• Hold up a tray of coal and describe how you can get the coals (Charcoal briquettes) lit in a pile quite easily and they produce the desired heat quickly, but if you separate them, they're not as hot and can sometimes cool right off. Compare how that's the same with our extended families. We burn brighter and stay warmer together, and are a strength to each other!

For a handout, attached a small piece of charcoal (hot glue) to a card with the Who Am I questionnaire suggested in the lesson! Submitted by Ann in SLC

• Martha Stewart Living April 99 has an article about Family Trees. Inside there are two great ideas to use.

#l - Using a small tree branch (one that has many small branches) and paper leaves, have the YW write the names of aunts, uncles, cousins, etc. (Maybe use one branch per family and then show how when all branches are connected, you have the family tree. (I hope that made sense)

#2 - The other idea was using brown construction paper and white ink. He started with his name at the bottom of the trunk (writing name vertically going up the trunk and then branching out one side for his mother, the other side his father, and continuing up the tree with grandparents, aunts, and uncles, etc. All names are written vertically going up. The illustration in the magazine is quite effective but simple - something I think the girls would enjoy doing.

(This one could be easily used in a classroom setting with the blackboard and white chalk.

• Something I did for my dad (who is the family historian) is I took a Easter tree (bought it from the Current Outlet) and I hung little shamrocks off of it. (We're Irish). On each shamrock was the name of a member of our family. I went back 4 generations. If you're creative, I've seen people actually paint little faces that resembled the person who's name was on the ornament. This could possibly be done as a class activity to tie in with your lesson.
  

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