Human Spin the Bottle

This activity was pretty fun. I used it to review two songs. I had different ways to sing laid out in a circle in two different colors. Yellow was Army of Helaman and Green was The Holy Ghost. I spun a kid around in a chair and sang the song that it landed on the way that it said to sing it. It was a great way to review. Junior primary got a kick out of it. Senior Primary got a little rowdy when we did it. They started to cheer when it landed on boys alone. Next time I need to start out by reminding them that we are in church. It's alright to enjoy seeing where someone is going to land, but we need to remember where we are. For Senior Primary I als had the person sitting in the chair say the next few words of the song, it was an extra added challenge that the kids enjoyed.

Wiggle

I found a great wiggle activity for Do As I'm Doing. I found on the Divine Secrets of a Primary Chorister Blog. I printed out and laminated a bunch of circles with really great activites on them. There are about 20 of them like Russian Dancing, The Chiken Dance, Kung Foo Fighting, Jump Rope, Swimming. The kids particularly liked Flex your Muscles. They had a lot of fun with it and it got their energy out. I'll try to put that link on here eventually.

Find The Book of Mormon(hot and cold)

This last Sunday we learned We'll Bring The World His Truth. I love this song and it was so fun to teach the kids. I started by showing them BOM in different languages and then I showed them a map of the world and explained that the gospel was taught all over the world. I had several mini BOM printed out in different languages. I asked a child to go in the hall and then asked another to hide one of the BOM around the room. When the child came back in we sang soft if they were far away and loud the closer they got. This was a simple activity that the kids loved, especially the senior primary. I have never seen them get so excited. This activity can be adapted to any song. I had the words of the song written on poster board because we have never done it before and by the end of class the kids knew the words to the song without having to look, it was great.

Picture Scramble

Today in primary we learned "The Holy Ghost." I used the idea that was mentioned in the Friend in 2005. For Junior Primary I started by singing through the song and clapping the beat. I then told them that beat was constant just like the Holy ghost is constant in our lives. I invited them to clap along with me as they listened to the words again. I then asked them questions about how the Holy Ghost helps us and they listened to the song again for the answers. I then put up pictures that I had printed out from sugardoodle.com. They have a lot of LDS clipart. I printed out discriptions of the main words. I put them up out of order and asked one of the older kids to come and put them in order while we sang that part of the song. I broke each verse in half so their was only six pictures to put in order. I then had them sing a few times, each time taking off a picture or two. By the end they sang the whole section without my help. This went over well. They enjoyed it and it went smoothly. The best part is I can use it again next week because we only made it through the first half of the first verse.

For the senior primary I sang through the song and had them listen to the words. I then gave them a quiz over the song. The questions were fairly straight forward, but I gave them a photo copy of the song after a few minutes. I then went over the questions. This wasn't my best idea, but it worked alright. I like to try and stretch the senior primary a bit. I want them to get excited and I feel they do better if I challenge them. I might do this again, but maybe have better questions or possibly questions they can look up in the scriptures that relate to the song in some way. I then had them put the pictures in order, but I put up pictures for the whole first verse(12). I had two kids come up to put them in order and we had to sing it a few times for them to get it. I then had the kids sing a couple of times, and then I slowly took the pictures of the board until there was none left. They also sang through the whole first verse without my help or the piano, which is pretty good for none of the kids knowing the song at the beginning. The pictures were fun for the senior primary as well and I would definitely do this again.