Mother's Day Song List

Families Can Be Together 188
Love Is Spoken Here 190
The Family 194
Quickly I'll Obey 197
A Happy Family 198
When We're Helping 198
Grandmother 200
I Often Go Walking 202
My Mother Dear 203
Mother Dear 206
Dearest Mother, I Love You 206
Mother, I Love You 207
Dearest Names 208

Mother Tell Me - A Two Week Plan

Here is my idea to split teaching Mother, Tell Me the Story in two weeks.


PREP:
'Story' Flip Chart (put them in a binder or something)
Blanket
Teddy Bear
Chair


WEEK 1:
1. Ask if the children if they like story time! Sit in a chair in front of the Primary and read the flip charts story-style to children while piano plays quietly in background.
2. Learn the 1st verse line-by-line.
3. Cement the verse with hot/cold singing using a Teddy Bear for the remainder of the time.


WEEK 2:
1. Mix up the 'story' (flip charts). See if a class can get them in the right order before the 1st verse ends.
2. Add in the adult part during Storytime Sleepytime.... Spread out a storytime blanket. Invite one class at a time to come up front to the blanket. All the kids sing to the adults in the room - then, see if the Adult part makes the kids on the blanket fall asleep!
3.  Combine parts.

Flowers in Meadows of Clover

I came up with this after I found an unused pack of foam clovers left over from St. Patrick's Day....

Act out the song I Often Go Walking:

Clovers and flowers from the Dollar Store.
I had at least 12 of each.

FIND HELPERS:

• Choose a class to be the "meadow"....
• *Class picks an item off the table and stands in front (or all around the room) as "the meadow"
• Choose a child to be the "Mom" (put on an apron).
• Choose another child to go "walking" (put on a hat).

SING:

• ---> Sing and have the child walk and pick only flowers (not the clovers!)
• When the song ends, bring the bouquet to the "Mother".

THEN:

• Repeat the whole activity

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PREP:

Flowers

Clovers

Apron

Kid Hat


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*Notes:

• This is probably an activity for a larger sized Primary.
• I finally found an activity that made good use of my odd and awkward "L" shaped Primary room!  The kids sat in chairs on one side of the room and we made the "meadow" on the other side of the L. It worked out great!  Hooray!
• It's fun to act it out while signing. My SR Priamry was good at timing it just right to hand the bouquet to the "Mom" as the song ended. They're awesome kiddos.
• I thought this one would give everyone a chance to participate. And it did! Everyone did something. Yet I still had kids who didn't get to do the part they wanted and whatnot... and whined and cried and we had tears. STILL! Aye.... cest la vie, I suppose!
• My kids can get crazy with gross motor move-about-the-room activities. But I know to expect it by now.

Matching Socks

1.  Have a laundry basket full of socks. Ask a child to come up and match a pair. Inside one of the socks is the song to sing.

2.  Sing

3. Repeat


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*This is a good activity for Mother's Day. And HERE is the Mother's Day Song List.

Mother's Day Helpers

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*This activity is one my Mom used to do when she was Music Leader and I was a little girl. We
loved it!

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SONG LIST:

• When We're Helping
• Quickly I'll Obey
• If You're Happy and You Know It
• Saturday
• A Happy Helper
• Fun to Do
• Mother's Day Songs

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Gather cleaning items from around your house. Pint sized items are even better. (see the list below)
Line up all the groups of things on the floor at the front of the room so everyone can see them. These are all of the "chores" a Mother does.

SAY: Today we get to be Mother's helpers! Moms sure do have a lot to do! Let's see if we can do everything a Mom does.

Walk along the line of "chores" you've set out and mess everything up (nicely, not like a ravishing monster).Take the bedding off the bed, scatter the dishes, dump the laundry out of the basket.  Explain as you go what each thing is "...and here we have to make a bed, and here we have to put the laundry in the basket...".  You may need to specifically talk about or demonstrate what is to be done at each "chore".

CHOOSE a child to be the Mother's Helper. Put the Apron on the child. Walk with them to the first item. Point down the line and tell the Mother's Helper that they have to complete all these chores by the time we are done singing.

SING one of the songs on the list.
Then, have the Mother's Helper do all the chores while you sing the song again.... really fast!

Choose another child and REPEAT.

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LIST OF ITEMS (and what to do with them). No need to have ALL the items. Pick and choose from what you have:

• An apron and unused plastic gloves(put on Mother's Helper)
• Plastic make-up, or just a blush brush (get ready for the day)
• Plastic plates, silverware and plastic food (make available, but don't set up so the child "sets" table and puts food on plates)
• A doll crib with a bedding (mess up bedding - child has to make the bed)
• A duster/rag and an item to dust (lay rag by item that needs to be dusted)
• Play iron/ironing board 
• Toy vacuum
• Small broom / hand broom
• Dishes and wash cloth (make in dissary - child "washes" dishes and puts them "away" in a neat orderly fashion)
• Laundry basket full of clothes (scatter clothes on floor - child puts laundry in the basket)
• Computer keyboard (type on it to check email)
• Baby bathtub, doll and washcloth (place items near tub - child gives baby a bath *suggested to leave a diaper on the baby)
• Doll with hair and comb
• Lunch box and plastic food (have food lying out near lunchbox - child packs the lunch)
• Small toybox and toys (put toys away)

Mother, this is why I LOVE YOU!

Chorister's Corner has a cute activity to go with the song Mother, I Love You where the kids tell reasons why they love their Moms. Read it here.

preview of what you'll find in Chorister's Corner blog post

Popcorn Popping - Mother's Day and Father's Day Verses

MOTHERS VERSE *by Pat Preston (England):

I woke up this morning and what did I see?
The sun was shining on the apricot tree.
Spring flowers blossomed right before my eyes,
Just what I needed for a big surprise.
I gathered an armful, a bouquet sweet.
Enough to make my mother such a lovely treat.
I wrapped a ribbon 'round, I went inside to say,
'I love you Mommy, happy Mother's Day!'

FATHERS VERSE *by Janelle Morris:

I woke up this morning and what did I see?
My Dad was working on the apricot tree.
Spring had brought us such a nice surprise,
Popcorn popping right before our eyes.
I went outside to help him a little while,
Being with my dad always makes me smile.
Dad you are the best, So I want to say,
I love you daddy, happy father’s day!

Teaching the Song: I Often Go Walking

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1. Make wordstrips for the song - each phrase a different color
2. Tape the colored worrdstrips on the board
3. Make a bouqet of flowers (on popcicle sticks)
4. Pass out a colored flower to each Teacher
5. Teachers hold up and lower flowers as we sing - Classes sing only the color of their flower, and only when their Teacher is holding their flower up.
6. When you're done singing have the Teachers switch flowers, then sing again!
7. Keep switching flowers and singing :)

PREPARE:

• Lyric phrase wordstrips on colored paper
• Flowers on popcicle sticks (that coordinate with the same colors as the wordstrips)