Stay organized in singing time by creating singing time zones, singing time zones include Come Follow Me, program review and seasonal/holiday

This organized list with 110 unique and different ways to sing Primary songs or any music to sing over and over with tons of repetition in Singing Time.

Father's Day toolbox singing time idea, celebrate Father's Day in singing time with a toolbox activity and Father's Day gift from the primary

Tons of Primary Chorister ideas for teaching music to children in Primary. Singing time for junior and senior primary and even nursery. For teaching in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Yay!!! The new Primary songs for 2020 Come Follow Me-Book of Mormon are posted!!! and we are sooooo excited! They are some of my VERY FAVORITE songs!!!! Click HERE for the list! I had a hard time finding the list of songs at first (I'm slow sometimes) so here is a screenshot of where they are located (right under the month of December). The ideas are already flowing in on how to teach them and the singing activities we can do! Stay tuned for more ideas!!!! ***Getting ready for the new 2020 year????? You might also like our post on HOW TO TEACH A SONG FROM SCRATCH. It has over 10 ideas on how to first introduce a song. Perfect for the new 2020 year coming up! CLICK HERE for the post :) ***You might also like our Book of Mormon Singing Time ideas CLICK HERE for those :) Good luck in Primary this year! Primary Music Leader is the best calling ever!!! -iheartprimarymusic

Schools out, summer is here, and with it all the craziness that goes with it! It's tough to keep a schedule and a plan going during the summer with travel plans and kids around. But

I'm a Mean Old Witch With a HAT! Halloween! (Both songs) There's No Such Thing as a Witch This week we have a primary act...

This smashing egg ghost idea is fun to reveal the insides! Either add a SONG inside of each ghost for a pick and choose Singing Time, or add DIFFERENT WAYS TO SING a certain song you're working on inside (sing fast, acapella, etc.) At home before Primary, make a small hole at the bottom of an egg and get rid of the insides. Rise with water and let dry. Write a song title on a small slip of paper and place it in the egg. Draw a ghost face on the front of the egg with a black marker. Place eggs on cardboard, inside cupcake liners, or on a piece of paper/cardstock (hot glue the bottom of the egg to the cardboard/paper if needed). At the start of singing time, tell the children to warm up their voices by making ghostly sounds. Ooooooo OOOOOOO ooooooooo (high and low, loud and quiet). Now they are ready for the Singing and Smashing!!! During Singing Time, call up a helper to come and smash the ghost to reveal the song inside! R.I.P. Ghosts! -iheartprimarymusic

In honor of Father’s Day, I found this “Don’t Wake Dad!” activity HERE that I really liked! You can also check out all of my Father’s Day posts HERE if you like! The activity is meant to be printed professionally as an 11×17 (like at Costco) but I’ve tiled it for you to download below so you can […]

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I'm a Mean Old Witch With a HAT! Halloween! (Both songs) There's No Such Thing as a Witch This week we have a primary act...

There are SO many fun ways to include Valentine's Day Singing Time Ideas into your Primary planning in February! We love to include Valentine's Day ideas because they fit in so well with a TON

For next week (and, just in general) I wanted to put together a list of trivia questions for this year's program songs. Many are taken from the Children's Songbook Companion. Please feel free to add more in the comments and I will try to incorporate them here. Obviously, the choice songs our Presidency picked might not line up with yours, but hopefully the others will be helpful. 2013 Primary Program Songs Trivia I Am a Child of God 2 1. What does “His promises are sure” mean? It means we can be SURE that he will keep his promises – he will always be true to His word 2. This song originally said “teach me all that I must know”, but was changed at President Kimball’s suggestion. What did he ask that the song say instead? Teach me all that I must DO. 3. How many things do we ask for in the chorus? - 5 - LEAD, GUIDE, WALK, FIND, TEACH 4. What word rhymes with GREAT in v. 2? LATE 5. What do we want to be taught? Teach me ______? All that I must do. 6. Where do I want to live someday? With Him 7. Who sent me here? He – Heavenly Father, God 8. What has Heavenly Father given us? A home with parents kind and dear 9. Because I am a child of God, my needs are important. What word does the song use instead of important? GREAT 10. What glory has Heavenly Father promised us? CELESTIAL 11. What must we do to earn celestial glory? ENDURE My Heavenly Father Loves Me 228 1. What song talks about the beautiful world we live in? My Heavenly Father Loves Me 2. Why does the song say Heavenly Father gave us our eyes? To see the beautiful color of things 3. He gave me my LIFE, my _______, my heart MIND 4. How do we thank Him? REVERENTLY 5. What does v. 2 say He gave us? Eyes, Ears, Life, Mind, Heart 6. What color is a lilac tree? PURPLE 7. Whenever I feel the _______ on my face RAIN 8. What do we see with our eyes? The color of butterfly wings 9. What do we hear with our ears? The magical sound of things 10. What do all of the beautiful things in the world help me to know? That Heavenly Father loves me When I Am Baptized 103 1. What does the word PONDER mean? Think, Meditate 2. What do we like to look for whenever there is rain? RAINBOWS 3. What do we want our lives to be as clean as? EARTH RIGHT AFTER RAIN 4. When we are baptized, what are washed away? OUR WRONGS 5. If we live our lives the best we can, who will we live with again? Heavenly Father and Jesus 6. Do we make mistakes even after being baptized? Yes 7. Thanks to the atonement, how can we fix the mistakes we make? Repentance 8. We can be forgiven and ________ IMPROVE OURSELVES each day Families Can Be Together Forever 188 1. How long can families be together? FOREVER 2. Families can be together because of whose plan? HEAVENLY FATHER’S 3. Who do I always want to be with? MY FAMILY 4. What has the Lord shown me? HOW I CAN ALWAYS BE WITH MY OWN FAMILY 5. Why will I prepare most carefully? TO MARRY IN GOD’S TEMPLE 6. When we think of being with our families forever, how does it make us want to treat them? Well 7. When will I prepare most carefully? WHILE I AM IN MY EARLY YEARS A Child’s Prayer 12 1. What word in this song means Heavenly Father’s love is all AROUND us? SURROUND 2. What questions does the child’s part ask Heavenly Father? Is He THERE, does He HEAR and answer prayers? 3. Some say that Heaven is ______ Far away 4. When do we feel Heaven close around us? When we pray 5. What did Jesus tell His disciples long ago? Suffer the children to come to me 6. How do we come to Him? Prayer 7. Is He listening? YES! 8. Who does this song say Heavenly Father loves? The children If the Savior Stood Beside Me 1. Would I ______ the things I do DO 2. Would we think of his _________ EXAMPLE 3. Would I live more ________ RIGHTEOUSLY 4. Would I _______ the things I say SAY 5. Would my words be __________ TRUE and KIND 6. Who is ALWAYS near us? The Savior 7. Do we see Him there? No 8. Why are we in His “tender care”? Because He love us dearly I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ 77 1. What do many of the eight-year olds choose to do? Be baptized 2. When they are baptized, what church do they officially become members of? The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 3. The song says “I know who I am”. Who are we? Children of God 4. It also says I know God’s Plan. What plan? The Plan of Salvation 5. How will we follow Him? In FAITH 6. Who will we honor? Jesus Christ 7. What will we do? What is RIGHT 8. What will we follow? His LIGHT 9. What will we proclaim? His TRUTH I Want to Live the Gospel 148 1. What do I want to live more each day? The Gospel 2. How will I try to live the gospel? In all I do and say 3. How will I live? As He wants me to do 4. Whose plan will I follow? My Savior’s 5. Where do we find his teachings? The scriptures 6. When are we heard? When we pray Keep the Commandments 146 1. How many times do we say “keep the commandments” in the first verse? THREE 2. What are the two blessings this song says we receive from keeping the commandments? Safety, Peace 3. Who said the words, “keep the commandments?” A prophet. Many prophets have said this, but this song was written after a quote from Harold B. Lee, who said when he was ordained President of the church that it was the most important message he could give. 4. WHAT should we do? Keep the commandments 5. WHY should we do it? Safety and peace

Turkey Toss Thanksgiving Primary Singing Time Idea, Thanksgiving singing time great for singing fall and Thanksgiving Primary songs

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Variety of back to school singing time ideas for LDS Primary music leaders! Use a themed activity to teach a mix or specific songs with printable song helps.

One Sunday I was thinking of something fun to do to review our songs and I happened to have this beach ball in my closet. Since it was the end of summer I thought it would be fun to throw the ball and have the kids sing the song the way it was written where their right hand landed on the ball. I put "Hide and Seek", "Conduct Song", "You Choose", "Sing for________" (sticker, candy, etc), "Girls Sing" and "Boys Sing". I threw the ball to someone who was trying to sing their best. The children had a lot of fun and it was so easy to do.

Let me set the scene. It’s late Saturday night. You’ve had a busy and packed day full of soccer games, bridal showers, whiney kids, family get-to-gether, making dinner, put (forced) kids to bed. Then you think, “Oh man! I have to plan my singing time lesson for tomorrow!!!” What can I do that really quick and easy???? We’ve all been there. We get it. So, here you go: Pick one. We got your back J (((***KEEP IN MIND, THESE ALSO WORK FOR REVIEWING YOUR PROGRAM SONGS!!!!!))) 1- Target Practice Write the number 1-9 on the chalkboard (or however many songs you’d like to review) like this: 123 456 789 Draw a circle around each number. Like a Target. Now you’re ready! All you need is something for the kids to throw/hit/shoot at the board. The number they hit, is the corresponding song to sing! Ideas to throw/hit/shoot with: Nerf gun, ball, crumbled up piece of paper, bean bag, etc. Whatever you have on hand! This is a Saturday late night idea people!!! 2 – Who’s Missing? All you need for this one is a blanket or sheet! Put the blanket or sheet over a classroom table or over the chalkboard. Ask for a “hider” and a “guesser”. The “guesser” goes out into the hall. The “hider” hides under the classroom table or behind the chalkboard. The “guesser” comes back in the room, music plays, children sing song. The “guesser” tries to figure out Who’s Missing before the end of the song. If they guess before the end of the song, keep singing until the end!!!! 3 – Hot and Cold It’s not a new idea, but we’re talking easy Saturday night ideas here. Hide an object, like a paper note (I use a figurine of Captain Moroni). But this object could be aaaanything. Have a pen? Perfect. A CTR ring borrowed from a child? That works too J Have one child go out of the room, hide the object, have the child come back in as the children sing start singing. Have the children sing loud when the seeker is close to the object. Have them sing quieter as the seeker is farther away. This is a classic and NEVER gets old! 4 – Secret Word Pick a couple words out of the song(s) you’d like to review. Write them on a note card size paper. Send one child out of the room (guesser), show everyone the word from the song. Tell them to NOT sing this word as they sing. Have the guesser come back in and put the word piece of paper on their forehead. Children sing song, skipping that secret word. At the end of the song, have guesser guess the Secret Word. 5 – Voice Changer Have a song you need to sing over and over to practice? Write these different ways to sing on the chalkboard. Choose a child being reverent and let them choose. Change singing voice to that style for the song. -Computer Robot (staccato) -Baby Voice (sweet and lispy) -Underwater (plug nose, or move pointer finger up and down in lips) -Grandma Voice (pinch a small piece of your neck and move away and then back toward your neck really fast) -Opera (self explanatory - use hand actions too! -Feather Voice (whisper) -Bee Voice (Hum) -Chipmunk Voice (sing high, tighten neck and show teeth) -Ninja Movie Voice (move mouth in between words and pauses) -Giant Voice (sing deep and low) -Cowboy Voice (like a country singer) For our ULTIMATE LIST of DIFFERENT WAYS to sing, Click HERE . (There's over 50 ways listed!!!) 6 – Name that Tune All you need for this one is a pair of dice! Nice! (hey, that rhymed!) Let your pianist know what songs you’d like to practice ahead of time. During singing time, let a child come to the front of the Primary room and roll the dice. Whatever number they land on is how many notes the pianist plays. Let them guess the song. Make sure to tell them to raise their hand when they recognize it. Otherwise, you’ll hear them out shouting it out! Then sing the song. Another fun classic that is always a winner singing time! 7 – Teacher Dress Up Items needed: Crazy, fun dress up items (yes, go look in your husband and kids closets, and the Halloween bin!) Think scarves, hats, glasses, gloves, apron Tell the kids you’re going to have a singing competition between classes. Whichever class sings the best for each song, their teacher has to come pick up a dress up item. If there is a tie between classes, have each teacher come up. Sometimes it’s hard to choose, so I have judgement help from the Primary Presidency. 8 – Visual Pick Bring the visuals/poster boards of the songs you’d like to sing. Display the around the room, or in front on the table/podium. Choose a reverent child to come pick which song they’d like to sing. Sing that song. 9 – Memory Match All you need is paper, pen, and tape (or sticky tack) Make a scratch list of the songs you’d like to review. Write each Song title on 2 pieces of paper. Put those on the chalkboard. Let children try to match a match (one pick at a time). When they get a match, sing that song! Let the match finder help lead the song! 10 – Ready, Set, ACTION Write these different ways to ACT on the board (or popsicle sticks, paper, etc ) as you sing the review songs. -Stand on One foot -Close one Eye -Close both eyes (no peeking!) -Face Backwards -Pat Head, Rub Belly -March -Stand on Chair -Ears Forward (bend ears forward with hands, as to hear yourself better) -Clap Or add your own idea! We still have more ideas, is that ok????? Good. Here's some more!!! :) 11 - Silent Singer. Ask one child to go into the hall. Next, choose a child from the Primary that wants to be the "Silent Singer". Have the child in the hall come back in as the children sing a song. The child who is the "Silent Singer" lip sings and the child that was in the hall tries to guess which child is the "Silnet Singer" before the song is over! 12- Switch Seats - Call one child to come up to the front of the Primary room and have them turn around. Point at 2 hildren sitting down to switch seats. Start singing a song and have the child in front turn around and try to guess who switched seats by the end of the song! It's harder than you think! Do you have any other great EASY SATURDAY NIGHT APPROVED Singing time ideas? We’d love to hear! -iheartprimarymusic

Father's Day toolbox singing time idea, celebrate Father's Day in singing time with a toolbox activity and Father's Day gift from the primary

Get this free printable and editable Year Overview Singing Time Planner PDF worksheet! It will help you plan 52 weeks teaching music at a glance with holidays!

Thankful by Shawna Edwards from the November 2020 Friend, primary song found in the Friend by Shawn Edwards

Do you do anything fun and themed for Pioneer day? I haven't before, but I'm so excited for this fun themed activity to celebrate our Pioneer heritage! In

Roll-A-Snowman Singing Time Review, singing time review using dice and the board to create a snow man, easy winter singing time game

Are you looking for fun and easy Pioneer Day singing time ideas to use in your Primary room this summer? You'll love this collection of engaging activities

I love to theme singing time around General Conference the week before spring General Conference (in the fall, we are too busy prepping for our program). General Conference singo is ALWAYS a hit! See details for using it HERE. It also is a great take-home for the kids before General Conference. The Living Prophets Song lesson […]

Do you include holidays in Primary? Try these 13 easy LDS Halloween Singing Time ideas for themed fun for your lesson plans - helps for Primary Music Leaders.

Camille's Primary Ideas: Father's Day singing time lesson plan activities review any Father's Day songs in singing time with these simple lesson plans

Here's a fun and super easy way to teach When Joseph Went to Bethlehem song! I've picked out a variety of different When Joseph Went to Bethlehem Simple

We {LOVE} July!!!! Not only because both our birthdays are in July but because we love the holidays as well!!! Here is a list of different fun ideas you can do for INDEPENDENCE DAY: ~U.S.A. - U Sing Awesome. Pass out these badges at the end of singing time for a singing job well done! Click here for the original idea from Beehive Messages ~Pin the Star on the Flag - Blind fold a child and let them guess where the star should go (let them stick it on with tape or stick tac). After they have guessed, sing a song. See who can get the best placement!!! You could also just pull a star off (or put them on) and sing a song that is on the back. ~Target Lead Stick - Here's an easy and fun lead stick to make for this week. It's made from a Target grocery bag!!! How cool is that?!? For instructions on how to make one, click here. You can also use a mini flag to lead with. I like to "watch for reverent helpers" to help lead for me during the next song. ~Flag Meter - This is a cute flag singing meter to use while your children are singing. The better they sing, the higher it goes! If you want to make your own, click here and click here. ~Confetti Poppers - Buy 12 little confetti poppers (6 for Senior and 6 for Junior). Take out the little cardboard piece at the bottom and place a slip a paper with a song title in there, and then put the cardboard back on. Tell your children at the beginning for singing time that you are going to have fireworks in Primary!!!Choose a child to come up and let them pull the string and then find the song title in the confetti. I've done this idea just about every year with my kids and they love it! My kids always wonder how I got the song to be in it! I found this idea off Sugardoodle. Be sure to have a trash can near! ~OR.. you could make your own! I must admit, these are WAYYYYY cuter looking. For instructions on how to make them, click here. And if you don't have any scrapbook paper click here for free paper from Martha Stewart. ~State Quarters - Display a collection book/map of all the states and their quarters. Lay 6-8 other state quarters on the primary table. Call up a child to come pick a quarter and see if they can match it to the one on the U.S. country map. Once they have found it (with a little help, I'm sure), tell them some interesting facts about that state and then sing a patriotic song! Hopefully one of these ideas will inspire you for your singing time! HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!

Camille's Primary Ideas: Primary Assignment Cards using Susan Fitch Artwork to help organize opening exerices in primary talks, prayers and scriptures

Helpful Primary Music Learning Styles chart will help break down a variety of singing time ideas by song type. Go-to resource for LDS Primary Music Leaders

See how I use my singing time schedule HERE! Then download an editable and printable version of the below information HERE. My singing time for December kind of got planned out for me…our primary was asked to be our ward’s entertainment for our ward Christmas party. So we will be performing my Christmas Sing-a-Nativity found HERE. […]

I'm a Mean Old Witch With a HAT! Halloween! (Both songs) There's No Such Thing as a Witch This week we have a primary act...

What are the sounds of Christmas? When I think of Christmas time, I think of the sound of jingle bells and Christmas carolers. I think of the sounds of family

I needed an idea for after program singing time, but I wanted to give the kids a break from the same old songs/learning a new song. I saw the mustache on a plate idea somewhere(the song was hidden under the mustache) but I wanted to change things up a bit. Cue TRIVIA GAME!! I titled the game "I Mustache You A Question". I put together a bunch of questions about primary songs (I have the document of questions I used. I'll add them at the end). A few children at a time came forward (I did 3 for lack of time) and answered their question. If they got the answer correct they pulled a mustache off any plate and got to wear it while they helped lead the next song. It was a hit! It brought lots of laughter and smiles to the room, but they were quick to be reverent again because they all wanted a turn. (For making the Mustache Men) I cut lots of different looking mustaches out of felt. Laminated a piece of card stock(helped a ton for durability) and hot glued the mustaches to it. Cut the mustaches out and taped them on the plates that I had drawn silly faces on. (I stuck a few pieces of tape on the area of the plate I would be removing the mustache from over and over again so it wouldn't rip my plates.) After junior primary was over and put a new piece of tape on each mustache and stuck them back on the plates for sr. primary. The kids had a wonderful time playing and I was happily surprised how well they answered some of the questions. Hopefully this can help someone out. Let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy!! -Brooke I googled primary singing time trivia games and a whole bunch came up. I picked through them, came up with a few of my own and compiled this list of questions. It was the perfect amount. 1. Complete the title of this song: My Heavenly Father Loves ___________ A. Me pg. 228 2. T/F Book of Mormon Stories has 8 verses. A. True pg. 118 3. If on occasion you have found your language is in question...what should you do? A. Hum your Favorite Hymn pg.152 5. Does Daniel have his own verse in the Follow the Prophet song? A. Yes pg. 110 6. God gave us families to help us what? A. Become what He wants us to be. Song: The Family Is Of God 7. What is the rainbow song actually titled? A. When I am Baptized pg.103 8. Scripture power is the power to? A. Win song: Scripture Power 9. What do the chapel doors say? A. Sh, be still. pg.156 10.Complete the line: My life is a gift; my life has a __________ A. Plan pg.164 11. How much taller do you have to grow to go on a mission? A. A foot or two pg.169 12. Why is Saturday a special day? A. It’s the day we get ready for Sunday pg.196 13. What does the little stream do? A. Give pg.236 14. In the song Popcorn Popping is the line 1. Blossoms popping right before my eyes or 2. Popcorn popping right before my eyes A. Blossoms pg.242 15. In the song Our Primary Colors what does red stand for? A. courage to do what is right pg.258 16. If I had one wish what would it be? A. To wish a happy birthday to you from me pg.284 17. What is the first song in the Songbook? A. I am a child of God pg.2 18. True/False The following songs appear in the Songbook and the Hymn Book. I am a child of God Teach me to walk in the light Families can be together forever Called to Serve I know my Father lives A. True 19. Is the Songbook called: A. Children’s Songbook B. Primary Songbook C. Sing with Me D. The Friend A. Children’s Songbook 20. True/False Feliz Cumpleanos is an Easter song? A. False pg.282 21. What are we when we are helping? A. Happy pg.198 22. What does the Snowman do at the end of his song? A. Melts pg.249 23. Where did you live before you came to Earth? A. Heaven pg.4 24. Complete the phrase: I will follow God’s plan ___ ___ A. For Me pg.164 25. Who is our living prophet today? A. Thomas S. Monson pg.134 26. Who Baptized Jesus Christ? A. John The Baptist pg.100 27. What is your favorite thing to do during Primary? A. (any answer) 28. How old must you be to be baptized? A. 8 pg.104 29. What are the missing words to this primary song? “I looked out the window and what did I see? _______ ________ on the apricot tree!” A. Popcorn Popping pg.242 30. To what song is this the chorus? “ Lead me, guide me, walk beside me, help me find the way. Teach me all that I must do to live with him someday.” A. I Am A Child Of God pg.2 31. Finish the phrase of this song. “Book of Mormon stories that __ __ __ __ __ A. My Teacher tells to me. pg.118

Tons of Primary Chorister ideas for teaching music to children in Primary. Singing time for junior and senior primary and even nursery. For teaching in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The last part of singing time, after doing our song of the month activity, we do a game with songs. This is my plan for July. 1st week- Re...