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Color a Picture * Four Corners * Bells * Song Visuals & Melody Map * Color Code * Word Puzzle * Cups Movement * Another Melody Map Version * "Dingers" * Scarf Movement (w/Directed Listening Questions) * Paper Plates
Call up a couple kids to color for 15 seconds as everyone sings. Keep repeating the song and letting kids have turns to color until the entire picture has been colored.
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Lives, Love, Spirit, True and Sent, Faith, Spirit, Can - each word on a paper
(use picture/word printable bells - see #3 below with link to blog post).
HOW TO USE:
Bear your testimony of Heavenly Father’s love for you. Then have four helpers hold the words Lives, Loves, Spirit, and True, printed on separate papers. Ask them to stand in different corners of the room (out of order) and repeat their word. Instruct the children to stand, and as they listen to you sing the phrases in the first verse, turn to face the word you’re singing about, and echo the phrase. Repeat, having them sing each phrase with you as the helpers hold their signs up high. Let the children tell the helpers where to stand up front, in order, and sing the verse again. Repeat the process with the second verse using the words Sent, Faith, Spirit, and Can.
Call up a couple kids to color for 15 seconds as everyone sings. Keep repeating the song and letting kids have turns to color until the entire picture has been colored.
You can use the song visuals for a variety of games -
Copy 2 of each and turn into a matching game
Cut up each into puzzles and let kids put together
Have kids hold and arrange themselves in the correct order.
Melody Map - display and have kids figure out what the pictures and colors represent. Repeat the song several times as you ask them questions about the map and discover the answers.
Other ideas - Have them sing only the symbol words and you sing the rest and vice versa.
Add actions to keywords/symbols and inner-sing while doing the actions, or sing everything but inner-sing the keywords/symbols and vice versa.
Color Code Display - instructions and printable available here
Try this fun logical activity to engage readers and non readers alike. This printable I Know My Father Lives Color Code will make it easy to sing the song over and over, with purpose!
Split up your Primary into small groups – by class or otherwise – and they’ll love playing this fun I Know My Father Lives Word and Letter Puzzle unscramble game challenge. See if they can put together their phrase before you finish singing through the song the first time. Then, break off the singing for an engaging way to repeat the song a few more times.
Tell the kids that as you sing a phrase, they will need to try and figure out which words goes in the corresponding crossword part (1, 2, 3, etc.). Point to the first crossword piece and sing the first phrase of the song (they can sing along if they know the words). Ask the kids if they figured out which words work to fit the squares. If they don't know, repeat the phrase and add just a bit more emphasis on the words. (Ex: First Phrase - FATHER & LIVES).
JUNIOR PRIMARY MODIFICATION - just use the pictures.
Add the pictures in a line on the board and have the kids guess which picture goes with which phrase.
Ex: Father - God
Loves - God hugging kid heart
Extension: Re-arrange the order and kids put in order as singing.
9. ANOTHER MELODY MAP VERSION
[Idea credit: Sharla Dance]
WHAT YOU NEED:
8.5x11 white cardstock & a black marker
Make the melody map as shown in the video below starting at 4:05
10. "DINGERS"
[Idea credit: Sharla Dance]
WHAT YOU NEED:
3 different sizes of "dingers" (pots, triangles, boxes, etc.) - something that sounds 3 different pitches when hit.
See video below for instructions starting at 5:30
MODIFICATION TO MAKE IT EASIER: Cut out the 2 sets of fast 3 hits and just do 1 set of 3 slower hits. Ex: I KNOW (big hit and lift) my father LIVES (3 slower hits instead of 6 fast hits).
You may also want to PRECURSOR the activity with instruments by having the kids use two fingers on their palms and tapping the same pattern (i.e. either 1 big hit/lift then 2 sets of 3 fast hits, 6 total) OR 1 big hit/lift then 1 set of 3 slower hits).
11. SCARF MOVEMENT (w/DIRECTED LISTENING QUESTIONS)
