There’s something sacred about home.
It’s where we pray, laugh, argue, forgive, and try again.
And while we often dream of peaceful, picture-perfect homes, what God really wants is something simpler — a home where His Spirit can dwell.
A place where love is spoken, light is shared, and hearts are turned to Him.
This 5-day hands-on lesson helps kids see themselves as builders of goodness — learning that every act of kindness, faith, and love is a “brick” in the home we build for God.
You can use it anytime your family is learning about temples, holiness, or simply wants to feel more peace at home.
Overarching Theme:
We build holy homes when we fill them with love, kindness, and the light of Christ.
Day 1 – Building a Beautiful Home for God
Focus: Predicting + Sorting
Key Thought: Our choices can make our homes feel like a temple.
Read Together:
Share pictures of a temple or your own home.
Ask your kids:
“What makes a house beautiful to God?”
“Is it how it looks, or how people treat each other inside?”
Activity – Build-a-Home Sort:
Make or print cards with phrases like:
- Saying sorry
- Helping with chores
- Fighting with siblings
- Saying prayers
- Being kind
- Yelling or arguing
- Sharing toys
- Showing love
Sort them into two baskets or columns:
🏠 Things That Make Our Home a Temple
🚫 Things That Push the Spirit Away
💬 Talk about how every good choice is like adding a brick to God’s house — one that can stand strong and feel full of peace.
Optional Extension:
Use blocks, cups, or Legos to build a paper “temple.” Each block represents a Christlike quality your family wants to build on.
Day 2 – H Is for Holiness
Focus: Letters + Numbers
Key Thought: Holiness starts with small, simple things.
Craft – “H Is for Holiness” Page:
Draw or print a big outline letter H.
Decorate it with gold, yellow, or white tissue paper squares to symbolize light and purity.
As you create, say together:
“Holiness means choosing what brings the Spirit.”
Counting Game – Building Blessings:
Use 10 small objects (Legos, rocks, coins).
Each time someone names something that helps the home feel holy — like prayer, honesty, music, or kindness — add one block to your stack.
By the end, you’ll have a “Blessing Tower” that represents the beautiful things that make your home strong.
💬 Ask:
“What could we add this week to make our home even more holy?”
Day 3 – A Door of Kindness
Focus: Predicting + Measuring (Emotional & Social Learning)
Key Thought: When we welcome others, we welcome God.
Activity – Kindness Door Experiment:
Cut a big paper “door” and tape it to your fridge or wall.
Each time someone shows love, patience, or helpfulness, write it on a heart and tape it to the door.
By week’s end, your door will be covered in hearts — a visual of how kindness invites the Spirit.
Conversation Prompt:
“How does it feel when we walk into a home full of kindness?”
“How can our home feel that way every day?”
Extension:
Take a walk or drive to your local temple. Point out how open and welcoming it feels, and remind your kids that we can make our home feel like that too.
Day 4 – Stay Connected to Heaven’s Power
Focus: Letters + Connection
Key Thought: When we stay close to God, His power fills our home with light.
Analogy:
Hold up a lamp or flashlight and unplug it.
Ask: “What happens when we disconnect it from power?”
Explain that prayer, obedience, and love keep us spiritually “plugged in.”
Activity – Power Connection Path (Home Edition):
Print or draw a winding path that starts with God’s Love and ends with Our Home Glows.
Along the path, add these connecting “power points”:
- Praying
- Reading scriptures
- Forgiving
- Helping others
- Being reverent
- Singing about Jesus
Use yarn or pipe cleaners to “connect” them together.
When the path is complete, turn on a flashlight to symbolize that your family is now “powered by Heaven.”
💬 Ask:
“What helps us feel plugged in to God’s love each day?”
Day 5 – A House unto His Name
Focus: Recall + Retell + Shapes
Key Thought: Every family can build a home where God feels welcome.
Read & Reflect:
Talk about what “Holiness to the Lord” means and how it could apply to your own family.
Ask:
“What can we build for God in our home this week?”
Activity – House of Light Poster:
Cut shapes (squares, rectangles, triangles, circles) to build a paper “home.”
On each shape, write something your family can do to invite God’s Spirit (pray, forgive, serve, laugh kindly).
Glue them together to create your own House of Light poster.
Optional:
Label the roof: “Holiness to the Lord.”
Display it where your family can see it all week.
Closing Reflection:
“God’s temples are built of stone.
Our homes are built of love.”
End-of-Week Family Moment
Take a short “Home Walk.”
Move room by room and ask:
- “What happens here that helps the Spirit feel welcome?”
- “What could we change to invite more peace?”
End with a family prayer inviting God’s presence into your home — your own “House unto His name.”
💛 Why This Lesson Matters
When children understand that home can be holy, they stop separating “church time” from “real life.”
They start to see that every moment — cooking dinner, cleaning rooms, forgiving a sibling — can be a way to show love to God.
Because the truth is:
God doesn’t just dwell in temples.
He dwells wherever love does.
