I Am a Child of God

I'm so happy that the new year is here, and singing time can get back to normal!

Because it was the first Sunday, I wanted to review I am a Child of God, but I also wanted to make sure that I did something fun for the new Sunbeams - esp. because my son was one of them!!
So this is what I came up with.

First I wanted to show the Mormon Message video "I Am a Child of God".  Unfortunately, I couldn't get it to work, so I skipped that!  So we sang the first 2 verses, just to make sure that the kids knew them.  Of course they did!  Then, we sang them again, and every time we sang the words "me", "I", or "my" the kids had to stand up and sit down.  It was really fun.  A good way to have fun singing a reverent song over and over!  (I did get this idea off another blog, but I don't remember who's - sorry!!)

After, we sang a few activity songs that I knew the Sunbeams would know.  They had a lot of fun!

I'm kind of a lazy singing time person, and don't like doing 2 different activities for Jr. and Sr., so we did the same thing in Sr. singing time - but with a twist!  For 2 of the activity songs, I mixed things up a bit!

Popcorn Popping - Instead of singing it "pop"corn, we used a different action word.  "twist"corn, "hop"corn, "clap"corn.  I'm sure you get the idea. 

Head Shoulders Knees and Toes - I love this song! Of course we do it, fast, slow, slower, faster.  But we also do it backwards - toes, knees, shoulders, head...  So this week I found another idea on a blog, with new words...  ankles, elbows, feet and seat.  hair, hips, lips and cheeks.

The kids all had fun!