Go Fishing (Feed 5,000)

PREP:

- Fishing pole with magnet on the end

- Paper fishies with paper clips. *Write # values on the fishies. In the 100s or 1,000s. Make them easy to add up.
- Chalk and eraser

IN ACTION:

1.   Intro: "Jesus fed 5,000. Can we go fishing and feed that many?"...

2.   Sing.

3.   Choose a child to "go fishing".

4.   Add up the points

5.   Repeat.

Jesus' Life in Songs

Have pictures of Jesus' life (that coordinate with the songs).

1. Sing Tell Me The Stories of Jesus  57
2. Choose a child to pick a picture.
3. Sing the picked song.
4. Repeat.

Song suggestions:
PRE            I Lived in Heaven  4

BIRTH        Sleep Little Jesus  47

                    Mary's Lullaby  44

CHILDHOOD      Jesus Once Was a Little Child  55
BAPTISM            Baptism  100
MINISTRY         Jesus Said Love Everyone  61

                             Love One Another  136
CRUCIFIXION    To Think About Jesus  71

                             He Died That We Might Live Again  65

RESURRECTION       Jesus Has Risen  70
NOW          I'm Trying To Be Like Jesus  78
                   I Feel My Savior's Love  74

                   I Belong to The Church of Jesus Christ  77

SECOND COMING     When He Comes Again  82

Draw the Stories of Jesus

This is an idea to go with Tell Me The Stories of Jesus...

After learning the first verse, hand out paper and crayons and let the children draw their favorite story of Jesus while the song is playing on repeat.  Maybe the piano, the Children's CD, or the video of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's version of this song.

Tell Me The Stories of Jesus Q&A

This is for the 1st Verse of Tell Me The Stories of Jesus.

ASK (thumbs up or thumbs down): Do you like to hear stories?... I do to!

SING,  Tell me the stories of Jesus

ASK: Who can tell me a story of Jesus? (take a few answers)

SING,  Things I would ask him to tell me, if he were here

ASK: "What would you ask Jesus, if he were here?"

SING,  Scenes by the wayside, tales of the sea

ASK: "What is a wayside?" (a place outside of the city). "What is the sea?" Are there any stories of Jesus and the sea?" (calming the water, walking on water, fishing...)

SING Stories of Jesus, tell them to me!

SING WHOLE SONG

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*Idea adapted from Simply Spritual

Feed 5,000

*This idea is for repeat-singing Tell Me The Stories of Jesus.

PREP:

1. Clear container (marked 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000)
2. Scoop
3. Fish Crackers
4. Handouts

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1.  INTRO:
"One of the stories of Jesus is when Jesus fed 5,000 people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes."

2.  READ Matthew 14:17-21

17 And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.

18 He said, Bring them hither to me.

19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and abrake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they atook up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

21 And they that had eaten were about a five thousand men, beside women and children.

3.  Display the clear, marked container

"Today we are going to feed 5,000 today by singing our best!  If we sing well, we will get a big scoop in the jar!  Let's see how many we can feed!"

4.  Sing and Scoop!

Repeat as many times as it takes.

5.  AFTER: Hand out little bags of fishies with the Scripture

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*Idea from Kay Maynard on the LDS Choristers Facebook Group.

VIDEO: Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Tell Me The Stories of Jesus

Here is the LINK to the above video.


Or, THIS video. Same song, with pictures of Jesus overlayed on the audio of the choir singing:

Water Wands

I will use these for the song Baptism (p 100). Not too expensive* and easy to make.
....One year later.... I am now going to use these for the song Tell Me The Stories of Jesus (p57).

Supplies:

• shower curtain rings
• ribbon (blue, light blue, white)
• scissors

Instructions:

1. cut ribbon to desired length
2. select ribbon strands
3. bend all ribbon in half, loop around the ring and pull through the loop
4. tie an extra knot to keep in on tight

More detail on how to tie the ribbon on the rings:
I held all the ribbon strands together, made a loop, went around the ring and pulled the strings through. It was still loose and I was worried about it coming apart, so THEN I tied an extra knot at the base of the ring to secure it. Then I trimmed it if any strands looked too long.

Also,
Mine slide along the ring, but I don't think they'll come off. As long as the ribbon isn't coming loose I think it's good. :)

*Approximate cost, for those interested; Ring = 10 cents, Ribbon 48 cents for one spool which was cut and divided between all the wands.