After teaching a song, I use an activity that motivates the children to sing. These simple activities produce great results. It's amazing how much better the kids sing once they start getting feedback on how well they are singing.
I have collected lots of ideas, they don't all come from me! And some are more obvious than others. I'll list them below and as I post about each one, I'll set up a link to the post.
LIST Bubble Blower Pinwheel Sing-O-Meter Pop-Up Puppy Music Measles Dot-to-Dot Empty Eddie Lost Little Lamb I Spy Shy Stanley Singing Hat Dress-Up Power Ball Fill the Jar String a Song Boys vs Girls Elephant Trunk
IMPORTANT TIP: Use teachers, leaders or children to run the activity so your hands are free to lead and sign. Children love to do these activities, but sometimes need help from an adult. I always have a teacher or leader help them so I can lead the song.
What do you use to motivate your children to sing?
In my senior primary I have a couple of really hard cases. I have a couple that are too cool to sing and some girls that are too shy to sing. It can make for a very quiet singing time at times. With the cools kids I use my kick in the pants approach. I walk up behind them and sing real loud right behind them. Cool kids hate being singled out so they will usually start singing just so that I'll go away. With my shy girls, I'm trying the sun vs. the wind approach. Rather than pushing them to sing, since I know it wont work, I try to draw them in with activities they can perform without being singled out.
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In my senior primary I have a couple of really hard cases. I have a couple that are too cool to sing and some girls that are too shy to sing. It can make for a very quiet singing time at times. With the cools kids I use my kick in the pants approach. I walk up behind them and sing real loud right behind them. Cool kids hate being singled out so they will usually start singing just so that I'll go away. With my shy girls, I'm trying the sun vs. the wind approach. Rather than pushing them to sing, since I know it wont work, I try to draw them in with activities they can perform without being singled out.
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