He Sent His Son, Sacred Songs ARR.

The Sacred Songs arrangement of He Sent His Son can be found HERE.

He Sent His Son Jeopardy!

Play He Sent His Song Jeopardy!

1. Divide the Primary into teams
2. Invite two kids up to the buzzers
3. Determine a category chooser (I used the picking sticks to give another child a chance to help).
4. Choose category.
5. Ask question
6. First to buzz gets chance to answer. If they don't get it, the other player gets a chance to answer.
7. Give points to the team of whoever got it right, then sing that Q+A phrase. 
8. Repeat

I intended to write the name of the song on the board next to the game title. It didn't happen - but was a good thought.

Laminated pieces. The categories and questions are taped on and can be removed for future use.

Categories and Questions specifically for He Sent His Son:

TELL

• How could the Father TELL the world of love and tenderness?
• How could the Father TELL the world of sacrifice and death?
• TELL us what this whole song means [that Jesus lived and died for us!]. (sing last phrase)

SHOW

• How could the Father SHOW the world the pathway we should go?
• SHOW us all of the actions we learned for this song. [In JR: SHOW us your favorite action we learned for this song.]  (Sing the whole song with the actions)
• SHOW us where Jesus' hands were pierced when he hung on the cross. (sing the "of sacrifice, of death" Q+A phrase)

ASK

• What does the Father ASK of us? What do the scriptures say?
• What does he ASK?
• Who did Heavenly Father ASK to bear the sins of all Mankind [Jesus]. (sing the "pathway we should go" Q+A phrase)

*The first 2 questions are taken straight out of the song. When those are figures out, song that Q+A phrase. The red ones are the super hard questions. They're toughies. The part in parentheses suggests which part of the song to sing after those questions are answered.  :)

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PREP:

Two bells/buzzers

Game title
Category titles

9 category questions with point value on the back

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UPDATE:

• As I'd expected, this activity was a little tougher in JR - but with lots and hints and help we made it through.  ;)  And SR Primary loved it. Sometimes things lean younger or older. This activity leans older, but that doesn't mean it can't be done in JR. Just gotta make it work sometimes.  :)
• In JR I utilized my flip charts for this song (seen in this post). That helped.  :)  Visuals usually do for JR.
• Also, everyone in the Primary found out that I can't do math. In fact, math is nowhere near anything I studied in college. At all. DOH.

He Sent His Son: Picture Takeaway

Have all pictures/flip chart for this song displayed. Explain that this songs tells us that Heavenly Father sent something away. He sent Jesus to die for us that we might live again. We are going to play a game. We will send someone away. While they are gone we will take down a picture. When they return they have to guess which picture is missing while we sing. (In JR, put the picture back and move on. In SR, keep taking away until all gone).

He Sent His Son: Split Singing

Split the Primary. One side sings the questions, the other side with answers. Then switch.  **If you sing a question, draw a question mark in the air. If it’s an answer, draw an exclamation point.

- Left Side/Right Side (switch)
- Boys/girls (switch)
- Teachers/Students (switch)

Sometime in the lesson ask, HOW MANY QUESTIONS IN THAT SONG? HOW MANY ANSWERS?

Sent on a String

Learn the song "He Sent His Son by asking questions and getting the answers 'sent' to the Primary.

I had someone hidden behind a rolling chalkboard. There was a string that led from them to me (taped to the table). They had numbered tubes ready to be sent to the Primary on my cue. The pictures for the 'answers' in this song were rolled up inside the tubes. I added the pics to the flipcharts as we went along and learned the song. Full lesson typed out below the pictures...

These are the hand drawn pictures I added to the text on my flipchart.
The 'questions' I put on the charts already, the 'answers' were rolled in the tubes and sent to us.

This was the flip chart. The 'question' already had the picture.
Once the 'question' was learned well enough, the 'answer' was sent in the tube via the string.
**I put the Q's on one color paper and the A's on another. It helped visually.
***I don't always post ALL the words, but for some reason I did on this song.

Always number and label everything.  :)

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SAY: We are going to learn a new song today. Let's listen to it first.

♫ Listen to the Pianist Play through the song ♪

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SAY: This song is made up of questions and answers. We are going to ask questions and see if we can get the answers. What we're doing today is kind of like prayer. You can pray to Heavenly Father and he will give you answers. Today we are going to ask questions in our singing voices and perhaps the answers will be sent to us.

SAY: Let's ask our first question. (put up picture or Earth/heart). *Learn/sing... "How could the Father tell the world of love and tenderness?"

- Sing a few times and when it's good enough, cue the first answer to be sent. [The answer is attached to a toilet paper tube on a string that is already set up and you have someone in on it to help you out].

Finish the verse, then SAY: We have been sent an answer! Let's see what has been sent to us. Okay.... What were we asking?... (kids answer):"How could the Father tell the world of love and tenderness?".... and the answer to that is (show picture of baby Jesus).... "He sent his Son, a new born babe, with peace and holiness" (put picture up by the first picture).

♫ Sing that part a few times. ♪

2

SAY: Okay, let's ask another question. Let's sing and ask (put up picture of path)... "How could the Father show the world the pathway we should go?"  Hmmm... that's a good question! Let's sing and see if we can get another answer...

- Sing a few times and when it's good enough, cue the second 'answer' to be sent. 

OPEN the answer: "He sent his Son to walk with men, on earth, that we may know." (put up picture of shoes)

♫ Sing just that question and answer. Then sing from the beginning to that part a few times. ♪

3

SAY: Let's ask another question. Let's sing and ask (put up picture of gravestone), " How could the Father tell the world of sacrifice, of death?"

- Sing a few times and when it's good enough, cue the third 'answer' to be sent. 

OPEN the answer: "He sent his Son to die for us and rise with living breath". (put up picture of empty tomb)

♫ Sing just that question and answer. Then sing from the beginning to that part a few times. ♪

4

SAY: How about another question? Let's try.... " What does the Father ask of us? What do the scriptures say?" (put picture up of scriptures)

- Sing a few times and when it's good enough, cue the fourth 'answer' to be sent. 

OPEN the answer: "Have faith, have hope, live like his Son, help others on their way". (put picture up of faith/hope/help).

♫ Sing just that question and answer. Then sing from the beginning to that part a few times. ♪

5

SAY: This is our last question... it's a really short one. Think we can do it? ... "What does he ask?" (put up picture of question mark)

- Sing a few times and when it's good enough, cue the fourth 'answer' to be sent. 
OPEN the answer: "Live like His Son." (put up up picture of Jesus)

♫ Sing just that question and answer. Then sing from the beginning to that part a few times. ♪
♫ Sing whole song ♪


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PREP:

--string/yarn
--5 toilet paper tubes (unless you're going to send one tube back and forth, but uhhh......)
--tape, or some way to attach the messages to the TP tube (or, roll the messages up inside the tube)
-- a helper
--rolling chalkboard
--flip chart
--Pictures for the questions and answers in the song:
Earth/heart
baby jesus
path/arrow road sign
shoes
gravestone
resurrected Jesus / empty tomb
scriptures
faith, hope, help
pic for "Son"

He Sent His Son: Sending Something Special

source

To emphasize the song He Sent His Son, have the children draw pictures of something really important to them. Put them in envelopes. Start with your envelope. Reinforce how hard it is for you to send this away, but you know it's important to do it, so you are going to do it. Tell the children that they are going to put their special thing into the mailbox just like you did. When they feel a tap on their shoulder they can put their envelope in the mailbox with yours. Sing the song (a few time through, if needed) until all the envelopes are in the box. Ask the children if it would be hard to send away something very special to them. Ask them how Heavenly Father felt when he sent his Son to Earth to die for men. He did this because he loves us.

*My own thoughts are that I might just do this in SR Primary. This concept might be too hard for JR to grasp. I see too many tears in little eyes when I'm trying to take away something they love... yikes. But I think it could really hit home in SR. As with any idea on this or any blog out there, use this idea at your own discretion.


*idea adapted from Sofia's Primary Ideas.

He Sent His Son: Build-a-Song Q&A Pictures in Envelopes

image from LDS.org

Build a song with questions and answers to learn the He Sent His Son. Have papers with the lyrics on them, but no pictures - leave a space for the pictures (it will become the flip chart). Post the papers on the board in order, facing the board.  As you open envelopes you'll flip them over to the text side and have the kids stick the pictures on them.

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♫ Listen to the Pianist Play through the song ♪

• Invite 2 children up;
• Open envelope 1A (Earth/heart) - Flip over page and ask, How could the Father tell the world of love and tenderness? *Child tapes picture to flip chart.
• Open envelope 1B (baby Jesus) - Flip over page and answer, He sent his Son, a newborn babe, with peace and holiness. *Child tapes picture to flip chart.

♫ Sing to that part ♪

• Invite 2 children up;
• Open envelope 2A (path/arrow type road sign) - Flip over page and ask, How could the Father show the world the pathway we should go? *Child tapes picture to flip chart.
• Open envelope 2B (shoes) - Flip over page and answer, He sent his Son to walk with men on earth, that we may know. *Child tapes picture to flip chart.

♫ Sing to that part ♪

• Invite 2 children up;
• Open envelope 3A (gravestone) - Flip over page and ask, How could the Father tell the world of sacrifice, of death? *Child tapes picture to flip chart.
• Open envelope 3B (resurrected Jesus) - Flip over page and answer, He sent his Son to die for us and rise with living breath. *Child tapes picture to flip chart.

♫ Sing to that part ♪

• Invite 2 children up;
• Open envelope 4A (scriptures) - Flip over page and ask, What does the Father ask of us? What do the scriptures say? *Child tapes picture to flip chart.
• Open envelope 4B - Flip over page and answer, Have faith, have hope, live like his Son, help others on their way. *Child tapes picture to flip chart.

♫ Sing to that part ♪

• Invite 2 children up;
• Open envelope 5A (question mark) - Flip over page and ask, What does he ask?
• Open envelope 5B (any appropriate pic of Jesus for "Son") -  Flip over page and answer, Live like his Son.

♫ Sing whole song ♪

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PREP:

• lyric papers (with blank areas for the pictures to be taped on). *I would use two different colors for paper - the questions one color and the answers on another. But that's just me.
• 10 envelopes

Pictures for the questions and answers in the song:

• Earth/heart
• baby jesus
• path/arrow road sign
• shoes
• gravestone
• resurrected Jesus
• scriptures
• faith, hope, help
• pic for "Son"