Activity Idea for ‘On My Knees’ Song (Senior, Junior, and Combined)
Our Primary has decided to sing the song ‘On My Knees’ by Camille Uribe for our Primary Program this year as part of the D&C focus on prayer and revelation. We got it approved by the Bishop and we have been learning the first verse and chorus.
For the activity this week I did ‘Mixed Up Phrases - Hidden Around the Room’
This is where you print out phrases from the song, and ‘hide’ them around the room. As you sing the song, you tap kids on the shoulder to send them off to go find a phrase, and put it up on the board.
This is what the end result looked like.
You will notice the picture puzzles at the bottom. We have a combined Junior and Senior Primary so the younger kids were tasked with finding and assembling the pictures instead of the words. Because it is hard to put something in order when you can’t read. :)
The purple phrases are the ones that rhyme, which you can use as an extender if they collect and organize the words too fast. Sing the song again asking them ‘Why do you think these are a different color?’ and let them figure out the puzzle.
Here is the Google Doc of the phrases split up into 15 segments. You can make your own copy and customize it. If you have more kids in your Primary, make the phrases smaller so more kids have a chance to find and place.
Here is the link -> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CZS-tSntomXMa1TXcbPsmS5_XF9MNhVv2pznxCvuXHs/edit?tab=t.0
And here are the pictures for the Junior Primary. They represent ‘Pray’, ‘Heavenly Father’, and ‘whisper’
The first two are official Church images, the last one I created so everything is legal and happy. :)
Here are some tips to help this activity run smoothly.
Use painters tape, or masking tape rolls to hide the pictures. It makes it easy for the kids to pick and place.
Get a tupperware and put a bunch of rolled up pieces of tape in it. Then when you are hiding the pictures around the room you don’t have to take a ton of time getting your tape ready.
Have extra tape rolls. Some of the kids when they pick them up will lose the tape on the back.
You need someone running crowd control at the board as sometimes the boys will try to place their phrase as high as possible which entails jumping and slapping it on the board. Enthusiasm is good, but you need to make sure it doesn’t become a competition
If you can't tap shoulders and run crowd control at the same time, assign someone from the presidency or some other adult to be the one tapping shoulders to send the kids off to find something.
