THE WISE MAN AND THE FOOLISH MAN STORY FIGURES

In case you are looking for a fun

visual to use in teaching or reviewing

"The Wise Man and the Foolish Man",

here are some story figures

that can be used as flannel or

magnetic board figures or stick puppets.

These are from the

July 1999 Friend magazine found here. 

Because the magazine's version is sooooooo small and in a jpg format that won't enlarge without becoming very pixilated and because I didn't feel like coloring them by hand, I wanted the lines redrawn and the images colored in a vector format. BIG THANKS goes to my eldest son for helping me out since I didn't have time to do it myself, besides, he has a better design program on his computer than I do that is easier and quicker at redrawing the lines, and of course, he is better at it than I am. I will be using some of these figures in my object lesson for this song. See this post for the object lesson. I have sized these figures into large, medium and small sizes. Included in the file are also black and white versions of each size in case you feel like being a little artistic and want to colorize them yourself. 



The Wise Man and the Foolish Man Figures-Nalani

NEPHI'S COURAGE STICK PUPPETS

In this Nephi post from last week, I posted some links to church published figures for the first two verses of the song "Nephi's Courage" that you could use for stick puppets or even board stories (aka flannel board stories but nowadays, we have magnetic boards.) This week I decided to ENLARGE the figures as much as I could on the page so they could be better seen by my Primary. Since I couldn't find a Laban figure I liked that matched the look of the Nephi figures that have been in The Friend magazine, I took the liberty to use another Book of Mormon figure that looked like a wealthy man to represent Laban. Okay, he looks more like a king, well... maybe because he is a king, King Lamoni, but I dont think they will know the difference. Oh wait a minute! They just might. Those kids are pretty perceptive at times. Oh well, it will have to do. The tools are optional to use. I just threw them in for fun since there was space on the page; however, the picture was not the best resolution so they didn't enlarge very well especially around the edges, so I just outlined them with black and brown Sharpie pens to help them POP better. They don't look so bad now. Just print the stick puppets you want onto heavy card stock, cut them out, laminate if you prefer and mount onto tongue depressor sticks if you want to use as stick puppets or put magnetic tape on the back if you want to use them for a board story.

As mentioned in an earlier post on  "Nephi's Courage", let the children use the puppets to help retell the stories in the song as the Primary sings or use them as visuals to help the children remember the order the song goes in. Mixing them up and letting the children put in order is always a good ol' standby activity. 




Nephi's Courage Stick Puppets-Nalani