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Post by marenras on Mar 14, 2009 15:19:02 GMT -5
This week I'm going to have my kids sit in a circle on the floor (chairs would work fine if you don't want to get on the floor) and give each one of them an envelope with an instruction slip inside. Then I'll choose one child to be blindfolded who will stand in the middle of the circle and spin around, pointing a wand. When the child comes to a stop, whomever he/she is pointing at with the wand will open their envelope and read the instructions. Then we'll all sing the song according to the instructions.
The instructions slips are as follows: loud fast staccato whisper mouth wide open (my kids love this one) tongue sticking out (they love this one too. it's hard to sing with your tongue sticking out) sad face standing on one foot rocking to the beat pounding the floor to the beat stamping your feet to the beat standing up, holding hands, and walking in a circle (you could fall down like "Ring Around the Rosies" at the end if you want to) etc.
I'll also have a bunch of slips that say "pick your favourite primary song to sing" for any extra kids we have.
I'm decorating the envelopes with shamrocks and printing the instructions in green, since St. Patrick's day is coming up, but this isn't necessary, or you could adapt it to whatever holiday/season that you wish.
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Post by sharenshows on Mar 23, 2009 0:04:57 GMT -5
I have a target ( like a large dart board ) and a velcro ball. I play the boys against the girls. The first team throws and if they get 50 points the opposing team has to sing one verse or song or line whatever. If they get 75 its two verses and 100 three verses. The seniors are crazy for this game and even the big boys sing. Near the end I do the Do as I'm Doing Dance Craze and they have to get up and show off a bit for each other. They are such good sports and we laugh like crazy. It is great fun.
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Post by avsfan on Jul 18, 2009 17:08:24 GMT -5
This week for HFAF in Senior Primary, I wrote the first letter to each word on the chalkboard and we sang the song. Then I choose good singers to roll the dice and erase that many letters. Each time we did something different - first time: sing the whole song, 2nd time: skip the words that the letter has been erased; 3rd time: sing ONLY the words that the letter has been erased, 4th time: whole song again since most of it was gone by now. The kids really liked it and at the end were even "cheating" to get big numbers to try to get all the letters erased. I'm going to do this tomorrow with "Beautiful Savior." Great idea for Sr.!
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Post by bradybunch on Aug 9, 2009 21:03:20 GMT -5
I remember reading an idea on the primusic yahoo group about a way to review all the songs for the program, but I can't find it. It involved making a chart with all the songs listed, and then giving them stars or smiley faces from 1-10? according to how well they remember it and can sing it... with the hope that by the time you do the program that they will have a 10 on all of the songs.
Has anyone done anything like this or can you find the post? I'm hoping to start it next week, and I can make it up on my own, but I'd love your input!
Wendi
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Post by andreagrover on Aug 12, 2009 15:26:17 GMT -5
I have a chart that lists all of the songs we're learning for the program on the left side. Along the top, I have five categories: 1st verse, 2nd verse, 3rd verse, 4th verse, chorus. Because not every song has all of these, I have blacked out the boxes that are not applicable. For example, "The Family Is of God" have fours verses AND a chorus, so all of the boxes on that line of the chart are white. But "Baptism" has only three verses and no chorus, so the 4th and chorus boxes are blacked out on that line.
A couple of Sundays ago, I had balloons with the names of the program songs on little slips inside. I picked on a child to come up and choose a balloon, and then we would pop it, retrieve the paper, read it, and sing the song listed. After we had sung it all the way through, I would, with the help of the teachers and leaders, determine which boxes on the chart had earned smiley faces. My kids were incredible! They sang harder for those smiley faces than anything else! I learned that they know several songs exceptionally well, but the second and third verses of a few of the songs will need some work. I will pull out the chart this Sunday and subsequent Sundays until we have filled every box with a smiley face.
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Post by pammy on Aug 31, 2009 14:17:42 GMT -5
we are starting our review, i made a big wheel like wheel of fortune, and put all the program songs and then a smaller spinning wheel in the middle, so the kids had to spin to wheels one for the song to sing and one for the number of times or wether it be girls or boys. both jr and sr primary were very cooperative with this fun activity.
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Post by Jacqui on Feb 16, 2010 22:50:49 GMT -5
My husband and I came up with this one last year when I was the chorister for a different primary, so I have used it on two different primaries, and it was a roaring success with all the kids (and teachers!) every time I did it.
It is called "Don't Forget the Lyrics" (if you've ever seen the show on TV). I make my visual aids for each song on seperate pages, each corresponding to a line of the song, so I put these up on the board, but if you don't do that you could easily write out the words to the song on papers and use that for this game. Then you select one child to leave the room. When the child is gone, another child comes to the front and chooses a line to remove from the board. Another child then goes and tells the kid outside that they can come back in. It's fun if you can give them a mic (or a flashlight, or a rolled up piece of paper, or whatever) to hold. Then the whole primary sings the song UP TO the missing line. The piano continues playing, and the kid with the mic has to sing the line word-for-word from memory. You pull out the missing line and compare to see whether they got it right (or appeal to the other children to find out if it was sung right!). Then you put the missing piece back, and play again!
This game can be used to practice a single song over and over, or if you have seperate visuals for all your songs, you can use it as a review game as well. This is one of the few activities I repeated, unchanged, over and over, because the kids ALWAYS love it. Actually just a note--I usually do this with SR primary. But it can work with JR, depending on how old the kids are (because even if you have a 3-yr-old up there who has no clue to the words, you can ask the other kids to help them out after), or it can be altered a little, for instance, have an entire class responsible for singing the missing line.
I hope someone finds this useful! It is my prize game!
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Post by Jennifer TX on May 1, 2010 23:01:04 GMT -5
I too have a large dice with all different ways to sing a song (opera, slow, girls only, etc) but read an idea from someone on this forum for having the kids sing a song while racing a wind-up toy. Thanks to the wonderful one that came up with this idea!! I added it to my dice and it was a hit!! I called it "Beat the Toy" I borrowed a windup dinosaur from my son (actually a HappyMeal Toy). When they would roll "Beat the toy" I would wind it up and we would sing as fast as we could to finish the song before the toy stopped. The kids loved it!!
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Post by Concerned Parent on Aug 15, 2010 21:06:22 GMT -5
Without going into too much detail, does anyone else see anything wrong with singing special songs about Jesus "like a baby" or "like a cowboy," etc.? I try to teach my children that these songs are sacred and we should sing them in a way that is pleasing to Heavenly Father, and I have seen several primary song leaders treat them like any song on the radio. Am I strange to think this is inappropriate?
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