Christmas Find the Pickle

Are you looking for a fun and unique Christmas Singing Time Ideas (see this archives post with more than 100 ideas!), you’ll adore this fun Christmas Find the Pickle singing time activity that follows the Christmas morning tradition to hunt for a pickle hiding on the tree. Hide pickles around your Primary room with different song titles, themed ways to sing cards, or simply pickles and let the kids go on a hunt!

Christmas Find the Pickle

There’s a fun and unique holiday tradition some families do where a pickle ornament is hidden on the tree Christmas Eve. Whoever finds the hidden ornament gets a special prize – that could be an extra gift, to open the first present, or simply a year of good luck!

For this activity, we’ll bring the fun of a hidden pickle to Primary! Hide pickles around the room before Primary begins. You could hide them under the children’s chairs, around the board, behind the piano, tucked inside a hymn book – make it as hard or easy as needed based on your Primary children’s ages.

Invite a child to search around the room – instructing them that they can only bring you ONE pickle (even if they find more than one).

Read the way to sing included with the pickle and then sing through your song of choice with the way to sing action.

Continue to invite new helpers to come up and find a pickle to pick your next way to sing! They should be easy enough to find that you can do this between songs to cut down on distractions or hide them in tricky spots and let your seeker look while everyone else sings.

Christmas Find the Pickle Game Ways to Sing

This activity has 16 different and fun ways to sing through your song again and again. Here’s a few examples!

• Pick a Song – Let the child pick any song they would like to sing
• Yodel & Sing – Yodel sing on the vowels or the last word of the song
• Sing Fast Speed – Sing at double or faster pace, if you can!
• Touch Your Toes – Touch your toes on references to self
• Yoga Poses – Pick out 2-3 yoga poses to try while you sing (Check out our Yoga Pose cards here!)

Extension Activities:

• Instead of ways to sing, you can pick an assortment of songs. Simply write a song title on the back of the hidden pickles or write in your song title of choice with the editable fields. If you laminate your pickles you can use a wet erase marker, then wipe it with a wet paper towel to store between years.

• Pick 2-3 children step out of the room. Invite another child to hide a pickle. Invite your seekers back into the room. Let them all hunt for the pickle at the same time while you sing through the song. The first to find the pickle is the lucky winner, just like the Christmas morning tradition! Let them win a “prize” such as to pick the next way to sing card of their choice, to help lead the music or actions, or to be the next to hide the pickle!

For another fun similar activity, head over to see this Find the Lily Along Christ’s Path Easter singing time activity!

Find the Pickle Printable Song Helps

This free in-post printable includes a 1-page printable with 8 small pickles to hide around your Primary room!

This activity has extended printables available including 16 different pickle ways to sing action cards! It also includes pickle illustrations to hide in 3 sizes and editable pickle cards to add song titles. You’ll find these bonus printables available in the INSTANT Primary Singing membership in the December Old Testament packet. They are also available in my shop in this Christmas Find the Pickle activity packet.

Go on a hunt for the perfect Christmas Tree in this adorable Pick a Tree Singing Time activity! It includes trivia, editable song cards, and ways to sing!

What other fun ways will you use this find the pickle singing time activity in your Primary room?