Conference is coming up, and we thought we’d share some new free resources we created that can be used to help kids have a good General Conference experience!
CONFERENCE NOTES: Pick and choose from these note pages to help your kids try to focus on what’s being taught (different paper types included for different ages).
COLORING PAGES: Sometimes it’s easier to focus if your hands have something to do. Print these pages up to color while listening to General Conference.
CONFERENCE EASTER EGGS: This one is great when conference is close to Easter. Kids can color the mini eggs and add them to a small Easter basket each time they hear a speaker mention Christ, His Atonement, or His Resurrection.
PAPER CHAIN CONFERENCE THOUGHTS: On each paper strip, write something you learn while watching General Conference. Tape the edges and connect the strips to make a paper chain. See how long you can get the chain to be by the time conference is done! Print up the paper strips below or just cut strips out of whatever colored paper you have.
CONFERENCE WORD STAMPS: Have them stamp a picture on a section of paper each time they hear a certain word while listening to conference. You can also use stickers or just have them draw a small heart/smiley face/etc. when they head each word.
IMPRESSIONS: This one was 100% our 9-year-old daughter’s idea. While listening to general conference, make a list of impressions you get from the Spirit. Use your own blank paper or the printable sheet below.
MORE ART/CRAFT IDEAS: Some more free printable activities can be printed by clicking on the picture below:
STATIONS: Giving kids a variety of options and a chance to move a little can help them not get bored during General Conference. Our kids came up with this idea a few conferences ago, and it was a great way to split things up and help everyone have a good conference experience while practicing using different learning styles. Pick around 4 stations to set up in the area where you’ll be watching General Conference (or whatever number works best for your family and the space that you have). Place the stations in separate areas with a sign and whatever materials are needed. Whenever a new speaker starts, they choose a new station to go to. We kept ours pretty simple, but you could make these stations as elaborate or as basic as you’d like. We like to switch some of the station options for the different sessions as well.
Possible ideas for stations include:
Coloring Station: Have crayons/colored pencils and coloring pages, such as these ones, available for this station.
Play Dough Station: Have some kind of Play Dough set up in this station. Kids can use the Play Dough to sculpt something that has to do with what the speaker is talking about. If you want to add a little sugar, you can give each kid a small bag of edible Play Dough to use for their creations.
Note-Taking Station: Have some papers/pens available here for note-taking. Some printable note-taking options can be downloaded here.
Art Station: For this station, you could tape a chunk of large butcher paper on the wall where kids could draw pictures of what speakers talk about. You could also place any other creative art materials here, such as watercolor paints, small canvases, Wikki Stix, or simple arts/crafts, such as these ones.
Paper Chain Station: Let kids write or draw things they learn from conference on strips of paper and see how long of a paper chain they can make from them.
Wall Quote Station: Place sticky notes or index cards in this station. During the conference talks, kids can write/draw things they hear on these notes and cover the wall with them.
Stamp Station: Listen for certain words and use whatever stamps you have around your house to stamp a picture each time you hear those words. You could also use stickers. A printable sheet that could be used for this can be found here. If you don’t want to print anything, you could just write conference-y words on the tops of different pieces of papers and have them make stamps (or put stickers) on each paper when they hear those words.
If you have letter stamps, you could also have the kids stamp the names of the speakers or set out a page with the names of our current prophet, apostles, and other leaders and let the kids try to use the stamps to spell out as many of these names as they can.
Building Station: Place some kind of building blocks in this station and let kids build something that has to do with what each speaker is teaching.
Impression Station: Our 9-year-old daughter had this idea and requested this as a station. List, draw, or write down impressions you get while listening to general conference talks.
Click on the picture below for free printable station signs.
*If you’re interested in more free resources and activities that can be used to help kids learn the Come, Follow Me curriculum throughout the year, take a look at our main website.
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