I Am A Child Of God - Love One Another

Our primary is doing something really fun in February but I have to get the kids ready to do it this month.  They will be asking different people in the ward to come in for a "I Am A Child Of God" spotlight.  I don't know who they are choosing.  It could be the bishop or the nursery leader of whomever.  When they come in, they will tell the children a little bit about themselves and why they are a child of God.  Then we will be singing Love One Another to them.  I am going to teach the sign language to them.  The kids already know this song (which is a bonus) but I think the sign language will make it really special for the guests who come in and get sung to.  Also, it is February, Valentines Month, the perfect time to be singing about LOVE.

The Love Quilt

The Love Quilt

A Tribute to my mother, the QUILT QUEEN!

I love quilts...perhaps everyone does.  But I grew up with a mother who made quilts for just about any occasion because she felt life is a little better when you have a pretty or soft quilt.  So I had to do make a quilt singing time and it made sense it would be in honor of Valentines Day.  Nothing says love like a quilt...just ask my son who just recently got a new silky quilt from him Gramma.  He is feeling so loved right now!

My quilt is a family quilt...6 pieces and each has a word on it

1.  grandparents (song:  It's Always Fun When Grandpa Comes)

2.  brothers and sisters ( We are a Happy Family vs. "I love brother, he loves me, we love sister....")

3.  Ancestors (Family History I am Doing It)

4.  Mothers and Fathers ( Either Mother I Love You or Daddy's Homecoming)

5. Love (song about love like LOVE ONE ANOTHER)

6.  LOVE (song about love like I FEEL MY SAVIOR'S LOVE)

Here you can piece the quilt and explain that the LOVE pieces bring the design together  You cannot have an eternal family without LOVE...all the pieces form a big heart in the midde.  You could put a picture of the Savoir in the middle as well which would be sweet. 

So, you have the kids pick the puzzle pieces and have them try to make them fit together...takes a few tries but the kids like the challenge!  The songs are on the back of each piece and you sing the songs that coordinate with each piece. 



Scripture Hearts

Scripture Hearts!

Thanks Kirstin!  Yes, my sister gave me this little sheet of heart pictures that coordinate with scritpures that use the word heart.  I morphed it into a singing time.  Sadly, I will not use this with the junior primary this year as they just aren't quick when it comes to searching scriptures and looking up things and reading them to find clue.  However, this would make a fun singing time for the seniors or a family home evening, primary lesson or even sharing time.  Here are some hearts for thought....

Epheisians 4:18  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the BLINDNESS of their hearts.  (heart with blind fold on it)

2 Nephi 4:30  Rejoice, O my heart, and CRY unto the Lord and say, O Lord, I will praise thee forever, yea, my soul will rejoice in thee, my God, and the rock of my salvation.  (heart with tears on its cheek)

Mosiah 24:12  And Alma and his people did not raise their voice to the Lord their God, but they did POUR their hearts to him: and he did not know the thoughts of their hearts.  (heart with a cup, pouring out his hearts)

Proverbs 15:13  A MERRY heart maketh a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of the heart, the spirit is broken. (heart with a huge smile on its face)

Proverbs 17:22  Me merry heart doeth good like MEDICINE but a broken spirit drieth the bones.  (heart that looks like a nurse)

2 Nephi 16:10  Make the heart of this people FAT and make their ears heavy and shut their eyes lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart and be converted and be healed.   (heart that looks puffy or FAT)

Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Isreal after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my LAWS in their mind and write them in there hearts; and I will be to them a God and they shalle be to me a people. (heart that looks like a sherriff)

D&C 2:2 And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the father, and the hearts of their children shall turn to FATHERS.  (heart with a little heart =father & son)

Matthew 6:21 For where your TREASURE is, there will your heart be also.  (heart with a treasure box)

So I enlarged the pictures of these hearts and laminated them.  I stuck them on the chalk board and gave out a reference in which the children had to go "chase" in their scriptures. I told them to keep in mind we are looking for references to "hearts" and what kind of hearts.  And they would read the scripture and match it with one of these hearts, on the back is a song to sing.  Kinda fun.  Who knew there were so many good scriptures out there with the word HEART in it.  Happy Valentines Day!



Valentines Day Ideas - heart bouquet and mailbox

Being IN LOVE with primay!

Wow...you gotta love primary!  It's especially fun when holidays roll around.  Here are the ideas I am doing for the next two weeks in primary with a VALENTINES theme.

First:  Again, I cannot take credit for this idea.  But I did my own version of it.  This is a bouquet of hearts.  I just copied and laminated these and put them on sticks.  I found this pail in the Dollar Spot at Target.  I filled it with rock salt and stuck these hearts in at varying heights to make a bouquet!

The hearts tell the children different ways to sing song. If you look in the index of the primary song book, you will find a whole list of songs under the title LOVE.  So I am just going to write myself a list of these great songs, ie: Love One Another, Jesus Said Love Everyone, Love Spoken Here, ect.  I will pick a helper and they will choose a heart and it will tell us how to sing these songs:

The hearts say:
MEOW
BARK
FAST SLOW
STAND AND FACE THE BACK OF THE ROOM
CLAP TO THE BEAT
SNAP TO THE BEAT
HUM

Okay here's another idea!

My son made this cute little mailbox in his preschool.  It's a saltine box that is covered and decorated and the flap on the end has sticky velcro to make it open and shut.  But I also noticed these cute little tin mailboxes at the $1-Spot at Target as well.  They would work.  Anyway, this singing time is about LOVE LETTERS.  I bought a pack of note cards for $1 at Target.  My daughter kindly decorated the outside of them for me with foam stickers.  Inside I just printed out little messages. 

Ex:  LOVE ONE ANOTHER

Who is your best friend?

Sing ONE ANOTHER

Name One thing you love about your family!

Sing:

WE ARE A HAPPY FAMILY

Temples are where we are sealed together as families forever.  Which is your favorite temple?

Sing:

I LOVE TO SEE THE TEMPLE

How do you show kindess and love in your home?

Sing:

Love Is Spoken Here

Jesus is the perfect example of love.

How do you feel the Savior's Love?

Sing:

I Feel My Savior's Love

Showing kindess is showing Love

How do you show kindess?

Sing:

Jesus Said Love Everyone

something fun - Conversations Hearts for Valentines Day

Here is something fun...

I swore I would never be a blogger, but here I am.  I just want to pay it forward to all the people who have saved me over the past few months.

So these are the conversation hearts.  I have seen these on many blogs.  So I cannot take credit for them. But I did tweak the idea a little.  I just did this on Sunday.  I have the little kids and so they aren't great readers just yet.  So I color coded the hearts.  Each heart had a saying (ie: CALL ME) and then in the same color I would write the song that coordinated with it (I HOPE THEY CALL ME ON A MISSION).  The hearts with sayings I put magnets on the back and put them on the chalk board.  I called up helpers and they would choose a heart and then they would have to search the room to find it's color match (and tell us what song it was).  I had the song hearts just stuck on the walls, piano, doors, cabinets, ect.  We made all the matches and the kids though it was super fun and we sang some fun songs that we never get to sing otherwise.

Here are the songs and sayings I chose

Marry Me =  I Love To See The Temple
Call Me = I Hope They Call Me On A Mission
U R A STAR = I Am Like A Star
F-Ever = FAMILIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER
Yes-Sir-Ree = Happy Family
Smile = Smiles
Big Kiss = Daddy's Homecoming
I Do = Mother I love You
Teach Me = Teach Me To Walk
Be Wise = Wise Man Foolish Man
SHHHHH = Chapel Doors

I love anything to do with holidays.  I have a few new postings to get to having to do with Valentines Day as well!

Conversation Hearts For Valentines Day

okay...these are the pictures of my conversation hearts!

Again, the SAYING matches the song

So the yellow says

CALL ME

and it's matching heart says

I HOPE THEY CALL ME ON A MISSION

I had the kiddos match the hearts