LDS Primary Singing Time, Fun Song Activities, “Sunny Sunday Sounds” pick-a-song & singing gauge, Music leader, sharing time, family home evening

PRIMARY MUSIC SINGING TIME ACTIVITIES to Motivate Children to Sing
Sunny Sunday Sounds pick-a-song & singing meter to help improve abilities

13 pages (color/black-and-white visuals and instructions)

DESCRIPTION: Use this Sunny Sunday Sounds singing meter to encourage children to sing their best. Rays can be used to write practice songs and center rotates to judge singing.

Use the visuals as a singing gauge or a singing chart. The singing gauge determines how well they sing. The singing chart helps you to determine which songs you sing (using the sun rays).

TO MAKE:

1. To create the face poster, cut out and mount the face wheel on the center of a large poster. Laminate the poster.
2. To create the Sunny Sunday Sounds wheel, cut out and mount the wheel on cardstock paper. Cut out the rectangle (where the words peer through) and circle (where the faces peer through) where indicated on the wheel. Laminate the wheel.
3. Attach the Sunny Sunday Sounds wheel to the poster over the face wheel using a paper fastener or metal brad.
4. You will need 4 pages of sun rays (12 total). To create the sun rays, mount rays on cardstock paper, laminate, and cut out. Draw a large circle on the poster to frame sun rays (see method below*). Write the song titles and page numbers of the songs you wish children to sing on slips of paper and tape one to each sunray (as shown). Note: If you want the color to show through, write or type the song titles on vellum (clear overlay paper). These could be songs you are practicing during the year for the Primary program.

*How to Draw Circle: Tie a pencil or marker to one end of an 8″ string and hold the other end of the string in the center of the wheel. Holding the string tight, place the pencil on the poster starting on the left or right side and draw the circle line.

TO USE:

Option #1: Have a child or leader turn the wheel to the face and word that describes how they are singing, e.g.: super, good, so-so, or poor.

Option #2: As children learn songs, place the sun rays on the chart, or post them all on the chart and take them off as they learn the songs.

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