Keep the Commandments

Teaching the song "Keep the Commandments" (pg 146) can be fairly easy as there is a lot of repetition.  This concept worked really well:

1) Ask the kids "Where do we find the commandments?"  When they say scriptures sing the song "Scripture Power" and while doing so dress up someone as a warrior, specifically with the "Sword of Truth" and "Shield of Faith" from the 2nd verse.  I also talked about the difference between warrior offense (sword, etc.) and defense (armor/shield)  You could the discuss a few of the commandments and see if they can figure out which ones are offense (the ones that are proactive - the SHALLS), and the ones that are defense (the SHALL NOTS).

2) Ask "Who brought us commandments?"  Sing "Follow the Prophet" Moses verse (pg 110) and dress up another kid as Moses.  I put some of the key words of the song on a "staff" and had him raise it up and then lead the kids around the room.  

3) Now tell the kids that the best way to keep the commandments is to do them over and over until they become habit. Then have them learn the song by showing the repetition of certain phrases. I wrote the beginning of each line on the board to show how it often repeats, and then I had "Moses" use his staff to point to each line as we sang it.

4) I had a little time left at the end so we sang the song a couple more times and passed around a set of commandments I made out of cardboard, and when I stopped the music the person holding it had to name one of the 10 commandments.