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The Sunbeams learned about Jesus Creating the Earth and the Plan of Salvation. My kids this year did not know what Earth was. So to start our lesson I made cookies that looked like these. (I forgot to take a picture of them, but the kids and my own family loved them.) I used the Duncan Hines cake mix cookies recipe and added food coloring. If you Google Earth Day Cookies you can see what they looked like. One little boy said "Cookies", when I showed him a picture of the real Earth and asked what it was. I laughed out loud at the comment, and was glad my cookies looked like the real Earth.
I purchased the butcher paper at the Teaching the Children store it came to $3.00 for a 6 foot piece of both green and blue.
I cut the giant Earth into 8 pieces and placed them around the room. The kids loved putting the big Earth puzzle together and building a Earth like Jesus did. I loved when I asked them after we done with the puzzle "Who made the Earth and they said you did and pointed to the wall. I laughed and then took the Earth picture from the lesson as said who made this Earth and then they said, "Jesus."
The salt dough came out great and I loved the way it looks like Earth except I kept it overnight in the refrigerator thinking that would help it stay moist and it became a mushy mess when the kids played with it. The recipe for the salt dough is 1 1/2 cup flour and 1 1/2 cup salt mixed together and then add water until you reach play dough consistency. Very easy to make, add the food coloring in as you add the water, this helps spread the color evenly.
This is what I used to represent our Pre-mortal life with Heavenly Father. I found a picture of Him with children in white robes that I taped to the center of the board. My mom had made the board when she was Young Women's President. I took pictures of each child and had them put them in their Pre-Existance home while we talked about living with Heavenly Father and the presentation of His plan for his children.
I separated the room with a table and placed a sheet or table cloth over it, we had our giant Earth directly across from our Pre-existence home on the opposite wall with the table in-between the two. I would stand by the table and call out, "Abbie, it's your turn to come to Earth." She would then grab her picture and crawl through the "veil" under the table and then place her picture on our giant Earth to show she is now on Earth. I would do the same thing for each child.
The kids would jump up and yell, "hurray, I'm on Earth!" They are so adorable!!
As the other kids would come through those of us on Earth, would say, "Hurray, our friend Maggie is on Earth!"
