by Larry Richman | Oct 1, 2011
The Church provides several General Conference activities (see ConferenceGames.lds.org) in multiple languages to help children enjoy and learn more from listening to general conference: A General Conference Notebook for children to write or draw about conference....
by Larry Richman | Sep 16, 2011
The Book of Mormon Stories video series has had a major update and is now available in English in the LDS.org Media Library, on Mormon Channel on YouTube, and on the Roku TV Mormon Channel. A technique called parallax animation, in which figures are cut out and moved...
by Larry Richman | Feb 16, 2011
Did you know there are about one million Primary children in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? To celebrate this, the Friend magazine is sponsoring a new project, “One in a Million,” to show how each child is a special son or daughter of God. You can...
by Larry Richman | Jan 31, 2011
The Friend magazine (friend.lds.org) has an Articles of Faith Memory Quest game to learn the Articles of Faith. This game and a new Spot the Similarities game are highlighted in the right margin of The Friend home page. You can also access more activities for children...
by Larry Richman | Dec 3, 2010
Christmas is a time when we can all learn from a child’s gratitude and love for Jesus Christ. See the meaning and the story of Christmas through the eyes of children in this video. Watch more Christmas videos from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints....
by Larry Richman | Sep 29, 2010
The Church provides several General Conference activities (see ConferenceGames.lds.org) to help children enjoy and learn more from listening to general conference. A General Conference Notebook for children to write or draw about conference. The notebook is available...
by Larry Richman | Sep 29, 2009
Wondering how to get your children engaged in the upcoming general conference? The Friend magazine has published a General Conference Notebook of activities for children do before, during, and after general conference. You can access the notebook online and print it...
by Larry Richman | May 29, 2009
The Friend magazine has launched four new matching games for children: Scripture Stories, Apostles and Prophets, Latter-day Prophets, and Temples. They can be accessed from the “Games and Activities” section on the home page of the online Friend magazine....
by Larry Richman | Jan 14, 2009
Do your kids use the Internet? What sites do they visit? Do you ever wish you knew of a site that they would enjoy and you’d feel is worth their time and know it’s safe? The Church recently updated the Friend magazine Web site at friend.lds.org for this reason. ...
by Larry Richman | Nov 3, 2008
Back in July, I blogged about Animations from the Old Testament, By Kids for Kids. Today, I learned about BoMToons (pronounced “boom-toons”), a site created by some BYU students with cartoons and games about the Book of Mormon. Some of the games involve...
by Larry Richman | Aug 28, 2008
The Church has announced a new manual for Primary nursery classes titled Behold Your Little Ones. In addition, this manual has been designed to be a great resource to help parents teach basic gospel doctrines to small children. Each lesson contains activities that...
by Larry Richman | Aug 6, 2008
The Friend has posted a gallery of its recent coloring pages, arranged by topic. This will be a welcomed resource for Primary leaders and teachers, as well as parents looking for activities for their children to do during sacrament meeting, stake conference, general...
by Larry Richman | Jul 24, 2008
A group of members from a Sunday School class in Connecticut have created several video animations of Old Testament stories. The videos include young people telling their versions of Old Testament Stories along with animations. These are very clever, and some are...
by Larry Richman | Jun 18, 2008
“As parents, we have to figure out where to draw the line between encouraging and allowing our teens to have autonomy, to experience their separate culture, and when we need to monitor their use of media,” says Kathryn Montgomery, author of Generation...