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Chocolate Snake
Ingredients:
1/2 C. Peanut butter
1/2 C. Dry milk

1/2 C. Honey

1 T. cocoa
1/2 t. vanilla

1/2 C. Chopped nuts
1/2 C. Raisins

2 T. coconut

Directions
1. Combine peanut butter and dry milk until blended

2. Stir in , one at a time, honey, cocoa, vanilla, nuts, raisins, and coconut

3. Place mixture on wax paper and roll into a thick snake shape

4. Wrap in wax paper and chill

5. To serve, either have children pull off pieces, or cut into slices

FAMILY HOME EVENING LESSON :

Read the story of Adam and Eve. Genesis Ch.2&3
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Baby Jesus Haystacks
***Great for Christmas Eve!***
Ingredients:
1 package choc chips,
½ cup peanut butter,
4 cups chow mein noodles,
mini marshmallows.

Directions:
Melt choc chips and peanut butter together for 1 min in microwave, stir and microwave for additional 1 ½ min until melted. Add chow mein noodles and stir with 2 spoons/forks as tossing a salad.
Drop onto waxed paper.
Add a marshmallow to represent baby Jesus.

Make haystacks to represent baby Jesus lying in the hay in the manger. This is really easy. No oven involved, just the microwave.

FAMILY HOME EVENING LESSON:
Read the Christmas Story. Luke 2: 1-20

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Jelly Bean Poem
(Great to do around Easter)
Red is for the blood He gave.
Green is for the grass He made.
Yellow is for the sun so bright.
Orange is for the edge of night.
Black is for the sins we made.
White is for the grace He gave.
Purple is for His hour of sorrow.
Pink is for our new tomorrow.
An egg full of jelly beans, Colorful and Sweet
Is a prayer, a promise, A loved one's treat!!
We then put a jelly bean of each of the above colors in a plastic egg to help remind us of Jesus' love!
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He's Alive Buns
Refrigerator Biscuits-1 roll (Pillsbury or similar)
Large Marshmallows-1 per biscuit Melted butter Sugar & Cinnamon mixture - I am not exactly sure on the amounts of butter and cinnamon/sugar, just enough to cover the buns.)
Wrap one biscuit around 1 marshmallow. dip in butter and roll in cinnamon/sugar.
Bake as directed on the refrigerator biscuit package.
The Marshmallow will melt and the bun will be hollow inside.

Note: You could use your favorite scratch bun dough instead of the refrigerator biscuits, but it's so nice, quick and easy for the kids to help with this way.

FAMILY HOME EVENING LESSON:
Read the story of Christ's Resurrection.
Share a passage like John 20 6:7 with your children
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Old Scripture Cake
(great for older children)
The famous "OLD SCRIPTURE" cake. If you know your Bible well, this will pose no problems. If you don't know it quite that well, the translation will be at the end of the recipe.
CAKE Ingredients:
3/4 cup Genesis 18:8
1 1/2 cup Jeremiah 6:20
5 Isaiah 10:14 (separated)
3 cups sifted Leviticus 24:5
3 teaspoons 2 Kings 2:20
3 teaspoons Amos 4:5
1 teaspoon Exodus 3:23
1/4 teaspoon each 2 Chronicles 9:9
1/2 cup Judges 4:19
3/4 chopped Genesis 43:11
3/4 cup finely cut Jeremiah 24:5
3/4 cup 2 Samuel 16:1
Whole Genesis 43:11
Directions: Cream Genesis 18 with Jeremiah 6. Beat in yolks of Isaiah 10, one at a time. Sift together Leviticus 24; 2 Kings 2; Amos 4; Exodus 30; and 2 Chronicles 9.Blend into creamed mixture alternately with Judges 4. Beat whites of Isaiah 10 till stiff; fold in. Fold in chopped Genesis 43; Jeremiah 24; and 2 Samuel 16. Turn
into 10-inch tube pan that has been greased and dusted with Leviticus

24.Bake at 325 degrees F until it is golden brown or Gabriel blows his trumpet, whichever happens first. Bake for an hour and ten minutes. Remove from oven. After fifteen minutes, remove it from the pan. Cool completely. Drizzle some Burnt Jeremiah Syrup over it.
(recipe follows)

BURNT JEREMIAH SYRUP
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups Jeremiah 6:20
1/2 cup Genesis 24:45
1/4 cup Genesis 18:8

Directions:
Melt Jeremiah 6 in a heavy skillet over low heat. Keep cooking it till it is a deep gold, then add Genesis 24. Cook till smooth and remove from the heat. Add Genesis 18 and stir till it melts, then cool. After drizzling this on the Scripture Cake, you can decorate it with whole Genesis.

DON'T PEEK!
THE TRANSLATION FOLLOWS!

TRANSLATION from the OLD SCRIPTURES (in order of reference):

butter, sweet cane, eggs, fine flour, salt, leavened, sweet cinnamon, spices, milk, almonds, figs, raisins, water.

*This is a great Family Home Evening Recipe- it is the most fun when you turn the ingredients into your own family scripture chase!
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Rice Crispie Earth Recipe
Read the Story of the Creation
Basically, just your basic rice crispie squares recipe with food
coloring added.
1/4-cup margarine
40 regular marshmallows
1/2 tsp. vanilla
6 cups rice crispies
Green and blue food coloring

Melt margarine and marshmallows over medium heat in a large pot, stir in vanilla and rice crispies.

Divide into two bowls :
Add green food coloring to one bowl and blue food coloring to the second.
STIR!!!

Allow the children to take a scoop from the blue bowl and a scoop from the green bowl and mash them together in a ball (the earth).

Set the balls aside until completely cool.

FAMILY HOME EVENING LESSON:
Read the story of the creation. Genesis Ch.1
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Last Supper Snack
Garnish a huge tray full of sliced apples, pita bread (cut into quarters), cubed cheese, green and red grapes.

This is great to do in the week leading up to Easter Sunday. You can review the last week of the Savior's life and read what he did as a special FHE every night leading up to Easter (Starting on Palm Sunday, and ending on Easter Sunday). This snack should be served on the Fifth day.

FAMILY HOME EVENING LESSON:
The Last week of the Savior:

FIRST DAY:
Triumphal Entry

SECOND DAY:
Cleansing of the Temple

THIRD DAY:
Teaching of the parables

FOURTH DAY:
No Record

FIFTH DAY:
Sacrament; Mount of Olives; Gethsemane

SIXTH DAY:
Betrayal; Arrest; Trial; Condemnation;
Crucifixion; Entombment

SEVENTH DAY:
Guard at the tomb; Savior was in the Spirit World

SUNDAY:
Christ appears as a Resurrected Being
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EASTER STORY COOKIES (to be made the evening before Easter)
1c. whole pecans
1 tsp. vinegar
3 egg whites
pinch salt
1 c. sugar
zipper baggie
wooden spoon
tape
Bible
Preheat oven to 300°F.Place
pecans
in zipper baggie and let children beat them with the wooden spoon to break into small pieces. Explain that, after Jesus was arrested, He was beaten by the Roman soldiers. Read John 19:1-3.

Let each child smell the vinegar. Put 1 tsp. vinegar into mixing bowl. Explain that when Jesus was thirsty on the cross He was given vinegar to drink.

Read John 19:28-30. Add egg whites to vinegar. Eggs represent life.
Explain that Jesus gave His life to give us life. Read John 10:10- 11. Sprinkle a little salt into each child's hand. Let them taste it and brush the rest into the bowl. Explain that this represents the salty tears shed by Jesus' followers, and the bitterness of our own sin. Read Luke 23:27. So far the ingredients are not very appetizing. Add 1c. sugar. Explain that the sweetest part of the story is that Jesus died because He loves us. He wants us to know and
belong to Him. Read Ps. 34:8 and John 3:16. Beat with a mixer on high speed for 12 to 15 minutes until stiff peaks are formed. Explain that the color white represents the purity in God's eyes of those whose sins have been cleansed by Jesus. Read Isaiah 1:18 and John 3:1-

3. Fold in broken nuts. Drop by teaspoons onto wax paper covered cookie sheet. Explain that each mound represents the rocky tomb where Jesus' body was laid. Read Matt. 27:57-60. Put the cookie sheet in the oven, close the door and turn the oven OFF. Give each child a piece of tape and seal the oven door. Explain that Jesus' tomb was
sealed. Read Matt. 27:65-66.

GO TO BED! Explain that they may feel sad to leave the cookies in the oven overnight. Jesus' followers were in despair when the tomb was sealed. Read John 16:20 and
22.

On Easter morning, open the oven and give everyone a cookie.
Notice the cracked surface and take a bite. The cookies are hollow!
On the first Easter Jesus' followers were amazed to find the tomb open and empty. Read Matt. 28:1- 9.

*My grandmother gave this recipe to me when I was a FHE Leader in College. We did this for our Easter esson- At the time we didn't have a mixer, so we beat the egg whites by hand(which took a while) and used that time to each bear our testimony about the Savior.
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EZEKIEL BREAD
Ezekiel 4:9

Makes 4 loaves

7 cups wheat kernels 1/2 cup honey
1 cup barley 3 Tb. instant yeast
1/4 cup pinto beans 2 Tb. dough inhancer
1/4 cup soy beans 1/2 cup vital gluten
1/4 cup lentils 1 1/2 Tb. salt
1 cup rye kernels 1/2 cup oil
5 cups hot water 1/3 cup millet

Combine wheat, barley, both kind of beans, lentils and rye. Grind this mixture in a wheat grinder.

Now take the bowl of an electric mixer that is capable of kneading bread, and place in it the hot water and 3 cups of your prepared multigrain flour. Blend these together by turning on the mixer for a few seconds.

Add honey, yeast, dough enhancer, gluten, salt, oil, and 3 to 4 cups of flour. Blend again with the mixer for a few seconds. With the mixer running, add flour until dough pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
Add the millet.

Knead at the lowest speed for 10 minutes. Shape into 4 regular sized loaves. Let rise until double. Bake in 350 degree oven for 25 to 30 min.

ALTERNATIVE RECIPE

EZEKIEL BREAD
(Bread Machine)

Makes one 1 1/2 lb. loaf

3 cups wheat kernels
2 Tb. oil
1/2 cup barley
3 Tb. honey
1/8 cup pinto beans
1 tsp. salt
1/8 cup soy beans
3 Tb. vital gluten
1/8 cup lentils
2 tsp. dough enhancer
1/2 cup rye kernels
1 1/8 tsp. yeast
1 1/3 cup warm water
1/4 cup millet

Combine wheat, barley, both kinds of beans, lentils, and rye. Grind this in a wheat grinder.

In the machine pan, add warm water, oil, honey and salt. Add 3 cups of the multigrain flour you just prepared. Add gluten, dough enhancer, yeast and millet.

Set on white bread and light crust. Put pan into the machine. Close lid, push start.

FAMILY HOME EVENING LESSON:
You can do a Family Home Evening about the prophet Ezekiel. He was commanded by the Lord in chapter four to make bread of these ingredients. He was told to eat it for over a year with only a very small amount allowed each day.
This was to represent the terrible famine that would come to the Lord's people in Jerusalem because they had forgotten Him and ignored His commandments and warnings. We need to carefully heed the Lord's directions that He has given in the scriptures and through His prophets.
You could review with your family what the Lord has told us to do in these latter days, making an accounting of where we stand and what we need to do with the Lord's help.

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