Build Your Faith Jenga (Alma & Amulek)

I've been waiting to play "Build Your Faith Jenga" until we are learning the story of Alma and Amulek. You can purchase these Jenga Blocks from Amazon. These blocks are a great learning tool for color recognition, color sorting, counting or adding/subtracting, and fine motor skills. We will definitely be using them for other things than the game in the future. I found this great idea family home evening idea from Blue Skies Ahead.

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1) Watch this animated video on faith from Latter Day Kids. This video is so simple and spot on for kids to understand what faith is. It starts with a painting. "You don't see your painting at first, but you believe you can make a painting. You just know it." There are several examples, and then it then relates faith to having faith in Christ.

2) Share examples of when you kids have shown faith. And then talk about how Alma had faith to go back to teach people in Ammonihah, after the angel appeared to him. Alma and Amulek had faith in the prison. They had so much faith that the bands were loosed from their hands, and the prison walls came tumbling down. Everyone in the prison, except Alma and Amulek died. 

3) Write six questions relating to faith in the same colors as the Jenga blocks. You roll the die, answer the corresponding color question, and then remove the same color block from the Jenga Tower (watch the video tutorial for how to do it). You can use any question you'd like, but these are the ones we used:

After going around several rounds, the tower will fall over. This is similar to how the walls of the prison came crashing down as Alma and Amulek exercised their faith.