Lesson 4: I Can Pray to Heavenly Father

The scripture story in this week's lesson on prayer is Daniel in the Lion's Den. This story is always a favorite with the children I have taught so I created puppets of Daniel and the Lion made with toilet paper tubes. The children can take the puppets home and use them to act out the story.

The first page to download has one set of cutouts and the instructions to put them together. Refer to the photo above for the placement of the cutouts when you help the children glue them on the tubes. I like to have the tubes covered with paper and the pieces cut out before class. The children can color the pieces and help you glue them on. Older children can cut out the pieces themselves.

A second page has all of the pieces for two sets of puppets, without instructions. Use this file to save paper if you have a larger class and need to cut out several sets. Finally there is a note to parents that explains what the children learned this week.

Download Daniel with instructions here.

Download 2 sets of Daniel here.

Download the note to parents here.

If you have a large enough class you can have the children act out the story. There is a cute set of printable masks for Daniel in the Lion's Den available at Mormon Mommy Printables.