General Conference Ideas

In my church, we have a General Conference twice a year. It's coming up this weekend, so we'll be listening online and attending our church building for the different sessions over the weekend.

It's a great opportunity to hear our church leaders speak, but it's a bit tricky to keep young kids interested during it!

I did some searching online & found some great, free resources for keeping kids entertained/busy/interested during conference.


First, a General Conference Notebook right from the church website. It has pictures of each of church leaders and spots to write about what they spoke about. It also has questions to answer. (This is a bit advanced for my kids)

They also have some online Conference Games that your kids can play in preparation for conference.

Check out Sugar Doodle for a cute General Conference Packet that you can print. She's also got colouring pages and other activities for ages from Junior Primary up to Youth.

There's another General Conference Activity Packet from a blogger who calls her blog, Magnify or Simplify. There are a ton of great and different activities in this one!

If you've found other resources, please share them in the comments!

Virtual Paper Doll Bunny

Check out "Dress-up Bunnyfur"!
It's like an online paper doll & it's a bunny so it's Easter-y! :)

Talia & I had some fun today & here's her favourite creation:

The Friend - Stories Online

I want to do more religious acivities with Talia, so hopefully this will remind me to do that!

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Did you know you can listen to stories from The Friend online, here?

If you get the magazine by mail, you can have your child look at the pictures in the magazine while they listen to the story. Of course, reading to them yourself is ideal, but I think Talia likes to be able to have things for her to do on the computer sometimes :)

Note: The rest of the magazine is also available to be listened to here. These go back to 2004.

Digital Flower Garden

I wanted to share this fun link with you- Talia loved it!

It takes you to a black webpage and when you click on it, a flower appears. You can click & hold or click & drag and create a beautiful, Spring garden!

Here's one of Talia's creations:

We had a great time the other day, with another flower activity that I'll be sharing with you on Tuesday- stay tuned, it's totally fun!

Starfall Computer Games

A friend of mine posted on her family blog about a website called Starfall that has educational computer games on it for young kids. I checked it out this morning & shared it with Talia.

She thought it was great, & so did I! She tried out a bunch of the ABCs activities this morning and had a great time! (Maybe a little too much time... by the end of it, she told me her feet were falling asleep, "because they feel all twinkly" ;) lol


So, we'll definitely be revisiting Starfall, but next time, with the timer set, so we don't get too engrossed in all of the alphabet and early reading fun! :)