Help the children read and discuss Exodus 20:8–11.

• What does Heavenly Father teach us about the Sabbath day?
• When was the Sabbath day hallowed?
• What does that mean?

Ask the children to help you think of ways to keep the Sabbath day holy.

With the help of the music leader, pick songs from the Children's Songbook that suggest activities appropriate for the Sabbath day, such as:

• "Family History—I Am Doing It" (p. 94),
• "When I Go to Church" (p. 157),
• "My Heavenly Father Loves Me" (pp. 228–29),
• "Grandmother" (p. 200),
• "Search, Ponder, and Pray" (p. 109).

As you sing each song, ask the children to listen for things they could do on the Sabbath day.
Help them develop their ideas into activities such as:

• filling out a family group sheet,
• asking Mom or Dad to tell a story about their childhood,
• going to church with the family and singing all the songs,
• thinking about Jesus during the sacrament,
• going on a walk to increase gratitude for nature,
• learning the name of one new plant and drawing a picture of it,
• writing a letter,
• calling or visiting grandparents,
• telling a scripture story with puppets or flannel-board figures.

Seek for a good variety of songs and activities.

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1. Give each child a piece of paper to fold into 16 squares.
2. Invite them to write or draw things suggested by the group in three or four of the squares.
3. Distribute crayons, markers, and colored paper, and invite each child to decorate a small container or envelope for their "Sabbath Day Activities."
4. Suggest that the children take the paper home and fill in the rest of the squares with the help of their families.
5. Cut the paper into 16 squares and put them into the container.
6. Each week they can honor the Sabbath day by drawing a square out of the container and doing that activity with their family.