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Toot-Toot! Get Safe!

Hand binoculars, a pretend trumpet, a hurry to the safe place, and little lost sheep to find

  • 🧸 Nursery
  • Week 45
  • 📅 Sunday, November 8, 2026
🤔 Forehead Guess🏆 Showdown
💡 The big idea

The prophet helps keep me safe.

I can make watchman binoculars with my hands and remember that the prophet helps keep me safe.

Study it yourself firstRead Ezekiel 1–3; 33–34; 36–37; 47 in Gospel LibraryCome, Follow Me manualOpen this week (Ezekiel 1–3; 33–34; 36–37; 47)
Know the chapters

Ezekiel was a prophet who lived far from home in Babylon. The Lord told him, “I have made thee a watchman.” That’s Ezekiel 3:17, and 33:1–7 says it again. A watchman stood high on a city wall and looked far away. When he saw danger coming, he blew a trumpet so everyone could hurry to a safe place. Later chapters show the Lord as a shepherd who searches for His scattered sheep, in Ezekiel 34:11–12. Ezekiel 47:9 shows a river flowing from the temple that brings life wherever it goes.

For toddlers, keep one idea: the prophet helps keep me safe. They don’t need to understand prophets yet. They just need to hear the word “prophet” with a warm feeling and a picture. Today we have a living prophet, the President of the Church. Bring a current picture of him so the children can point to him.

Everything today is a game toddlers already love. There are peekaboo binoculars, a loud “Toot-toot!” and a silly hurry to a safe spot. Keep the danger vague and gentle, like “Uh-oh, something’s coming!” The lesson takes six minutes. The play-time ideas add lost sheep, a wavy river and a sleepy sheepfold for the rest of nursery.

Only have 5 minutes?

Grab an empty paper-towel tube and a current picture of the prophet. Toot the tube like a trumpet, then peek through it: “I see you!” Swipe through the six-picture story on your phone or tablet. Do the toot-toot wiggle. Make hand binoculars and say “The prophet helps me!” End with a quiet “I know Jesus loves you.” For play time, pick three ideas below. Brought nothing? Tap “I brought nothing.” Your hands become the trumpet and binoculars, and your phone or tablet shows the pictures.

What to bring7 items

Tick what you have. Forgot something? Every step that needs a supply has a no-supplies version in the plan below.

Before class

  1. Keep the paper-towel tube hidden in your bag until the opening.
  2. Open the Sound Board on your phone or tablet and find the trumpet button. Keep the volume low. A soft toot is fun, but a loud one can startle.
  3. Check the floor for anything small. If it fits through a toilet-paper tube, put it up high or away.
  4. Decide with the other adult who leads the lesson and who greets at the door. There are always two adults in nursery.
  5. Practice the motion. Curl your hands into two circles and hold them to your eyes like binoculars. Then say “The prophet helps me!”

If your class is wild

  • Tears at drop-off are normal. Let the other adult hold the crying child near the fun. They can whisper, “Daddy will come back. You’re safe here.” A quick, happy goodbye beats sneaking out.
  • Heading to the safe place? Whisper “Tiptoe, tiptoe!” Running toddlers bump heads in a small room.
  • Only grown-ups hold the tube during the lesson. If a child wants it, make hand binoculars for them. They can have a turn at play time.
  • Follow your ward’s policy for diapers and potty trips. Never leave one adult alone with the class, and never go off alone with one child.

The 25-minute plan6 min + bonus

Bonus steps are for when you have extra time. Steps that mention Teach Mode, the Sound Board or other class games refer to the Gospel Sparks app; on the web you can play Forehead Guess and Scripture Showdown from this page.

1. Hook

Toot-Toot! I See You!

1 min

A surprise trumpet sound and a peekaboo spyglass pull scattered toddlers toward you and set up the watchman.

  1. Sit on the floor. Pull out the tube and toot through it: “Toot-toot!” Little ones will come see.
  2. Hold the tube to one eye and look around slowly: “I’m looking… looking… I see Ella!”
  3. Find each child through the tube: “Peekaboo! I see you!”
  4. SAY“Today we learn about a watchman. He looked far away and helped people get safe.”
  5. Put the tube up high until play time.
🌪️ Everyone wants the tube? Save turns for play time. For now, show them hand binoculars and let them look at you.

Class screen: 🎺 Toot-toot! I see you!

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: An empty paper-towel tube (the long kind) to be a trumpet and a spyglass

Hand Binoculars

  1. Sit on the floor. Put a fist to your mouth and toot: “Toot-toot!” Little ones will come see.
  2. Curl your hands into binoculars and look around slowly: “I’m looking… looking… I see Ella!”
  3. Find each child through your hand binoculars: “Peekaboo! I see you!”
  4. SAY“Today we learn about a watchman. He looked far away and helped people get safe.”

Class screen: 👀 Peekaboo! I see you!

2. Story

Picture Story: Ezekiel the Watchman

2 min

Six pictures with one sentence and one action each let toddlers look far, toot the trumpet and hurry to safety.

  1. Hold your phone or tablet at their eye level. Everyone gets to be a Watchman and a Trumpet Tooter.
  2. Read the one sentence, then do the action big so they can copy you. Don’t wait for everyone.
  3. On the toot picture, tap the trumpet button and toot along. They’ll want to toot again, so let them.
  4. Losing them early? Jump to the last picture: “The prophet helps keep us safe!”
🌪️ Got a child who won’t stop moving? Let them tap your phone or tablet to change the picture, with your hand on it too. A job beats a battle.

Class screen: 🧱 Look far! Toot-toot!

3. Wiggle break

Toot-Toot Tiptoe

1 min

Toddlers need to move after two minutes, and a toot-and-hurry game repeats the story with their whole bodies.

  1. SAY“Stand up! Let’s be watchmen!”
  2. Stretch up on tiptoe with hand binoculars: “Look high!” Crouch down low: “Look low!”
  3. Toot together: “Toot-toot! Get safe!” Tiptoe fast in place, then crouch small and hug: “Safe!”
  4. Pop back up and go again while they giggle.
  5. Finish with binoculars: “The prophet helps me!” Then sit down together.

Class screen: 👀 Look! Toot! Tiptoe! Safe! · 👀 Look high · 🎺 Toot-toot · 🦶 Tiptoe · 🤗 Safe!

4. Scripture

Our Little Verse: Ezekiel 3:17

1 min

Four kid words and one motion, said many times, is how a toddler carries a scripture home.

  1. Hold up your scriptures.
  2. SAY“This is the Bible. It tells about prophets. Listen!”
  3. Read slowly: “I have made thee a watchman.”
  4. SAY“Heavenly Father made Ezekiel a watchman. The prophet helps me!”
  5. Make hand binoculars and say it together three times: whisper, normal, happy. Then look at each child: “The prophet helps Ella.”

Class screen: 👀 The prophet helps me! · 👀 Make binoculars!

5. Testimony

Our Prophet and Jesus

1 min

Seeing the prophet’s face next to the Savior’s helps toddlers connect the word “prophet” with love and safety.

  1. Drop your voice to a whisper and hold up the picture of the prophet.
  2. SAY“This is our prophet. He teaches us about Jesus.”
  3. Hold up the picture of Jesus Christ: “This is Jesus.” Let kids point or gently pat the pictures.
  4. SAY“I know Jesus loves you. The prophet helps keep you safe.”
  5. If your nursery has a prayer now, fold arms while a grown-up says a short one.

Class screen: ❤️ Jesus loves you!

No supplies? Do this instead

Instead of: A current picture of the prophet, the President of the Church, and a picture of Jesus Christ (meetinghouse library, a Friend magazine, or home)

  1. Drop your voice to a whisper and put your hand on your heart.
  2. SAY“Shhh. Let’s think about Jesus. Jesus gives us a prophet. The prophet teaches us about Jesus.”
  3. Touch each child’s hand or wave, and whisper, “Jesus loves you.”
  4. SAY“I know Jesus loves you.”
  5. If your nursery has a prayer now, fold arms while a grown-up says a short one.
6. Song

Watchman March

2 minBONUS

If they’re still with you, marching to a prophet song burns off wiggles and repeats the word “prophet.”

  1. SAY“Stand up! Let’s march on the wall like watchmen!”
  2. Sing “Follow the Prophet,” Children’s Songbook page 110. March or stomp in a little line behind you.
  3. At the end, stop and make binoculars: “The prophet helps me!”

Class screen: 🥁 March, march, watchmen!

The story

Ezekiel the Watchman

Ezekiel 3:17; 33:1–7 ↗

Optional helpers

  • WatchmenEveryone! Stand on tiptoe and make binoculars with your hands.
  • Trumpet TootersEveryone! Put a fist to your mouth and toot: “Toot-toot!”

Scenes

  1. 🧔 This is Ezekiel. He was a prophet.

    This is Ezekiel, a prophet who loved Heavenly Father.

    🙌 Wave hello to Ezekiel on your phone or tablet: “Hi, Ezekiel!”

  2. 🧱👀 Up high, the watchman looks far away.

    Ezekiel was like a watchman, up high, looking far, far away.

    🙌 Make hand binoculars and look far, far away.

  3. 💨 Uh-oh! Something is coming!

    Uh-oh! The watchman sees something coming!

    🙌 Hands on cheeks for a silly “Uh-oh!”

  4. 🎺 Toot-toot! Get safe!

    Toot-toot! The watchman blows his trumpet: “Get safe!”

    🙌 Fist to your mouth: “Toot-toot!”

  5. 🏠 Everyone hurries to the safe place!

    Everyone listens and tiptoes to the safe place. Hooray!

    🙌 Crouch down small and hug yourself: “Safe!”

  6. 🙂❤️ Our prophet helps keep us safe!

    Today we have a prophet too, and he helps keep us safe.

    🙌 Say each child’s name with a smile: “Ella is safe!”

Key verse

Ezekiel 3:17 ↗
“I have made thee a watchman”
In kid words: The prophet helps me!
🙌 Curl your hands into two circles and hold them up to your eyes like binoculars the whole time you say it.

More verses

Ezekiel 34:11 ↗
“Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out”
In kid words: The Lord looks for His little sheep.
Ezekiel 34:14 ↗
“I will feed them in a good pasture”
In kid words: The Lord gives His sheep good food.
Ezekiel 47:9 ↗
“every thing shall live whither the river cometh”
In kid words: Everything the river touches comes alive.

Forehead Guess words8 words

  • 🎺 Trumpet
  • 👀 Eyes
  • 🧱 Wall
  • 🏠 House
  • 🐑 Sheep
  • 🏞️ River
  • 🐟 Fish
  • 🌳 Tree
Clues for each word
  • Trumpet: Toot-toot! Get safe!
  • Eyes: Look far away like a watchman
  • Wall: The watchman stands up high on it
  • House: A safe place to go
  • Sheep: Baa! The Lord finds His sheep.
  • River: Wavy water that helps things grow
  • Fish: Swims in the river
  • Tree: Grows by the river
▶ Play Forehead GuessFull screen, 60-second timer, works on any phone.

Scripture Showdown5 questions

  1. Which one goes toot-toot?
    • A. 🎺 Trumpet
    • B. 🐢 Turtle
    Show answer

    ✅ A. 🎺 Trumpet Toot-toot! The watchman’s trumpet says, “Get safe!”

  2. What do we look with?
    • A. 🦶 Feet
    • B. 👀 Eyes
    Show answer

    ✅ B. 👀 Eyes Make binoculars! The watchman looks far away.

  3. Where do we go to be safe?
    • A. 🏠 House
    • B. 🌊 Big waves
    Show answer

    ✅ A. 🏠 House Tiptoe, tiptoe! Everyone hurried to the safe place.

  4. Which one says baa?
    • A. 🚗 Car
    • B. 🐑 Sheep
    Show answer

    ✅ B. 🐑 Sheep Baa! The Lord looks for His little sheep.

  5. Who helps keep us safe?
    • A. 🙂 The prophet
    • B. 🦖 Dinosaur
    Show answer

    ✅ A. 🙂 The prophet Make binoculars: the prophet helps me!

▶ Play Scripture ShowdownTeams take turns on one screen.

Songs

  • Follow the Prophet Children’s Songbook, p. 110

    March or stomp in a little line like watchmen on the wall. Find it ↗

  • Do As I’m Doing Children’s Songbook, p. 276

    Toddlers copy you: binoculars, toot-toot, tiptoe, crouch down safe. Find it ↗

  • I Am a Child of God Children’s Songbook, p. 2

    Hum it softly while the sleepy sheep rest in the sheepfold. Find it ↗

This week’s challenge

Find the Prophet

Show your little one a picture of the prophet this week. A Friend magazine or the Gospel Library app works. Make hand binoculars together and say, “The prophet helps me!”

Text the parents

Today in nursery we learned that the prophet Ezekiel was like a watchman. He looked far away and tooted a trumpet to help people get safe. That’s Ezekiel 3:17. We made hand binoculars, tooted and tiptoed to a safe place. We said, “The prophet helps me!” Try it at home. Show your child a picture of the prophet, and see if they make binoculars with you.

📝 After class

What worked? Who needs a check-in this week? Jot it here on a printed copy, or in the app’s private class notes.

Nursery play time

The lesson is short on purpose. Fill the rest of nursery with these: pick what fits your little ones today.

🐑 Find the Little Lost Sheep · 10 min

  1. While kids play, tuck three to five stuffed animals where they’re easy to spot. Try behind a chair leg or under a table.
  2. SAY“Baa! Baa! A little sheep is lost! Can you find it?”
  3. Look together and cheer each find: “You found it!” Carry it to the blanket sheepfold, like the Lord in Ezekiel 34:11.
  4. SAY“The Lord looks for His sheep until He finds them. He loves His sheep, and He loves you!”
  5. Hide them again for another turn. No stuffed animals? Hide behind a chair and baa softly, or find each child instead.

🎵 Watchman Music and March · 5 min

  1. Sing “Follow the Prophet,” Children’s Songbook page 110. March or stomp around the room in a wobbly little line.
  2. Sing “Do As I’m Doing,” Children’s Songbook page 276. Lead binoculars, toot-toot, tiptoe and a crouch-down “Safe!”
  3. Tap Freeze Dance on your phone or tablet. When the music stops, everyone makes binoculars: “The prophet helps me!”
  4. Don’t know a tune? Play it once in the Gospel Library app. Or just chant “Toot-toot, tiptoe” while you march.

🥕 Good Pasture Snack · 10 min

  1. Check allergies and your ward’s snack policy first. Wipe every child’s hands, and yours.
  2. Everyone sits to eat while an adult watches. Skip popcorn, nuts, whole grapes, hard candy and raw carrot chunks.
  3. Fold arms while a grown-up says a short blessing. Then share Ezekiel 34:14 in simple words.
  4. SAY“Sheep eat grass. Munch, munch! Baa! The Lord said He will feed His sheep. He takes care of us too.”
  5. No snack today? Crawl to the carpet grass like hungry sheep. Munch, baa and say thank you to Heavenly Father.

🖍️ Wiggly River Art · 8 min

  1. Tape a long strip of paper down. Draw a wiggly blue line down the middle: “This is a river.” It’s the river in Ezekiel 47:9.
  2. Give each child one chunky washable crayon. Skip stickers, glitter, pom-poms and marker caps. They’re choking hazards.
  3. SAY“Everything the river touches comes alive.”
  4. Every scribble is a tree, a fish or more river! Write each child’s name by their scribbles, then count the crayons back in.
  5. No paper or crayons? Open Draw & Guess on your phone or tablet. Hold it while each child finger-draws a wiggly river.

🧶 Fluffy Sheep Feelies · 6 min

  1. Set out a basket of big fluffy things, like a fleece blanket, a soft sweater and a stuffed lamb. Let kids dig in.
  2. SAY“Soft like a sheep! Baa!”
  3. Rub the fleece gently on your cheek, and on a child’s hand if they like it. Tell them, “The Lord takes care of His sheep, and of you.”
  4. Big items only. No cotton balls, pom-poms or yarn bits, since they’re choking hazards. An adult sits with the basket the whole time.
  5. No basket? Gently pat soft sleeves, if kids like it, and say, “Soft like a sheep! Baa!”

🌊 Blanket River Waves · 5 min

  1. Two grown-ups hold a light blanket low to the floor and ripple it gently: “Here comes the river!”
  2. Let kids pat the waves and giggle. Make big slow waves, then tiny fast ones.
  3. Set a stuffed animal on top and let it swim down the river: “Everything the river touches comes alive!”
  4. Keep the blanket low, and let go if a child pulls it. Never cover a child’s face. Fold it away when you’re done.
  5. No blanket? Everyone lies on their tummies and wiggles fish tails: “Swim, swim!”

🔭 Watchman Window Walk · 5 min

  1. Give a child a turn with the tube spyglass, or make hand binoculars together.
  2. Walk to the window and look: “What do you see? A tree? A car? The sky?” Name whatever they point at.
  3. Walk past the pictures on the walls and name them. Tell them, “Watchmen look far away.”
  4. Finish at the pictures of the prophet and Jesus: “The prophet helps me! Jesus loves me!”
  5. Both adults stay in the nursery room. Anyone who wants to keep playing can.

😴 Sleepy Sheep in the Fold · 4 min

  1. Spread out a blanket: “This is the sheepfold, the sheep’s safe bed.” Kids can lie down, sit or climb into a lap.
  2. Baa very softly, then whisper, “Sleepy sheep… shhh.”
  3. Softly hum “I Am a Child of God,” Children’s Songbook page 2. Pat backs gently for kids who like it.
  4. Whisper each child’s name: “The Lord loves His little sheep. He loves you, Ella.”
  5. Upset child? Hold them, rock side to side and walk to the window together. Calm comes before learning.

👋 Toot-Toot Tidy-Up Goodbye · 5 min

  1. Five minutes before the end, tap trumpet on the Sound Board: “Toot-toot! Let’s get the toys safe!”
  2. Sit together once more and make binoculars: “The prophet helps me!”
  3. Hand each child only to their own parent or guardian. Toot goodbye: “Toot-toot! See you next week!”
  4. Share the family note from the app, and tell parents one happy moment about their child.
  5. Kids still waiting? Play Find the Little Lost Sheep or read a picture book. Both adults stay until every child is picked up.

Sources

Scripture quotations are from the King James Version, the Bible used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Tap or click a reference to open it in Gospel Library. Start with the official Come, Follow Me manual; these ideas are here to help it come alive.

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