Improving and Fortifying our Armor

A couple of days ago during the Saturday sessions of conference, the kids were running around playing swords with each other. Drew came up to me with some paper and some rubber bands and asked me if I would help him make some armor. It sounded like an interesting idea to me, so I helped him and it was a lot of fun. We started with what you see in these pictures, but at the end of our playing, the kids were pretty much covered with paper from head to toe. Unfortunately as time wore on, their armor didn't last and it all ended up scattered around the family room. I told the kids that we should make their armor out of something a little stronger than paper like cardboard. They liked this idea quite a lot, and they have been looking forward to their new and much stronger armor.
Well could tonight's Family Home Evening lesson have been any easier for me to figure out? We had a blast making some armor together, and then I asked them why people use armor, and Hayden said, "To protect our bodies." I was pretty impressed by his answer. I then told them that I was going to read about a different kind of armor, a kind of armor that protects our spirits. And then I read from Ephesians 6:11-17. I'd like to say that they all sat down like angels the whole time for this . . . but um . . . not so much. Hayden was playing a drum and climbing on the bookshelf, Ada was screaming because she wanted to wear the helmet of Salvation and there were only two. So amidst the chaos I am reading the scriptures to them and there might of been a few intermittent yells from me like, "Hayden! Get down. Get over here! Ada stop whining or you're going in your bed!" And of course times those threats by like maybe 1o. I was like, "Don't you know that this is supposed to be fun?" Besides Hayden and Ada's moments of craziness It really was fun. The kids had a blast and were begging me tonight to play with their armor again in the morning. And I can at least say that Drew might even be able to tell you what some of the armor of God includes.