Noah's Ark Primary Singing Time

 

It wasn't raining when I started this carboard ark.....  

Here's a quick step by step of how I made it :)

I started with a old oven cardboard box.  Used 8.5x11 paper and traced some "windows".

Here's the outline of the ark.  I kept the flaps on the very bottom the help sturdy it when I stand it up on the floor. I only cut three sides of the windows to create a "flap" effect.  I also cut a small hole to help pull it back in place.

I cut two shaped like this for the top and hot glued them together - then glued onto the rest of the ark.

I used a yard stick and traced around the edges of everything.

Then painted.

My ward is the first one in the building so I plan to set this up Saturday night.  I will put chairs behind it and also cut two slits on the ark to be able to tie a string from the ark to the chair and secure it.

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And this is what I plan to do for Singing Time:

First, I'll show a picture of the prophet, Noah, and quickly tell details of his story.  Then we'll sing the third verse of Follow the Prophet.

I'll tell the children, don't worry I've already built the ark, now we just need to load some animals
before the RAIN comes...

I'll call up two children to be the MOUSE and a LION.  They will be handed a clipart picture of their animal.

These children will sit behind the ark and take turns opening their window.  One at a time, they will open their window and be the mouse or lion. When the child who is the mouse opens their window, the rest of the children will sing quietly (third verse of Follow the Prophet) and when he child who is the lion opens their window, everyone will sing LOUD.

We will do this same thing for a SNAIL and RABBIT.  Snail means sing SLOW, rabbit means sing FAST.

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 I will tell retell about Noah and how after he loaded the animals, the RAIN came.

 We will have a "RAIN STORM" (turn lights off and create a rain storm with hands) 

Here are the steps:

1-Rub your hands together back and forth (drizzle)
2-Snap your fingers (rain drops)
3-Pat your hands on your thighs (bigger drops)
4-Stomp your feet (heavy rain drops)
5-Stomp your feet and pat your hands on your legs (the intensity and peak of the storm)
6-Stomp your feet
7-Pat your hands on your thighs
8-Snap your fingers
9-Rub your hands back and forth
10-Silence and stillness

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If there's time, we will then sing The Wise Man and Foolish Man or the second verse of Give Said the Little Stream.  Another great song is "Oh Noah!" by Shawna Edwards.

Lastly, I will tell them of the RAINBOW and God's promise and we will sing WHEN I AM BAPTIZED as the closing song.  For instructions on actions (creating a rainbow) or how to teach this song, CLICK HERE.

Whew!  Not much time today for this weeks post, but I had to share!  Good luck with your singing time!!!!

-iheartprimarymusic

Super Bowl Noah's Ark Style

Hello music leaders!!!! 
We put together a little spin on the Super Bowl and Noah's Ark for this week.  We are teaching February's song, Choose the Right.  In order to keep their interest while we learn the song, we thought we would do some bowling with a football.  Make your own home-made pins with old bottles or cans and put animals print paper around them.  Here's the bowling rules for reviewing: 
If they knock down 1 pin:  Lead the song using Elenor the Elephant.  (child puts hand in sock and leads.  See below picture)
2 pins:  Use pictures of a Lion and a Mouse and let a child hold one of them up at a time.  Sing loud when the lion is held up and soft when the mouse is held up. 
3 pins:  Use pictures of a rabbit and a snail.  Children sing fast when the rabbit is held up and slow when the snail is held up.  Make sure your pianist can see the signs!
4 pins:  Monkey see Monkey do.  Choose a child come up to the front to be the monkey.  Let them choose several actions to do and the other children follow as they sing. ex: scratch head like monkey, swing arms, jump up and down, etc.
5 pins:  Whistle the chorus
6 pins:  Children's choice.  They either get to pick one of the ways to sing from 1-5 pins or pick from:  Flamingo-sing standing on one leg, skunk-nose plugged, or giraffe-Have paper giraffe visual that has a neck that stretches.  When it's neck is tall-stand up tall or when it's short-scrunch down low.

Who 'Nose' the next Song?

Set some animal noses on the table, and a picture of each corresponding animal around the room.  Choose a child to come pick a nose and match it to the right picture.  Sing a song and have that child wear the nose while they sing!!!

This ideas was found here

Animal Crackers

Here's 2 easy pick and choose ideas that go with Noah's Ark. 
Set some animal cracker packets on the table and let your children pick one and sing a song.  Pass out crackers at the end for a handout!
Or you can get some balloons with animal faces on them and let your children pop them.  Make sure to put the song inside them!  (we found these balloons at Zurcher's, but you could always just draw them on with a permanent marker).

Noah's Ark

Have the children pick an animal (2) off the board and place them in the ark.  Each animal represents a song to sing and a way to sing.  Here are some ideas for these animals and some others:

Monkey:  Sway arms above head
Elephant:  Sway arm like a trunk in front of your nose
Pig: Scrunch nose up
Frog:  Hop
Alligator: Arms straight out and put palms together like a alligator chomp
Owl:  Make glasses around eyes with your hands
Penguin:  Waddle
Zebra:  Gallop