My Country, My Flag

After we sing "My Country" (CS 224) a couple times to be familiar with it, I am going to place one of these patriotic leis (found at Dollar Tree) on one of the children. We will continue singing the song while the children gently remove the lei from their own person, and carefully place the lei around the child next to them, so it moves around the room. (Be sure and emphasize gently and carefully to the children, so things don't get wild!) I'll ask the pianist to randomly stop playing throughout the song. The child who is wearing the lei when the music stops will stand and tell us one thing he or she loves about our country!

Here is my fabuloso poster.

And another one for "My Flag, My Flag" (CS 225). I will give the children their flags while we sing this song, and have them follow my lead as I wave my flag high or low, while marching in place, changing directions, etc. Post Edit: Instead of randomly doing things with the flag, we just raised them up high every time we said the word, "flag", then waved them like crazy whenever we said the word, "wave". It was really fun for everyone!

And the last poster: For "America the Beautiful", I will teach some fun hand motions as we sing. Yay America!

Patriotic Pipe Chimes

I am going to bring out my pipe chimes to play as we sing "My Country, Tis of Thee" this Sunday. I thought it was appropriate to play chimes on the song that calls for freedom to "ring"!

I have my poster done up, showing by number which chime is played on what word. You could also use finger chimes, or triangles if you have those instead.


This is the pattern for musical pipes as found in the "Creative Homemaking for Happy Living" book the Church used to use. I need to make a stand like this for mine!

Patriotic Singing Time

I am excited to sing some patriotic songs this Sunday for the Fourth of July. I plan on singing the following:

CS 224 My Country (click here for more)
CS 225 My Flag, My Flag
Hymns 339 My Country, Tis of Thee (click here for more)
Hymns 338 America the Beautiful

Because these are all new songs for our children, I will write the lyrics on large sheets of paper to hang on the chalkboard. I am still working out the details for what I will do for each song, but today I am working on these miniature American flags for the children to hold as we sing, "My Flag, My Flag". I found the flag garland at Dollar Tree. It has 50 - 60 little flags on it that I am cutting off and taping to red, white and blue straws. I also trimmed the bendy part off the straws to make them more proportional to the tiny flags.