Showing posts with label Fourth of July. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fourth of July. Show all posts

Saturday, July 5, 2014

Next Year's Fourth of July Activity

Which will still be in June - but what can you do? However, it will NOT be a fifth Sunday. Hate that I found it AFTER this year's Fourth of July Activity, but next year will be new and fresh.
THANK YOU Primary Notes 29!
Her post is as follows:

The planes are named words from the song we sang (My Country, verse 2).
Naming the planes was helpful for when we "kept score".

Put landing strip on the ground and...


Idea #1:
  1. Choose child to throw the plane on the landing strip.
  2. Whatever # area the plane lands in, sing that way (MARCHING, SALUTE, HAND ON HEART...)
  3. Repeat

Idea #2:
  1. Choose three older children to be the "score keepers"
  2. Write the names of the planes on the board
  3. Sing
  4. Choose a child to throw the first plane
  5. Give that plane it's points (if it didn't land on the runway we gave it 5 points)
  6. Repeat for the next plane. And so on.
PREP:
landing strip
paper airplanes
optional traffic controller sticks

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Just found my Fourth of July Activity

Our Fifth Sunday of June just so happens to be the last Sunday before our blessed Independence day. I was kind of stressing this earlier - because I take the whole Sunday on Fifth Sundays and wasn't sure I wanted to dedicate an entire extended sharing/singing time to the Fourth of July.
Well, the pres would like to switch next week and the fifth Sunday since believe it or not, the President, the first counselor, the second counselor and the sub for the first counselor (it's her month) will all be gone this coming Sunday.
So I get the regular amount of time on the Fifth Sunday! It works out so great.
And here is the awesome activity I just found (because - fortunately for me - I do not have a balloon phobia) from Primary Notes 29
{I think the original post is here from Sing With Me}
(Picture from Sing With Me)

I cannot even express how excited my kids are going to be to provide me with several used push pop sticks.