For Senior Primary we decided to challenge their minds! I used the Thesaurus and "tweaked" the words to our favorite Christmas songs! They then had to guess what the song was. Once they guessed we would sing it!
1) Orbs Radiating, Attendants Musing (Stars were gleaming, Shepherds dreaming)
2) Quietude Observe the Descendant (Hush, see the Child) from Shepherds Carol
3) Distant With No Trundle (Away in a manger, no crib for his bed)
4) Yuletide Reverberations (Christmas Bells)
5) Mute Dimday (Silent Night)
6) Cherubs Noted Aloft (Angels we Have Heard on High)
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Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Christmas Fun!
We worked SO hard on our program. Then we worked SO hard for the ward Christmas program! I decided that the kids needed a break! So we had a day of singing fun!
I picked a few songs that I felt comfortable allowing the kids to be "silly" while singing: Snowman and Christmas Bells.
We used some fun cards created by Alison over at http://www.oopseydaisyblog.com/. Here is a link to the post Christmas Ways to Sing Cards, so you can print them off yourself.
I folded these up and put them in a Christmas Bucket. Now for the fun!
In Junior Primary I picked a helper to draw out an action. I would then demonstrate it. The helper got to stay up front with me while we all sang the song doing the action. This was the repeated over and over with a new action each time. The kids loved it! They still are asking when we will do it again!
For Senior I changed it up a little bit. I gave a different action to EACH CLASS. As we sang, the class had to do THEIR action. After each song we would pass the action clockwise. Every class got a chance to do every action at least once. This had to be one of the funnest things we have done all year!!
Aren't they cute?
I picked a few songs that I felt comfortable allowing the kids to be "silly" while singing: Snowman and Christmas Bells.
We used some fun cards created by Alison over at http://www.oopseydaisyblog.com/. Here is a link to the post Christmas Ways to Sing Cards, so you can print them off yourself.
I folded these up and put them in a Christmas Bucket. Now for the fun!
In Junior Primary I picked a helper to draw out an action. I would then demonstrate it. The helper got to stay up front with me while we all sang the song doing the action. This was the repeated over and over with a new action each time. The kids loved it! They still are asking when we will do it again!
For Senior I changed it up a little bit. I gave a different action to EACH CLASS. As we sang, the class had to do THEIR action. After each song we would pass the action clockwise. Every class got a chance to do every action at least once. This had to be one of the funnest things we have done all year!!
Aren't they cute?
Monday, December 12, 2011
Snowball Fight!
I saw a post on another blog last year about letting the children have a snowball fight in primary. I wanted to tweek it, so it seemed to be more purposeful. I asked our Stake Presidency member if he would help out. He LOVES primary and loves to come in to visit.
We gave each child a half sheet of paper and a pencil. Junior Primary wrote their name on the paper, senior primary wrote their favorite primary song. I then had KING HEROD come into the room. We had dressed him up to look like a king. He sat in a chair in the front of the room and scowled at the children. I told the story of King Herod and how he was also part of the Christmas story. It was a great opportunity for the kids to hear how angels and Heavenly Father were protecting the Baby Jesus.
After I was finished I had the kids wad their paper up into a snow ball. I drew names out of my choosing jar (5-6 at a time). Those kids got to stand and on the count of three they threw their snowball at King Herod. He was a great actor and really made it fun! Then King Herod picked up one of the snowballs. What ever song it said, that is what we sang (for Junior, if it was their name they got to pick a song). We were able to do this so that every child ended up gettting to throw their snowball at King Herod.
At the end King Herod said he felt the spirit in their singing and his heart had been softened. It was a lot of fun and added a new dimension to the Christmas story that oft times gets left out.
We gave each child a half sheet of paper and a pencil. Junior Primary wrote their name on the paper, senior primary wrote their favorite primary song. I then had KING HEROD come into the room. We had dressed him up to look like a king. He sat in a chair in the front of the room and scowled at the children. I told the story of King Herod and how he was also part of the Christmas story. It was a great opportunity for the kids to hear how angels and Heavenly Father were protecting the Baby Jesus.
After I was finished I had the kids wad their paper up into a snow ball. I drew names out of my choosing jar (5-6 at a time). Those kids got to stand and on the count of three they threw their snowball at King Herod. He was a great actor and really made it fun! Then King Herod picked up one of the snowballs. What ever song it said, that is what we sang (for Junior, if it was their name they got to pick a song). We were able to do this so that every child ended up gettting to throw their snowball at King Herod.
At the end King Herod said he felt the spirit in their singing and his heart had been softened. It was a lot of fun and added a new dimension to the Christmas story that oft times gets left out.
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