I am a Child of God --Verse 4

"His promises are sure"

Why a diamond ring, you ask?? Because a wedding ring symbolizes a promise perfectly, but I also thought it would be fun to have all the kids link pinky fingers together with the person next to them and talk about promises.

 I found the huge ring (above) at the dollar store, but a ring pop, or any regular ring would work too. I thought it would be a fun object to play hide/seek or hot/cold while we are repeating the verse, over and over... :)

I loved an idea found  HERE! Thank you for sharing Primary Notes 29!
After we have become comfortable with all the verses, a great way to remember each verse is to point to yourself;

Verse 1: Point to yourself (I am a child of God)
Verse 2: Point to knees   (sounds like "NEEDS")
Verse 3: Point to pockets (--where you keep your wallet, "RICH" blessings )
Verse 4: Point to ring finger ("Promises")

So, while we're pointing to ourselves and our parts, Mr. Potatohead and all his parts come to mind, lol....

Each body part represents a song!

Hat: HEAD, shoulders, knees and toes

Eyes: Popcorn popping (I LOOKED out the window...)

Nose: Rain is falling all around (...Rain is falling on my NOSE)

Ear 1: The Dearest Names (LISTEN, I'll whisper the name to you...)

Ear 2: Do as Im doing (wiggle ears)

Mouth: Smiles, Love os Spoken here or Jesus Said Love Everyone 

Arm 1: Book of Mormon Stories (Or any arm movement song)

Arm 2: Daddy Comes home (Put my ARMS around his neck)

Feet: Teach me to walk, Stand for the Right, Follow the Prophet

And then, it would be a fun change to bring it to the nursery and let all the kids pick a body part and sing songs with them as well! 

  

I am a Child of God--Verse 3

"I am a child of God, RICH BLESSINGS are in store"...

Just like the Primary kids, when I hear the word "RICH" I'm sure we think of treasure!! 

SO, I thought it would be cute to have a picture of a treasure box and talk about "real" riches and blessings... 

We'll fill it up with images of life's RICH blessings:

Family

Temple

Priesthood

Happiness

Answers to Prayers

Forgiveness

(I just found clip art on the internet)

This would also be a great week to give a back ground history of the song, if you haven't yet (like, me). Years after the song was written, the words were changed from "all that I must KNOW" to "all that I must DO'' so, the rest of the time, we are going to sing songs about what we need to "DO" to 

"Live with Him once more"...

I loved this idea from Sunbeam Singing! 
We'll sing “Do as Im Doing”, but the actions will all be things that can lead us back to heaven-- praying, reading our scriptures, taking the sacrament, picking up toys, listening to prophet (EARS), Being nice (HUGS). 

She has cute cards that you can even print off! 

Songs about living with him---

Teach me to walk 177

I lived in heaven  4

I will follow gods plan for me 164

A Childs Prayer 12

I Am a Child of God --Verse 2

 "I am a child of God" Verse 2

I love this flip chart found HERE to help teach verse 2.

I loved the simplicity of it! Thank you, Mandy Ferris for sharing it on Sugardoodle. :)

Im definitely using it for that first part, but I decided to make our own flip chart for the next sentence, "help me to understand his words". I will tape pictures under a few random chairs that show how we can learn his words through:

Prophets
Personal Priesthood Blessings
Scriptures
The Commandments
Answers to prayers

Ill invite those children who found the pictures to bring them up, show them off and attach them to a blank flip chart for that sentence...


After singing the whole verse through a few times...

The rest of the songs for the day will, again, focus on "help me to understand his words"...

(What can I say, thats my favorite part!) 

Of course, Im throwing the whole verse two of "I am a child of God'' into the rotation several times as well, :), but here are some great familiar songs about "HIS WORDS"...

Book of Mormon Stories

The Golden Plates

Follow the Prophet

I want to Live the Gospel

Search, Ponder and Pray

Nephi's Courage

Come, Follow me

Keep the Commandments

We'll Bring the World His Truth

I'm going to tape the songs to the bottom of these foam footprints (that I found at the $1 store)...

Lay them out in a circle and have the pianist play the chorus of I am a child of God, as one child at a time, follows the footprints, like musical chairs, when the song abruptly ends, we'll see what footprint they are on, take that footprint out of rotation and sing that song!  

"I Am A Child Of God" Verse 1 and the Chorus

I LOVE the 2013 theme, I AM A CHILD OF GOD.

I'm excited to introduce the song this Sunday...

This is a brand new calling for me and it will be my first Sunday as a chorister, but whether you're new or old, I think its a great time to "Get to know each other"! 
So, I was going to quickly introduce myself (My fav primary song, a picture of my family, that kind of stuff) and have the pianist introduce himself as well.


Since I especially want to get to know the children, I am going to ask them questions and have them stand up if it's something that applies to them, for instance, who has their own bedroom? Who has a baby brother or sister? Who's favorite color is red? Who has brown eyes? Who loves french fries? Who has been on an airplane? etc... this way, we're all getting to know each other, but also we get to see how different and unique we all are! Perfect for this years theme!

I'll have the pianist play the 1st verse of "I am a child of god" and ask the kids to stand up if they know what the song is called and what we all have in common. :)

I found these great cut outs on sugardoodle, here, I put them on Popsicle sticks and Im going to mix them up, so the kids can put them in their right order. 

This 1st verse is all about home and family, so I want the kids to show on their fingers how many people are in their family when we get to that part! :) (Since were getting to know each other and all ;). 

After singing verse 1 and the chorus a few times, were going to spend the rest of the time singing songs about US! Songs like:

• I hope they call me on a ission
• I'm trying to be like Jesus
• I lived in Heaven
• I am like a Star
• Jesus once was a little child
• We are different
• Jesus wants me for a sunbeam
• The Church of Jesus Christ
• I Am a Child of God

The songs are going to be written inside these different color socks, why socks you ask? haha, because "lead, me guide me, walk beside me" has been on my mind, so naturally, I thought of FEET! :) I may leave them on this board, but I think taping them underneath chairs would be fun too....

I am going to have the new sunbeams come up and use props the nursery's props for a few of the songs, like, these sunbeam necklaces for "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam"... 

                               ....and these foam stars (from the $1 store glued onto popsicle sticks)  for "I am like a star".

Props are fun, but mostly, I just want everyone to see the cute *new* Sunbeams faces on their first day of Primary!  

For the other few songs, if there is still time, I thought the children could hide the socks and play hot/cold?? Not too original, but hey. :) 

HAPPY 1st SUNDAY of the YEAR everybody! Enjoy it!!