones Lesson 3: I Can Pray to Heavenly Father

Behold Your Little Ones
Written By Camille Gillham

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This week we’re sharing helps for Behold Your Little Ones (Nursery) Lesson 3: I Can Pray to Heavenly Father. Hopefully you’ve learned everyone names by now and have found a schedule that works. If not, don’t worry- you’ll get there.

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Teacher Study

"Sweet Power of Prayer" by President Russell M. Nelson

"The Lifeline of Prayer" by President James E. Faust

"Using the Supernal Gift of Prayer" by Elder Richard G. Scott

Activity Ideas

Small attention spans mean you can do several of these activities while reinforcing the key principle of the lesson throughout the hour.

  • "I am a Child of God" Dice- This is a good review of lessons up until now.  Assemble the dice beforehand to use as a fun way to review and repeat the sentences together.

  • Heavenly Father Hears and Answers Prayers- Glue pictures onto the slider paper instead use it for examples of things we pray about or prompts on how we pray. 

  • Did You Think to Pray?-This one is for older kids if you are doing a FHE or making new goals.  It's a coloring chart for praying in the morning and at night.  You could take the pictures and use them for coloring pages though.

  • I Pray to My Heavenly Father- This is a song that you could teach the children on how to pray.

  • Take Time to Pray- This is a cute poem you could make up actions for.

  • The Gift of Prayer- Coloring page based on Sister Susan H. Porter’s April 2024 General Conference talk. She suggests three things to pray for: Pray to know, pray to grow, and pray to show.

  • How Do We Pray?- Short instructions. Use the photo to show how we bow our heads and close our eyes, etc.

  • Learning to Pray- A worksheet for the kids to draw where they like to pray and how it makes them feel when they pray.

  • I Can Always Pray- A short quiz plus a coloring page about prayer.

  • Teach Me About Prayer- Great “slides” you can use to teach this lesson. There is also this one entitled, What Is Prayer?.

 
 
Print Handouts

  • Our Behold Your Little Ones handout includes labels for bags that help you talk about things you can pray for. We used the wording in the manual to label each. The pictures represent things you can thank Heavenly Father for as well as ask for. Invite your class to draw one and share what it is. They can then put it in the bag they want.

  • What Should I Know About Prayer?- Good for older kids- coloring and quick things to know about prayer.

  • When I Begin to Pray- This is something that you would have to make beforehand, however, it is a good visual reminder on what you have to do to pray- close your eyes, fold your arms, kneel, etc.  The kids would enjoy moving the puppet and taking turns helping this boy prayer.

  • What Shall I Say When I Pray?- A handout to color or you could do the activity where you cut out the pictures and put them under Thank Thee or Please Bless.  Could be a fun reminder to keep and point out before prayers in nursery.

  • Enos Visuals- Half of this handout is Enos visuals that you could make into flannel board characters or just cut out and have the children help you hold up.  The other half of this is more appropriate for an FHE lesson.

  • Juan Learns to Pray- Flip book to color and put together with yarn or this one.

  • How to Pray- A poster with quotes from President Dieter F. Uchtdorf (First Presidency)

  • Heavenly Father, Are You Really There?- A bookmark to make with things to pray thanks for.  You could bring some stickers or cut outs from magazines for them to put on the bookmarks.

  • Talking to Heavenly Father- These pictures would be great to cut out and use somewhere else or to use with the lesson.

  • The Scriptures Show the Way- Scriptural figures that you can use to tell stories of people praying. 

  • Preparing to Pray- A poster on how to get ready to pray- you can use it before prayers as a reminder.

  • Prayer is Reverent Communication- Play memory, cut and paste them or use them to talk about different times to pray.

  • Talking to Heavenly Father- How to act when we pray.

Coloring Pages

Media

Mix things up with some other tools.

Music

Extra Resources

Additional ideas and resources from other sites.

  • This fun file folder game from Kimberly Bourne Design would work well with your lesson. Put it together as you teach different parts or print one for each child.
  • Practice Reverence- You could practice how to be reverent during a prayer by doing a silly game. Have a reverent sign or prayer sign then a crazy sign. When the reverent sign goes up, everyone has to practice by getting in the prayer position and be as quiet and still as can be. When it goes down, they can laugh and run and dance all silly.
  • Reminders- Before each prayer, make a point of reminding everyone what the prayer is for and how to do it.
Camille Gillham

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