Get help teaching this new Primary song with this collection of fun Holy Places Singing Time Ideas! There’s a variety of different activities and ideas to make it easy to teach this song including dance scarves, a song quiz, egg shakers, a melody map, keyword singing styles and many more! Plus, you’ll find a printable flip chart and more fun ideas to help you teach Holy Places (archives).
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Holy Places Singing Time Packet
If you’re teaching Holy Places this year, you’ll love this complete packet that includes ALL the extended printables with tons of engaging and varied lesson plans. It also includes our custom illustrated flip chart that includes a variety of print and format styles to best fit your Primary’s unique needs.
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Holy Places Flip Charts
Get started with your choice of Holy Places Flip Chart to help you easily teach this song to your Primary children this year. You’ll find several different printable options and styles to best fit your Primary’s needs.
9 Holy Places Singing Time Ideas
This post will help you find all of my Holy Places teaching ideas around this blog. Plus, I’m also sharing additional favorite lesson plans from other Primary music leaders at the end of this post!
1. Holy Places – Dance Scarves
Get some fun and purposeful movement in with this engaging Holy Places Dance Scarves pattern. You’ll follow a sequence of moves that match the song lyrics as you teach each line of the song.
2. Holy Places – Song Quiz
Help the children review the song lyrics with this fun Holy Places Song Quiz! The Senior Primary children especially love a little competition – challenge the children vs the teachers or the boys vs the girls to add to the challenge as you sing through the song lots of times.
3. Holy Places – Spiritual Videos
Add one of these meaningful Holy Places Spiritual Videos to add a spiritual connection as you teach this song. You can pick one of these videos that will help give an impactful message about being in Holy Places that will deepen the children’s interest in this sweet Primary song.
4. Holy Places – Egg Shakers
Pick up some egg shakers to move along with the verse and the chorus with movement and rhythm with this Holy Places Egg Shakers lesson plan. It’s a fun and interactive way to learn or review this song.
5. Holy Places – Melody Map
You’ll love this engaging Holy Places Melody Map that uses a simple dot for each note and a line where notes are held out. For an extended activity, you can pair this melody map with hand bells!
6. Holy Places – Interactive Picture
You can help the children better remember the song lyrics with this fun Holy Places Interactive Picture! You’ll add simple images to the scene for each line of the song as you teach the song lyrics to help your visual learners remember the words.
7. Holy Places – Missing Words
Are you up for this Holy Places Missing Words challenge? Find the missing words and fill in the blanks! There are a variety of fun ways to mix up this activity to keep adapting the challenge and keep the kids on their toes!
8. Holy Places – Keyword Singing Styles
Pull out specific keyword cards to pick and introduce a variety of unique and fun singing styles that connect your singing to the song lyrics! In this Holy Places Keywords Singing Styles you’ll get to use lots of singing repetition with a fun activity at the same time.
9. Holy Places – Sing-Along Video
You’ll love this sweet Holy Places sing-along video which is perfect to help you introduce the song for the first week or simply share a little different exposure to the song that the kids can sing right along with the lyrics. I also love to send sing-along videos to my Primary families each month so they can sing along with the song of the month at home or for practice leading up to the Primary Program!
5 More Ways to Teach Holy Places
If you’re looking for even more inspiration, I’ve sourced some of my favorite ideas for other Primary Music Leaders to help you teach this song in fun and varied ways.
1. Holy Places Picture Puzzle (YouTube)
2. Sand Blocks Pattern – Verse 2 (Facebook Group)
3. Hand Bell Chart (Google Doc)
4. Draw a temple up on the board while you sing! What would the temple look like if you could design this holy place?
5. Song Story (Facebook Group)
For more activities, see these I Pray in Faith Singing Time ideas!
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What other fun Holy Places singing time ideas have you tried? We’d love to see your fun ideas! Share them in the comments to add to this list.
