WHEEL OF FAMILY NIGHT

WHEEL OF FAMILY NIGHT

Supplies Needed
1. The wheel complete with spinner.
2. Paper for the clues
3. A listing of the alphabet to be crossed out for each puzzle.
4. Markers to fill in the puzzle and mark off alphabet letters as they are guessed.
5. Candy for the prizes.

Game set up:
1. Prepare the Wheel.
Divide the wheel into about 12 sections. Have two to three "loose a turn" sections. Have about two sections devoted to each candy. Attach the spinner.
2. Make your puzzles; hang-man lines.
They should be on large enough paper that everyone can read them. You will want to write the category on each paper. The categories you could have are: Person, Place, Thing, Phrase, Before & After.
3. The longer your puzzle is the more candy you will be handing out and the easier it will be for the 1st person to keep going before they guess wrong. You may want to add temporary "loose a turn" spaces for really long puzzles.

If your subject was Tithing you could have the following puzzles.
Person: Wilford Woodruff
Place: St George, Utah
Thing: Tithing
Phrase: "How have ye robbed God?"
Before & After: Don't rob God blessed the saints with rain.

Playing the Game:
Determine who will go first. A different person should start each puzzle.
The person spins the spinner. If they don't land on "loose a turn" then they guess a letter. The person holding the answers writes in the correct letters and crosses the letter off the alphabet chart. Award the proper amount of candy to the person who guessed correctly. I do one candy for each correct letter on the puzzle. If we were playing the Person puzzle above and I guessed "W" I would get two candies. (This is where we changed the game from that on TV...the kids found it too frustrating to have to give the candy back if they did not solve the puzzle...so each correct guess means you get to keep the candy you just earned). The first person keeps going as long as they correctly guess a letter and don't land on "loose a turn". When their guess is wrong or they land on "loose a turn" the next person takes their turn, and so on. The players are free to guess the answer to the puzzle at any time during play, but my kids usually waited until the last letter was filled in so they got more candy.

Be sure to keep things lighthearted and encourage smaller children who may struggle more. Our five year old loved guessing and our two year old enjoyed the occasional candy that was passed to him because he was too small to join in.

Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego in the furnace of fire.

Shadrach, Meshach, Abed-nego in the furnace of fire.
Daniel Chapter 3

I did a simple drawings of
A. A furnace with a flame in the center of the furnace, but not taking up all the area in the furnace.
B. Figures to represent Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego tied up.
C. Figures to represent Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego loose.
D. Figure to represent the Son of God.
E. 6 additional flames to represent the furnace being 7 times hotter.

You could add:
A. Figures to represent the Mighty Men that will fall down dead as they go near the furnace.
B. King Nebuchadnezzar.

As you tell the story be sure to read key verses* and add or take away figures as needed.

Key verses:
5-6 ...what was expected of the people by Nebuchadnezzar
12 ... Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego will not bow down.
13 ... Nebuchadnezzar has Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego brought before him.
*15 ... Nebuchadnezzar asks, "who is that God that shall delivery you out of my hands?"
*16-18 ... Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego reply with faith in God and say they will not worship Nebuchadnezzar's god.
19 ... Nebuchadnezzar commands that the furnace be 7 times hotter!
20 ... Nebuchadnezzar's mightiest men to take Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego and cast them in the furnace.
22 ... Nebuchadnezzar's mightiest men die taking Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego to the furnace.
23 ... Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego fall down bound into the furnace.
*24-25 ... Nebuchadnezzar is astonished when he sees four men in the furnace unhurt "and the fourth is like unto the Son of God."
26 ... Nebuchadnezzar asks Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego to come out of the furnace.
*27 ... The important people in the kingdom see that there was no hurt come upon Shadrach, Meshach, & Abed-nego.
*28 - 30... Needs to be read in whole.

Soccer ball of favorites

We took a small soccer ball purchased at a local store for under a dollar. On each white space we wrote various things, see the list below. During FHE we gently throw the ball from person to person. As a person catches the ball they answer the question on the white space their right thumb lands on. After answering they then throw the ball to someone else.

You may use my list or think of your own questions that work for your group. Most questions begin with "What is your..." so I didn't write it in because there wasn't room on the ball.

• Favorite pet?
• Secret Ambition?
• Favorite movie?
• Favorite meal?
• Favorite treat?
• Favorite Book?
• Favorite Super Hero and why?
• Favorite day of the week and why?
• Favorite subject in school?
• Favorite actor or actress?
• Favorite friend?
• Favorite scripture story and why?
• Favorite sport to watch?
• Favorite singer/band?
• Favorite holiday and why?
• What do you like most about living here?
• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• What is your pet peeve?
• Who do you aspire to be like?
• What do you want to be known for?

WHICH FAMILY IS IT? #9

Which family is it? Instructions...
Read or show only one clue at a time. After the first clue ask the group if they know which family it is from the scriptures. If they can't guess the family yet give them another clue, continue one clue at a time until they know which family it is.

Which family is it?
#9 Family

Hints
1. This father was Grandson to Abraham.
2. This family had many sons.
3. This father was promised that his posterity would be as the dust of the earth and spread abroad to the west, east north and south.
4. This father loves and favors one son above the others.
5. 10 of the brothers hate and envy the favored son.
6. The favored son has a dream that his brothers bow down to him - he tells them the dream and they hate him more.
7. The brothers sell this son into slavery and he is taken to Egypt.
8. The father thinks his favorite son is dead and mourns.
9. The son who is a slave in Egypt prospers - he is faithful to his father's teachings.
10. This slave-son becomes the 2nd most powerful man in Egypt and has the people store food because a famine will come.
11. This son, with God's help, saves Egypt and even his own family from starvation when the famine comes.

WHICH FAMILY IS IT? #8

Which family is it? Instructions...
Read or show only one clue at a time. After the first clue ask the group if they know which family it is from the scriptures. If they can't guess the family yet give them another clue, continue one clue at a time until they know which family it is.

Which family is it?
#8 Family

Hints
1. This family was wealthy.
2. They had sons and daughters.
3. The father had visions. He was a prophet.
4. The father told the people in his city to repent. They would not listen.
5. God told the father to leave with his family and go into the wilderness.
6. This family took the scriptures with them.
7. This family traveled with another family and a servant of another man.
8. Some of this family hardened their hearts and would not believe. They caused contention and problems.
9. One of the sons showed great faith and asked God to show him some of the visions his father had had.
10. This son was instructed to build a ship and the family crossed the waters to the promised land.
11. Eventually those who believed had to separate themselves from those who did not believe.

WHICH FAMILY IS IT? #7

Which family is it? Instructions...
Read or show only one clue at a time. After the first clue ask the group if they know which family it is from the scriptures. If they can't guess the family yet give them another clue, continue one clue at a time until they know which family it is.

Which family is it?
#7 Family

Hints
1. The father in this family was a good man - and a righteous king like his father before him.
2. This family had 4 sons. These sons did not belong to the church - they did not believe. Many prayed for them to believe.
3. One day the sons were with their friend, Alma the younger, when an angel came.
4. The sons believed, repented, and started to share the gospel.
5. All 4 sons were great missionaries and refused to become king.
6. All the sons went on a mission to the Lamanites for 14 years.
7. Many Lamanites were converted.
8. The sons taught with power and authority because they studied their scriptures, fasted and prayed.
9. The father was a friend of the leader of the church, Alma.

WHICH FAMILY IS IT? #6

Which family is it? Instructions...
Read or show only one clue at a time. After the first clue ask the group if they know which family it is from the scriptures. If they can't guess the family yet give them another clue, continue one clue at a time until they know which family it is.

Which family is it?
#6 Family

Hints
1. This father's name was changed by God when he was 99 years old.
2. This mother's name was also changed - she was 90 years old.
3. This mother was old and had no children. She was told that she would have children and be blessed to be known as "a mother of nations".
4. The dad was 100 years old when this wife had a son.
5. The dad loved this son very much.
6. God told them what to name the son.
7. God asked the father to sacrifice this son.
8. The father was obedient. He was about to sacrifice this son when he was stopped by an angel.