This page is a digital version of the Ward 2023 Primary Temple and Family History Passport. The passport is designed to help Primary children accomplish the things described in the paper passport. Although it is aimed at Primary children, many of the activities included are fun for "children" of all ages. Each page that requires additional information to complete the activity, has live links on the right of the page to help and to give additional resources.
Near the end of the passport is a page of "other" activities to consider.
Go to this link to download a printable copy of the Primary Passport
These are the first two pages of the Passport that introduce the year's activity suggestions.
For the suggested schedule for completion, and additonal instructions, please go to the Family Passport.
The instructions here simply direct you to get and glue pictures of yourself, your parents, and grandparents to the passport page.
If you are doing this digitally, you can print an image of this page, draw your own page, or download a page from the FamilySearch blog.
This is a great opportunity to find out about your parents when they were kids. Ask them the questions here as well as the rest of the questions at Rule This Roost.
Later you could ask your grandparents the same questions and see how their answers are different from your parents'.
This is a good way to get your parents to begin writing their personal histories too. : - )
The QR code introduces the Discovery Center at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. The website has some introductory videos and tells how to sign up.
There are lots of fun ways to begin writing a journal.
The first QR code shows Mitch with FamilySearch posting his grandma's first selfie on FamilySearch Memories.
The second--55 journal prompts for kids are fun and engaging.
For a more extensive list of objects to find in a cemetery, go to this Graveyard Scavenger Hunt link.
This game is listed for teenagers 14 and older, but they could accompany younger children to find the items. You might also want to create your own list to fit the characteristics of the cemetery you will visit (and to be appropriate for the ages of younger children)--for example, the headstones of your own relatives and what unique sayings, or other things, are on those specific stones.
Here are some great ideas for creating a Grandparent Memory Book. It is also a step to helping them create their personal history with your help.
First of all consider the following ideas from the Family History Activities page in the online Gospel Library (or in the app on your phone). Some of the favorites are:
All About Me
Compare a Face
Famous Relatives
In the Gospel Library app on a phone or online at the link above, go to the section titled "Children", then go to the sub section labeled "Family History" and do the Family History Mysteries.
Play the Family History games at the BYU
Here is another long list at "Fun Family History Activities for the Whole Family."
Lastly, an activity and coloring book for children entitled, Gathering the Family of God, and a workbook, My Family--Stories that Bring Us Together are both available at Deseret Book or the Distribution Center.