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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