An FHE idea.

Alden has entered the age of "why." Why, why, why is all we hear! On Sunday, we were taking the sacrament and after taking the water, Alden turned to me and said, "Why do we drink, momma?" Wow! A big question for such a little boy! So I got thinking about how I could explain the sacrament in a way that a two-year-old could understand. I made this flannel board from a flattened cardboard box (with blue flannel glued on) and cut out pictures from the Ensign magazine of the life of Jesus Christ. I mounted the pictures on cardstock (manilla folders is a cheap way to do this) and then glued flannel patches on the back. It was a great way to give Alden a visual as we described the life of Jesus and it did wonders to help hold his attention during our Family Home Evening on Monday night.
I've also thought this flannel board would be great for older kids to use those stories about Joseph Smith that they have been printing in the Friend magazine. There is a comic-layout story from church history and then a few pages down there are figures to color and cut out and retell the story. How easy it would be to mount the figures onto cardboard and flannel and use the board to tell the story! Cut a strip of green flannel to be "grass" at the bottom and, voila!