To teach "Beautiful Savior" (pg 62) I started off by focusing on the word "fair" since it is repeated a number of times. I brought in a big mirror from my house and I held it up and asked the kid to look in it. Then I asked them if they knew a story that had a mirror in it. Someone mentioned Snow White, so then I asked them what the Queen says to the mirror in that movie: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, who is the FAIREST of them all?" Then I had the kids tell me what "fairest" meant. Took the junior primary a couple of guesses to define it properly.
I then went on to explain that "fair" meant beautiful and that we would be "Beautiful Savior" and that it started with 3 different mentions of the word "fair." I also then took a moment to explain that "beautiful" is not always just a reference to a girl, but that it can be applied to lots of things/people, so the boys wouldn't be embarrassed by it.
After that I talked about how Jesus would be "beautiful" to us, and asked the kids for some suggestions: 1) that he is perfect 2) he is bright/full of light 3) he has a happy, kind face etc....
In talking about the first line, I mentioned how it starts with the brightest thing, the sun, and then the moon and then the stars, so that they understand there is an order, but that Jesus is brighter/fairer than all of those other things.
I had pictures for the rest of the song and I put them all around the edge of the mirror (it was round) and then had the picture of Jesus in the middle.
We also had fun at the end of the song, because it repeats the last line. So I had them pretend they were the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and they could sing like opera if they wanted, they love when we do this! I always remind them that singing "big" doesn't mean singing "loud", just with a giant full voice that sounds nice still.
This is going to be a beautiful song! I'm having a solo/duet do the 2nd verse which is more complicated. I'm hoping I can also have them do the descant but its pretty high range so we'll see if that happens.
