Need Help For Sharing Time This Sunday

[Happy Homeschooler]

I was recently called to be the new Primary President and I can't seem to come up with creative ideas for Sharing Time (I'm not very creative-got to work on that). I've been using The Friend and the 2006 Outline and Sacrament Meeting Presentation to guide me. For this Sunday's ST we're learning about the stripling warriors. There's no idea suggestion in the Outline, but there is one in The Friend. I would like to use it, but don't know how to adapt it to my junior primary (jr. and sr. primary have separate ST). Btw, I do not have counselors yet. Here's what it says to do:

4. Be prepared to briefly tell the story of the stripling warriors (see Alma 53:10–22; 56–57). Using the language of the scriptures, prepare parts for boys ages 10 and 11 that describe the stripling warriors. For example, "I am a stripling warrior, and I made a covenant to fight for the liberty of the Nephites" (Alma 53:17); "We were all young men and were exceedingly valiant for courage" (Alma 53:20). Introduce the sharing time by briefly reviewing the story of the Anti-Nephi-Lehies as given on the back of GAK 311 (The Anti-Nephi-Lehies Burying Their Swords; see also Alma 23–24). As prepared earlier, tell the story of the stripling warriors and have the older boys read their parts. Prepare simple case studies (see TNGC, 161–62) that pose questions about appropriate music, media, language, dress, and so on. Place them in a basket, and pass it up and down the rows as you hum "We'll Bring the World His Truth" (pp. 172–73). Randomly stop the music, and have the child with the basket draw out and read a case study. Let the "stripling warriors" answer what they would do because "their mothers taught them."

[StarGazer]

I have an idea that might be more fun for the younger kids...

Have a volunteer be the Stripling Warrior. Make it the goal of the game to fully arm the Stripling Warrior for battle (not sure how well armed the real warriors were, but for the sake of the post let's pretend they were fully armed). Each additional piece of armor or weapon is a case scenario, and once the kids figure out how to respond to the scenario, you get to dress the warrior with that piece of armor. For example...the Stripling Warrior needs a sword. The sword scenario is that a friend curses, and it makes you uncomfortable. How do you respond? You might need to tailor the scenarios to fit the age group, but the point is to get all the armor on the warrior so he's ready to face the world.

Depending on how creative you wanted to be, you could make some pretty fun pieces like a wooden sword, a shield, helmet/headband. If you make it quality, it will last for several lessons.