Book of Mormon [JACOB 1-4] Creative Object Lessons with Maria Eckersley

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Welcome to the creative side of week 14.

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You guys, this is going to be a really good week.

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We have big things in store.

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Just remember, my goal here is just to give you a creative kickstart.

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You certainly don't need to do all of these or any of them.

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I just hope it inspires you to teach creatively so that your eyes light up

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as you teach and your kids can learn.

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Catch fire, you know, like literally this week there, you're going

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to see some, some fires begin.

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I'm going to walk you through the objectless and supplies

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first, and then I'll take you through each one individually,

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but good things are in store.

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Okay, first, I wanted to talk about those two big issues that

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Jacob is addressing in his people.

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He sees this sin of pride and this, Sin of the law of chastity being broken and

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he's going to address both so in our first two object lessons We'll hit both

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of those the first one's going to focus on pride I call this an aura grabbing

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game because basically you're going to put a whole bunch of aura out and

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then Invite your kids to grab it and in the process of playing this game.

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They'll actually Walk through what Jacob teaches about the risks of pride.

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I'll explain the details soon, but basically, supplies wise,

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you really just need pencils.

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A sharpened pencil is better if you have those on hand.

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They don't need to be new, just a sharpened pencil.

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And then you're going to need some paper cups.

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We tried this with plastic cups, and I'm telling you, plastic doesn't work.

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Because what you're going to make are these little grabbers.

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So kind of like a claw machine from your childhood, where you would grab the prize.

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That's what you're making to grab the oar.

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So you need two cups for each person that's playing.

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And then the printable that goes with them to help you figure out how to

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put it together and make it look cute.

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So two cups, I got the 12 ounce size of paper cup.

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They're made for like hot cocoa, eight ounce would probably work as well.

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Anything smaller might be too small, but something around there.

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I have links on the notes.

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If you want to grab them from Amazon, like I did, but you can probably

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find them at any grocery store.

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Hey, Object Lesson 2, this is where the fire comes in.

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In that stake release study meeting that I just went to, I got to meet

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some of the Chandler family and the kids there requested more fire,

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so here it comes Chandler family.

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So we're going to do fire to teach about the law of chastity.

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This is one of my very favorite ways to open up discussions about things

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like pornography and other areas regarding the law of chastity that you

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might want to talk to your kids about.

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You can kind of feel this out on your own, but it's actually

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a really simple way to teach it.

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And it is.

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It packs a punch.

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So for it, you simply need some sanitizer.

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I just bought it at the dollar store.

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This little jar will be plenty.

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And then you're also gonna need a candle.

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I prefer getting the longer candles just because it gives you a little more

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distance between the flame and your hand.

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So if you can find birthday candles that are a little long, that's ideal.

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And then of course something to light it with.

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You're gonna need a lighter.

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I thought it was easiest to use something like this.

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Again, from the dollar store, a long neck lighter gives you a little more distance

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and keeps things a little more safe.

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Okay, third object lesson.

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This one's the simplest of all three.

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This is an object lesson I just did with my YA essays a couple

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weeks ago and it worked so well that I decided we needed it here.

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Especially because Jacob's going to speak about healing wounds and I think

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this is a really simple way to do it.

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For your supplies on this one you just need a dry erase board.

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It can be any size.

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If it's on the wall in your seminary class, great.

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If you have something small like this, that works as well.

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You can find this at the dollar store too if you need it.

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Then you need two kinds of markers.

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You're going to need an expo marker, a dry erase marker, and then also a red sharpie.

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It doesn't technically have to be red, but I think it teaches the lesson

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just a little bit better if it is red.

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Um, so if you have a red sharpie and any color of expo, you'll be good to go.

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Then something to erase with as well, but okay, that's your full supplies list.

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Now let's get into the details.

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Some of my favorite object lessons are the ones that the kids don't

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even realize you're doing an object lesson, but you're actually acting out

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what the scriptures are teaching you.

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as they play.

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So I'm calling this, uh, Mighty Mini Ore Grabbing Game, because basically you're

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going to make grabbers, like I showed you, and you're going to try and gather ore.

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So the making of the grabber is your first step.

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You're going to want one of these for each of the players.

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If that is too tedious for you and you have a large class, you also could, you

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know, work a few kids at a time and let them demonstrate and then switch places

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or something, but you're, the more you can make, the more fun your kids will have.

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You need these, one for each player.

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The assembly process for those is really simple, it's all laid out

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for you on the printable, so I won't walk you through all of that here,

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but basically you're just kind of assembling two cups together and adding

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a printable to make it look really cute.

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And then you're going to cover your classroom or your kitchen, or your

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living room, wherever you're teaching, with just simple balls of paper.

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If you wanted to take this to the next level and you have a longer class

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to work with, you could even write scriptures about pride on these pieces

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of paper and then study those later, but really to do the object lesson,

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you just need to ball up some paper.

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Aim for about golf ball size, maybe a little bit larger, but not too big.

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So ball up a bunch of paper.

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This represents your ore.

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So if you happen to have paper that's colored silver and gold and jewel tones,

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that would be fun, but you just want to create ore and scatter it around the room.

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Then you're going to challenge your kids to use their grabber to grab the ore.

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So they'll assume naturally, because it's a game, that it's kind of

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every man for themselves, right?

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So you're going to say, I'm setting a two minute timer, or depending on how

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many kids are in your class, you may need to extend it or shorten it, but

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set a two minute timer and say, I want you to get as much ore as you can.

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Now they're going to have to be kind of careful about where they stockpile their

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ore, because if you notice this little grabber, it doesn't much on its own.

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It can hold a ping pong ball or A ball of paper, but not much more.

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So they're going to need to figure out a place in the room

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where they can keep their stash.

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You know, almost like a chipmunk.

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They need to store their stash of ore somewhere.

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And then watch the game play out over two minutes.

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I guarantee, as your kids play this game, you're going to see some cheating occur.

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Even if they're really good kids, because they want to win, right?

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And so they might do things like kind of kick a ball out of somebody else's way, or

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they might grab it with their hand instead of with their claw, or they might even go

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over to somebody else's pile and take one out of their pile and put it in their own.

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You'll see all kinds of clever ways to grab.

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And then you want to stop the timer, so at two minutes, stop the timer and tally.

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Okay.

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I'll see you next time.

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So I wouldn't even explain what they were playing.

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I would just let them play and tally points.

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So write down on a piece of paper or on the chalkboard each person's score

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and then their total score as a class.

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And then you're going to talk about what you saw.

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So for example, this is when you would break it down for your kids and say,

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tell me some of the behaviors that happened because we were all seeking to

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get as big of a pile of ore as possible.

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And let them tell you, oh well, he kind of kicked my hand when I was reaching

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for something, or I sort of cheated and reached down and grabbed a thing

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and put it in my cup just because I really wanted to win, or you know,

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you'll hear them explain what they did.

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And this is when you sort of break it down as a teacher and you say, Did the or

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cause this problem and they'll naturally know that it's not the or that caused

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it It's the desire to have the most or that caused this problem when they were

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seeking to have more than somebody else It creates these other sins I think

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that's really important and I think Jacob tried to teach it to us this week

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as well Because he's not saying the love that Seeking for wealth is bad.

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He's saying if you seek for the kingdom of God first, and then

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seek wealth in order to build the kingdom of God, God will bless you.

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It's when you get those reversed, kind of like those first two commandments.

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When you get those out of order, things will fall apart.

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So the same thing happens here.

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So that's when you're gonna play round two.

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So round two is the exact same game.

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Take all those balls, scatter them around the classroom, and then you're

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going to invite your kids again to play, but this time you're just

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tallying their total score as a class.

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So you're inviting them to try and beat that first score.

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So remember how I had you write everybody's.

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numbers down and then tally up how many.

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So if they got 30 balls on the first round, challenge them to beat it as a team

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the second round and then see how they do.

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And watch how the game plays out.

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Set the same two minute timer and pay attention to how the game shifts.

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When there isn't that element of competition and trying to be better

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than somebody else, they get creative.

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In fact, I would encourage them before the timer starts to be creative.

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What do they need?

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Where should they put their pile to be most advantageous to the group?

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Whose talent should they pull from as the grabber versus the person who

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like corrals the pile versus, you know, like they could diversify and

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be smart and strategic on how they can get the best chance for getting the

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most balls in their pile by the end.

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And then basically ask them at the end of those two minutes, How did it feel?

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How did it feel to be on a team working towards a goal?

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How did it change how you see each other and how you help each other?

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And, you know, it's, I think they'll see it naturally and they'll understand that

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in the kingdom of God, We're supposed to be building each other, because we're not

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building our own individual stockpiles.

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We're building his kingdom.

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It's a common goal.

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That doesn't mean we'll all do the same jobs, or even have the same amount

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of wealth, or any of those things.

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It just means we will be on the same team, and we will be finding ways to

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bless each other in a variety of ways.

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I think the game itself, teaches what Jacob was trying to help me understand.

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Wealth is not the issue.

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It's the sins that spill out from me when I'm focused on wealth

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that causes all kinds of problems.

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And hopefully this little mini ore grabber will help you see that as well.

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To be totally frank.

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Lessons about the law of chastity, whether they're at home or

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in a classroom, can be hard.

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Uh, it's hard.

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And I think this, Jacob is opening a wide window to say, this is

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something that needs to be addressed.

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In fact, I think our prophet has opened that same window, pleading

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with us to be strong in our teachings, to teach truth clearly.

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That's why I think we have such great tools at our disposal to

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understand the law of chastity.

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Our kids are going to be asked this in bishop, interview questions, right?

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If they keep these laws, and so they need to understand what they are, they

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need to understand how God's law has been the same always, and even understand

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how it applies in our specific day.

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Because just like in Jacob's day, how they had specific law of chastity

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issues by taking on multiple wives and concubines, in our day, we have

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specific law of chastity issues that affect our teens and our marriages.

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And so I think you see the prophet kind of guiding us the same way Jacob did.

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So in this object lesson, basically I would set it up

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by creating a sanitizer chain.

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The, the best way I found to do this is you want in, in a high lit

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room, like in daylight is great.

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Like somewhere where there's a lot of light, you want to put, um, a

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little skinny rope of sanitizer.

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For us, we did it on a cookie sheet so that my kids could see This sanitizer

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kind of formed of a big rope, but you also could put just a small amount on a plate.

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It just kind of depends on how you want to roll with this object lesson.

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But you're going to actually light the sanitizer.

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So any good sanitizer has a high alcohol content.

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Different sanitizers will light a little differently,

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but the same basic idea occurs.

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Essentially, you're going to light with your lighter.

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One end of that sanitizer rope.

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And as you do, you'll see, if you're looking really closely,

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you can see a flame begin, because the alcohol starts to burn.

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In fact, it almost has a bit of a bluish tint.

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In our videos, you're going to see it really well, because we did this

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at night, so you can see the blue a little bit better than others.

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But when all the lights were on in the room, it was kind of hard to see.

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And what's cool about that is, your kids will look at it, especially if

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they've never seen something like this before, and they will think there's

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nothing wrong with that sanitizer.

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It'll look exactly the same.

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And it'll look that way until you hand them a candle.

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So this is when you take a birthday candle and you invite them to just

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touch it close to the sanitizer.

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You want to be careful.

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This sanitizer actually is on fire.

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So, even though you can't see the fire, it's really hot.

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And you, you know, if you have younger kids, this might be something

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you want to demonstrate for them.

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Certainly you want to have an adult present.

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Bye.

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You're going to have them touch the candle to the sanitizer and they'll

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see immediately it catches fire.

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Because the fire that looks invisible on the sanitizer jumps to the candle wick and

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lights in a way that your kids can see it.

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And what's fascinating about this object lesson is you can actually do

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this over and over and over again.

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You can blow out the candle, relight relight it, without ever

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using the actual lighter again.

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Because that sanitizer sort of holds the flame.

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But what's the problem?

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Mesmerizing about the sanitizer is it actually holds it invisibly.

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And this is why I think it's such a good tool to teach about things like the law

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of chastity, even things like pornography.

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In fact, this object lesson I used initially to teach priestcraft, and one

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of the people in the course helped me see how they taught it for pornography,

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and I've seen it that way ever since.

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I loved that guidance.

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So basically, you can talk about how often sins, especially sins regarding our body,

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we think, Nothing has changed, right?

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Like, I could break things with the word of wisdom, go against those promises,

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and I don't look all that different.

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My voice might not sound different, nobody can see it from outside,

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but there is damage occurring.

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In fact, one of the coolest things we did this time, that we've never done

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before, is we turned off the lights.

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So I let my kids see how the flame was burning.

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Ignites, and then I turned off the lights and it wasn't until we

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made the lights go out that you could see how much flame was there.

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Something that was completely invisible in broad daylight and

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only barely visible at night.

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When I hit all the lights, it turned vivid blue.

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And you could see this flame start on one side of the sanitizer and

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work its way slowly through it.

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And it was fascinating to watch because it, you think you know what

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is there until you turn the lights off and then you're like, oh my

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word, look how much fire there is.

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Now you would, your kids would never put their hand over it now because

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they can see exactly how tall it is.

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That's what I think essentially prophets like Jacob and President Nelson offer us.

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They are seers, meaning they can see that flame for what it really is.

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Our eyes are masked by the daylight, and we think things are fine.

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I think I can consume pornography, and it won't have any effect on me.

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I can consume things that will damage my body, and it won't really hit me.

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What the scriptures teach through the prophets, and what our prophets

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teach at things like conference, and through things like, for the

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strength of the youth manual.

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is that there is fire there, and it is damaging, it is dangerous, and

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you need to be cautious about it.

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There are ways to kill that fire.

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You know, you could take a pot lid and smother it or do something like that,

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but the whole point of this is to help your kids see that What a prophet can

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see is not what you can see you You need to trust in the sight of a seer

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and avoid the things he encourages us to avoid So if you on the notes, you

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can see beautiful links There's a lot in things like the strength of the youth

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manual in the new era and a lot of other places But hopefully this will open a

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gateway so that you can have those hard conversations in a really memorable way

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If you look in the Come, Follow Me manual this week, they encourage you

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to draw attention to the wounded soul and what Jacob teaches about how to

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help the wounded soul, that words help, especially the words of Christ.

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And I wanted some way to demonstrate that with an object lesson

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that my kids could understand.

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Thankfully, this is something that I tried in my YSA class and it worked

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beautifully with that age group, so I knew it could also work for

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Violet and Sam and everyone else.

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So, this time I decided to teach about wounds.

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So basically what I had my kids do is I started by giving them a dry erase

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board and I asked them to draw a limb.

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So a hand, a foot, a leg, something like that.

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And then I asked them to use a sharpie, a red sharpie to draw wounds.

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Because what Jacob is concerned about is that these wounds that these people

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are experiencing from the choices of others, that they will feel pain from

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them, that they will feel shame from them, and he doesn't want that for them.

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He's trying to teach them that the atonement can help all wounds.

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And so this is when you have them draw deep wounds on their different limbs.

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You're gonna do it in sharpie so that you can show your kids, now

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I want you to erase the wounds.

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Try not to erase the hand or the leg, but go and erase the wounds.

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And what you'll see very fast is that those wounds don't erase.

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Sharpie on a dry erase board.

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doesn't rub off.

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It stays.

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In fact, when I did this with my YSAs, I did it on the church whiteboard

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and they were so nervous that I was going to ruin the whiteboard.

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I think it is surprising to see how well that sharpie stays.

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And then you're going to teach them what Jacob taught his

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people, that the atonement of Jesus Christ It covers wounds.

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It promises help and healing.

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Like we've talked about before, I really see what the Savior offers as a bandage.

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It is this promise that He will help you clean out wounds.

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He will give you the balm that you need to heal them and He will cover them.

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I think it's beautiful that the Atonement, means a covering.

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You know, that word kafar that president Nelson taught us about it.

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It means a covering.

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So you can kind of talk about that.

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The way you demonstrate that with your object lesson is you give your

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kids a Sharpie or sorry, give your kids an Expo mark, Expo marker,

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and then ask them to color over the parts that have Sharpie on them.

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What the savior can offer that nothing else can no cleaner, no, nothing else

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can remove that Sharpie, but this savior offers something different.

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His atonement offers healing in a way that restores what was lost, in a

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way that makes a person whole again.

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So you're gonna have them color over all those red Sharpie

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marks with an Expo marker.

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And then after a second or two of drying, they can take that same

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eraser that they tried to use before and wipe the whole board clean.

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Because that's what the Atonement offers.

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No matter if your wounds are self inflicted, or if they're

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wounds that are caused by someone else, you are not broken.

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You are not beyond repair.

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This is, if you have a chance, I would direct you to Elder Kieran's

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message from a couple conferences ago.

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He spoke to those who are victims of abuse, and he spoke to those who

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are wounded, and offered the most beautiful words of help and healing.

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And since he's our newest apostle, I just think this is a beautiful

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way to introduce your kids to him before they hear him at conference.

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I just think his words were soothing to the soul, and they teach exactly

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what these Expos and Sharpies teach, but in a more eloquent way.

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So I hope you go in.

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If you go on the Creative Notes, you can find all those there, but

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it's a simple way to help your kids appreciate that what the Savior offers

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is different and simpler than what Everyone else offers and it works.

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Things that were once red can be made white again.

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Things that were once broken can be whole.

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He can, he can fix the unfixable as Elder Kira taught us.

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He's perfect at it.

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So I hope this object lesson helps you teach that.

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I'm so grateful that you're here.

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Thank you for coming, listening, and learning with me.

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I love it.

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Each week, as hard as it is, I love it.

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If you want more, help.

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Please feel free to join me on the live.

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You can come to gather.

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macmom.

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com, make a free membership, and then just join us on the live each Monday.

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We do it at 10 AM Mound Time.

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That's where I'll talk through some of the insights.

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I couldn't quite fit here and guide you through the object lessons.

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If that's on a good spot for you, or if you're not interested in a

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subscription, so you can access the printables and the notes.

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Just know that you also can access the printables on my Etsy shop.

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So if you need the grabber game and you want to try it in your class, you can find

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it for a few dollars over there as well.

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You can find the links in the description below.

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But whether you use my object lessons or just create your own, I hope

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you find creative ways to teach.

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Jacob offers so much that we can pull from.

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His guidance is sweet about the spirit, about the value

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of prophets, about scripture.

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I just think you could go in a bunch of different directions

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and teach a powerful lesson.

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to your kids or to your classrooms.

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There's plenty to work with.

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So enjoy your week, you guys.

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And I'll see you next week as we head into the next week of Jacob's writings.