Christmas Flipcharts

Hey Everyone! 
Happy Holidays! 

Merry Christmas! 
Feliz Navidad!

Here's the flip charts I have for Christmas:

When Joseph Went to Bethlehem

 Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus

Take a look at what the flip charts look like here.
Have fun!

Bridgette

P.S. Cub Master is, in fact, fun. :)

Sing Off

This Sunday for singing time we are going to have a Sing Off!

I will have slips of paper under the bells with names of the songs we will be singing.

 I will have ways to sing the songs taped on slips of paper on the back of these snowflakes from my Christmas tree.

 I plan on suspending the snowflakes from the ceiling.

It doesn't matter what props you use, just as long as the children have one way to choose songs, and another way to choose how they are sung.

How to play:
Choose a class to come up to the front with their teacher. Ask one child from the class to choose a song for their class to sing by picking a song under a bell, and ask another child to choose how they will sing the song by choosing a snowflake. Then have the class "perform" the song that was chosen the way that is written on the snowflake, for the other Primary classes. After the class is finished with their song, move on to the next class until each class has had a turn to perform.

My List of Songs:

• Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus p. 36
• Away in a Manger p. 42
• Once There Was a Snowman p. 249
• Silent Night,  Hymns 204
• Scripture Power
• When Joseph Went to Bethlehem p. 38

Ways to sing:

• Pantomime actions
• Sing and Ring (I have enough bells for one class to ring them together)
• Clap-Clap (Clap knees twice, then clap hands once or twice depending on the time signature)
• Live Nativity (Choose class members to be Nativity members while they perform the song.)
• Orchestra (Use bells, chimes, washboard, pan lids, recorders, maracas, rattles, etc. to combines sounds while they sing.)
• Chain (Have the class link elbows and sway back and forth to the music as they sing.)

Normally, I would have mixed in a few silly ways to sing the songs, but because these are mostly sacred Christmas songs and I want to the mood to be a little more reverent,  I have chosen  more reverent ways to sing.

Do you have any ideas for ways to sing songs reverently? Please comment!

Have fun!

Christmas Passed, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future

Our Primary has been asked to sing 5 songs at our ward Christmas party next Saturday night. Because we have just finished reading the Book of Mormon in 90 days as a ward, (I did it! Yessss!) its sort of a culmination of celebrating Christ's birth and the Book of Mormon, and Christ in the Book of Mormon. So we have been asked to sing these 5 songs:

Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus
When Joseph Went to Bethelehem
Picture a Christmas
Scripture Power
Teach Me About the Temple

Last week we learned Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus and When Joseph Went to Bethlehem, and the children know the other three quite well already, so to review and polish all the songs this Sunday we will be playing my version of:

Christmas Passed, Christmas Present, Christmas Future

Prep:

Write the name of each song you want to review on a slip of paper or even on a blank Christmas card. Put each slip of paper/card in a box and wrap it up as a Christmas present. 

Instructions:

Ask the children if they have ever read the book, or seen the movie, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Explain that in the story, Ebeneezer Scrooge, a cranky old miser who doesn't like Christmas, is visited in the night by three angels, or "ghosts": The Ghost of Christmas Past, The Ghost of Christmas Present, and The Ghost of Christmas Future. Each angel shows him his past, his present, and his future, and in the end he learns about the true meaning of Christmas. Tell the children you are going to review Christmas songs today by playing a game called "Christmas Passed, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future". It doesn't have anything to do with ghosts or Charles Dicken's story, but it is called "Christmas Passed", because we are going to pass one of these Christmas gifts around as we sing each song. "Christmas Present" because when Sister (pianist) stops playing the piano anywhere she chooses to in the song, whoever is holding the present gets to open it while we finish singing the song! And "Christmas Future", because inside the present is the name of the next song we will sing! Whoever opens the present will tell us the name of the next song.

I plan on singing an additional fun Christmas song to begin passing the first present around.

Have fun!

Christmas Songs!

I know some of you have already begun singing Christmas songs, but I am just getting started this Sunday!

Here's two flip charts I made for this month:

You can download and print your own copy by clicking

  Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus

 or 

When Joseph Went to Bethlehem

or you can email me at bridgettepatterson@gmail.com and I'll send you the PDF.

Below are samples of the two flip charts. Don't try to download them from the images below...it's more trouble than it's worth. Easiest to click on the links above or email me. 


For the When Joseph Went to Bethlehem flip chart, print on card stock (on one side only), then laminate and bind across the top edge.

For the Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus flip chart, print on card stock (on both sides of the paper). Next laminate, and bind on the left side.
 

Have fun!