When I bring the windwands into Primary, I always have a few children who want to come up and touch them. “What’s this?” they ask with sparkling eyes. As we wave the ribbons through a series of complicated patterns, the … Continued
If a nursery age child could speak to us about what he or she needs in nursery music, what would they say? Perhaps they would say this: I am a nursery age child. I need simple songs with a small … Continued
Dear friends, I got this email with some nursery questions and I wanted to address them: “The songs are very short and by the time I get the instruments or whatever passed out, it seems like I should be using … Continued
Our nursery leader loves to have a song about the current week’s lesson to sing with the children after or during the lesson. When the Nursery children learn about Joseph Smith, I love to use the song “The Sacred Grove.” Because … Continued
I love “Once There Was a Snowman” for Nursery age children because it has a lot of the qualities in a song that this age child loves and needs. Not many words, and words that repeat Melody that repeats and … Continued
Fast and Slow is a life skill for a two or three year old. What is fast? What is slow? (They often confuse the concept with high and low… high being fast, and low being slow.) Knowing this I will … Continued
One of the skills that this age child is learning is Fast and Slow. Because their little heartbeats are so much faster than ours, their movements are fast compared to ours. In order to teach them slow, flowing movements (essential … Continued
“Luke flies his small spaceship toward the giant Death star. ‘Stay on target! Stay on target!’ There is a small window of time to get the missile into the right spot. The tension mounts.” Of course you might recognize that scene … Continued