LDS Primary Singing Time Idea - Mystery Song

A very easy way to motivate your class to sing their very best.

Preparation: Discuss with your pianist ahead of time and have her/him choose at least 10 songs that the children are familiar with. Check out chalk and an eraser from the library.

Directions: Write on the chalkboard (or make a poster if no board is available) Team 1 and Team 2. Divide the class into two teams making an even amount of older and younger kids on each team to make it fair. Then instruct the children that the team that guesses the Primary Song correctly will receive a point. Have the pianist play the first note of a song and let Team 1 guess. If they guess correctly they get a point, if not then the pianist will play two notes and Team 2 gets to guess. If they get it wrong than Team 1 gets to hear 3 notes. Once a team has correctly guessed the song they receive their point, then instruct the children that the team that sings the best (not screaming, but singing well) will also get a point. If both teams sing equally well you can give them each a point. Then when you're finished pick a new song and start with Team 2 trying to guess after hearing only one note.

Note: It would seem hard for the children to guess a song after only hearing a note or two, but we had three songs in a row that the children guessed correctly after only hearing the first 2 notes. Also, to make it easier the pianist played the whole chord for each note.

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