Sunday, May 31, 2009

Primary Putting

Yesterday was a little stressful trying to come up with another fun idea for today, it being the 5th Sunday. I had a random thought that utilizing more sports ideas would be a fun idea for teaching during the summer and the first one that popped into my head was making a golf course. After much thought, here's what I came up with:

I covered a Huggies box (one of the jumbo packs from Costco) with old wrapping paper turned inside out and cut 8 "holes" along the base. Then I printed out PRIMARY PUTTING in cute font on colored paper and taped it to the box. (But ran out of time to further decorate so if I ever do upload a picture, please don't judge me!)

Anyway, then I numbered each hole. Then I labeled 8 strips of construction paper with the number 1-8 on one side and put the name of one of the songs we've been working on on the other side. Since it's only May, I had 3 WILD cards, as I'm very much planning on using this as review in the future as well.

I had all the kids think of their favorite Primary song while I put my strips of paper on the board. (For some reason, very few can come up with a song on the spur of the moment.) Then I put a line of masking tape on the floor and drew a name for our first golfer. We sang the song corresponding to the number of the hole the ball went through. If a golfer hit the ball through a hole and we had already sung the song, we would just sing it again - review, right?

Lots of fun! And reusable!!! Please share any other sporty ideas!

4 comments:

  1. That is awesome! Our kids would love that. We have done bowling in the past with upside down cups and a ball. The kids love it.

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  2. How cute! Thanks, I think I will use that.

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  3. This is an awesome idea! We played baseball in our primary this year. Boys vs girls. I drew a basic baseball diamond on the chalk board and had 4 cut out girls and 4 boys. If they sang the song evenly, it was a single. If the defensive team sang better, it was an out, if the offensive team sang it better it was anywhere from a double to a homerun! We only needed 2 outs to change sides. We ended up playing two innings. The kids loved this. Also, to keep the kids involved, they had to pick a baseball to decide the song (the songs were on the back). Our primary kids loved this one because they got to compete and I loved it cause they are really motivated to practice the songs!

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  4. What a great idea! And Diane--thanks for sharing your comment--that baseball game sounds like a lot of fun and one that would be easy to store (in my limited space I LOVE easy to store stuff!) I'm so glad you shared it!!

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