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April
Singing Time Activity:
After you learn and sing the song, print THIS DOCUMENT and see if you can find the answers to the questions and color the pictures!
Print and cut out THESE SCENARIOS into strips. Fold and place them in a jar. Ask, "How can I be a missionary now...?" as a strip of paper is pulled from the jar. See how many answers you can think of for each one!
Optional: Print, color, and cut out THESE PICTURES. See if you can put them in order and sing the song! OR - print and color 2 copies. Turn them upside down and play the matching game!
Bonus Song: I Will Be What I Believe
See if you remember and can sing along with one of our favorite songs about some great missionary examples.
What can you do to show love to those around you? Find someone who needs help (or a smile) this week and help them! If you can't think of anyone, say a prayer to know who to help.
MARCH
Singing Time Activity:
Make your own Hot and Cold Music Note!
- Print and color one (or more) of these music notes.
- Choose one child to be "it". Have them close their eyes (or leave the room) for a moment while someone else hides the music note somewhere in the room/house.
- Then have the child who is "it" open their eyes and search for the note!
- All others should give clues to guide this person on where to find the note by singing LOUD when they are close to the note and QUIET when they are not.
You can make this activity more difficult by using the entire house! You can also designate any item (i.e. a stuffed animal, or favorite toy) as the note instead of the paper note.
Be creative! Have fun!
Most of our primary children should know this song pretty well by now. But here are a few resources to use if you would like to teach it, or reinforce the beautiful message of this song.
- I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ - Sharing Time Lesson from 2003
- A "Concentration" Matching Game - For older children - Click Here
- A Testimony Scavenger Hunt (can easily be adapted to home) - Click Here
Finally, embrace your inner rock star, and sing along (or air guitar along) with the video below!
- Use your rainbow ribbon wands from last month, and make up actions for the words to this song!
- Use the video below to sing along to this song Karaoke Style
- Download these pages to make your own coloring book for this song.
- Then, pretend like you are a member of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and sing long with them in this video!
- Or if you'd rather, be the director! Grab a stick or a wooden spoon and direct the choir. (Remember how to move your arms when they sing soft and loud).
Optional: Click here to find a complete lesson on teaching this song.
February
Singing Time Activity:
Make your own singing time ribbon wands!
- Follow the directions on THIS SITE to create your own ribbon wands.
- For a little more difficult option, see here
- Or, be creative! What can you find around the house to create your own wands?
- Or, Sister Farley has a lot of ribbon wands in a lot of different colors! Call her and borrow some for your singing time :)
Now, how do you use your amazing wands in singing time? Use these ideas, or be creative and think of your own! (Ideas adapted from Camille's Primary Ideas).
- Listen to the music, move the wand however the music makes you feel.
- Sing or listen to the song. Move the wand up when the notes go up and down when the notes go down. Move up or down with each new note.
- Make the wands bounce when the song does.
- Make a special action to make whenever you sing a "rhyming word".
- Let someone choose a word from the song. Do a special action whenever that word is sang. Optional - let the word be a surprise/secret! The person who chose the word does the action when it is sung. Have everyone guess what the secret word was.
- Create actions with the wands (when we sing “stand,” have them lift up their wands, make a heart shape when we sing “love,” shake the wand like it’s trembling for “tremble,” make a cross for “crucified,” for “suffered” touch a palm with the wand where Christ had nails, etc.).
- Learn how to crescendo (get louder, vigorously shaking wands) and decrescendo (get softer, shaking softly).
- First, download and color this page about being a missionary.
- Write your name and color your own missionary name tag (on page 2 of the download)
- Can you think of 2 ways that you can share the gospel with others now?
- Now, follow along to learn this song.
- Use your ribbon streamers when singing the song! Can you take turns making up your own actions for each verse?
The Priesthood is Restored (Children's Song Book Pg. 89)
- First, follow along to learn this song.
- While your family sings the song, see how many conversation hearts you can stack (without any falling over). How many can you get before the song is over?
- Now see if anyone else can beat you!
Ready for a challenge?
Try it again using tongs or tweezers to stack the hearts! Don't touch the hearts with your hands!
Print this PAGE. Touch each dot as you sing each word of the song (or write each word in order on the dots). Can you figure out the secret code on the song map?
Create your own Family Bell Choir! Borrow the hand bells from Sister Farley, and follow along with THIS PAGE to play the song on the bells!
Click HERE to watch this beautiful video with your family. Can you think of something amazing and wonderful that Jesus has done for you or your family?
See how much of the sign language you can lear for this song!
January
Singing Time Activity:
- Download, print, and color These Singing Time Signs.
- After you have learned the songs, take turns holding up and following the signs while your family sings!
- Can you follow the signs while you sing?
Click HERE for some ideas for teaching/singing this song.
Bonus activity: Can you learn the sign language for this song? What signs do you remember?
Follow along with this video to learn and sing this song.
Use this flipchart --> or these pictures to learn and sing this song!
Bonus Activity: Click on the Family History page on this ward website and complete the monthly activity!
- Download and print the Keep the Commandments Flip Chart. See if you can put the pages in order. Then take them away one at a time until you don't need them anymore!
- Optional: Parents may check out the handbells from Sister Farley. Then have fun following these charts to add a little something special to your singing time at home!
Book of Mormon Stories (Children's Songbook pg. 118-119)
- Have some fun singing to this video - see if you can match your singing style to the guitar style! Can you sing like a cowboy? Like a jazz singer? Or a rock star? Maybe an opera singer?
- Find 2 sticks that are about the same size (If you can't find sticks, look around the house and find something that might work... pencils, wooden spoons, etc.?)
- Sing through the song following the directions/actions on this page. Or try and come up with your own actions?
- View a video example of the actions below
- Optional: Visual aids to tell the story of Lehi's Dream can be found HERE