• Tic Tac Toe -Theme the X’s and O' after the season
  For Thanksgiving, paper pilgrims and turkeys, Christmas, Angels and Shepherds etc… Dray a large grid on the chalkboard or poster board. Each playing piece had a song listed on the back appropriate to the situation.

• Melting Snowman—similar to hangman. Make a snowman with separate pieces for each section of the body, hat, eyes, nose, arms, etc. Start out with a complete snowman. Have a name of a song the children have to guess (like in hangman). If they guess a wrong letter, take off a piece of the snowman. Try to guess song before the snowman is gone!
• Un-decorate a Christmas Tree

• Ring in the New Year (punch out board with bells behind it, songs inside bells)
• Do a Count Down of the Favorite Songs from the year _____. If done in advance, have kids write down favorite songs so it is a true countdown from your primary.

• Cut out a bunch of hearts with song names on back of some and “love messages” on others. “Heart attack” the room. Kids pick hearts and try to find songs.
• Make “heart puzzles”—assembled puzzles show different people who love us love (Christ, parents, family, primary teachers, etc.) Sing matching song.
• Make or purchase a white mailbox. A few weeks prior to Valentine’s, have kids write down their favorite songs. On Valentines, have Valentines for each child, and their song on it. Pull out Valentine (have a child “get the mail”) and sing their song, then give them the Valentine. Can personalize Valentine’s (i.e. Roses, are red, violets are blue, __child’s name___ loves Nephi’s Courage, and I do too!”) Can pass out remaining valentines, or use them as fillers for several weeks.

• Make a kite out of colorful paper. Make a tail out of string and attach nows to it. On the back of each now, write a song. Kids pick off bows.

• Leprechauns & shamrocks
  This is a poster to help us learn songs. In each of the leprechauns hands are shamrocks that have phrases from the new song. I have also had the letter from each word on the shamrocks and they have to put them in the right order.

• Make a poster with slits to push pictures through—grassy lawn with slits for Easter eggs to pop through. Each egg represents a class. If the class is singing well, the egg pops out. If all eggs pop out, a chick is added to the picture (representing the completed song)
• Easter Basket—plastic eggs inside. Have kids pick eggs and song is inside. VARIATION: put objects inside that represent things that happened when Christ dies for us (ie nail, money, spices, etc.) Discuss and sing a song that would help reinforce why that is important.
• Hide plastic eggs around the room. Go on an egg hunt and find songs inside eggs.
• Eggsellent Singing—Blow Out raw eggs, color them. When the dye is dry, roll up a piece of paper with a osng title on it and stuff it inside. Let kids crack eggs open(do over a trashcan or bowl).
• Find the Sheep: take a sheep graphic there was a good one in the friend magazine last month, make about 8 sheep and write a song on the back. Tell the kids that we need to be good shepherds and bring in the lost sheep have them look under seats and around room for the sheep. Good for Easter (talk about the Good Shepherd and how he’s looking out for us). OR have one sheep and hide it while a child is away from the room—have kids sing louder when the child gets closer to it and quieter when they are away from it to help them find the sheep.
• Sing a Story of Jesus’ life using songs and pictures:

Samuel Tells of Baby Jesus, pg. 36 (Samuel, GAK 314)
He Sent His Son, pg. 34 (Nativity, GAK 213)
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus, pg. 57 (Jesus Ministry, GAK 213)
Did Jesus Really Live Again, pg. 64 (Crucifixion, GAK 230)
Jesus Has Risen, pg. 70 (Resurrection, GAK 239)
Easter Hosanna, pg. 68 (Christ in Americas, GAK 316)
Bear testimony that Jesus will come again—
When He Comes Again, pg. 82 (Christ and the Children, GAK 608)

• Umbrella w/raindrops—pull off and it can have songs to sing/questions for a specific song. etc. --compare umbrella to the prophet/Savior and how if we follow him we can be protected from the storms of life
• Umbrella/rain--I use a real umbrella & a mist bottle (squirt bottle) with plain water in it. I use the finest mist so no one really gets wet. As we are learning a song, the better they get the words and melody the more it “rains”. I spray on top of the umbrella and the child is holding the umbrella. Once in a while I get a little crazy and spray toward the audience… oops….
• Make a bird house out of a plastic bleach bottle with a hole cut out on one side. Write songs on strips of paper and tie to yarn strips that will hang out the hole to look like grass or worms for the children to pull out.

• From the most recent general conf. pick a song that matches up with talks from 1^{st presidency and the apostles. Kids pick a quote from the talk and read it, match it with the picture of the man who said it and on the back it will say which song. OR, once the picture is picked, on the back will be a scripture clue to the matching song.}
• Have necklaces with pictures of messages from several talks. Sing songs that go with the picture necklaces.
• Pres. Hinckley’s 6 Bees—6 small beehives (“be smart,” “be prayerful,” “be true,” “be humble,” “be grateful,” & “be clean” listed) and bees (matching song)—try to match up and sing
• T.N.T. Pres. Benson gave a talk about how living prophets have TNT—Today’s News Today. Take an empty Pringles can, cover it with red paper and write TNT on it, stick a piece of string through the lid, to look like a fuse. On slips of paper, write things our prophet said or asked us to do at conference. Have a matching song to sing with that quote. When the kids sing the song, pass the TNT. When the song ends, whoever is holding it opens it for the next slip of paper.
• Listening to our prophets is like putting on the Armor of God—dress-up in armor:

Girdle of Truth—Stand For the Right, pg. 159
Breastplate of Righteousness—Choose the Right Way, pg. 160
Shoes, preparation of the gospel peace—A Young Man Prepared, pg. 166
Shield of Faith—Faith, pg. 96
Helmet of Salvation—He Sent His Son, pg. 34
Sword of the Spirit—The Holy Ghost, pg. 105

• Make flowers with pipe cleaner stems. Write a number on back of each flower to represent a song that you have listed on a list. Kids pick flower, sing song, and then child places flower in a vase. At end, show them what a pretty arrangement they have made.

• Squirt gun/crying Mother poster
  I use this poster for Mother’s day and for after the program. I drew a picture of a mother’s face, big on a poster board. I cut out her eye balls and hold (usually ask for help) two squirt guns in the holes. As the children sing beautifully, the mother (cries) as she is touched by the beauty. This can get out of hand easily, but each time I have used it, the spirit is strong and the kids try really hard to sing beautifully. I tell them sometimes, they bring tears to my eyes…. This has to be done in “good taste!”
• Tape record sounds of things mother’s do for us: washing clothes, cooking, washing dishes, vacuum, toilet flushing, car honk, practice piano, sewing machine, etc. Kids try to figure out what it is, sing a matching song or a Mother’s Day/Family song in between.
• Audio tape Moms in your ward singing lines from a song—play the song and have the kids guess who is singing it.
• Mystery Singing—find clue to songs, first letter of each sng you sing spells out answer to your mystery, in this case, the word “MOTHER”:

My Heavenly Father Loves Me
On a Golden Springtime
The Church of Jesus Christ
Help Me Dear Father to Freely Forgive
Early to Bed and Early to Rise
Reverence is Love

• Catch bugs/butterflies with nets, hanging from fishing line from the ceiling. Song names or questions for a song they are learning can be on back of bugs. Child’s name can be on the back. When they are chosen, you sing their favorite song. Different ways of singing on back.

• Make a Dad’s face (moustache, bushy eyebrows, nose, lips, eyes, ears) and play a version of “pin the tail on the donkey.” Songs on backs of pieces. Last song, re-arrange the face correctly.
• Gather 6-7 shirts of different fathers in the ward—ones they think their kids will recognize. In the pocket, put Dad’s favorite primary song. After the kids guess who’s shirt it is, put it on the child and sing the dad’s song.
• Audio tape Dads in your ward singing lines from a song—play the song and have the kids guess who is singing it.

• Summer shell pick—fill a beach bucket with some sand and place shells inside—let kids take turns finding and picking shells

• Make little American flags with paper and straws—wave the falgs as you sing patriotic songs. (bendy straws make it easy to wave if the bend is on the bottom and you attach the flag to the top) March as you wave and sing.

• For pioneer time I’ve taken a piece of butcher paper and mapped out the pioneer trail and then I’ve placed wagons along the trail at key spots. The kids pick a wagon and I tell them a quick something about that spot and we sing the song on the back of the wagon.
• Assemble a large map of where the pioneers traveled (enlarge all the states from New York to SLC, UT and have songs matching something historical that happened in that state—ie sing I Love to See the Temple for Ohio, because of the 1st temple, Golden plates for New York, I Belong to the Church for Utah, B of M Stories for Penn., etc.). Jr primary can pick states off in order, srs can put them on the board in order.
• Attach a seagull to pole “fishing pole style.” Print off several clip art pictures of crickets and attach paper clips to them. Tell the kids the pioneer story of the crickets, sing pioneer songs that are under the cricket they pick with the seagull. Or have the crickets represent different ways to sing a song, which row in primary doesn’t sing or does sing, how many times you sing a certain phrase in a song, etc.
• Make a campfire.
• Shake little containers (i.e. gladware) of cream (about ¼-1/3 cup) to make butter—use as rhythm instruments. (Keep cream cold until singing time!) Have bread when singing time is over with their butter.
• Make parts of a wagon out of construction paper. Songs on backs of pieces. Assemble the wagon—have kids take turns putting wagon together.

• Pin the bee on flowers poster
  This is just like pin the tail on the donkey game, however I have a poster board full of flowers. The flowers have #’s on them. The kids pin the bee on the flower and that tells us which song to sing, or if we’re working on a song, how many times in a row we will sing it. Of course we use a different “voice” each time. (cowboy voice, opera voice, MoTab voice, Mouse voice, boy voice, girl voice, etc.
• Birthday cake too many candles
  I made up birthday cake the size of a poster board. I filled it with candles. I tell the kids, I’m getting WAY TOO OLD! And I need them to help me get some of these candles off. The candles have the #’s and ideas on them. The kids love to help me not be so OLD. Can also be turned around and made to put the candles on the cake. The candles are separate and can be taped on and off as everything is laminated.

• Boy with backpack
  This is a poster of a boy facing away and we’re looking at his back. He’s wearing a backpack that I’ve slit the top of. I attached a large gallons size Zip-lock bag onto it. Inside I have pictures of books, ruler, pencils, erasers, ect… things you use for school. I have used to to “fill” the backpack to get ready for school and to empty it for Spring break or the end of the school year. On the back of each of the items are the #’s or ideas for the songs we’re learning. OR Fill a real backpack.
• Tape record sounds of fall: school bus brakes, children at recess, school bell, principal on microphone, raking leaves, chain saw cutting firewood. Kids try to identify sounds in between singing songs about fall.

• Autumn leaves on a tree. Draw trunk and branches of a tree without any leaves on a poster board. Cut out leaves of red, yellow, orange, and brown, and write songs on back. Tape leaves to branches of tree and have kids pick them off and sing the song.
• Use the leaves (from above) and attach to a fan. Have them “blowing.” Kids pick leaf.

• Assemble a jack-o-lantern
• I use a real pumpkin. Not carved. I made different eyes, noses, and mouths and let the children choose faces and put them on the pumpkin. Duct tape works best to attach them. I laminate everything so I can use it over and over. Black construction paper works best for the features. Except for the teeth.
• Plastic pumpkin with “seeds” in it—songs on seeds
• “Trick or Sing” poster. Draw a giant haunted house on a poster with several “doors” On the front of each door, put a Halloween picture (ghost, tree w/owl, tombstones, etc.) Behind each door is a song or a “trick.” Tricks: “do the hokey pokey,” “sing the Barney song,” etc.

1. “Turkey Bowl”—make turkeys out of the bowling pins (pin is the body—attach paper eyes, waddle, beaks, and attach paper “feathers”) If pins are different colors, have them represent different things: i.e. yellow—turkeys w/songs, red—read something, blue/green—child says something they are thankful for. Or make the turkeys look like a Bishop (tie around neck), mom (necklace), dad (bow tie), missionaries (name tags), “normal” turkey to represent church—sing accompanying song
2. Make large turkey with feathers—pick feathers, song on back
3. Bag of Thanks—fill large bag with things that represent what we are thankful for: family picture—family, picture book of prophets—prophets, SLC temple plaque—temples, American Flag—country/heritage, dumbbell—healthy body, scriptures—restored gospel, apple—food, heart—friends/neighbors, FHE plaque—home. Sing accompanying songs
4. Turkey shoot --I bought the little “accordion fold” turkeys. I took a dart gun and let the kids shoot a turkey. Whether they hit the turkey or not. They got to choose a turkey which had a number written on them. The numbers corresponded with a song. The kids sing the song and tell me what blessing the song reminds them of.

1. Assemble a snowman, song names on parts.
2. Snowball fight (paper toss) I give each child a piece of paper. Make sure you stress the fact that we’re in the Church and sometimes we “toss” snowballs! (be careful or this activity can get TOO ROWDY). The kids,(with teachers help sometimes) write their names & their favorite Primary Song. I invite a class at a time to wad & toss the “snowballs” toward me. Then, I pick up a snowball and we sing that song. This activity serves a dual purpose; I keep the snowballs and make a list of the children and their favorite song. Then I have my Top 10 favorites list!
3. Bowling for Snowmen--Use Snowman clip art, print out several. Tape them to water bottles. Cover a basketball with batting and wrap white string around it to hold the batting in place. The kids try to knock over a snowman with a snowball! The Snowman will have the #’s on them for the songs.

1. Assemble a nativity scene with song names on the characters and animals.
2. Make a Christmas tree (small real one or out of paper) and have the kids decorate it with ornaments (songs on ornaments). The following week, put “presents” under the tree they decorated and have them open them to find a song or questions to a song they are working on.