"I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ" with props

Happy Friday!! I don't know about all of you but I am so ready for the weekend! It has been a long weeeeeeek. My car decided to break down and so we have been shuffling around with one car. That is quite the task with 2 kiddo's in school and activities but it all worked out and my AWESOME hubby fixed my car so we are back in business.

I posted my idea on teaching the song of the month but I have been thinking up other ways this could be presented. There are already tons of awesome ideas out there on the internet and facebook. You can take a peek at a few of those Here, Here, Here and Here.

I was thinking since this is such a short song it would be a great one to teach using children and props. The kiddo's always like this idea because it is hands on. I like it because you can easily rotate the children and props around, so the kids are having fun, being involved and learning the song at the same time. So, to teach this particular song I would have a child come up and hold their prop to go along with each part of the song. It would go as follows:

1.) You would start out by blowing up this pic and having your 1st child come up and hold it for all to see. You would then teach this part of the song. I belong to the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

2.) What does an owl say? Who, Who,

I know WHO I am (you can even make this fun and have the kids "who" like an owl on that part:)

I know Gods plan

I'll Follow him in faith

I believe in the Savior Jesus Christ

How do we close our prayers? In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. We honor Jesus name. So, for this one you can have a child stand with their arms folded in prayer:

I'll honor his name

I'll do what is right

I'll follow his light

His Truth I will PROCLAIM!!

Once you have gone over each part, you can do things like shuffle the kids around and have the children put them back in order, hide a child/prop and have the children figure out which child/prop is gone and what the words were with that prop, etc

This is a pretty low prep activity and could be put together quickly on a Saturday evening. I hope this is helpful to anyone in need. Happy Singing everyone!

" I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ" (doors)

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Happy Tuesday Everyone!! I woke up around 5 AM this morning and my mind immediately turned to my primary music. Every time I have thoughts about how to teach our April song of the month, "I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ." I have always turned towards more of a belonging, welcoming kind of feeling. With that came pictures in my head of how we belong to the church and "our door is always open" to everyone, So, I decided I would teach this song using the "open door" concept.

I have mentioned many times how my brain is usually way ahead of the rest of me. I get the ideas but they take some time to put together so it usually takes me awhile (Saturday night at midnight lol) to get everything completed. Since we don't have meetings again until April 12th, I figured mine won't be completed until the 11th, therefore, I put together a cute example poster for all of you to take a peek at if you are interested.

For starters you will need 2 posterboards. The top one should be white, but the background board can be any color you wish to use. You will then need pics to go along with the song. The ones I used are as follows:

I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

This pic of the church will be the center of your board and will either need to be drawn on or printed out in a bigger size to glue on your white posterboard. It is the focus of the whole song so the doors and other pics will be smaller and they will all be centered around the Church picture.

I know who I am

I know Gods plan

I'll follow him in Faith

I believe in the Savoir, Jesus Christ

I'll honor his name

I'll do what is right

I'll Follow his light

His Truth I will proclaim

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For a file of the pics that I used. You can download and print them from the link if you want to use the same ones.


I will then glue these pics onto my background posterboard. I will cut doors in my white posterboard and center it around the pics that are glued onto my background posterboard. Here is a small example board I made today so I could post pics to give you an idea on how this is supposed to look when finished. Keep in mind I will be using full size posterboard and all the pics.

Each door will open to reveal the next part of the song

This is my idea for presenting this song. It may be a bit confusing. Please feel free to post any questions and I will answer as soon as possible. I will post more pictures as I am putting my final poster together. I am usually way behind so I apologize. I just wanted to be able to get the idea out there for those who may be way more organized than I am... Happy Easter to Everyone!!


I have finally finished my board and will be presenting this tomorrow. Here are the pics I promised 2 weeks ago:)