Mother Dear Pics (click, save and print)

Mother Dear, I love you so,

Your happy SMILING face,

Its such a joy to LOOK at,

 

It makes home a LOVELY place!

Mother Dear, I love you so,

Your lovely, shining EYES,

Are just like stars that TWINKLE,

Way up in the bright blue SKIES

Mother Dear, I love you so

 I'll try the whole day through,

 To please our Heavenly Father,

 I'm so glad he gave me you!

  

Hoppy Easter Singing!!!

I love this time of year and I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Easter!!! I thought I would take some time to share a few Easter singing time activities. I found some fun games on Pintrest that could easily be turned into a FUN singing time for the kiddo's on Easter.

This first one comes to us from HERE

Egg Tac Toe: For this one you can have the kiddo's break into two teams and  toss eggs into the cups. Each team has their own color of egg.  The Eggs can have the song they have to sing, a question about a song they are learning, a free song choice, take away the  egg from the other team, etc.
 On their turn, you will pick a child to come up, pick an egg of their team color.Their team has to be able to preform or answer, etc whatever is in the egg. If they do a good job then they get a chance to stand behind a line and toss their egg into a cup. They will take turns with the other team doing this until someone gets an EGG TAC TOE!!! This is an oldie but goodie and can be made up for any holiday!!!

Next, coming from the same blog we have Egg Race:

For this one, you can have Songs inside each egg. You will mark a starting line on the floor and a finish line. Two children would come up and pick an egg and a straw. They would blow their egg on go. Whoever's egg crosses the finish line first would be your winner and you would sing the song in that EGG!! This one would be fun and low prep!! You could also do this on a table if you didn't want to have the little girls on the ground in their dresses.

This next one would be a fun one to do with Jr primary. You could put your songs in the Eggs and then have the squares with the different stickers in a different Basket. First someone would pick an egg with the song and then someone would pick a square with a sticker on it. If they get a Bunny sticker, then they would hop while singing, if they get a chick sticker, they would flap like a chicken while singing, if they get a flower sticker, they would do a crazy shake while singing, and if they get the egg sticker, they would have to spin around while singing. Another fun idea turned into a singing time adventure!!!

This next one is another oldie but goodie! Pin the nose on the bunny!!!

Just draw yourself up a cute little EASTER BUNNY on a poster board!! This one would be perfect because he has a HUGE nose:) Have your songs on the back of each nose. A child comes up, picks a nose with a song, and then pins it on the bunny! You could do a "hot/cold" version of this where the kiddo's sing while the child is trying to pin on the nose. If the child is close they sing loud and if they aren't they sing really quiet!!

FUN, FUN, FUN and EASY, Easy, easy!!! I know we all have our days where simple is best and needed!! These are definitely PERFECT for THOSE kind of days, YOU KNow What I Mean?

This is all I have for today!! I have plenty more to share and will be posting those tomorrow!! Thank you all for "Hopping" on over and Happy Easter Singing this week everyone!!!

"Our new Journey"

Tomorrow will be the beginning of our new Ward!! We are so excited to have lots of new friends in primary! I was thinking with the transition things may be a little CrAzY for the next couple of weeks so I wanted to make singing time fun, and uncomplicated. I will be doing a 'getting to know you" activity so that we can all become better aquainted and get comfortable with each other before we continue to learn the songs for the program!!!
I saw a paper airplane idea on iheartprimarymusic.blogspot.com where the kids throw paper airplanes with the songs on them and whoever's airplane wins was the song they would sing. I am going to use this cute idea, (thank you for sharing;) and Dr. it up a bit to fit in with a theme of "Our new Journey" I will talk with the kiddo's about how we are on a new and exciting journey together. I will give them each a plain piece of paper along with a crayon. I will then have them write their name and favorite primary song on the paper and make it into a paper airplane. I will then race two airplanes at a time. Whoever wins will say their name, and the name of the song they picked.
I was so excited because I grabbed these cute suitcase die cuts from the Dollar Tree months ago. I decided to make use of them with this activity. They are pictured below:

The child that's airplane wins the race will say their name, the song on their airplane and then pick a suitcase. Each suitcase has a fun way to sing the songs on the back. I did 8 suitcases and the ideas I used on the back are as follows:

The Wave: The kiddo's will do the wave in each row all through the song
Strike a Pose: The Chorister will stop playing in spots throughout the song and the kids have to strike a pose each time she stops
Rock, Paper, Scissors: The kids have to do the hand motions throughout the whole song
Dance party: Dance through the song
Gigantic smile: Smile through the song without touching your lips together
Every other: Sing every other word
Beat the clock: Finish singing before the timer runs out
One breath: Sing the song only taking one big breath

I am so excited to begin this new "Journey" with my kiddo's!! I think this will be an easy and fun start on our GRAND ADVENTURE!!

 Thank you for stopping by!! I will be posting some more fun Easter singing ideas through the week so stop back in and take a peek!!! Happy Singing Everyone!!!

The Family is of God #2 Pics

Father/God

Family

It's me, It's you

All others too, we are his Children

He Sent each one of us to Earth

Through Birth

To live and LEARN here in Families

A fathers place is to PRESIDE

Provide

To love and teach the gospel to his children

 A Father leads in Family Prayer

To share their love for

A Mothers purpose is to care

Prepare

To nurture

And to Strengthen all her children

She teaches children to obey

to Pray

To love and serve in the family

and be a good example to each family member

And when I am a mom or dad

I'll help my family rememeber

For the Chorus I used the pic of God and the family. For what he wants me to be I used this pic of missionaries and for to share his love I used the pic of the hands holding a heart.

What he wants us to be

This is how he shares his love

The Family is of God

Happy Friday Everyone!! This is what I have put together for The Family is of God!! I won't be getting to this for a couple of weeks. My ward has done an extension and my primary has grown from about 25 kids a week total to about 117. I will now be doing Sr. primary and have a new friend doing Jr. I am thinking because of all the craziness here in the next couple of weeks I will wait and start getting back to business after Easter!! It's like I have always said, my Brain runs a whole lot faster than the rest of me. To be totally honest, I haven't even made it to I Stand all Amazed yet!!!! I have had that one posted on here forever and still haven't had the chance to teach it!! I can't wait to share that message with my kiddo's and now that I have a bigger group, it will be AWESOME!!!

For The Family if of God, I just had my hubby draw Heavenly Father, A Father, Mother and a Child each on a posterboard for me. I then printed out some cute pics to go along with the words for each person. The kiddo's will come up and velcro the pics on as we are learning the words. Its CRAZY, I have already learned the words myself just putting this together so I know it will work for SR. primary!! You can find velcro dots at Wal mart for $1.50 a pack.

Here are my pics for verses 1-3, I still have to get a poster board to finish verse 4. I will include the pics I used so you can just click, save and print your own!! Thank you so much for stopping by!! Please feel free to comment with any questions and I will get back to you as soon as possible!!! Happy Singing Everyone!!!

Chorus

I will post pics that I used on post #2. You can just click, save, print and use as needed!!!

Foaming Easter Egg Singing Time Fun!!

I am not sure about all of you but I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to get messy and when I last checked, so do most kids!!! I wanted to share this cute idea I found on funathomewithkids.com and how I think it could be used for Easter singing time FuN!!

Check out the link HERE

This fun mom just added chicks to the hatching eggs. What about if you put a page number for a song in the egg instead. You could write it on the cute little chick and so when the egg is hatched and the chick is found, there you have it, you have just HATCHED your next song!!! I know the kiddo's will love this Fun, Fun, Fun!! Happy Singing!!!

Vacation is over, or is it?

Hello everyone!! I am back from Spring Break!! Well, Physically anyway, mentally I am still FARAWAY!! It has been so crazy the last couple of weeks!! While I was gone, they decided to combined our ward with another in the stake, so my primary doubled in size over night. I am not sure if we are going to split into Jr/Sr primary or if I am going to be teaching all the kids together. It's nuts and things are completely up in the air at this point including my blogging!!! I am currently working on presenting "The Family is Of God" and will hopefully have the ideas and pics posted on here in the next couple of days!! I just wanted to do a quick update for those checking in and let you know that I haven't fallen off the face of the earth:) Please check back in the next couple of days for ideas and pics for teaching this fun song and more ideas for Easter Singing Time Fun!!! Thanks for checking in and Happy Singing!!!!