We have an extra day to Choose the Right - so HOP to it!!!

Leap Frog
All you need for this Singing Time is some leaping frogs!!!  You can get some like the ones pictured above at the dollar store or make some origami ones!  Here is a link to see how to make origami frogs.  Number each frog (the number represents a song).  Choose 2 or 3 children to come up and each child gets a frog.  Set each frog at the starting line and as you say, "Go", they press down on their frog to make it leap.  The frog that leaps the farthest is the song you sing!

Frog Singing Meter
As the children sing, pull the tongue in and out depending on their volume.  The longer the tongue, the louder they sing!!!

Lilly Pad Toss
Place 6-10 Lilly Pads on the floor.  Write a song on the back of each lilly pad.  Let a child toss a bean bag/stuffed frog onto a lilly pad.  Sing Song.  (if the bean bag doesn't land on a pad exactly, choose the one closest)

 Frog Tongue
This idea was found here.
Here's a couple ideas on how to use this for Singing Time:
-Put song titles on the board and let a child hit the one they want to sing with the frog tongue.
-Choose a super singer to use the frog tongue to pop bubbles as a teacher blows them.

CTR Search
This CTR search was found from February's 2010 Friend.  Make a large one and put it on the board and let a child circle a CTR each time you review the Song Choose the Right.  Try to find them all!

 

Here is a maze that would be fun to pass out as a handout.  It's from the March 2004 Friend.

CTR Shield Language Match

Put these shields and language strips on the board.  Choose a child to see if they can get a match!  For every match, sing a song!  These shields can be found here or here or here

We hope you have a great Singing Time this week!!!  Take at peek at the other ideas for this week posted below!

~iheartprimarymusic

Strength in Choosing the Right

This is a Primary Singing Time activity that goes along with this months theme, Choose the Right.  Cut out 7-10 paper people (see picture above).  Leave 2 blank and on the others write ways to help you choose the right.  ex:  prayer, pay tithes, scriptures, go to church, service, etc...

Say something like this at the beginning,
"Some people are weak and when faced with choices between right and wrong, they don't seem to have the strength to choose the right.  (Show blank paper person).  We are going to sing songs to give us the strength to choose the right".

Let a child choose a paper person with a way to help us choose the right.  Sing a song that corresponds with the way to CTR.  For example if they pick Scripture Study, you could sing Scripture Power.  After they choose a way to choose the right, stack it on top of one of the blank people.  Leave the other blank person alone until the end of singing time.

Before you sing, pick one of your SUPER singers to wear this CTR cape and lead the song!  This cape was made from an inexpensive table cloth and a paper CTR shield was added on the back.

After you have sung all the songs and all the paper people are stacked together, say this,
"Which one would you rather be?  The skinny weak person?  Or the one with strength"?  Always remember to Choose the Right so that you can be strong!

Choose the Right

I did this poster with the kids wearing CTR rings in hope that our Primary children would remember to wear their CTR rings more often!!!!

Choose the Right... Helper

This Sunday (or next) have your children trace their RIGHT hand on a piece of paper.  Have them write their name on it and their favorite song (or something to help them CTR).  In February, put all the paper hands on the board and you choose one of the RIGHT hands. Have that child come up and be your RIGHT hand helper while everyone sings that song.  If they didn't write their favorite song let them tell everyone how they can choose the right.

To Show I Choose the Right

This idea is from the 1999 July Friend
"Have the children sing the following song to the tune of 'If You're Happy' (CS, p.266):  'To show I choose the right, I tell the truth./To show I choose the right, I tell the truth./I know the Savior's way./  And it shows in what I say./  To show I choose the right, I tell the truth.'  The action for this verse, made while singing "I tell the truth," is putting the right pointer finger to your lips and lowering the finger in a small arc.  Additional verses and actions could include "I will not swear" (zip your lips), "I show respect" (tip your hat), "I'll rev'rent be" (fold arms), "I will not steal" (right pointer finger wigwags "No").  Once the children know the first verse, have a child pick a wordstrip (We did different circles and put magnets on the back and put them on the chalkboard.) and have everyone sing that verse.  After each verse, ask "How will I show respect?" (or "What does it mean to be reverent?" etc.).  Finally, have all the helpers hold up their wordstrips and sing the first verse again but have the final line include all the wordstrips in the order in which the children are holding them."