Faith Flowerpot

To introduce the kids to the May song "Faith" pg 96, I got an idea from this post about using a flowerpot.  Went out and bought a cheap plastic one and then prepped by attaching a flower with a pipecleaner stem to the bottom of the pot.  I then squished it down flat into the bottom and covered it up with some brown material so it looked like dirt in case any of the kids looked inside.

I started by showing the kids the pot and talking about planting flowers, asking them what they needed to grow.  When someone said "sun" I took out my picture of a sun and taped it to the pot.  Then we sang the first line of the song.  We proceeded with the other symbols which were an ear for listening to prayers, a seed, and a heart, singing each section and adding them together.  Finally on the very last section which goes "when I do right I know" I talked about how if we have faith and we do what we need to do, then we get the blessings from that of knowing what is right and wrong, just like we get a flower if we help it grow.  Then I pulled up the flower out of the pot, and it had the word "right" written on it.

I actually did two verses like this, I simply attached two flowers, but separated each with a bit of cloth, so that after I pulled one up, the kids didn't know the 2nd one was in there.

It went pretty well, even if the two flowers looked a little small for a such a big pot!