One fun game I have planned for this month while teaching Keep the Commandments is a child-led Sway and Freeze game! Since the song, Keep the Commandments, is all about following the commandments we’ll play up that theme with putting a leader in charge! Keep the CommandmentsSway and Freeze How to Play Sway and Freeze:…
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Love is Spoken Here – Simple Actions
I’m teaching Love is Spoken Here (1st and small ending 3rd verse) as our Mother’s Day song this year. I tend to do something more elaborate for Mother’s Day and something more simple for Father’s Day, so I’m switching that up this year! I’ll be teaching this song the first week I introduce it using…
My Heavenly Father Loves Me – Scarves Pattern
All of my primary kids love using scarves! I created this simple pattern to use while singing through My Heavenly Father Loves Me – either verse works. Pass out a silk scarf to every kid in Primary, or save money and buy scarves for only half of the kids. This gives you a sneaky reason…
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus – Be Like Him
In this fun activity for Tell Me the Stories of Jesus, we’ll do our best to be disciples of the Savior by doing things like Him! I’ve tied this lesson plan in closely with the week I plan to teach it – June 9th. This will help me tie in the Come, Follow Me lesson…
I Know My Father Lives – Cup Pattern
My Primary kids are always so excited when I bring in a cup pattern! This time, we’ll be doing a fun cup pattern activity for I Know My Father Lives. This lesson plan includes 3 different patterns from simple to more challenging to offer variety for the older kids and an easier challenge for the…
He Sent His Son – Ribbon Wands
Have fun singing He Sent His Son with this easy and fun ribbon wands activity. There’s step-by-step instructions included here, or come up with your own actions for more variety. You can even have the kids help customize the actions, which is always fun! Affiliate links are used in this post. He Sent His Son…
Dance Scarves Movement Cards
Dance Scarves are one of my favorite manipulatives to bring into Primary as they bring purposeful movement and have such a wide range of actions you can do with them! Make sure you refer to my earlier post with 32 different ribbon wand action cards! Many of those movements can be carried over to be…
Ribbon Wand Action Cards
We have so much fun using Ribbon Wands! I’ve shared a few different lesson plans with Ribbon wands on this blog, which I’ll link below, but today it’s all about helping you to create your own sequences and patterns or giving you the flexibility to create a variety of patterns at random with these cute…
Baptism – Rhythm Partners
This past week, we had fun getting everyone up and working together with a partner while they practice either the simple or challenge rhythm patterns with a partner while singing the Baptism song. I’ve included three different patterns here, so you can adjust the challenge to meet your Primary’s age and abilities. Baptism – Rhythm…
Baptism – Finger Drawing
We are going to have so much fun with the Baptism song with all these easy and fun ideas I’ve been sharing this week, be sure to check out all the others, too. Another fun idea I’ll be using in my Primary is this Baptism Finger Drawing activity. We’ll use our imaginations and a pretend canvas…