Follow the Prophet: Family Feud

We've been working on the song "Follow the Prophet" pg 110, for a few weeks now, so I wanted to see if they are really getting the words and the story behind them.  So I made a quiz about the 3 verses we are learning.  Each answer had 2 options, and both were phrases from various parts of the song, just mixed up from a different verse.  For instance:

Q: Where was Moses leading Israel?

A: (wrong) Lion's Den,  or (right) Promised Land

I would pick two reverent kids to come up and gave each of them a flyswatter.  I read the two possible answers out loud and laid them out on a table in front of them.  Then I quickly read the question and they had to see who could swat the right answer first.  Some of them were tough, because both answers could work so they had to really think about the words from the correct verse.  Even the Sunbeams had heard the song enough that most of them eventually figured it out, and I purposely gave them the easier questions.

There were 5 clues for each verse, and I had this charted on the board.  All the questions were mixed up so as the kids answered questions correctly I put them up on the board in their corresponding spot in relation to the 3 verses.  When we got all the answers right for one verse we paused and sang it, and then continued on until we had done all 3 verses.

For junior primary I made sure to repeat the answers a number of times for the youngest who couldn't read.  I also had them review the 3 verses before we started the game.  Senior primary did not need this review.  I also did not separate them into specific teams like boys/girls, left/right etc.  Instead I just gave points to the color of the flyswatter the winner was holding.  That way no one really felt like the were on the losing team particularly since I handed out the flyswatters randomly anyway.

This took up quite a bit of singing time, but I really liked it because it showed me just how much they were really understanding the song, not just memorizing it, and the kids had great fun whacking away at the right answers.

For a wiggle song we did the "Wise Man and the Foolish Man" pg 281, and I had the Sunbeams be the floods, all holding a blue blanket that they raised up on each chorus.  An older (taller) class stood behind them with clouds (quilt batting) and lowered them as the rains came down.  Sunbeams were pretty uncoordinated, but it was fun anyway, and got all of them involved.