Past FHE Lesson: Consider the Lilies

Two weeks ago, I was trying to come up with an FHE lesson while getting ready for church and the song Consider The Lilies came on and it hit me. We're coming to the end of our summer up here in Cache Valley, so I knew that I needed to do this now if it was going to happen. It was a very simple activity, but fun and just what my kids needed. We went outside and laid out blankets throughout the grass. We did our opening prayer, song, etc. and then I asked my two oldest boys to run and find things that they thought looked pretty (my in-laws live on two acres, so there's plenty of space to get distracted run around and find things. Ten minutes later, we had everyone back sitting on the blankets. My oldest had picked a maple leaf while his brother had picked a zinnia. We talked about how beautiful each of those objects were and how much time it must've taken Heavenly Father to make these things. We pointed out few more things—the trees, the grass, the stream, the clouds in the sky—that were also beautiful and how much time must have gone into creating these things. Then we turned to our kids and asked how much time we think it took to make them (more or less time than the plant, sky, etc.?) and they said more. We told them that they were right and that Heavenly Father loved them so very much and that's why he spent all that time creating them and making them such wonderful things to surround them. I'm sure some of it went over their heads, but they got the gist of it, and that's what we're working on right now. After the lesson closed, we just let them run around and be crazy for a bit while the rest of us enjoyed God's creations.