EASTER ~ Eggs in the "BASKET"

The Easter Wheels in my head have been turning!

 I really liked my GOLDEN EGG~ hot potato game (posted below), but I decided to come up with something else... Im a woman who loves options. :)

Im going to write "JACK RABBITS" vs. "COTTONTAILS" on the board aka boys vs. girls (thank you Sugardoodle, for that fun alternative).
I'll have Plastic eggs filled with songs all about he savior inside and two additional empty baskets on the floor.  Ill pick one boy and one girl to come up and pick an egg, stand behind a designated line and whoever can get their egg into their own "Basket" first gets a point for their team, and also gets to open their egg and thats the song we'll sing!

I was super excited to have these smaller baskets on hand... the perfect size to make it "EGG-STRA" challenging. :)

Hope you all have a very sweet Easter Sunday!

EASTER ~Hot/Cold Golden Egg Hunt~

Easter Sunday is my FAVORITE Sunday!

I wanted to do something fun.

So, we are going to play the "GOLDEN EGG"!

I have a huge Primary, so I'm making about a dozen paper eggs out of card stock (if my Primary was small enough, it would be fun to make one for each child), and then 1 Golden Egg, also bring a plastic egg to pass around, like a hot potato.

Give the eggs out and ask the children to quietly SIT on their egg, ask the pianist to play a song and have the kids pass the plastic egg around, when the music stops, the child holding the egg gets to go out and come back in to search for the GOLDEN EGG!

The golden egg also gets sat on, while the child is out or blindfolded (whatever works better for you) ask a child to sit on the egg and sing Primary Songs while the child searches.... extra quietly when they are far, and louder when they are near, you know how that goes. :)

HAVE A HAPPY EASTER!

If the Savior Stood Beside Me ~Verse 2

If the Savior Stood Beside Me ~Verse 2

"If the Savior Stood beside me would I say the things I say?"

Im going to pull out several different pictures of lips and talk about WORDS and how important it is to say kind things. As we learn each line of the 2nd verse, a child can come up and pick a mouth, we will then sing the line we just learned according the style on the back of the mouth chosen:

Boys Only
Girls Only
Sing with your mouth closed! (HUM)
Im even including Opposites~

Backwards/Forwards
Bad/Good
Beginning/End
Bent/Straight
Apart/Together
Up/Down
Stop/Go
Fast/Slow
Right/Left
Quite/Loud
Young/Old

 and letting them chose which opposite way they want to sing....

After singing the song a few times through, the rest of the time (Hopefully at least 10 mins),
I decided to come up with wordstrips of questions for a little game of true/false??


Have a child pick a word strip and guess if the question is true or false and then the sing the song it matches.

Examples:

The Wise man built his house upon the sand? (Wise man/ Foolish man)
I believe in being honest? (I believe in being honest)
I looked out the window and saw a watermelon tree? (Popcorn popping)

You can make this work with ANY song you want to sing!

If the Savior Stood Beside Me

Ive been out of town for 10 whole days!!!  So, sadly, that means Ive missed 2 Sundays in a row!!   I wasnt there to introduce the new Song at the beginning of the Month! So even though many of you have already learned a verse or two by now... here is my plan (just in case any of you still need ideas :)

I loved the idea, I saw floating around, of using a blindfold and having a child come up to the front. Ask the child, Where Am I?: They would see you and say; "right there"

Then blindfold them and ask "Now where am I?": Hopefully, using your voice they would be able to point in your direction.

And finally,

Stand right next to them and have a teacher ask the child where you are: They should be able to feel you right next them, and know that you are right there.

Ask the child, if they would act differently if I was right next to them all day. Ask them if they would act differently if the Savior was standing right next to them all day long....

Explain that we should live our lives like the Savior is always right next to us and that the song we are about to learn is all about that!

Have the Pianist play it through and try not to cry (ok, maybe thats just me)...

While going through each line, place footprints in a line and have a child come up and stand "beside"

which footprint they want to pick. 

Each foot print will have a fun way to sing the sing:

*On your tippytoes

*On top of your chairs

*With your legs folded

*Standing extra close to the person next to you

*Sing, only, if youre wearing black shoes
*Sing so quiet only the person beside you can hear you sing

My Heavenly Father Loves Me -Verse 2

"My Heavenly Father Loves Me"

verse 2

My "WORLD" to helped teach the first verse turned out really cute.... (except for that bubble of packaging tape "laminate"). 

I am excited to use it again for the second verse!

After we learn the second verse, with the time remaining,  I decided to focus on the the first line, "He gave me my eyes that I might see".... so, I came up with a basket full of "glasses"! Each set of glasses will be assigned a song either about our eyes or with the "I" in the title.... 

I think it will be fun if they stay up in the front and wear the glasses to help me lead the song!

Here are a few:

"I" am a child of God

"I" feel my Saviors Love

Popcorn Popping

(obviously, hehe)

"I" Love to "see" the Temple

"I" often go Walking

"I" am like a Star

When "I" am Baptized

"I" Hope they call me on a Mission

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Hinges

"I" lived in Heaven

"I" Know my Father Lives

"I" Like my Birthdays

"I" believe in being Honest

"My Heavenly Father Loves Me"

Ready to introduce the new song this Sunday!??  I remember loving this song when I was in Primary.... "My Heavenly Father Loves Me".

I was moved to tears as I watched This video and thought of what it would be like NOT to be able to see the beauty all around us, thank you, Ashley Burner from Primary Notes 29, for sharing it.

To introduce the song, Im going to have everyone close their eyes and I'll ask them to imagine the most beautiful place that they can think of... 

When they open their eyes, I'll ask what it looks like, and I'll want to hear lots of their answers. :) 

I'll share how grateful I am for all that heavenly father has created for us on this beautiful earth and how much he loves us.

I'm so THANKFUL for an idea Wendy Olsen Buchanan shared, she said her Mom made this earth to teach the song, years ago, and now she's a chorister and gets to re-use this treasure!

I decided to make my own and it's still coming along, (see picture below), but I can tell its going to be a perfect visual aid for the song--- as long as I can get my husband to draw some of the images for me, haha.....

If you're interested in making your own, I just placed white and blue 12x12 cardstock papers together and traced the edge of a large mixing bowl for the circle and placed a brad in the middle. The pie cut piece was 1/8 of the circle, allowing 4 sections for each verse... I'll post a picture when it's finished. BUT if you're like me, and cant draw like wendy's amazing mom did, I found this great blogger who will let you print up her images for the song! The OCD Primary Chorister !

And then, if thats not enough :), I thought this would be the perfect week to pull out my parrot and play the "Parrot Repeats" game. If you haven't heard of it before, you just use the parrot to point to the kids to have them repeat the words that you are learning.
I found this cute little bird at a yard sale, he perches on my finger and flaps his wings, if I turn him on, (Which I'm debating) but even a picture of a parrot works... I just think this game works great with the song.

NURSERY: When it works out, I love tying my singing time in with my nursery plan somehow, so I'm going to take this parrot to nursery and sing songs all about nature, animals and outdoors!!

The rest of the time, if there is MORE time,

I was going to bring lots of things we can see, smell, touch, hear and taste...

perfume, a flashlight, fabric, fruitsnacks, a walkie talkie, etc.

Each song will remind them of one of our 5 senses that heavenly father blessed us with!

Spin the Bottle

Thinking ahead to Valentines Sunday already? So I am! 

Here's what I came up with...

These little hearts (from the dollar store) open up, but it would work just as well,  with envelopes or even cut out paper hearts!

Just fill up what youre using with songs all about *LoVe*,

place them around in a circle and play SPIN THE BOTTLE!! 

Wherever the bottle lands, that's the *love* song we're going to sing! 

Super simple, light and fun! 

Happy (early) Valentines day! :)

Thank you *Primary Notes 29*  for your ready to go list of *LOVE* SONGS!!

Visit her blog too for more super cute valentines ideas! HERE or HERE !!

I Feel My Saviors Love 74
I Love To See The Temple 95
I'll Walk With You 140
I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus 78
Jesus Loved the Little Children 59
Jesus Said Love Everyone 61
Love is Spoken Here 190
Love One Another 136
Mother, I Love You 207
My Heavenly Father Loves Me 228
Oh How We Love to Stand 279
Reverence is Love 31
Teacher, Do You Love Me 178
We Are Different 263
Where Love Is 138

and of course,
a random, pick the song you LOVE!!