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.