For St. Patrick's day, I was fortunate enough to find a fabulous idea from Primary Singing Time Ideas for Leaders. I am adapting it a bit and here is how I plan to do it:
Brittney paired each phrase denoting luckiness (or being blessed) with a song and I put them all on foam shamrocks
I found a package of a dozen shamrocks from the dollar store (you know, 
for a dollar) and bought two packages. In each package, there were 6 
plain foam ones and 6 glittered ones. So I combined each group and wound
 up with 12 plain, 12 glittered and here is what I did with them.
Junior primary - I used the plain foam shamrocks.  I printed the 
statement on one side and then the song on the other. But I wanted to 
highlight the difference between blessed and lucky, so instead of saying
 it, I wrote blessed on the Shamrock, but covered with a sticker that 
says lucky.
I will hide the shamrocks around the primary room with the statement facing outwards 
So a child will find a shamrock that says "We are lucky to have bodies". Then we will talk about where our bodies came from and how Heavenly Father has blessed us
 with bodies. Then the child can peel off the sticker and reveal the 
word blessed. Then we will turn over the shamrock and sing the 
corresponding song (In this case; Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes) 
Senior primary - for senior, I used both sets. I wrote the statement out
 again on each of the glittered shamrocks, but of course on the plain 
side. I will hide the glittered shamrocks around the room, glitter side 
facing out. I will post all of the double sided shamrocks on the board 
with the song facing out. The child will pick a shamrock, read the 
statement, then try to pick the corresponding song and we will sing it 
(Also removing the "lucky" sticker to reveal "blessed" on the statement.
In both singing times, the child will have the option to keep the 
"lucky" sticker if they wish. At the end, I will give each child a "I am
 blessed" sticker (that they can put over their lucky stickers if they 
so wish)
Now I completely just pulled clip art off of Google for the "lucky" and 
"I am blessed"; nothing is original and I really don't have a source to 
credit. If you are against that kind of thing, I apologize. But I 
rationalize all of this plagiarizing by keeping in mind that I am not 
getting paid or making any profit from the work of unnamed others. Hope 
that is okay in the end.


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