An object lesson with Wow!

I was in charge of sharing time at church last Sunday, and we were going to discuss the resurrection and the difference between a Savior and a Redeemer. I needed a way to explain a complex concept that their little minds could grasp, so I came up with this really great object lesson that went over way better than I expected so I thought I would share. I actually can't take all the credit. I came up with the idea based on someone else's ideas on Sugardoodle.com


I presented one flower to represent us here on earth.


Then took the petals off to represent death.

We aren't able to put the petals back on the flower ourselves to bring the flower back to life, but a Savior can do that for us.

A Redeemer will glorify us to a person much much greater than we are now (a whole flower arrangement). I brought this arrangement out from under the table, and they all were just wowed by it. It cracked me up, but I was glad that they really got it.

We then made paper flowers for the kids to take home and remind them about the lesson.

Anyway, if you ever need a good object lesson for the topic of resurrection, there you go.

And here's Halle before church looking cute as ever. She loves that she gets to help me prepare the lessons and sometimes give the talks if some of the other kids forget or don't want to do it. She's such a good helper.

This happened on Saturday while I was preparing the lesson and Neal was helping Mike and Anneka move - - again ;-) She decided to make a road for her Barbie car. I guess it was time to sort through the magazines anyway.