LDS Music and a Few Extras

I found a fantastic looking Maze in the May Friend Magazine here: http://lds.org/friend/2011/05/missionary-maze?lang=eng&query=Missionary and as my Primary loved the last Maze I did with them, I decided to do another one.  The instructions are “Help the missionaries find their way to their appointment. Remember to follow the one-way streets!”  It doesn’t tie in exactly with the topic of the week, but it’s close enough!

Mazes confuse me, so I marked in eight ‘song’ spots along the way, so that you can sing your Presentation Songs as you go.  I think it will help my Sunbeams know which direction to go as well.

Because there are only eight ‘turns’, you could have the names of your primary children in a container, and you pull the names out, or ask teachers to choose reverent children.  I like the container idea, because it’s fair.  Keep that container for these sorts of games, and divide it into two parts.  One side for those who have had a turn, and one side for those who haven’t.  Simply move the names over when the children have had turns.

If you have a large Primary, you could have a class choose the next ‘direction.

Back to the maze…I printed mine out in Poster form, so it came out nice and large.  The children won’t be able to see it the size it is at the moment.  Here’s the maze (in A4 size): Missionary Maze

My husband very kindly meddled around and got the missionaries separated on their bikes so we can move them around the maze.  They are here, but don’t blow them up to poster format,  they’re fine just as they are: Missionary Maze Missionaries on Bikes

In keeping with the Missionary Theme for this month, I flipped through the September Friend Magazine on Sunday and found this:-

http://lds.org/friend/2011/09/the-gospel-will-be-preached-in-all-the-world?lang=eng

…which has some cards you can cut out to play Memory/Concentration with.  I thought they would be awesome to use for Singing Time, so I enlarged them a little and added backs (because my kids like to cheat!).

I am going to give my Pianist a list of the Presentation songs we need to run through and with each match, we will just do the next one on the list.  If you wanted to use ‘Missionary’ themed songs (if your presentation is over..lucky you!), you can just write the songs you want to sing on the cards with ‘writing’, rather than the picture cards.  Does that make sense?

You could also have the children make their own set of cards to use for Sharing Time – just do a copy/printout of what is in the Friend Magazine link for each child.

Here is the link to the enlarged cards and backs: The Gospel Will Be Preached in All The World Memory Game

Here’s what I’m hoping to do this Sunday during Singing Time (fingers crossed I don’t get sick!).  I decided to put some pioneer songs in a game and leave the ‘theme’ of the week to the Primary Presidency for Sharing Time.

I’m going to use one die and one marker and not split up into groups – it would take too long that way.  They are going to all share one marker and take turns rolling the die, and I will move their counter.  I think this game will be good for both Junior and Senior Primary.  We don’t sing Pioneer songs often, so it will be good for the children.  We may not sing all the verses of all those songs for Jnr Primary.

I’m going to print mine out as a poster so it will be bigger, and laminate it (I laminate everything!!).  Just use a simple circle as the marker.  I have a big die that is easy to roll that I’ll use for this game.

The songs are:

1. To be a pioneer (CS 218)
2. Pioneer Children Sang as they Walked (CS214)
3. The Handcart Song (CS 220)
4. Whenever I Think About Pioneers (CS 222)
5. I Love To See The Temple (CS 95) – have to get that one in there! ;D

Here’s where you can find the game: Pioneer Music Trek Game

I used an image I found on Sugardoodle that had some pioneers with Handcards just in case you wanted to use them as markers.  You can find them here: Pioneer Music Trek Game Handcarts.  I hope they’re small enough!  I have outlined them in four different colours in case anyone wanted to use them for Family Home Evening.

I was having to think really hard about what to do for next week’s singing time.  I need to review some of our Presentation songs, but I wanted them to tie in somehow with our Sharing Time.  We did a maze today, so I thought a puzzle may work well for next week.

You can choose what songs you would like to sing.  I have allowed for 4 of them on the back of the puzzle pieces (in a 15-20 min singing time, I think I can fit 4 songs in with this activity).  We will sing:-

– When I am Baptised (CS 103)

– The Fourth Article of Faith (CS 124)

– Search, Ponder and Pray (CS 109)

– Baptism (CS 100)

I love this picture.  It is from this site: http://www.ldsclipart.com/clipart/baptism?bwbps_page_8=2 and the puzzle template is from here: http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/miscellaneous/puzzle.htm  I have put them together in Publisher, so you should simply be able to print, paste the pages together, cut and laminate if you wish.  Hide the puzzle pieces under the children’s chair, have them in a jumble blue tac’d to the board/wall up the front or scatter them around the walls of the room and have the children ‘look’ for the pieces quietly with their eyes.  The most reverent child can go and get the puzzle piece.

For a copy of the Baptism Puzzle, click here: Baptism Puzzle

My singing time this Sunday is going to be based on a story from the Friend Magazine (link is as the end of this post).

You need:-

• - A copy of the story (found here: Showing Sorry)
• - A large laminated copy of the maze (I printed mine in poster format then laminated it). The maze is found in the link at the end of this post.
• - A list of repentance songs to sing and complete maze pictures (found here: Eli’s Maze complete pictures)  I cut out the pictures and glued the ‘matching’ songs or actions to the back of the pictures.  Blue tac these up on the wall/whiteboard next to the maze.

1. Read the story out to Jnr Singing Time and have Snr Singing Time read out the story in order.
2. Show them Eli’s map. Choose reverent children to draw their way from Eli to objects on the map, eventually reaching Mum.  The aim is not to knock over any more piles of washing!
3. As the children reach objects/people on the maze , turn over the corresponding picture and sing the songs or do the actions.  If you don’t like the ones I have chosen that’s easy!  Write your own on the back.

The original idea for this story is here:http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?hideNav=1&locale=0&sourceId=17f0ad2dbbb94210VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=21bc9fbee98db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

Post edit: I saved the picture of ‘Eli’ until last, as it was great to finish on ‘I Am A Child of God’.  This singing time worked really well for both my Jnrs and Snrs today.  If you don’t have much time, read the story out to the Snrs instead.  I handed the front row the cut up storyline and they read it one by one.