Turns With Phrases is a teaching method that forms groups of children to sing each phrase of the song. A child is chosen from each group to...

Prepare a small heart for each phrase of the song. Draw a large heart on the chalkboard and post the small hearts around it. Challenge the...

Thanks to Sofia at sofiasprimaryideas.blogspot.com , I have added great new song review activity to my master list. I'm not sure what So...

These are dollar store paint brushes that I keep on hand for an activity called "Paint the Melody." With a brush in hand, the chi...

On a strip of paper or cardstock, write the first letter of each word in a phrase or line of the song. If the phrases are particularly long,...

Choose three or four keywords from each phrase of the song and write them on one side of separate word strips. Now choose a synonym for each...

Some teaching methods don't use discovery questions, but use other activities to involve the children in listening to the song. "En...

An exploded flipchart is essentially a flipchart, just stop before you have it all put together. Collect a blank sheet of paper for each phr...

Prepare a game board with as many squares or steps as there are lines or phrases in the song, plus 2. Place some kind of marker at the ...

Using pictures from the GAK, the manual picture kits or your own picture file, select several pictures for each phrase of the song. Find mor...

Look at the rhythms of a song you want to teach. Are there interesting or memorable patterns? How do the rhythm patterns relate to one anoth...

“When You Hear...” is another method which takes advantage of movement and actions. Challenge the children to listen carefully and do severa...

You might think dramatization wouldn’t work as a method for teaching a song, but for some songs it works perfectly. Recently, I needed to te...

Hidden Pictures is a teaching method adapted from the second idea in the November 2006 issue of the Friend magazine (pg.16). Collect 2 or m...

Song Scramble is a fun way to teach a song. This is adapted from the fourth idea in the Sharing Time Ideas in the March 2004 issue of the ...

If I put my finger to my lips, what word comes to your mind? “Action Substitutes” is another way to add movement as you teach a new song. Fo...

It is a fact that movement helps children learn. While we know this fact, for some reason teachers seem to favor the methods which rely on v...

I still need to teach the song “Faith” for our program. Some of our kids are kind of familiar with this song, but it sounds like I should te...

Because I like to use questions to teach a song, I’m always looking for creative ways to ask the questions. In some cases it works best to a...

My favorite method for teaching a new song is to use questions. I call them “discovery” questions. These are questions that you ask before y...