The first few questions in the manual are, "How would your life be different if your parents weren't willing to do any work in your behalf?" and "What do you think the church would be like today if the early members weren't willing to do any work?" That made me think of this story I heard when I was a kid. I don't know if mom has the book or if it was at the library....Anyway, I checked it out at the library and started my lesson by reading it to the girls. I think they liked it a lot.
The little red hen found some wheat berries when she was searching for food. Somebody told her what they were and that you can bake bread with the wheat. The whole book shows step-by-step all the work she had to do to make the bread. And for each step the little hen says, "Who will help me plant the wheat?" or "Who will help me harvest the wheat?" etc...and each time the animals all say, "Not I!" because they're a bunch of lazy bums.
So the little red hen does it all herself, and her baby chicks help a little too.
Finally the little red hen bakes her bread! All the animals smell how good it is and want to "help" her eat it. And she says, "No! You didn't help me before so you can't have any now."
And then the bread comes out of the oven and the little red hen and her chicks enjoy it. "Oh joy of joys!" And I shared my bread with the girls too even though they didn't plant the wheat or grind it or bake the bread. Hahhaa!
It was fun though, because I had just baked the bread right before church so it would be fresh and hot. I put it in our classroom about 15 minutes before the lesson, so by the time we got in the room it smelled really good like fresh bread!
That was a fun lesson!
4 comments:
Very good lesson idea Holly! I'll have to store that one away for later days :) I SO remember that book and I always thought the hen was a little harsh as a kid- (you can tell who I would have been in the book!) It's a good principle!
You should probably move here so I can have you teach in our YW. That's seriously the most thoughtful, awesome sounding lesson.
Oooo, I WANT some of that bread right now! Warm...with butter and honey! Very good idea for your lesson, Holly. The girls in your class are really lucky --and spoiled, too, with all your homemade goodies! : )
Holly, I agree with everyone. What an incredible way to bring home the point! This story was a topic of discussion at our thanksgiving. It's such a small world, when these things come together. God Bless, Lory
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