1. We Can Write Songs—Friend, Oct. 1985
2. Spin the Teacher
3. Rock, Paper, Scissors
4. Simon Says/Watch the Conductor
5. Hot and Cold/Hide the Note
   Make a note out of black poster board. Send one child out of the room. Hide the note. Then the children are to sing loud if "the seeker" is “HOT”near the note and quiet if they are “COLD” or far away.
6. Blues Clues game (jr. primary).They get 3 clues to guess the song, which can be recorded in your handy, dandy notebook. The clues can be hidden around the room, or you could have pawprints on a poster with a clue on the back of them. There can even be a “thinking chair” in the room. After they guess the song, you sing it.
7. Balloon Tree
   Balloons can already be blown up and they come and pop the balloon that has a song name inside it.
8. Deflated Balloon
   Blow up balloon, write name on it, and deflate balloon—let childrenpick a balloon—blow it up so song title can be read
9. Toilet paper roll
   Unroll and put song titles on random squares, roll back up. Pass TP, each kid pulls off one square. Child who gets square with a song helps lead that song.
10. Musical Survivors:
    Have 2 teams or the primary as a whole. They are stranded on an island. There are several items they need for survival (i.e. fire, food, water). Each survival item represents a song. They have to sing the song well enough in order to get the survival item and be rescued off of the island.
11. Name that Tune
    I had a poster with fall leaves on it and different songs listed on the back.  But anything like that would work.  When they choose a leaf, the pianist play just the top hand.  She played four notes.  If they could not guess it, then she played 5 notes.  She played from any where in the song so it made it harder. 
    I have done this a few different ways. Sometimes I have them throw a Koosh ball into a bucket and they can stand from a really close line good for 1 note, a medium distance line for 2 notes and a further away line good for 3 notes. I let them have 2 tries so they could get as many as 6 notes.
    I have also given them a clue with a phrase from the song or info. about the song and then let them bid on how many notes they thought they could guess it - if they got it right good, if they didn't than the rest of the kids could hear the song until they could guess it.
    Another fun way to do a tune guessing game is to have them wear a headband or hat then have names of songs with velcro (it will stick to one of those terry headbands)on the backs of the song cards.  You put a card on their forehead/hat and the primary kids give them clues or you can do it like 20 questions where the person with the hat asks yes or no questions and tries to figure out what song he's wearing.
    I would have a short description of what the song was about, or a trivia question about the song (I'd already given them the information in an earlier Singing Time), or an historical description of the song (again, I'd have already told them the answers in previous Singing Times). The kids would be able to tell me how many note they would need to guess, and the pianist would play that many notes. After they guessed the song we would sing it.
    I did this at Christmas time, and I had a big poster of a christmas tree, and whoever guessed the right answer got to put a decoration on the tree. The class that guessed the most correct answers got to put the star on the tree. Because we were doing just Christmas songs, I used the book "Our Latter-Day Hymns: the Stories and the Messages" for most of my clues, and we stuck with the Christmas songs in the
    hymnal or in the Children's Songbook.
    I have also done it with the songs we were learning for the Primary Presentation. That time I had easy doctrinal statements about what the song was teaching us. I knew the kids were really tired of the songs (this was the month before the presentation), so I had a drawing of ME on posterboard, and as the kids guessed right, they put pieces of a cloth to cover up my mouth (on the picture). My primary president giggled over it too much to tell me I shouldn't have used a picture of me, but it releived a lot of tension in the kids to be able to a grown-up Primary worker to hush up about the songs they were tired of.
12. Backwards Day—(Name that Tune backwards)
    Give the kids the last note of the song, then the last two notes, etc.
13. Pictionary
14. Song/Musical Taboo:
    This is the same as the game Taboo; you make up cards for the children to pick from. They have to guess the Song Title without saying the words on the card. Then you sing the song ie:
    I Am a Child of God
    Heavenly
    Father
    Parents
    Children
15. What Song Am I? (i.e. I am a big building. I love to see it. What song am I?)
16. What Song am I? Game
    This is a poster that has big colorful musical notes on it. 8-9 in all. The poster is sat on the ground and the child or I throw a beanbag and whichever note it lands on tells us either a phrase from a song, a # of a song, or tells us three words in a row in the song. They have to tell us which song it is, then we sing it.
17. “Hum-ble”
    Classes take turns humming songs—class who guesses first gets point and then you sing the song OR have one child hum to their own team and have their team try to guess the song OR have kids take turns humming at the front microphone and singing their choice of song once the kids figure out the song
18. "Hum Your Favorite Hymn"
    We'd sing "Hum..." then one of them would come to the microphone and hum their favorite Primary song. After someone guessed it, we'd sing that song. Then we'd sing "Hum...." again, and have another "hummer" come up. We did it over and over.
19. Encore:
    This is based on a board game put out by Parker Brothers.  The game is no longer made.  It's a really fun one for youth to play.  I've looked all over at garage sales hoping to find it.  Anyway, for Primary choose key words such as family or temple.  Divide into teams.  Choose a word for a "round".  The play goes back and forth between the teams with each team singing a complete line from a song with that word in it.  Score one point for each song a team can come up with.  After a "round", sing the songs you
    want as a group and maybe pull the theme together with a scripture.
20. Scriptures ~ what song goes with it?
    Graphic of scriptures with a scripture written on the back that hints to a primary song. Kids look up scripture and guess which song.
21. Scripture chase:
    Write the scripture references from the songbook for several songs and the kids had to look up the reference, read the scripture, and try to figure out what song we were going to sing. I also used the opportunity to point out how the lyrics for many of the songs are taken almost word-for-word from the scriptures ("As I have Loved You," "Truth from Elijah", for example) and encouraged the kids to look for "matching songs" to the scriptures they read during family scripture study.
22. Hot Potato
    pass it, when music stops, next child says what word came next in the song/picks his/her fav. song/etc.
23. Bean bag toss/pass
    Have pianist play a song that you need to review, everyone sings the song as they pass the beanbag. When the music stops the person holding the bag sits down. You can also toss the bean bag to a child and they have to tell you the next word in the song. OR put a VA /question on the back of each child’s chair, representing the song you are singing. Pass the beanbag—when music stops, the child shares his VA or is asked the question to the song.
24. Bean Bag VARIATION/Traveling Microphone
    Pass a beanbag. Each person says the next word in the song. Give one to each side of the room and have a race. Who can finish the song first? (Or use a traveling microphone, either pass around or you hold and choose who says the next word).
25. Eraser pass:
    Have key words to the song on the board. Pass eraser, when music stops, child holding eraser erases a word.
26. “Music Walk”
    Set up chair in a circle and have like a cakewalk where the kids walk around and sing and when the song ends they sit down and then you pull a number out of a hat or bowl and whoever is sitting on that number picks the next song. Have the chairs set up so the backs of the chairs face the center of the circle and the kids walk around the outside of the circle.
27. Musical Chairs:
    When the music stops the child w/o a chair has to say what phrase/line comes next in the song. If they can say the phrase, they remain in the game, if not, they are seated and a child who can say the phrase comes into the game. OR Reward the child with a sticker if they get it right and have them find someone new to take their spot and if they get it wrong, they stay in the game to have another try. Make it easy by keeping the same amount of children and chairs playing. OR get various colors of musical notes and tape them to the chairs. Have a spinner (like Twisters spinner) choose the color (one song for each color). Everyone sitting on a chair with that color note stands up and they all help lead the song.
28. Musical Chairs, but a more reverent version:
    I had taken words from the song (I think I had 24 words--it ended up being more words than kids, but that was fine, since I just wanted to be sure there was at least one word per kid.)  I took the words and made one set to lay on the floor in a circle, the other set in a brown paper bag.  The kids got on the circle of words on the floor, facing clockwise, and when the piano played, they sang and walked.  When the music stopped, they walked quietly to the closest word (reminding them that it was okay--there was a word for everyone).  Then I pulled a word out of the bag--whoever was on that word picked their word up from the ground and came to me to get a sticker (the sticker said "Behind this sticker is a very special kid"--this worked because we have been talking about how special they are since they all chose to follow Heavenly Father's plan, and I reminded them of that as I placed the 1st sticker on the 1st kid).  Then the child who was now sitting would still help sing, and as they sang, they listened for their word in the song, then would stand up whenever they heard it.  This worked even for the non-readers because the teacher walked with her class in the circle to help them learn their word, and then once they had their word called, they remembered what that word was because it was their "winning" word.  They all walked out of primary feeling like winners and they sang the song through for the whole entire 20 minutes we had today (we must have sung all three verses at least 5 times each today). 
29. Word walk:
    Phrase or a word on individual pieces of paper (depending on the number of children in the group).  I place them in a circle and the children stand in front of one and as the music plays we walk around the circle singing the song.  When the pianist stops playing everyone gets on a word and I pull out one of the words from a bag I'm holding.  Whichever child is on that spot, gets a sticker (which I have another teacher who is sitting hand them out so I can immediately go back to playing the game).  If a child has already received a sticker, it automatically goes to the person on the right.  (Now the children joke that we'll "Choose the Right Way")  Once again, we end up singing the same new song several times without the children realizing that we are reviewing. Alternative: child who’s word is picked sits in the chair, and stands up every time their word is sung.
30. Shoot Hoops:
    You can use one of those nerf basketball hoops or I couldn’t find one so I used a Koosh ball and a small bucket, placed against the wall or chalkboard or on a table. I drew three lines on the floor with chalk or you could mark it with tape. Each line was a little further away from basket. Kids got 2-3 chances to make a basket the closest line was worth one note, the middle 2-3 notes and the furthest 3-5 notes.  I usually let the kids have 2 or three chances. Add up the points and that's how many notes the kids get to hear to guess the song or however many points they won were how many notes the pianist played and then the kids had to name that tune. If they can’t make any, we sing what the pianist wants to sing. It goes quick and the kids love this one too. I cut circles out of orange construction paper and then drew lines on them to make them look like basketballs. OR just have them shoot baskets—how ever many they can make in a row is how many notes/words they get to the song.
31. Shoot Hoops 2
    Since there has been discussion on how the boys like a challenge, I have come up with a way that I think will get there interest and the girls should enjoy this too! I am going to have them shoot basketball. The person who sings out the best will get to try to ring the basket. If they get it in...they get to choose a song to sing. (I will have some sort of choosing chart up or they can think of a favorite they would like to sing) If they miss...we sing We Listen To A Prophet's voice. I'm going to make them stand at a distance so that the likely hood will be that we'll have more misses than rings. I don't have a basketball net so I figured I would just use a waste basket and have them throw a small ball or either crumpled up paper. This way there is no competition, but it's still challenging and I think they will be eager to have a turn at shooting..
32. Objectivity:
    I keep a bag with different items inside. The kids pull the object out and then guess which song it fits with. Then they put it back in the bag because sometimes there is more than one song for that object. If there is obviously no other song don’t put it back in for that day. Here are things I’ve used:
    Toy plate sheep
    Toy whale toy house/wooden home
    Tithing envelope hymnbook
    Book of Mormon Picture of Prophet
    Flashlight/light bulb Missionary Name Tag
    Country Flag Package of micro popcorn
    Pioneer bonnet Temple statue or picture
    Pansy seeds or silk pansy/flower Mock Baptism Certificate
    CTR ring Toothbrush (Smiles)
    Picture of Jesus Rock
    Hinge Bird (I had one of those birds that chirps when it sits in your hand).
    Bowling (songs under pins)
33. Nutty Singing:
    Carefully crack walnuts open—put a paper inside and glue back together. Kids crack open shell for song.
34. Apron:
    Make or buy an apron and then sew several pockets.  You can place clues to one song in the pockets or you can keep slips of paper that have names of songs on them or a phrase from the song and then the kids have to guess the song.  The apron is also a good prop to keep in the cupboard for a last minute fill-in.
35. "Pin the Note on the Song" (a big target looking thing, divided by colors and numbers--found the idea on a website--where they pinned notes on it while blind folded to pick what song to sing). 
36. Pin the Note on the Song VARIATION
    Take a piece of butcher paper and write the titles of primary songs all over it. Blindfold a child and then have them play pin the note on the song. Whichever song they pin a cut out note onto is the one you sing.
37. Target game
    I made a huge cardboard target (could draw on chalkboard) and made 8 sections. I had the children made paper airplanes. As the sang the songs I picked the one sitting most reverently and smiling while they sang. They got to fly their paper plane at the target to see which # (song) we would sing next. Tons of fun! At the end of singing time, I let everyone fly their plane at the target.
38. Dartboard that uses the balls with Velcro.
39. Anyways each section of the target has musical symbols like a fermata or different time signatures like 4/4, 2/4 or 6/8 or p or f or mf. You could make one on a poster board and then blindfold the kids and where they put the note is the one you do. I plan on explaining quickly what the symbol means and then singing a song that I will stick with tape to the section.
40. Book of Singing Stories:
    Make a book with poster board. On each page have a picture or “clue” depicting a Primary song. The kids get to turn the page to the song they want to sing. I have several pages that I can change out. You can use color copies of the GAK pictures, they’re lovely!
41. Toilet tissue Unroll:
    Unroll a roll of toilet tissue and write song titles on random squares and re-roll. Then let each child take off one square and the ones with song titles get to lead their songs.
42. "Trivial Pursuit" game:
    I would write up trivial clues similar to scripture chase clues, and the children would have to guess the song and/or the specific line in the song that gave the answer.
43. Brown bag filled with some small pictures in my primary bag (i got the pictures from an old friend magazine):
    I never take it out--it is my "emergency activity."  Any activity would work, I just chose this one because it is small and doesn't weigh a lot or take up a lot of space in my bag.  If I end up finishing my activity early in primary (which has yet to happen!  Lol)  then I would take this bag out, have them pull out a picture (there are pictures like sacrament meeting, B of M, Jesus, temple, etc.) and have them tell me a song we could sing that matches the picture--if they can't think of one (jrs have a harder time with that) then I let them pull the picture, and the first song that comes to my head that matches the picture is what we will sing.
44. HUGE board game out of different colored pieces of paper.
    I made one long stretch of the game down the center isle and at the end the game board split and went in two different directions.  On each of the game pieces I had mostly songs to review.  but on some of them I put "roll again" "go back 1 space" and on one I even put "practice standing up!"
    I made one large die (singular for dice??) and only put 1, 2, and 3 on it(so they wouldn't get too far too fast!!) (I had about 38 game pieces in all...but if they were getting all 6's and 5's they would have been done with the game in two turns!!!)
45. Puzzles:
    Take a picture from an old Ensign or primary lesson manual, laminate and cut it into a puzzle. Kids love to do puzzles. On each piece put a song title.
46. Make cryptographs:
    With song titles or lines from songs in special codes and hide them around the room. Chidlren look for clue and unravel it. When they figure it out—sing the song.
47. Crossword puzzle:
    Make your own, look through the Friend or go to puzzlemaker.com and make word searches or crossword puzzles with key words from your song. To solve the puzzle you have to sing the songs Or use the crossword puzzle to help define difficult words in the song you are teaching.
48. Dot-to-dot puzzle.
49. Word Search
    Create a word search using the names of songs you want to review. Have kids take turns coming up and circling the names of songs/key words from songs. When they find one, you sing it.
    Kids take turns joining two dots. Any red dots get to choose a song out of a box.
50. Word Puzzles
    Make up word puzzles. I'll do one for each class. Type up the song with words missing. Hand one out to each class. As a class they fill in the puzzle. As each class finishes the puzzle, they stand and sing the song. It's like a race and they end up hearing the song over and over as each class stands and sings.
51. Roll Dice:
    I got perfect cube shape boxes from a local department stores gift-wrap area. I made one dice say how to sing it (stand on one foot, slap/snap/clap rhythm, la-la, lu-lu, hum, a-capella, march, pick a voice—cowboy/opera/broadway/whisper/deep voice/high voice, eyes closed, pick action, reverently, lean side to side, hands on ears, sing with your favorite Accent, Sing Standing Up, Sing with your Nose plugged, If you have a gerbil don’t sing, Sing every other word, Sing with your mouth closed), and one just had numbers. That way I could use it year round for different songs. Or the second dice could have who will sing it that way (teacher, class, kids, boys, girls, pick a color for clothes/eyes/hair, birthday month) Another dice option: put on it numbers, and have the numbers coincide with a song they will sing.
52. Punch Out
    (punch through a circle of tissue paper to get whatever you have on the other side of a board) I made a posterboard with 9 large circles cut out of it. On the front of the poster, I put words under each hole like: hi-yah, ka-pow, hit me, etc. On the back of the poster, I put a single piece of tissue paper masking taped on the back of each hole (masking tape is easier to take off and replace later to re-use the poster). I also taped a piece of yarn above each hole on the back. To the yarn I tape whatever I want. (at New Years I put bells behind the circles that "jingled"--we said we were "ringing in the New Year", for On a Golden Springtime, you could put suns behind them with phrases to the song/questions/etc.). 
53. Spinners
    I took the spinner from an older twister game and covered up the directions it said and wrote my own like kids with brown hair, kids with blonde hair, girls, boys, and teachers. I’m glad I did this because that spinner works so good, homemade ones never seem to work that good.
54. Aquarium/Fishing
55. Spin the Singing Bottle
    Have the children sit in a circle. Let them take turns spinning the bottle. Whoever it points to has to choose “truth or dare.”
56. Truth: What’s your favorite primary song? (then sing it),
    Do you sing in the shower? Do you read your B of M everyday?
    Dare: Sing Popcorn Popping in rap style, Sing Do As I’m Doing in an English Accent, Lead the class in Beautiful Savior, Sing _____ louder than the teachers
57. Tic Tac Toe
    (2 teams, they have a question to answer about the song in order to get a space on the board. Then sing that phrase/song)
    Connect 4 (similar to Tic Tac Toe, but they have to get 4 in a row)
58. Envelope game
    (putting the words of the song in order) Separate envelope for each group of 3-4 kids. -- Print out the words to the song and cut them out. Make enough envelopes with song lyrics for groups of 3-4 children. I use pictures for Jr. primary since they can’t read. As you all sing the song, they put the words (or pictures) in the correct order. Good way to learn a song.
59. Envelope game (VARIATION):
    Take a key word from your monthly theme and use large manilla envelopes for each letter of the word. Each envelope will have a song on back and inside will be a picture that fits with the song or other visuals. Kid picks envelope and helps with song/visuals.
60. Singo (Bingo)
    Take a piece of foam core board or poster board and make a grid on it like a bingo scorecard. At the top instead of writing bingo you write singo. In each square you put a small piece of one side (hook) of velcro. Then you make two sets of markers--one for them to draw out of a basket and one that will be on the board. I laminated these. I made mine different colors so I could easily keep them straight. One side can say anything you want--I put "you're a singing superstar" on mine and the other side will have different categories on it. You then put a small piece of the other side (loop) of Velcro on EACH side of the board pieces. To play you put the markers on the board with the category side facing out and a child draws a marker from the drawing set. They then have to choose a song to sing that fits the category they have drawn. If the group can sing it well enough in your opinion then they get to turn the matching piece around on the board. The goal is to get a straight line just like in bingo. For the free space, let them have a free choice marker. Some of the categories that I used were: Holy Ghost, Following Christ, Love, Testimony, Missionary work, Friends, Plan of Salvation, Temple, Prayer, Families, Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, Tithing, Obedience, Service, Courage, Gratitude, Honesty, Choosing the Right, Prophets, Book of Mormon, Articles of Faith, Baptism, Priesthood, and Free choice.
61. Bingo VARATION
    Make up small bingo cards with pictures of simple shapes (squares, circles, triangles, hearts, etc.)/pictures one for each child and teacher/each class/each side of the room. It is important to remember to make a variety of shape combinations on the various cards so that each child does not have the same exact card. Make large cutouts of the same shapes and place into a bag. Have a child pick a shape. Each shape has a corresponding song. Once the song is sung, kids can mark it off on their cards.
62. Match and Sing/concentration
    Put pictures or words up on the blackboard, and cover each with a piece of paper. Take turns flipping the paper. I flip one, and the children flip the other. When they match one we sing that song.
63. Memory Game VARIATION
    Use plates or season appropriate cut-outs and hang them in rows from strings—3 plates per string, 4 rows across. Kids take turns turning over plates trying to get matches of song titles and pictures, etc.—any sort of match--Match one, and sing that song
64. Singing Baseball
    Draw baseball diamond on chalkboard. Divide group into two teams. Coach has a player in the warm up box and one in the batters box whenever their team is up to bat .Player steps up to pulpit when at bat. The Questions are "Pitched" (read) to players and score is kept according to value of question. Paper hats are moved around bases according to hits and runs. Each team only gets two "OUTS" per inning. After two RUNs, change team up to bat A"Bell" is rung every 3-4 minutes, then it's time for a "MUSIC QUESTION." Sing the song when the question is answered correctly.
65. Who Wants a Million Blessings?
    This game is the same as the Millionaire game but you use questions about the songs you’re working on. When the child is "stumped" then she can:
    A. Poll the Audience
    B. Ask a member of the Presidency or
    C. 50/50.
66. Paper Orchestra
    ^{This is so much fun! Everyone gets a piece of paper and you make different noises with the paper. You can roll it and sing through it, you can blow on it to make a squeaking noise, tap it for “raining” sound, use your imagination! Time is your only limit. At the end of our time, I have them tear them into little pieces and see how quietly they can sing to see if they can hear all the pieces hit the bottom of the trash can as everyone walks quietly by it.}
67. ^{Jeopardy:
    I setup my jeopardy board on the big corkboard we have in our primary. I usually have about 4-6 categories with 3 levels for each. The questions get a little tougher for each level. The answers are phrases from songs so then the kids raise their hands and have to give the response in the form of a question - for instance if the card they picked said "a tiny seedling lay asleep' then they would respond - "What is On A Golden Springtime?"  Categories I’ve used before are Shake, Rattle & Roll (movement songs), Get With The Program (CSMP songs for the year), Follow the Prophet (prophet songs), Praise to the Man (songs that have to do with Joseph Smith), I Think The World Is Glorious (world or nature) songs, Tell Me the Stories of Jesus (Jesus songs), Happy Family, “A” Songs (use any letter and the song must start with that letter), Book of Mormon Stories (songs that have something to do with The Book of Mormon). The kids pick the category they want and the level. I uncover it and read the clue and then they answer in a form of a question. The clues are just a phrase from the song. Kids LOVE this!}
68. Jeopardy 2:
    I got BIG cardboard pallets from Costco (they use then in between their toilet tissue cases) I have 4 categories listed on top. Some of these might be, SEASONAL FAVORITES, BLAST FROM THE PAST, SACRAMENT MTG. PROGRAM, SHAKE RATTLE & ROLL. Under each category, in a column, have the numbers 1-4 listed. Behind each number will be a question. As the children pick the category and the point value. You give them the answer (ie: the Lord provides a way) and they tell you the name of the Song in question form (ie: What is “Nephi’s Courage”) Then you sing the song.
69. Riddles Jeopardy:
    They had to figure them out, then we sang the song.  I just made a poster so they could all see them (saves on photocopies).  See if you can figure them out.  I'll put the page numbers so you can look them up if I was too abstract in my thinking! 
    Category: Shake, Rattle & Roll
    1-- particular body parts (275)
    2-- ability to be flexible  (277)
    3-- copy cat me (276)
    4-- smart and unlearned grown boys  (281)
    Category: Get With The Program (songs from the program this year)
    1-- Most Enjoyable vision of church-like building  (95)
    2-- to mimic a carpenter born in Bethlehem (78)
    3-- I'm going down the straight and narrow  (164)
    4-- the young beating vessels did an "about-face" for their ancestors
    (90)
    ** number 4 is not a true title to a song, but my primary kids don't
    know the title to that song, so I did the first line**
    Category: All In The Family
    1-- Elated at my father's return (210)
    2-- Related people are quite possibly bound eternally (188)
    3-- A jovial group of relatives (198)
    4-- while assisting we're jolly (198)
    Category: Scripture Power
    1-- Tales from sacred writings (118)
    2-- Hunt, Think, divinely communicate (109)
    3-- determined missionaries with global ideas (172)
    4-- the shining dinnerware (86)  (my personal favorite!)
70. “Wheel of Fun-tune”
    Making word puzzles on chalkboard, one blank line for each letter of the puzzle, and the children take turns guessing letters of the alphabet that appear in the puzzle until they are ready to make a guess at the puzzle. Puzzles can be song titles, lines from songs, keywords from songs, etc.
71. Cootie Catcher
    ^{outside section, write the theme--#1-8 inside—various songs under the flaps}
72. ^{Singing Hat
    attach a clothespin to it at the brim and on 3x5 cards, write words that are found in the song. Pick a child to come to the front and place the mystery word on the hat, not letting them see it. Have the children sing through the song, omitting that word and see if the child wearing the hat can guess what the word is. It is fun to take main words out (like “prophet” in Follow the Prophet) and then move to words that are repeated more often (maybe “thee” or “we”)}
73. ^{Spin the teacher
    Teacher sits in a swivel chair. Lay circles on the floor around him/her. (Or you can make creative shapes from poster or cardstock paper on bright colors)  Each circle has either a way to sing a song or song titles, or a phrase from a song (have the class who's teacher is up there tell you which song it's from). Child spins teacher, whatever their toes land on is what you do.}
74. Catching Ducks
    A “pond” or small inflatable pool with removable ducks on it, songs under ducks ^{(there is a game out called “Lucky Ducks” that works great for this too—just cut the sound cord!!!}
75. Treasure Hunt with a song at each stop along the hunt and a clue to the next spot.
76. Treasure Hunt 2
    Rocks painted gold ~bury them in a big bucket/box of sand and let kids take turns finding rocks. Number the rocks for songs, so you can use them over and over again. Talk about things we should treasure in our lives (Happy Family ~Family, Search, Ponder and Pray ~scriptures, Follow the Prophet ~Prophet, My Heavenly Father Loves Me ~the world, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes ~ Our Bodies, Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam ~Jesus, I Belong the Church ~the gospel, Friends are Nice ~friends, The Sacred Grove ~Joseph Smith, Book of Mormon Stories, B of M, I Love to See the Temple ~Temples, When I am Baptized ~baptism, etc.)
77. Music Mystery
    Come into singing time wearing a trench coat, dark glasses, and “detective” hat—carry a small notebook. Tell the kids you are on a hot case and need them to help you. Before primary, hide clues in the room under chairs, etc. The clues can be big “?” Then for fun you can print the clue in a tiny font so they need to use a magnifying glass to read it. On the chalkboard it can have a question you are trying to answer. The answer to the clues will be songs, and the first letter of each song you sing is part of the answer (for example):
    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 ............... ^{First letters of these songs spell MOTHER}
78. ^{Music Mystery 2
    Tell the kids you’re on the case of a missing treasure and you are looking for clues. Clues could be hidden under their seats or around the room. Or put into an envelope labeled “Classified.” Type the name of the songs in a very small font so the kids need a magnifying glass to read the song and glue the clue on a die-cut musical note or maybe the paper the shape of a question mark. At the end you could say to the kids thanks for helping me discover the treasure it was your wonderful rich voices.}
79. Music Mystery 3
    Make five question marks labeled with the five W's - laminate, stick magnetic tape on back to place on chalkboard. Five Important "W's"
    All detectives (or reporters) know that they need to ask these questions when looking for clues to solve a case. WHO -- WHAT -- WHEN -- WHERE -- WHY
    For each question, call up a child (assistant detective) to read a question with the magnifying glass.
80. Who’s Singing?
    Audio tape kids or people in your ward singing lines from a song—play the song and have the kids guess who is singing it: Record different kids singing a line from different songs. Have musical notes that have either the kid’s names or a wallet size picture of them on it. Or make a poster with the phrases of the song, at the side of the postrer place small picture frames with a question mark in each one. Picture frames correspond to the number of children who sang that phrase of the song. Play the tape of the first song. Stop the tape and have a child decide who sang that song. Insert the photo, then have the whole primary sing the song. This is fun for mother or father’s day too. Have the mom or dad sing the line and then have the kids decide whose mom or dad that is.
81. Singing sickness (Cover self in red spots—kids have to pull off spots—that have songs on back—and sing them well for you to get better)
82. Clothesline
    Take real clothes or use graphics of clothes and put songs on clothes and then kids could pull them out of a laundry basket or can or small basket. Have ways to sing the song on clothespins-- like a cappella, la-la-la, boys only, girls only, teachers only, kids with blue eyes, etc. Kids pick one of each and hang the clothes on a clothesline you have strung across the room.
83. Heads and Tails
    Write down words to song(s) on to cards. Kid picks a card then flips a coin. Heads—say what phrase comes before the one written on the card (in the song), tails, what comes after it.
84. Chaos & danger
    This game came from teaching “Keep the Commandments” You plan in advance to have the pianist play a different song than you’re singing. The kids realize how important it is to STAY within the guidelines the Lord has given us. They have to figure out which song the pianist played and which song we were singing.
85. “What's My Line"
    We'd pick a program song, then with one side against the other, I stood in front and pointed to one side or the other. That side of the room had to sing the next line. Sometimes I'd switch fast, sometimes slow. Keep them on their toes. When they messed up, the other side got a point. We went through just about all the program songs in one singing time.
86. Pictures that they choose the song that matches
    I got a bunch of pictures from the library, put them in a box. The kids choose a picture and tell us which song it reminds them of. Then we sing it. This is great for taking a break after learning a new song.
87. Singing Olympics
    During the Olympics in SLC we opted to “pass the torch” in Primary as well. I made a torch out of a flashlight with red cellophane paper over it and we passed it around the room. When our song finished the next person got to pick the next song. We also had 4 different games going for our Olympics.
88. Hangman / Resurrected man
    Music box (it's a gift box that I've decorate) and in the box I have the names of songs.  The kids pass the box around while we sing a song and when we stop whoever has the box opens it up and picks the next song.
89. Magnetic letters
    Use the magnetic letters that you use on the fridge. Put them in a bag or appropriate container for the season. The children draw out a letter and choose a song that starts with the letter they pulled out. For the sake of time, I use the letter that correlates with the number in the alphabet the letter is. 1-26 (make a list ahead of time and you CAN use the songs over and over)
90. Opposite Songs:
    change the title of songs to the opposite words and let the kids figure them out:
    Laman’s Fear (Nephi’s Courage)
    Frowns (smile)
    ^{Sunday (Saturday)
    Off a Gray Wintertime (On a Golden Springtime)
    In the Barren Bush Bottoms (In the Leafy Treetops)
    Hate Nobody (Love One Another)
    Take Sang the Bog River (Give Said the Little Stream)
    We Won’t Be Weak (I Will Be Valiant)}
91. Who can sing with most volume?
    Challenge them who can sing louder. You or them?? Them or teachers?? Side against side?? Which class can sing the loudest?? See how far someone can walk down the hall and still hear them?? Can Relief Society hear them?? The ward meeting in the chapel?? Tell them the Jr. Primary can sing better than them....That will get them Make 6 beehives and write one of Pres. Hinckley’s “B’s” on each hive. Then take a bee graphic and make 6 bees have a song that fits with one of the “B’s” on the back of the bees and the kids have to decide which hive is that bees home.
92. Tommy or Tammy Testimony.
    Take a graphic of a boy or girls head (I used one from a Finch Family Home Evening Book). Using a computer graphics program that has speech bubbles or make your own put phrases that would be appropriate in a testimony making about 8 bubbles. Then on the back of each bubble have a song that ties into the phrase. For instance I Know We have a living Prophet on the earth today (Follow the Prophet/Latter Day Prophets), I know Joseph Smith received an answer to His prayer and saw Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ (This is My Beloved Son/The Scared Grove), I Know Jesus is my Savior and Redeemer (I’m Trying to Be Like Jesus), etc.
93. Bishop Singing Time:
    Draw a Man that looks like the Bishop from the waist up on poster board. In his coat pocket cut a slit and glue a pocket behind it and place questions the Bishop would ask when we want to get baptized or when we turn 12and want to go to the temple. Have a song that fits with the question—Do you love your family?—Happy Family, Do you believe that Joseph Smith is a prophet?—This is My Beloved Son, Do you believe ______is our prophet?—Latter-Day Prophets, Do you keep the Commandments—Keep the Commandments…
94. Ice Cream “Sunday”
    I am putting together an activity about keeping the Sabbath day holy.  The one with the ice cream sundaes and adding things that don't go on a "Sundae" (i.e.. pickles, mustard, ketchup).  And then things that do go on a "Sundae" (hot fudge, whip cream, etc).  We will have already prepared some small sundaes for the kids for the end of the sharing time.  This way, we can share a treat with the kids for doing well on the program as well as take care of a sharing time message.
95. Brother Potatohead—put parts on to Bro. Potatohead—each part has a matching song/phrase that makes up a member of the church.
    Body—I Like My Birthdays, pg. 104  (Baptized a member of the church)
    Eyes—Search, Ponder, and Pray, pg. 109 (Read Scriptures)
    Ears—Stand For the Right, pg.  (Listen to what the prophet says and do it!)
    Nose—The Lord Gave Me a Temple, pg. 153  (Our body is a blessing from God—we need to take care of it!)
    Mouth—When We're Helping, pg. 198 (When we do what is right, we are happy and kind to others)
    Feet—I Hope They Call Me on a Mission, pg. 169 (Service to others and Missionary Work)/Trying to Be Like Jesus, pg. 78 (Follow Christ's Example)
    Arms—I Pray in Faith, pg. 14 (Fold our arms and pray)
96. Yellow posterboard (golden plates)
    Make a "Book of Mormon Stories" with each page we will tell a quick story and sing a song that fits that person or story, the first page I will have a
    picture of Nephi - and the scripture in 1 Nephi 3:7 and then below that it will say Nephi's Courage, the next page will have a picture of Enos and it will say "If With All Your Hearts", then we will have King Benjamin and probably "I Will Be Valiant", then a picture of Alma and then we'll sing the Alma verse of Book of Mormon Stories, then a picture of the stripling warriors and the song "We'll Bring The World His Truth", then a picture of Samuel and the song "Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus", then a picture of Jesus with the Nephites and the song "Easter Hosanna" and then a picture of Joseph Smith and the song "An Angel Came to Joseph Smith".  I might also add a picture of Ammon and do that verse in the Book of Mormon stories and I love "Had I Been a Child" so I might use two pictures of Jesus visiting the Nephites and do that song too. You could make this short by not going into the stories and not doing a whole lot of songs - or you can stretch this out by telling the stories. 
97. Missionary game.
    I brought various items, including name tags, clothing and scriptures to primary.  I picked one child from each side of the room and made 2 teams.  Each child represented their team.  Then we would sing various songs for both the program and some fun ones like "I hope they call me on a mission".  The team that sang the best got to 'dress' their missionary then the team that had their missionary dressed the most when time was out won.  I didn't do anything for the winning team just said congrats.  Throughout the entire time we talked a bit about things missionaries can do to prepare and most of the songs related to missionaries, ie Latterday prophets, Spirit of God, ummm not sure what else and I threw my list away.
98. Noah’s Ark choosing chart with each animal having a song on it
99. Clothesline: 
    take real clothes or using graphics print out clothes then put the songs on the clothes and on the clothespins write a way to sing.  The kids pick one of each and hang them on a clothesline you've stringed across the room.
100. Blindfold Pick a Song: 
     On a big sheet of butcher paper write down titles to primary songs.  Tape it to a wall.  Blindfold a child and let them pin a cutout of a musical note on the poster, whatever song they stick it on is the song you sing.
101. "You've got Mail!"  with the kids. 
     I used my daughter's plastic mailbox and decorated envelopes with the song titles inside.  The child who chose the song got to help lead with one of the primary's fun wands.
102. The Choice is Right
     Play a spin-off of the TV show "The Price is Right" to teach and review the song.  You could really use your creativity for this idea and make it fun.  Make a sign the says "BING" for the right answer and one that says "BUZZ" for the wrong answer.  Here are a few  examples of "games"  :
     1)      Race game-Place pictures or word strips from the song in the wrong order.  Choose a child (be dramatic) to "come on down" and compete against the clock to put them in the right order. After they've put them in the right order, they come back and put on a gold CTR crown (burger king) to see if they have it right.  If not, take the crown off, and try again.
     2)      Match game-Cut those word strips in half and put them all over the board.  Have a child or children race to match up the phrases as you sing them
      3) PLINKO--if you've made a plinko board, at the bottom you could put different ways to sing the song, i.e., staccato, whisper, boys sing, girls sing, etc. 
     4)  Punch board--some of you have made punch boards for use in your primaries.  In the slots, you could have ways to sing the song, or different rhythm actions (stomp, clap, pat, snap).  As them pull them out, put them in order and then have them repeat that action pattern as they sing the song.
103. Boulders & Blessings
     ^{I drew it on a large piece of poster board.  The bottom row has 7 spaces.  The game starts, here, on the bottom left side.  So, you have the 7 spaces, left to right, on the bottom.  On the last, left space, draw 1 space above it and then another 1 space on top of that 1.  From that 1, draw 6 more spaces (7 in all) right to left.  Draw another 1 above that and (you guessed it) another 1 above that 1.  Draw six more, 7 in all, left to right.  Draw another 2 above your last one on the right.  Draw 3 more over, 4 in all, left to right.  2 more above that 4th space.  That last space is the FINAL one.   Her WC stands for Wrong Choice.  I changed the CTR to Blessings and the WC to a Boulder.  I cut out gray construction paper for the boulders.  I also placed a picture of the Savior at the finished area.
     I also made 21 card, 3 different colors.  Yellow cards are one space, red cards two spaces, blue cards 3 spaces.  If they can't answer the question, we will sing the song and ask it again! http://primaryetc.com/BlessingsBoulders.html (picture of it)}
104. Bean Bag/soft ball
     put all the chairs up against the wall and having them sit in a circle with a soft ball or beanbag - sing a line, toss the bean bag, and whoever catches it has to repeat the line, then everyone has to sing it before you throw it again for the next line.  Next time through, see who knows the line without your help and toss it to them.
105. Primary Squares with my kids.
     I did it like Hollywood Squares- I ask the children a question and if they answered correctly they could place an X or O on the board( I used pilgrims and turkeys instead of X's and O's but you can substitute anything). If they got the question wrong, the other team got a chance to answer and place their piece. Hope this helps.
106. "Primary Mess"
     I made up a story that a friend of my was called to be a primary music director and needed our help. I told them that since Sister Smith (or whoever you want to call her) wasn't really familiar with the primary songs and that she knew part of the song but not their actual titles. I made up really crazy names for our primary songs and they had to tell me the actual song that had the words/idea behind the song ie... Frosty has melted for once there was a snoman...or apricot popcorn for popcorn popping...etc. Anyway the kids had 1 minute to figure out what the song was...I thought the Jr were not going to remember any of the tittles but was I ever wrong...I think they got them faster than the Sr.
107. Let's have a "paper orchestra"!
     How many different sounds can be made with a sheet of paper?  You might
     be surprised!  Give each child a piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. 
     Instruct all to follow your directions.
     
     1.  (this can be done with ANY song)  First practice singing "We Thank
     Thee Oh God for a Prophet" by having everyone roll their paper into a
     tube shape.  Going through the song once sing the first line and "toot"
     the second through the tube, repeating through the verse:
     We thank thee Oh God, for a prophet
     "toot-da-doot toot-da-doot- toot-da-doot"
     We thank thee for sending the gospel
     "toot-da-doot toot-da-doot- toot-da-doot", etc.
     
     reverse tooting and singing on second time through:
     "toot-da-doot toot-da-doot- toot-da-doot"
     to guide us in these latter days, etc.
     2. Show the children how to hold the sheet of paper loosely between two hands and then pull hard, but not too hard to tear it, and a very snappy "pop" can be heard.
     3.  "The Wise man and the Foolish Man" p. 281.  Lay the paper across your lap with both feet on the floor and knees together.

slap (slap hands on knees)
tickle (wiggling all fingers on paper)
rub (slide flat hand across paper)
(slap) The wise man built his house upon the rock (repeat two times)
and the rains came tumbling down
(tickle) the rains came down and the
(rub) floods came up (repeat two times)
(slap) and the house on the rock stood still.
(rub softly) The foolish man built his house upon the sand (repeat two
times)
and the rains came tumbling down
(tickle) the rains came down and the
(rub) floods came up (repeat two times)
(wave paper through air) and the house on the sand washed away.

4. Holding the paper by the two short ends, crumple  it and pull it out (but not too hard) with the rhythm of each prophet's name. (No crumpling during the other words!)

5. Hold the paper between two palms and clapped, this was fun because you can try to keep the paper air borne and catch it on the clap.

6.  Hold the paper tightly between your hands and blow with your lips tight and make a squeeky sound.  Follow me to see when to make noise and when to sing the words.

7.  We also rubbed palms together with the  paper in-between them.  On the last time through we started at one edge and tore a strip off, and then another until we ran out of paper.  About the time you get to "if I do it fast" you can really rip into it.  Then pass around a garbage can and clean up the papers.