ACTIVITY: “Hum Your Favorite Hymn”
(Singing Face Wheel)
7 pages (color/black-and-white visuals, instructions)
Use for Family Home Evening, Primary Sharing Time,
Young Women or Youth, Activity Days*
Subject: Singing, Leading a Song
Objective: Learn to sing, play, or lead a song from the Children’s Songbook. Teach or share the song in a family home evening or at Primary. Discuss how developing talents helps prepare us for service to Heavenly Father and others.
1. Print, color, and cut out the “Hum Your Favorite Hymn” Singing Face visual. Cut out the window on top of the head. Attach part A wheel to part B face with a paper fastener (metal brad). Obtain a copy of the “Hum Your Favorite Hymn,” in the Children’s Songbook, p. 152.”
2. Use the visual to teach the song by turning the wheel and showing the picture through the window.
3. When you come to the chorus, turn the wheel back around to matching visuals.
4. See p. 301 in the Children’s Songbook to lead “Hum Your Favorite Hymn” using the 2/4 beat pattern.
THOUGHT TREATS (Sing a Song – Black Bird Pie). Serve youth a berry pie and sing “Sing the 18th century song: “Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds, Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn’t that a dainty dish, to set before the king?” The song goes on (if time, teach this to youth). But don’t miss the part of the blackbird snipping off the nose (hold thumb between two joining fingers to represent the lost nose as you place fingers next to the person’s nose you are singing to).
Thought: Use your imagination (who would think of blackbirds coming out of a pie?) . . . You can. Explain that creativity is thinking of something usual in an unusual way.
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OTHER USES FOR THE ABOVE ACTIVITY:
*ACTIVITY DAYS (Girls ages 8-11 to achieve specific goals): See Preparing to Serve Others – Activity Days, Developing Talents – Goal 2
