2011 Primary Challenge Ideas

2011 Challenge - Find opportunities for children to share what they have
read in the scriptures

Ideas:
1) Charts or bulletin board postings
2) Bring our scriptures weekly
3) To encourage scripture memorization put a monthly scripture on a
card on a ring that they can keep. Each month add a new card to the
ring. To help younger kids put pictures on the back side of the card to
jog their memory.
4) When children are assigned talks in primary encourage them to talk
about what they have read and learned in the scriptures.
5) Weekly scripture bookmark
a) select a verse or two (you may select a theme for the week) for
each day of the coming week
b) formulate a question regarding the passage
c) using 3 columns to a page you can create 3 bookmarks per page
EXAMPLE:
PRAYER
Sunday -
Alma 5:46
Helaman 3:35
When?

Monday -
Moroni 7:48
How?

Tuesday -
1 Nephi 15:11
How?

Wednesday -
2 Nephi 3:8-9
Who wants us to pray?

Thursday -
Alma 37:37
What do you pray about?

Friday -
Alma 13:28
Why pray?

Saturday-
Moroni 10:3-5
Why pray?
I had the kids put their name on the bookmark and fill in the answers
with simple 2-3 words and then bring them back to me at primary the
following week for a reward. I targeted the Senior Primary. I also
challenged the teachers to participate.
6) Choose scriptures to read during the week. Have the children keep a
"scripture journal" and write what they learned. Have the children
bring their journals each week. Select a few (or one child) to share
during opening or closing exercises.
7) Progress poster to show child participation
8) Culminate effort in a quarterly activity in the fall. One ward had
a water balloon fight in August with squirt guns and shields. The kids
had a blast!
9) Involve the teachers by having them track scripture reading progress
in class rather than taking time to do it in sharing time.
10) Encourage teachers to have children read scripture passages as one
of their teaching methods
11) Encourage teachers to assign children scriptures to read to prepare
for the next week's lesson.