Dear Reader,
An unspoken thing that I personally think is amazing about conference is that there are so many family traditions involved in how each household watches conference. If you feel like you need a new tradition in your family, here are are some resources I have found from the Church (while planning our FHE lesson for this week) that are totally free to you!
- Watch videos sharing the personal testimonies of the Apostles.
- Print off and fill out conference notebooks (for older or for younger kids; or one of these pages one, two for in between)
- color by topic pages (I personally think this one is worth it! love it). There is this one, as well, but a) it’s outdated, and b) it’s not as pretty. But it is still a good resource!
- Conference Bingo! This is what our family does! we have pages my aunt made when we were kids, but the topics have shifted slightly and it’s getting harder to get bingos! So I think I’m gonna print these off, instead, this year. Before conference, I go to the dollar store and pick out little toys and party favors. I buy things that are less than a dollar (so multiple things in a pack) for bingos and then 1 dollar prize per session per kid for blackouts (I might have to make the “sustaining leaders” a free space in order to do that on this print-out). I try to pick prizes that are projects or crafts, so that my kids have some form of entertainment during conference, as opposed to a figurine, but even little figurines have value while entertaining kids for so long. Here is another page, but it has President Monson represented for “prophet,” so it’s a little outdated.
- Here are some awesome coloring pages of the General Authorities! See if your family can recognize them and know their names.
- There are a lot of picture searches within the church’s website, but these two (one, two) deal particularly with General Conference.
- Same thing goes for coloring pages. I found 5 in particular that are about conference (but I bet there are more hidden in the “internet cracks.” Some of these have President Monson, but he was still a prophet (one, two, three, four, five). And here is one about King Benjamin teaching his people, in case you’re following along with our FHE lessons.
- Here’s a poster with kids coloring for conference.
- This page has a blank bingo sheet, but I like the idea of drawing the ties given on the bottom.
- Challenge your family to listen for key words and keep a tally of what is said.
- If you told your family about King Benjamin teaching his people, this activity about his people pitching his tents toward the temple will have deeper meaning.
- Here is a connect four game based off of listening to key words.
- This one seems fun, too. Color in a square for each clue you see or hear.
- assign a small treat to key words and each time that word is heard, the hearer can get a treat.
- Here is a dot-to-dot of the prophet (and a picture story).
- There is nothing to print here, but this story talks about watching conference via a tent, like King Benjamin. You could build a fort like they do in the story or a real tent. If it’s stable enough, you could even allow your family to sleep in it one night!
- This activity involves 1 word for each letter of the alphabet and suggests writing notes about each word.
- Here is a rope code game that has a hidden answer at the bottom of the page.
- For kids that can read, they could cover these words as they hear them.
- The second page of this story from the friend gives a nice way to take notes on a talk. If your note-taker can read but isn’t ready to take that thorough of notes, they might be able to follow this outline.
- Here is a 2-week countdown of activities to prepare for conference.
- And this is a crossword search with conference words.
- If you want to update the pictures, this is a fun mini-conference setup with chairs and a pulpit that you can have the speakers walk to. But it’s from 2012.
- This coloring page is similar to some others already listed, but a little bit simpler. It would still require reading, though. Or there is this one, tied to the talk before it.
- Here’s a wiggle break rhyme to get kids up and moving, if needed.
