If The Savior Stood Beside Me - Penny Games Lesson Plan

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LEARN THE SONG - If the Savior Stood Beside Me

• Put word strips up one by one.
• After all are up - ask the children to take them down (roll a die to see how many to take down). Until they are gone.  *MAYBE USE THE FLIP CHARTS FROM OCD CHORISTER
• Repeat for all 3 verses.

EXPLAIN
A good way to remember something is to put a penny in your shoe. Then, whenever you feel the penny you’ll remember whatever it is you’re supposed to remember. At the end of Primary I’m going to give you all a penny to put in your shoe. Keep it there every day this next week and every time you feel the penny think to yourself, “would I want the Savior seeing or hearing what I am doing right now?".

PLAY "PENNY GAMES" (and sing while we’re playing!)

Penny, Penny, Who Has the Penny? (JR & SR)

• Children pass around a penny (maybe have a few going around). A child comes up to the front. Kids sing, pennies are passed around. Pianist stops somewhere in the song. Child at front guesses where a penny is.  If the person has a penny, they have to finish the lyrics. If not, they don’t have to. Repeat.

Penny Pinchers

• Split Primary into Teams.
• Pick a child from each team to come up. They are the “Penny Pinchers”.
• All children sing while the Penny Pinchers pinch as many pennies as they can and carry them to their Team’s collection container.
• *Tell the children that if I, their Teachers, or the Presidency catch someone not caught not singing I will have to take coins out of their Team’s collection container.

Penny Rolling

• Flatten a long cardboard tube (paper towel tube)
• Roll a penny see if they can knock down objects - see how many they can knock down while we sing.

Penny Bucket (SR)

• We sing while children try to walk from one side of the other with a penny on your shoe. Get the penny in the bucket without using your hands.
• Have a few lines on the floor. If the penny drops you only have to go back to that line.
• *Tell the children that if I, their Teachers, or the Presidency catch someone not caught not singing I will have to take coins out of their Team’s collection container.

penny rolling (turned into penny bowling when I found these miniature bowling pins!)

penny pinchers

HANDOUT:

A penny with this poem:

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