This idea was a little hectic, but I always love when something you do gets to that ONE kid who doesn't always participate, and this one did it.
Anyway, the original idea came from here, and I used it to work on the song "I Know that My Savior Loves Me" for review. I didn't really tweak the idea that much. Here's how it worked for us.
I printed the words to the song with key words highlighted. I then handed out strips of paper with each of these words written on it and told them not to show anyone what their word was. I then explained that I would start the song singing by myself, and when we got to the word that they were holding, they would join in for the rest of the song. By the end, we would all be singing. The printed/highlighted words were so they could see when their word was coming.
We did it this way, and then we did it backwards, where all of us started singing together and then dropped out one by one as the word was sung.
It took a little more explaining for many of the kids to get the concept, and we did it a few times through to get it.
So, it just happened that one of my older boys who doesn't sing much got one of the words that was at the beginning of the song. He was pretty unhappy that he had to be singing almost by himself, with only me for company. But I really encouraged him to be strong and that it wouldn't last long, and he did it and even seemed to like it. I made sure to praise him afterwards for being brave and I even got a smile out of him!
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