The ten commandments with your fingers!

This year the primary children in our stake have been encouraged to learn the ten commandments.  Recently, the sister missionaries in our ward visited the primary and taught us how to memorize the ten commandments using our fingers.  It was genius!  I've never been able to recite all of them in order but now I can.  I thought I would share this. *these are not the sister missionaries in our ward but they are cute ladies just like these two.

Learning the  Ten Commandments with your fingers

1 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.  Hold up one finger, pointing toward the sky. Explain that God wants us to worship only Him, the ONE God.

2 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.   Make cow head shape with your 3rd and 4th finger coming down to your thumb Explain that people used to carve false gods out of stone, but God tells us not to make any false gods.

3 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.   Hold three fingers up to your lips, instead of the usual one finger, and say, “SHHH.”

4 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Make two cow heads, put them together and make a church.

5 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be  long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Five fingers up and touch each one as you say "Honor thy father and mother"

6 Thou shalt not kill.  Hold up five fingers of left hand; point right index finger at left hand like a gun.

7 Thou shalt not commit adultery. Pointer and middle finger laying on bed made from palm of other hand.  Explain that husbands and wives should only date each other

8 Thou shalt not steal. Two hands face down with thumbs tucked under.  In the olden days you would get your thumbs cut off if you stole.

9 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. One hand up with thumb turned in, other hand talking to first hand.

10 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s. All ten fingers reaching out and grabbing downward.