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My Heavenly Father Loves Me
Here is an idea from Christy's Clipart.
I taught this a few years ago, and had good
success. What I did was have the kids make the visuals. I sang the song as I
walked slowly around the room, and I handed each class a 11x17" piece of
cardstock (and crayons) as I sang the line that their class would draw the
picture for. Each line in this song can be easily drawn. I think I gave "Or look
at the blue, blue sky" to the sunbeams...... Then one child from each
class would come up and tell us what their line was, and hold the visual as we
sang. They loved it. I think I still have the adorable pictures they drew!
(Idea by Cyndy Young)
When I taught this song for the CSMP, I
drew pictures of all the things mentioned in the first verse-a bird singing,
a blue piece of construction paper with a couple of white clouds on it, a
face with raindrops falling on it, a cloud with a mouth blowing like the
wind, etc. I put the pictures in clear pocket protectors and mixed
them up and handed them out to the kids and they had to put themselves in
order while I sang the song. Then I sang the song to check the order. Then
we all sang together, then had one of the other kids subtract out a picture
or two and sang it again, repeating the subtracting till we were singing
without the pictures. I used the pictures for review later and subtracted
3-4 at a time. The first part of the 2nd verse lends itself to this picture
thing also but you might have to use words on the second half and that is
hard for the younger kids. By the time I got to the second verse, the stake
Primary chorister told us that we were having a Primary choir in Stake
conference and she wanted to sing this song in sign language. She got us the
video of the ASL signs and I taught them the first verse in sign then taught
the second verse just using the signs. I just sang this to myself using the
signs and remember them quite well. (Idea by Rachel Weaver)
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