Fun ways to CHOOSE (songs or ways to sing)

1. Spinner - I used the spinner from a Twister game and taped a posterboard circle to it.  Then I divided it into sections and taped on pictures of different ways to sing.

2. Dice - get a big  cube-shaped box (like 8 inches so all the kids can see it) and tape ways to sing on all the sides.

3. Tennis ball full of papers: I cut slits for the mouths so when you squeeze the ball, they open and the kids can take out a paper.

4. Swatting bugs with a fly swatter: I blew up black balloons and twisted a pipe cleaner around the knot to make antennae.  Then I twisted a paper clip around a fly swatter and cut the ends to make them sharp.  We would swat a "bug" and inside is a red paper (its guts) with a way to sing our song.

5. Fishing - put songs on fish and stick a paper clip to them so they are magnetic.  Then hang a magnet from a piece of string on a pole and that is your fishing pole!  We did a variation of this for Pioneer day: I scattered little black papers (crickets!) with paperclips on them all over the floor.  They had songs written on them.  I made a seagull out of white cardboard and glued a magnet to its beak.  Then we swooped it around and sang the songs on the crickets it ate.

6. Mailbox full of envelopes that have ways to sing (you can use this for a Valentine's theme or missionary letters)

7. Raindrops on umbrella

8. Clothes hanging on a clothes line
9. Draw a Cookie Monster on poster board.  Cut a hole where his mouth is.  Tape a ziploc bag behind it to catch the cookies you will put in.  Make paper cookies with songs on them.  Kids select a cookie and feed it to him.  You can also have a glass of "milk," a cup with white papers in it with ways to sing the song.

10. Cover the front of a magnetic dart board with song titles and throw darts at it.

11. Have an adult in the hall call your cell phone at the beginning of singing time (have the volume up really loud).  When you answer, the adult asks for one of the kids in the primary.  When you give the kid the phone, the adult asks them if the primary could please sing him/her a certain song.  You all sing the song into the phone and then hang up.  They call back a moment later and ask for a different kid and a different song.

SEASONAL

Clean out backpack: school supplies have songs/ways on them

Tree with leaves, apples, popcorn to pick off

Easter eggs

Flags/firecrackers

Put features on a Pumpkin

Pluck feathers off a Turkey

Put foods in (or take foods out of) a cornucopia

Crack walnuts open with a Christmas nutcracker.  I previously put song titles inside and hot glued them shut.

Snowball fight: at the end of singing time, they write their favorite songs on a piece of white paper and throw at me.  We sing those next week.

Put features on a snowman

Pick Christmas bells off garland