Tree of Life

I decided it was time for some creativity with our family home evening. 

We have been reading about Lehi and his vision of the tree of life and so we decided to make our own interpretations.

I would read about an element of the vision and then we would set to work creating them.

 Some great masterpieces. Lily's is below and she just loved the painting party and so it looks like she has a lot of mists of darkness. She did want some glue so t here are some leaves and pom poms on there.

Jon did a lot of gluing.  Joey was more into drawing and coloring his.  He also mixed paints to get the right colors.  Arabella wanted blue sky and painted her leaves green (we had collected them outside and they were more brown than green since it is winter). Our design -Peter and I worked together- is a bit 3 D.

The rod of iron is up off of the paper and looks like a hand rail.  

We discussed how we can work as a family to stay on the straight and narrow path and avoid the mists of darkness. We talked about what the great and spacious building was about and that we do not want to be there and should never be ashamed of choosing the right. 

We ended the evening with fruit crumble- it was delicious! 

I don't always do such family home evening lessons but we had so much fun I hope that I can try harder to be creative and think outside the box.