I have been reading a few other Primary Music Leader blogs (this one and this one) and they mention using the Uno game to revise tricky verses to songs. It seems that it justs keeps getting added to and I loved the concept so much, so here is my addition:-
Here’s how it works:-
- You choose one verse of a song that you need to revise. Divide that verse up into four sections, and print each of those sections out on 4 different colours of paper (or use the coloured paper as a background). You’ll have one part of the verse red, one part yellow, one part blue and one part blue. Stick those up on the wall.
- Divide your Primary up into teams (either rows or classes). Give each team 7 cards each (rig them if you must, so each team gets a couple of action cards as well).
- Now here’s where it differs a little from the normal game of Uno: the aim is not to match up the colours of the cards. It doesn’t matter which card the children put down, so long as their team doesn’t put down two action cards in a row.
- There are ‘action’ Uno cards (that are fairly self explanatory – ‘Draw Two’, ‘Draw 4’, ‘Skip’, ‘Reverse’ and ‘Wild’).
- Wild cards need a little explanation. The children can choose to sing…standing on one leg, holding their nose, with their hands in the air, with their eyes closed etc. You may have ones in your stash of Primary goodies that you can use in this instance (or there are some here:http://divinesecretsofaprimarychorister.blogspot.com/2008/11/sing-like.html) .
- There are also plain coloured cards. If a red card is put down, everyone has to sing the part of the verse on the red paper. If a yellow card is turned over, everyone has to sing the part of the verse on the yellow paper etc.
- You can choose who gets to start, or do a ‘demonstration’ round by putting the first one down.
Note: I have included backs for the cards as well (the last page of the pdf).
