Song Visuals – “Hum Your Favorite Hymn”: LDS Primary Singing Time song visuals – Primary music leader, family home evening

PRIMARY MUSIC SINGING TIME ACTIVITIES to Motivate Children to Sing
“HUM YOUR FAVORITE HYMN” song and activity

16 visuals (color/black-and-white/cue cards)

LYRICS & MUSIC FOR THE SONG
“HUM YOUR FAVORITE HYMN”

IDEAS TO PRESENT THIS SONG:
Enjoy teaching the song with this fun moving visual aid. Teach children how they can keep good thoughts and banish bad thoughts by singing a hymn or Primary song. Word prompts will show through the window of his mind for both verses and the chorus.

 

Materials needed:
• Poster board
• Spray mount adhesive
• Laminate or clear Contact Paper
1-paper brad
• X-Acto knife

TO MAKE VISUAL:
1. Print out song visual pieces (8 total).
2. Cut out color black-and-white visuals for both the head and back circle as directed on each visual.
3. Spray back of each piece with spray mount adhesive and stick to a poster board to make visual more rigid.
4. Cut out the two pieces attached to the poster board around the outside and the window on the head using an X-Acto knife.

5. Laminate or cover with clear contact paper for durability.
6. Polk a hole through both pieces at the center dot and secure together with a paper fastener (shown right).
7. Write lyrics on the back as a cue if desired.

TO USE VISUAL:
1. Hold head visual with one hand and turn back circle with the other.
2. The chorus tab helps so that you can quickly turn back to the chorus when the time comes.

Lyrics

1. 1. If on occasion you have found

   Your language is in question,

   Or ugly thoughts come to your mind,

   Then here’s a good suggestion.

2. [Chorus]

   Just hum your favorite hymn,

   Sing out with vigor and vim,

   And you will find it clears your mind.

   Hum your favorite hymn.

3. 2. Before you say an angry word,

   Remember you’ll regret it,

   For once it’s said the harm is done,

   And some folks won’t forget it.

PRESENT THIS SONG FOR LESSONS AND OTHER ACTIVITIES:

CHILDREN LESSONS:

• Lesson 38: I Can Be Pure and Righteous – Primary 3, 185–90 – See Sunday Savers: CTR-B activity book preview for this lesson.

• Lesson 14: Emma Smith Selects Sacred Hymns – Primary 5: Doctrine and Covenants and Church History, 70–75 – See Sunday Savers: D&C activity book preview for this lesson.

• Lesson 7: Jesus Christ Was Tempted by Satan – Primary 7: New Testament,  21–24 – See Sunday Savers: New Testament activity book preview for this lesson.

• Lesson 41: James Teaches Us to Control Our Tongues – Primary 7: New Testament, 143–146 – See Sunday Savers: New Testament activity book preview for this lesson.

• Lesson 39: Music Makes Me Happy – Primary 1: I Am a Child of God, 129–31 – See Sunday Savers: Sunbeam activity book preview for this lesson #39a and #39b.

YOUNG ADULT LESSONS:
• Hum a Hymn Hummingbird poster to DOWNLOAD

• Boyd K. Packer tells: “My older brother was a bomber pilot in England. He later retired as a brigadier general — he was something of a hero. When I went into the Air Force, he told me once that when they were on the bombing runs over Europe — he was in the Battle of Britain; he was shot down once in Sardinia and once in England — and said when he would get afraid, he would let the propeller “sing” to him and then he’d hum inwardly a hymn, and I learned that it served in two ways: one, that you could erase fear, and two, that you could erase unworthy thoughts. I gave a talk once — “Worthy Music, Worthy Thoughts.” If you have a favorite hymn and sing it to yourself silently, it changes the environment from what’s around you.”
– SALT LAKE CITY — SOURCE: The following is an edited transcript from the interview President Boyd K. Packer, acting president the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles — the second highest governing body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — gave for the PBS documentary The Mormons

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Super Singer Award & Badges #1 (Singer award badges and birthday buttons) to DOWNLOAD

Award Certificate: Present children with this Reverence Award Certificate to DOWNLOAD

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