Primary Music Idea - Primary Weekly Song List

I love making sure that the Primary Pianist is on the same page as me on Sunday. There is nothing worse then waiting for the pianist to find what page you want them to play. I created this many years ago and have used it religiously ever since. Every week prior to going to Primary...I make sure I have listed all of the songs that I hope to cover on this list so the Primary Pianist can be ready to play. This has been a really nice tool and I think the Primary Pianist appreciates having it all right there ready to go too.

Primary Music Memo - February 2010 Week Two

This week the Primary children can read Moroni Chapter 7. I love verse 48 that talks about praying to our Heavenly Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with His LOVE. I thought this scripture fit nicely with the monthly Primary song He Sent His Son and Valentine's Day.

Primary Music Idea - Conversation Hearts

One thing that I LOVE about Valentine's Day are the CONVERSATION HEARTS. Yum! Because of my LOVE for candy hearts I decided that I would create Primary Music Conversation Hearts to be used the week of Valentine's Day. My plan is to talk to our Primary Pianist about playing songs that week about LOVE. While the children are sitting in their chairs I'm going to hand one of them CUPID. The Primary children will pass CUPID around the room until the Pianist stops playing the music. Whom ever is holding CUPID will get to come up front and pick out of the heart basket a CONVERSATION HEART. Each heart has a different skill that we will do the next time around while we work on the song that we are singing. CUPID will continue to be passed. After our Music Time is over...I want to bear my Testimony and tell the children how important it is to have CONVERSATIONS with our Heavenly Father each day by saying our Morning and Evening Prayers. I plan on encouraging each of them to do so throughout the week. To remind them...I have purchased some mini bags of CONVERSATION HEARTS that I'm placing in a little paper bag that I made with a label on the front that says HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER. My hope is that each child will remember that they are loved by their Primary Leaders, Family, and Heavenly Father.

CONVERSATION HEART SKILLS:

LEAD - Have this child lead the music
HUM - Have all of the children hum the song instead of singing the words
CLAP - Use quiet clapping to beat out the rhythm of the song
TURN - Have the Primary Children stand and turn in a circle while singing
SHHH - Sing the words very quietly
MEOW - Meow the song like a kitten
BARK - Bark the song like a dog
SLOW - Sing the words to the song super slow
FAST - How fast can you sing?
PICK - Allow the child that picks this heart to choose which song you will sing

I made the CONVERSATION HEARTS out of foam and black lettering that I cut out on my Cricut Machine. I have made copies of these in case you don't have time to make your own and you just want to print and cut them out. Please let me know if you can't open these files and I'll email them to you directly. Cupid is a cut out that I purchased from the store. If you don't have a Cupid you can use...you can always use another Valentine's Day object.

Happy MUSICAL Valentine's Sunday!!!

Primary Music Idea - Primary Music Hearts

This Primary Music idea is perfect for teaching music in Jr. Primary or the Nursery. Give each Primary child a cut out heart on a stick to hold during Music Time. Every time the children hear the word LOVE they pop the heart out away from their bodies. You can have them raise them up into the sky or out in front of them. One of my favorite songs to do this with is JESUS SAID LOVE EVERYONE from the Children's Songbook. Look in the back of the Songbook for more songs about LOVE!

I made my hearts with heart paper that I purchased while up in Wisconsin at Target. I found it in the dollar bin section. I decided to scan the hearts so that if you wanted to use the same paper hearts you could. I cut out the hearts using my awesome Cricut machine and glued them to Popsicle sticks.

If you have problems opening the heart files on-line...email me and I'll send the file directly to you.

jennifer.hawkins@hotmail.com

Valentine Mailboxes

Braden and I made a Valentine Mailbox today. He has had some much fun waiting to see if he has mail. I finally put a little note inside for him and it made his day. He keeps waiting for his Dad to leave him some mail, but nothing has arrived yet. I'm thinking we might have to use the Valentine Mailbox every day leading up to Valentine's Day. You should try this at home with your children. We got our FOAM MAILBOX at Michael's Craft Store.

Young Women's Camp 2010 - Belleview Ward Camp Kick-Off

Congratulations Belleview Ward Young Women and Leaders!!! Last night was wonderful!!! I was amazed as I walked into the gym last night and saw the darling decorations that were set up around the room for their Camp Kick-Off. It really was cute! The Belleview Ward YCL's did a great job introducing their Ward Camp Assignments, Camp Theme, and Camp Theme Song. The girls sang just like super stars!!! Oh...that was me rocking out. Opps! The Young Women worked on their Camp Mail Boxes. This is a group of very artist Young Women. Loved some of your ideas girls!!! The leaders and YCL's made and brought with them ORANGE desserts representing their assigned Camp Value...Choice and Accountability. The night was perfect until my CAMP RIVAL...Brother Muffett arrived encouraging the LEVEL 4 girls to make the choice to EAT A MINNOW this summer. I had to boot him out since I SAVE MINNOWS!!!

BE STRONG AND OF GOOD COURAGE - Mutual Game

Yesterday, Chamberlynn, was in charge of the activity for Young Women's. I thought this was kind of fun. The Young Women broke into two teams. The mutual theme for the year was shared - "Be strong and of good courage". Each team had to work together to place some things on their SHIELD OF COURAGE that they could do to be COURAGEOUS. Then, each team shared their list with the other team. After sharing their shields...the girls got ready to play a game. They remained in their two teams and tied balloons with ribbon around their ankles. On "GO"...the teams tried to POP the other sides balloons. If you had the SHIELD OF COURAGE you were SAFE. The shield could be passed from one player to another just to make the game a bit more exciting. The team with the most balloons at the end WINS!!!

Shields represent being willing to FIGHT OFF the BAD.
Balloons represent all of the trials we will face.
Your Foot stomping on the balloons shows how COURAGEOUS you are to crush the BAD in life.

SWEET 16!!!

Yesterday...my daughter, Chamberlynn, turned 16. I can hardly believe it! She had a super SWEET day. Her friends surprised her with gifts and we had a YUMMY chocolate chip cookie cake for dessert. Hard to believe she's old enough to date!

Primary Music Idea - The Church of Jesus Christ

Okay...I know what some of you are thinking. We don't have to teach this song until April. Well...I just couldn't wait to share with you how I'm going to teach the song The Church of Jesus Christ found on page 77 of the Children's Songbook. In this year's Primary Sharing Time Outline, under April Music Ideas, it mentions asking the children if they belong to a family. Then it asks us to see if they belong to other things such as a TEAM, a club, or a church. I thought it would be really fun to create our very own TEAM. The TEAM that belongs to THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS!!! I plan on having some of the children help in singing up front by holding the WE'RE #1 Fingers, Pom Poms, Picture of Christ, and the Colored Pennants. Each Primary child will receive their very own COLORED PENNANT to hold in their chair. The children will get to take these home with them as a reminder of April's Song of the Month. If all goes well...I will use the different colors to have sections of the room sing the song, etc... I can see lots of fun ways that all of us can enjoy teaching the Primary children that we belong to the GREATEST TEAM OF ALL...THE LORD'S TEAM!!! We are #1!!!

I am adding to this post the PENNANTS. If any of you have trouble opening them on your computer and want the files sent to you directly, please email me at jennifer.hawkins@hotmail.com. Print the back of the PENNANT on either colored or white paper and do the opposite for the front piece. I added some colored ribbon for looks. The white sticks are made by the Wilson company. I found a set of 20 at Michael's Craft Store.

Primary Music Memo - February 2010 Week One

I wanted to make sure you all knew that this week is our Stake Conference so we will not be having Primary this week. I know many of you are using the Primary Music Memos each week and wanted to make sure you had something to give to your Primary children. This is the Primary Memo I will be handing out next week.

Hope you have a super nice Sunday!