Have you ever been around a new baby? How about a six month old baby? When a mother brings a new baby into Primary, the baby is like a magnet to most of the children. I think using the magnetism … Continued
What if you could have a crayon that drew with your favorite color and even added sparkles into that? What if your magic crayon could change colors when you held it up, looked at it intently, and said, “poof?” This … 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
February. A new song. No…Two new songs. The Church of Jesus Christ is slated of April, but I will use it in February in order to have a contrast with the mood and tempo of He Sent His Son. But … Continued
Shake six times. Pass to the left. Pick up on the right. It seems so simple, but sitting in a circle with ten or more other children makes it a group effort with logic, music, and movement! Fill enough plastic … Continued