I’m not all that clever, but I wanted to create puzzle type pictures to represent the words and thus this Baptism song rebus activity was created!
A rebus is a word puzzle. Usually they are really clever, like this one for another popular Primary song:
MIL ONE LION
Do you know what it stands for? One in a Million. Get it? “One” is “in” the middle of a “million”. I’m sure the creatives out there could easily adapt this to any of the other verses, too.
** See 20 Baptism Song Singing Time Ideas here **
Baptism Song Rebus
How to Play:
– I plan to post the posters one at a time on the board and have the kids help me decode each one.
– Sing through the song up to as far as you have added posters, repeating it over and over until you have the whole song up on the board.
Extension Activity:
– Use these for review and put them out of order. Have the kids rearrange them until they are in the right order.
– Hide the posters around the room, and let a child look for one during the verse. They’ll stay up front holding that poster while everyone sings through the song, skipping the verses you’ve found so far! Keep picking friends to find a poster until you’ve found all 6.
– Flip over the posters one at a time until they’re all hidden, singing through the song after each new hidden sign.
– Challenge the kids to come up with their own rebus drawings! Give them a phrase and let them draw a rebus while you sing through the whole verse. If they need help or ideas, you can let them refer to the contact sheet.
Head over next for a really fun and unique singing time idea in this He Sent His Son Crack the Code lesson plan.
Baptism Song Rebus Printable Singing Time Lesson Plan
I originally drew these up as posters on cardstock and scanned those to help others that may want to use this activity.
Because of the heavy ink use, I’ve also drawn a simple version in Word, too.
You’ll find a printable lesson plan, additional Rebus puzzles for the 2nd verse, my original hand drawn rebus puzzles, and 1/2 page puzzles! They’re included in the INSTANT Primary Singing membership when Baptism is the song of the month! Or, grab these printables in my shop.
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What other ways could you use these Baptism rebus posters?
Thanks for this! So fun! I didn’t see the 2nd verse in the printable attachment?
I really love this material to teach primary with. At the end it mentions there are pictures for the second verse. I can’t find them, please help! I’d love to use it this Sunday! Thank you for this wonderful resource!
first off, thank you for sharing these wonderful resources!! I’ve been trying to locate this “After special request for additional verses, I’ve gone ahead and added the 2nd verse (in computer drawing version only). See the updated lesson plan attached.” and I can’t see to find it. can you assist?
Thank you again,
Kelly
Sorry guys — fixed the file! I had added it, so not sure what happened. Maybe it didn’t save the change. I just double checked that the updated file is NOW in the post!! Thanks for your patience!
I just love this! Thank you so much for sharing this with all. Would it be possible for you to share the final verse? I love your creativity. Thanks again!!
So glad you love them! I don’t plan to make any additional puzzles for the 3rd verse. I don’t really think it fits super well with the 3rd verse and I use different teaching methods for each of the verses. If you search the site there’s a variety of other ideas on my blog and some that will work for the 3rd verse!