Primary Punch

My favorite show when I was sick from home as a kid was "The Price is Right" and so many of the games they play on that show can be adapted to primary singing time.  In fact, my dream one of these days (after the program) is to do a "The Song is Right" day in primary and do all sorts of games like Primary Punch, Primary Plinko, etc.  I even have a really "loud" jacket to wear that is very shiny and exciting.  Can't wait!

This is what mine looked like, but not even this nice.

In the meantime I'm working on trying out a few of these games.  Primary Punch is one of them.  The kids get to punch through a tissue paper covered cup and get the song title inside (or object to represent the song).  I wanted to have a whole board and nice set-up but I didn't have the right materials and my husband wasn't around to help with some logistics, so I just threw something together like this:

The kids loved the idea and had fun, so that's the most important part.  But it needs some tweaking for next time.  They got so into the punching that the cups didn't last long on the board and came off.  Also, putting rubber bands around tissue paper so it didn't come off or rip was harder than it looked, should have had my kids help but I was running behind. 

This is what I'm going to try next time!

I think next time I'll try something more stable, put the cups behind a sturdy piece of cardboard, and just tape or glue squares of tissue paper over the holes.  Much simpler I think.  We shall see.  I'm envisioning something more like this:

Now I think I'll go scrounge up that loud jacket and get working on a Plinko board, I'm thinking of using pegboard, seems like it would be pretty simple?!  However, in primary music I've learned that what seems simple can actually be fairly complicated, so this time I'm not going to try throwing it together last minute.