Summer Time
 


 On the chalkboard write "We Shell Sing" then fill a beach bucket with some sand and place shells inside it - let the children take turns finding and picking shells.  The shells are numbered are correlate with a song.
 


Let's go camping!  Fill a backpack or suitcase with things you need to camp.  Attach songs to the objects.  Have the kids pick an item, then sing the song.

 

A book (Book of Mormon Stories)

Sandals (Teach Me to Walk in the Light)

A camera to take pictures of a temple where I was going (I Love to See

the Temple)

A tooth brush (Smiles)

A comb (Saturday)

A colorful shirt (I Hope They Call Me on a Mission)

Sunglasses (Jesus Wants Me For a Sunbeam)

Sunscreen (Choose the Right Way)

Shorts (I'm Trying to be Like Jesus)
 


Christmas in July - Decorate small tree with numbered ornaments.  Sing Christmas songs.

 


Build a campfire - Make a circle of rocks or crumpled brown paper.  Make flames and fold at bottom to stand up.  Put 8 numbered marshmallows on straightened hangers by the fire.  Stabilize with jars filled with sand.

The following ideas were shared by Christine Layton:
 

Rings tossed on bottles of water (think of the ring toss at the fair).  I just use water bottles because they are heavy enough to not knock over.  I made the rings by cutting rings out of the lids of the large ice cream buckets.  I just cut the top out and use the sides of the lid as the rings.  I tape a song to the bottom of the water bottles.  The kids get three chances to "ring" a bottle.  That's the song we sing next.
 

Throw bean bags into a muffin tin.  In the bottom of each muffin cup is a song.
 

Who, What, How Cans -  I have three #10 cans each labeled Who, What, and How.  The Who can has pieces of paper that twll who sings (adults, those with blue eyes, wearing white, etc).  The What Can has the songs to sing. The How Can tells how they are going to sing (crescendo, decrescendo, staccato, whisper, etc).
 

Choosing Bucket - I took a large ice cream bucket and cut a hole in the lid that's large enough to fit a hand.  I took a sock and cut the toe off, taped it to the underside of the lid so that the sock is pulled up through the whole.  I put different songs (or small items to represent different songs) into the bucket and put the lid on (I have it wrapped in white contact paper so you can't see through the bucket).  The kids reach their hand into the sock and pull an item/paper out of the bucket.

 

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   November 17,  2006

 

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