Family Home Evening Activity

Last night we had one of those family home evenings that everyone is going to remember for a long time. I got the idea from Alida at her blog. It really helped illustrate how important each member of our family is, even though we all are good at and like different things.

First we gave each child a little bowl of bake batter.

Then we put a different color or colors of food coloring in each bowl and had the kids stir in their color. We talked about how each of us have things that are a little different like the different colors of the cake batter.

Then each child put a spoonful of their colored batter in each cupcake paper. As each child took their turn spooning in their cake batter, we all said nice things that we like about that child.

After we cooked the cupcakes, we frosted them with chocolate frosting. We all love chocolate frosting the best. We talked about how we have things that are the same that helps to unite us.

When we opened the cupcakes, this is what we saw. We talked about how beautiful of a family we can be when we take all of us and all of our different colors and become one. Kate said she expected the cupcakes to come out all brown and gross. She said these were so beautiful. I think this lesson really helped to illustrate how wonderful it is to have a family with a bunch of different people who have some things the same and some things different, but how when we all work hard to choose the right and to be nice and loving to one another we are so beautiful. We talked about how when Zion comes again, and we are "of one heart and one mind" how there will be people who are funny and people who are serious. There will be people who like fiction and people who only like nonfiction. There will be people who are good at sports and people who are not. But that everyone will work hard doing their part, and all of those different parts will be necessary. For Scriptures we read Moses chapter 7 about Enoch building the city of Zion and how very powerful Zion was. Then we talked about how powerful we can be as a family when we take all of our wonderful differences and become one.