You are your best visual aid

A song is a wonderful kind of thing

• So lift up your voice and sing

• Chorister took hands and used them in a lifting motion

• Chorister turned hands over and lighly pressed down (we sang softer)

• She flip flopped between these two motions and we had to watch her to know which way to sing

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Read Preface to song book

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Magnifying glass  (Sherlock Holmes style)

• What are you doing? I’m trying to find new ways to make primary fun

Maybe you just need to focus more clearly on what you already have. 

Use approved resources and follow suggestions for variety and teaching methods found in Teaching No Greater Call.

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Children can also be your visual aids, by acting the words!

(Nephi’s Courage CS 120)

The lord commanded Nephi (Helpers)   (Nephi Laban, Lemuel, Laman, Sam)

As we sing they act out part (You follow the actions of the person you would be)

Movement- the children need a time to move appropriately. Get the children involved with hand movements.  For the chorus do the following motions

Paper plate under chair

• Paper plate under chair and 1 crayon make a smiley face on one side and a frowning one on the other.   You can use this for many things.  The smile song or a story where you ask them if response is a happy one or sad one. 

• After you use have them put under their chair so as not to be a distraction.

Word scramble

• word strips with phrase of a song scrambled about 3 or 4 different songs

• Example: go my Father day with some covenant I’ll inside, I’ll (I go inside some day, I’ll covenant with my Father)

•  unscramble and help lead song

You’ve had a birthday

• Divide into 3

• * 1^st group You had a birthday shout hooray (sing 3 times

• 2^nd group We’d like to sing to you today Sing 2 times

• 3^rd group One year older and wiser too sing 1 everybody sing and do hand motions

Ha     ppy      birth    day     to      you!

Legs  legs     clap    clap    snap  point

• learn song in diff language or sign language   

On a golden springtime

jr primary example 1^st verse:

• grass with face holes for 2 children to hold ( 2 pieces of green poster board taped into one long piece, fringed on top with a hole a either end for a child to look through.

• sun with face hole

• someone to be seed

On a golden springtime underneath the ground A tiny seedling lay asleep until the sun shone round

• “Seedling crouches in between 2 children holding grass pretends to be asleep

• Sun, off to the side walks and stands next to grass

Awake Awake O little seed Push upward to the light

• seedling wakes up and pushed up with hands audience also makes pushing up motions

• The day is bright with all your might push upward to the light- audience holds hands in circle above head for day then pushed up with hands

2^nd verse:

• Use GAK  230, 233, 234, 239, 240, 245, 600, 604, 614 Primary 1 lesson packet 22, 23

• Have children pick a picture to go with each phrase and post on board

3^rd verse:

• have children before hand draw pictures to represent 3^rd verse.

• Match Game: Phrases or pictures  1st vision, Joseph Smith called to be prophet, Priesthood Ordinances, etc match to an article of faith

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Boyd K Packer – replace negative thoughts with positive music ~ Hum your favorite hymn

Music can give you courage and peace

Story Friend Jan 1989 Megan lost in Korea- begins singing I am a child of God and Korean little girl comes and begins singing in Korean, takes her to her mother who helps Megan find her parents

Music enables us to express spiritual feelings that we may have difficulty expressing through the spoken word.  Elder Boyd K. Packer said that  “we are able to feel and learn very quickly through music....some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly”

Church hymns and Primary songs teach gospel principles.  You can use them in almost any lesson to introduce or summarize an idea.  Primary songs allow children to bear their testimonies simply and beautifully.