How to make a melody map
Many times I have recommended that we use a melody map for the children because of the way they grasp the song so well with this activity. I just had someone message me about her experience with this activity. She … Continued
A Child’s Prayer: Ideas for Younger and Older Children
Ideas for Younger Children Magic Crayon Paper Plates Action Word Actions Scarves Ideas for Older Children Word and Rhythm Chart Rhythm Stick Roll Pattern Paper Plates One Ribbon Patsch, Pop, and Circle Partner Song Ideas (Pray, He is there…) Melody … Continued
A Child’s Prayer: Paper Plates
Prep: I have put 20 paper plates (the cheaper kind) under each teacher’s chair. Tell the children: Older – Here’s the pattern. Younger – Can your hands follow my hands? Do the pattern with the paper plates. (The children will … Continued
Ideas for Teaching Younger and Older Children Together
When you only have a few younger children and a few older children, it is difficult to separate the two groups. Younger children are developmentally very different from older children, so how do you teach to engage all the children? … Continued
Jesus Once Was a Little Child: Ideas for Younger and Older Children
Younger Children Sway and Freeze Picture Concentration Match It Game (see above pictures) Scarves Older Children Down up down hand pattern with freeze Definition Concentration Match It Game Video from lds.org The accompaniment to this video makes the video very … Continued
Jesus Once Was a Little Child: Definition Match it Game for Older Children
Concentration Game: There are 8 x 11 colored papers set up in a grid at the front of the room. (For this particular song, I would use 14.) As you sing the song, the a child lifts two of the … Continued
Jesus Once Was a Little Child: Down Up Down Pattern with freeze for Older Children
Tell the children: Here’s the pattern. (video attached to this blog) Start right in doing the pattern. Down up down (switch), down up down (switch), continue. Stop and say: I can see that some of us might do best if I slow … Continued
Jesus Once Was a Little Child: Sway and Freeze for Younger Children
Move with the children to the song? Check! Cross the midline multiple times to help development? Check! Feel the beat and meter of the song in their body? Check! Have fun together with the song? Check! Jesus Once Was … Continued
Come Follow Me: Rhythm Stick Roll
Here is an idea for older children: Rhythm Stick Roll
A Child’s Prayer: Magic Crayon for Younger Children
Magic Crayon Show the Children: Draw the shapes on the chalkboard or whiteboard. Lift up your hand and hold an imaginary crayon. Tell the Children: “I have a magic crayon. It can change colors. Right now it is ____________ … Continued