Fall Family Tree

Fall Family Tree Singing Time:

The leaves are changing color and falling down!!!  What a more perfect time to talk about FAMILY TREES????

Quickly discuss what a family tree is.  Help build a family tree by adding the members one at a time.  Each member represents a song to sing. 

Sing songs about families such as Here we are Together, Families Can be Together Forever, Family History-I am doing it, I have a Family Tree, The Hearts of the Children, Truth from Elijah.

I looked  F O R E V E R  for the perfect faces to use. 

I mean, "FOR EV VER" like 'Squints Palledorous' from the Sandlot.  

The ONLY and absolute BEST and CUTEST were found HERE on Susan Fitch's site.  She is amazingly talented.  I LOVE all her drawings.

Give the children a family tree printable to take home for a Come Follow Me lesson with their family!  

Tree printable found HERE from ayearoffhe.  Wonderful resource site!

Bear testimony of the importance of knowing, remembering, learning about, doing temple work, missionary work for your FAMILY members - old, young, alive or past.




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Pumpkin Guts Primary Singing Time

Pumpkin Guts Primary Singing Time

This is a perfect, easy, and fitting Primary Singing Time Idea for the month of October!!!

Carve out the top of a pumpkin.  Leave seeds and guts inside.  Put song titles on the inside (or ways to sing to song you're working on) all mixed in.  

For HALLOWEEN WAYS TO SING A SONG (perfect for repetition when learning a song) CLICK HERE to an earlier post.

Call up a child to sort through the guts!  Make sure to bring napkins and hand sanitizer!

I also like to send the kids home with a handout to do as a family after church.  This is to incourage having Come Follow Me Lessons/FHE.


How fun would it be to make Pumpkin Seeds!!!  Here is a handout for your primary for Cinnamon Sugar Pumpkin Seeds :)

Have fun with this October/Autumn Time Singing Time Idea!



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Leafy Ways to Sing

Leafy Ways to Sing!!!
 
 Materials you will need:  A shoe organizer, different objects to fill the shoe pockets, and paper leaves

We are posting this idea this week because it actually takes 2 Sunday's... in case you were wondering why it's not about Thanksgiving :)  So if you are a plan-ahead person you could use this idea for next week!
The first Sunday, pass out to each child a paper leaf.  Each child writes their favorite song on the leaf and hands it back to you.
At home, put the leaves in the pockets along with an object.  (If you have more children than there are pockets, put more than one leaf in a pocket and let them choose which song to sing).  Then on Sunday let a child come and pick a pocket.  Sing that song and do the action!!!

Here are the different things we put in the pockets and the corresponding actions to do while you sing:
Flashlight-Turn the lights off
Slinky-Stretch the slinky to sing loud or soft
Tissues-Plug your nose
Boot-March
Pointer-Child leads music
Picture of Friends-Turn and sing to a friend
Cap-Sing without the piano
Turtle-Sing slow
Racecar-Sing Fast
Ball-2 children toss the ball back and forth and every time they drop it, start the song over!
Bumble Bee-Hum
Whistle-whistle (...how original :))
Teeth-Sing with a smile or teeth clenched
Glue stick-pretend to glue a part of your body and stick it. ex: glue hand to head or your elbows together!
Microphone-Sing with 2 friends
Sun glasess-Sing with eyes closed
Egg Shakers-Sing staccato
Skunk-Plug nose
Flamingo-Stand on one foot


Get creative!!! All these things were found around the house!!!  and have fun!!!

This idea is a spin off of primarysingingtimeideas.blogspot.com.

The magic colors of Autumn

This idea was adapted to suit Autumn time.  

Items you will need:
Water, baking soda, spoons, food coloring, vinegar, a cookie sheet, and 6 cups.  And different colored leaves.

Stick different colored leaves on the chalk board.  Each leaf has a song to sing on the back
Put 2 drops of food coloring on each spoon.  Over the food coloring place baking soda (you want the baking soda to hide the food coloring).  Put water in each cup -except in one, put vinegar.  Choose a child to pick a spoon and let them choose a cup to stir it in.  Whatever color the water turns pick that color of leaf.  If they choose the vinegar cup, let them pick their favorite song to sing! 
Colors: Purple, Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange.
Have fun!!!

Leaves are falling all around

Leaves are falling all around,
On the housetops, on the ground.
Leaves are falling on my nose,
On my head and hands and toes.
(Rain is falling all Around CS 241 b)

This Sunday we are celebrating Fall!!!  So I will draw a tree on the chalk board and stick leaves on it.  I will choose a child (I pick from sticks) and they get to choose a leaf.  On the back of each leaf is a song to sing.  After we sing the song, we will stick the leaf on the ground (on the bottom of the chalk board).
If my kids (yes, MY kids :)) are getting too rowdy, I will pull out my little wood turkey and we will play hide the turkey while we sing.  Just like the game Hot and Cold!





Don't make fun of my magnificent chalk drawing job.   
I swear this tree does not represent my art capabilities. 
Promise.

Smashing Pumpkins

Smashing Pumpkins.  This was inspired by the popular game, Angry Birds.  This is how you do it for Primary:
Turn table on its back and tie an elastic around two legs.  Choose 2 children to come shoot the papers; each have a song to sing written on it.  Whose ever paper goes farther is the song to sing.  The other child gets to answer a Halloween question. 
Examples of Halloween questions:
What's your favorite thing about Halloween?
What are you going to be for Halloween?
What's your favorite candy when you go Trick or Treating? etc.

This is how you make the papers.  Cut a piece of paper 5"x11.5" and measure 1.5" folds.

Fold the paper all the way down and then fold it in half.  Draw or glue a simple Halloween character.

 

Pass out a piece of paper at the end of Singing Time so that the kids can do it with their family!