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Follow the Prophet
Follow the Prophet Review Game by Melanie Edwards
(Idea from June 2006 Friend) If desired,
this song presentation may be done in stages throughout the month. Each
week, choose three of the prophets from the song. Write several questions
for the children to answer about each prophet. For example: Adam—Who was the
first prophet in the Bible? Where did he live? What did he do there? What is
a descendant? Who are his descendants? Cut out as many musical notes as you
have questions about the prophets. Use a different color of paper for each
prophet. Write a question on the back of each note. Place the notes on the
floor, question-side down, at the front of the Primary room. In advance, ask
three children to represent one of the selected prophets. The week before,
give them the answers to the questions about each one’s prophet to study.
Have the three children stand at the front of the room, holding pictures of
the prophets they represent. Have the other Primary children take turns
tossing a beanbag onto the notes on the floor. When the beanbag lands on a
note, the child who threw the beanbag turns the note over and asks the
question written on it. The child representing the prophet answers the
question or gets his or her class to help answer it. After all the questions
have been answered, sing the verses of “Follow the Prophet” that apply to
the prophets just learned about. You may wish to have the child representing
the prophet lead the singing for that prophet’s verse.
Compare a flashlight lighting up a darkened room to a
prophet sharing light from Heavenly Father so that His people (sing the
words) “don’t go astray.” Define astray as off course or lost. Have
the children sing that phrase with you. Ask them to listen for what the
prophet knows as you sing the last phrase, “follow the prophet; he knows the
way.” Lead them in singing that phrase. Ask them to listen to you sing the
chorus and come in on the phrases they’ve just learned; then repeat the
chorus again. Sing the chorus a third time, this time passing a flashlight
from child to child. When the singing stops, have the child with the
flashlight represent Adam. Teach the first verse by singing one phrase at a
time and asking the children to echo it back while following “Adam” as he
acts out the verse. (For example, he could pantomime planting a garden.)
Have the children sing the chorus and pass the flashlight again. Repeat the
process with Noah, and in following weeks continue teaching all the verses.
[Idea taken from
March 2006 Friend Sharing Time
Suggestion]
Ancient Prophet Versus
(Lehi, Nephi, Abinadi, etc.)
Different versus for each of the latter-day
prophet from Christy's Clipart
Yesterday I worked on the Jonah verse and
it was a blast! We talked about what it must have been like to be inside
a fish for 3 whole days... dark... wet... stinky. Then we sang the last
part of the verse "down inside the whale" very low and long and ominous.
Doooooown iiiin-siiiiide theeeeeee whaaaaaale. I brought my rhythm
instruments and told the children that on the word "whale" they should
come in and make as much noise as they could, and then we held it out
(like a fermata) and then jumped into the chorus with the rhythm
instruments keeping the beat. It was a lot of fun! (Idea by Luana Willis)
Follow the Prophet Rhyming Game
by Amber Brunjes
Follow the Prophet Versus
written for Gordon B. Hinckley
I wrote 6 actions on paper. Clap your hands
two times, pat your thighs two times, snap your fingers two times, pat
your mouth two times (this one was fun!), pat your head two times, stomp
your feet two times.
I let the two children each roll a die (dice) and
used the two numbers they rolled. We used it for the verses. Each time
we learned a new verse we started the pattern with it. After they sang
that verse then we started from the top with every verse we had
learned. We did not sing the chorus at all until the last verse. Then we
started the chorus out very low then moved up to louder and louder.
Example: If a 1 and 5 were rolled, we did clap clap
head head clap clap head head. It really helped break up the monotony of
singing this song over and over again - which is the only effective way I
have found to learn this song!!! It was so fun to use the pat your mouth
one. The kids remained fairly reverent with this but it just helped break
the boredom. (Questie Reams)
My seniors seemed to enjoy what we did for Follow the Prophet. We used a
Connect Four game. I had pictures of the eight prophets and I made two
copies of each of them so we had a game board of 4x4 circles, with the
prophets pasted in the center of each circle. I divided the kids into two
teams, and I had more circles in two different colors. They would pick one
of the prophets, and if everyone sang the verse well, they could place
their team's colored circle over that prophet. The object was to get four
of your circles in a row.
That was our review. The week before I just placed the GAK pictures (and a
generic one for Enoch and Jonah) in page protectors in a binder. I think I
hand-drew a picture or two for each verse, but that's not really
necessary. We talked about the story of each prophet, then sang the verse.
Then we did all the verses in a row (no chorus) using the "flip-chart
binder".
I found that I needed to memorize the second line; once I got that the
rest followed. And it helps me to remember that the verses go in
chronological order - Adam, then Enoch, then Noah, etc. (Becky)
Follow the
Prophet in Spanish:
Sigue al Profeta (Follow the Prophet)
1.El primer profeta que hubo fue Adan.
El jardin de Eden fue su primer hogar.
Al Senor seguia y obediente fue.
Somos descendientes de ese hombre fiel.
-chorus-
Sigue al profeta, sigue al profeta
Sigue al profeta, deja el error.
Sigue al profeta, sigue al profeta,
Lo que el dice, manda el Senor.
2.Fue Enoc profeta y ensenaba el bien.
La gente del pueblo hizo su deber,
y tan buenos fueron en obedecer
que el Senor se los llevo a vivir con el.
3. Fue Noe un profeta mandado a decir
que se arrepintieran o hiban a morir.
Nadie lo escucho y se burlaron de el
hasta que el diluvio empezo a caer.
4. El profeta Abraham un hijo a Dios pidio;
fue Isaac su nombre y padre de Jacob.
Dios le dio a este el nombre de Israel,
y las doce tribus son los hijos de el.
5. Dios mando a Moises su pueblo a liberar
y llevarlo a otro sitio a morar.
En el yermo el pueblo muy mal se porto,
y cuarenta anos mucho padecio.
6. Fue Samuel llamado desde su ninez.
El Senor le hablo por la tercera vez
mientras el dormia, y este contesto:
"Habla, porque oigo", y le escucho.
7. Fue Jonas profeta que trato de huir,
pero comprendio que a Dios hay que seguir.
En una ballena, entendio Jonas
que el Senor jamas nos deja fracasar.
8. Fue Daniel profeta y no deseo pecar.
El rey con los leones lo mando encerrar
pero al poco tiempo el rey se percato
que a Daniel un angel del Senor cuido.
9. Pocos ya distinguen entre el bien y el mal,
si oyes las noticias cuenta te haz de dar.
Mas si por la senda hemos de andar,
a nuestros profetas hemos de escuchar.
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