Paper Sack Review

During yesterday's singing time I wanted to review our songs from January and February, while having some fun songs and activities thrown in. I used this idea from Crazy Chorister, altered a little to suit my purposes.

I put each item in a paper lunch sack and lined them up on the chalkboard tray. These are the items I used, and the songs that went with them:

Small Slinky (I Know that My Savior Loves Me): When the child pulls it out (louder but not too loud). When it is pushed together we go soft.

Small Stuffed animal monkey (The Fourth Article of Faith): Sing the song in Oohs and Aahs. When the child held the monkey heads up we sang oohs. When the child flipped it bottoms-up, we sang aahs. They LOVED this - both jr and sr primary! (This helps them memorize the beat and melody of the music without the distraction of words. I always give a gentle reminder when we do something like this to take it easy and not change so fast that we lose the beauty of the song)

An Apple (He Sent His Son): Have the teachers sing the questions and then the children sing the answers.

Small Toy Mallet (The Third Article of Faith): Have them “hammer” the beat with their fists on their palms (not hard) and do this while singing Staccato.

Paper Streamer (The First Article of Faith - jr primary): Have the child lead the music by waving the streamer to the time of the music

Glass Stone (Give said the Little Stream): Starting from a sitting position, tell the kids to stand up and sit down, evertime they hear the word “Give”.

The next time, stand up and sit down on the word “Give”, but also clap on any word that starts with the letter “S”.

The third time through, stand up and sit down on every word that begins with “G” and clap on the words that begin with “S”.

Cookie Cutter Letters (To Think About Jesus): Have the child pick a letter. Skip whatever words in the song start with that letter. This was perfectly challenging for sr. primary. I didn't do this with jr.

A Quarter (The First Article of Faith - sr primary): Heads boys sing, Tails girls sing (have the child who came up flip it)

Eye Patch (The Books in the Book of Mormon): sing pirate style. (This got way too rowdy for my primary. I won't do it again.)