His Eye is on the Sparrow Leaf Lyrics & Games

For an engaging way to not only teach the song lyrics but to teach the important message behind the song, you’ll love this His Eye is on the Sparrow Leaf Lyrics & Games lesson plan for singing time! Use the leaves with lyrics from the song to hide your sparrow or one of 3 additional fun games to play and have the Primary kids keep their eye watching the sparrow while you sing.

This is a wonderful way to engage with teaching His Eye is on the Sparrow (archives) while having so much fun!

His Eye is on the Sparrow Leaf Lyrics & Games

Draw an outline of a tree up on your whiteboard or chalkboard. You could also tape a simple outline using painters tape on the floor or use a poster board.

Using tape bubbles on the back of the leaves, scatter the lyric leaves all over the board scrambled up inside of the tree outline. Don’t forget to add your Sparrow, too! You can have him hiding in the leaves or wherever you’d like.

Sing through His Eye is on the Sparrow with this flip chart once, before introducing this activity.

Tell the children you need their help putting all the lyrics in the correct order! Can they find the lyrics from the first verse in the pile of leaves and put them in order?

Make the leaves “fall” from the trees and put them in song lyric order as you sing through the song, one verse at a time. There are 8 leaves for each verse and 4 more for the chorus.

You can laminate and add a magnet to the back of the sparrow, then bounce him along your song lyrics as you sing, like a karaoke bouncing ball would!

As an alternate idea or in Junior Primary, you might choose the blank leaves instead and simply hide the sparrow in the leaves each time you sing!

When all your leaves have fallen and are now in song order, you can pick 1-2 of the leaves and tell the children to pretend to be a sparrow when you sing those lines of the song! Flap your bird arms as you sing! Or, choose another action of your choice to highlight those lines of the song.

Share your testimony that if God cares about even the little sparrow, how do you think he feels about you? He is always watching over you and cares deeply for you.

Extension Activities:

• Sparrow Plates Game – Tape the sparrow to the bottom of one paper plate. Leave two additional paper plates blank with nothing under them. Show the kids where the bird is hiding, then flip that plate over so all the plates look the same. Play the classic cup game where you shuffle the plates. Tell the children to keep their eye on the sparrow! After singing through the song, can they name which plate has the Sparrow?
• Hidden Leaf Pile – Invite one child to step out of the room. Pick as a Primary room which pile of leaves print out to hide your sparrow behind. Have the leave pile pictures all in a row so the child can walk below them individually. Sing louder when they are standing under the correct pile of leaves – then let your helper guess at the end of the song! Did they get it right?

• Eye on the Sparrow – Instruct the children to keep their eyes on the Sparrow the whole time you sing! Attach the sparrow to a popsicle stick so it’s easier to hold. Move around the room and move your sparrow up and down and right and left as you test how well they can follow that sparrow! Then let a child lead the challenge, next!

For another fun similar activity, head over to see this Song Muncher Arcade Game singing time activity!

His Eye is on the Sparrow Leaf Lyrics & Games Printable Song Helps

This free in-post printable includes the leaf lyric printables for the 1st verse and chorus.

This activity has extended printables available including leaf lyrics for the whole song, leaf pile graphics, blank leaves, and a paper plate mixing pattern game printable to use! These printables are included in the INSTANT Primary Singing membership when His Eye is on the Sparrow is the featured song of the month.

What other fun ways will you use this leaf lyrics and games singing time activity in your Primary room?