#2 * Head, Shoulders,
Knees and Toes (Move head from side to side, lift and lower shoulders,
bend knees in time to the rythm of the song, stand on one foot--choose
one or try to do all four at once)
* Choose a color (the child picks a color and you choose children to
stand or to sing that are wearing that color, have that color of eyes or
hair, are wearing that color of shoes, etc.)
* Boys sing/Girls sing (I have elastic wristbands in
blue and pink--they sing when I lead with that hand OR use a flipper)
* Answer a Question about the song (get it right--
the teachers sing, get it wrong--the kids sing, ask for help--come to
the front and sing it with 5 friends)
* Staccato/Legato
* Primary Colors (use red, yellow and blue
flags--divide the kids into three groups and have them stand and sing
the words when their color of flag is held up)
#3* Eyes, Ears, Mouth
and Nose (close eyes and sing, plug ears and sing, whisper sing, touch
nose and sing--do one or all)
* Clap a Rythm (especially good for "Follow the
Prophet")
* Leave out a word (choose a key word) (variations:
stand on the word, clap on the word, use sign language on that word or
use a Stop/Go sign)
* Sing facing backwards
* Fermata (use a fermata sign to hold out different words)
* Sing by classes
* Race the Top (spin a top and see if you can sing a
verse before it stops spinning)
* 3-Headed Singer (choose 3 singers to come to the
front and try to sing the song with each singing one word going from
person to person)
* Musical Instruments (choose a musical instrument [I
have homemade] to play to the song)
* Fast/Slow (using signs, either sing faster or
slower)
* Loud/Soft (I have a crescendo/decrescendo flipper
OR you could use a stoplight and flashlight to sing louder on green,
softer on yellow, stop singing on red)
#5 (I'm using this one for the Seniors only)
* Birthdays (choose
certain months to sing, choose even or odd birthdays, choose by year
they were born, etc. to decide who sings [or who stands to sing] on what
key words or phrases, etc.)
* Each person sing one word of the song (you go
around the room)
* Musical Chairs (each row has one extra chair at the
end. Then you choose a word or words and whenever you sing that word,
you have to move over one chair. It's really fun on Scripture Power to
change chairs on all words that start with an "S" or a "P". My Seniors
have so much fun with this)
* Beat vs. Rythm (you try to tap out the beat of the
song with one hand and tap out the melody rythm with the other--almost
like rubbing your stomach and patting your head, lol)
* Whistle/Sing (flipper card with pic of someone
whistling on one side and pic of someone singing on the other)
#6 Games
* Hide the Note
* Name That Tune
* What's My Line? (go back and forth between two
teams OR using key words, have one child draw a word from the song from
a bag. The team gets 1 point for saying the line the word is in, or 3
points for singing it)
* Word King/Queen
* 1, 2, 3 Can (Draw a number from a can. 1- they get
to hear 3 words from the song and try to guess what song it is, 2-
choose a tune map and try to figure out which song it is, 3- Answer a
question from the song)
* Walkie Talkies (draw a song, draw a card with a
place in the meeting house [like outside the chapel,.by the Bishop's
office, etc.]You send a teacher with a walkie talkie to that spot and
the children try to sing loud enough for the teacher to hear, then they
tell us on the walkie talkie if they can hear us . ALL the kids seem to
LOVE walkie talkies!)
Nicole H., UT: Here's what's in my files:
To Make Dice: Use velcro so you can alternate
pictures.
Dice 1: Use 2 dice. One has songs, one has ways to
sing.
Dice 2: Make word strips (1-6). Sing song a couple
of times. Throw a dice. Take the wordstrip down.
Dice 3: Each side has game (name that tune,
pictionary, a capella, challenge leaders).
Dice 4: Each side has a way to sing. Lion-sing loud,
turtle-sing slow, lamb-sing soft, owl-sing "who", ?-let them choose,
rabbit-sing fast.
Dice 5: Yellow dice is "which song." Red dice is "who
sings." Blue dice is "how to sing"