Singing Hymns
Friend November 2022 “Activity Time” Can you find the missing pieces in the puzzle?
Primary Songs
Friend November 2022 “For Little Friends” Sofia likes to sing Primary songs. Can you finish the pattern of musical notes?
Families Sing Together
Friend February 2022 “Family Treasure Hunt” Collect family history music items such as:
- Make a list of songs and hymns your family likes.
- Record your family singing.
- Draw an instrument that someone in your family plays.
Friend January 2022 “For Little Friends” Coloring Page
History of Primary Songs
Friend October 1984 Add song composers/authors as notes and then play the song. Adjust if needed, then add words.
Friend October 1985 Matching composer/author with song.
General Music Activities
Friend January 2026 “Water Music Fun” Fill each glass with a different amount of water. Gently tap the glasses with the spoon and listen to the different sounds each glass makes. Try coloring the notes on a simple song and playing it.
Friend September 2025 “God’s Power Is a Gift!” Take turns tossing a coin or another small item onto the board. When it lands on a picture, think of a song about that topic. Then sing it together!
Friend August 2021 “Music Countdown”
Come Follow Me Kid You can hide the below song cards around the room, or make a poster punch game or, use the above “Name That Song” activity with them.
Friend May 2017 “Conference Puzzles” Draw a line to finish the title of the song.
Crossword puzzle song review idea– make a crossword puzzle with sentences from the song being reviewed. The missing word in the sentenc will be on the crossword puzzle. Going in numerical order, have the classes take turns telling what word is missing. If they don’t know what the word is, have everyone sing the song and have the class listen carefully for the word. Have a child from the class fill in the word on the puzzle.
Song Review Ideas
Attach a ribbon to a stick. Have the children sing louder when the stick is waved high and quieter when the stick is waved low.
Friend May 2016 Freeze Dance. Pick one person to be the music master. That person picks songs to play, and everyone else dances to the music. When the music master pauses the song, everyone else freezes! Anyone who moves is out. The last person dancing becomes the new music master, or you can take turns if there is a tie. (Or make it non-competitive and no one gets out. After the song is done a new music master is chosen according to who froze or sang the best.) Download free, fun music at lds.org/youth/music. (Could also be used as an activity sing idea to get wiggles out.)
Music in the Home
Friend November 2017 “For Little Ones” Activity ideas for using music in the home.
Just for Fun
For the Strength of Youth March 2025 “Fun Stop” The Lord loves “the song of the heart” (Doctrine and Covenants 25:__). Find the verse number for this scripture by figuring out what the symbols represent in the math puzzle and then solving the final equation. The numbers are even and the largest number is 8.
Jesus loves “the song of the heart.”
Come Follow Me Kid Mystery Person Puzzle – Guess who the person is by doing a puzzle.
Have the Emma Smith picture pieces cut out and put in a paper bag. Without looking, everyone will pull
one piece out at a time. As they pull each piece out, have them find the matching number on the white
clue chart. Before you tape the piece on the number where it belongs, read the hint for that number
and talk about what it means. Once the puzzle’s all put together, summarize who Emma Smith was and
how we can be inspired by her.
Doctrine and Covenants 25:11–12
Come, Follow Me—For Home and Church: Doctrine and Covenants 2025
After reading Doctrine and Covenants 25:12, you could tell each other about your favorite hymn or Church song—your “song of the heart”—and sing them together. Share with each other why you love these songs. Why is the Lord happy when we sing these songs? How is our singing like “a prayer unto [Him]”?
For the Strength of Youth “Making the First Hymnbook”
Friend September 2025 “God’s Power Is a Gift!” (See more at link) Activity: Emma Smith was asked to create the first hymnbook. We still sing hymns today! Take turns tossing a coin or another small item onto the board. When it lands on a picture, think of a song about that topic. Then sing it together!
Doctrine and Covenants Coloring Book “Emma Smith Gathered Hymns”
Friend March 2025 “Jesus Loves the Song of the Heart”
Primary 5: Doctrine and Covenants and Church History “Lesson 14: Emma Smith Selects Sacred Hymns” (This link includes stories, activity ideas, and question ideas)
What has Heavenly Father promised us if we sing hymns to worship him? (D&C 25:12.) What kinds of blessings might we receive from singing hymns? Explain that hymns can help teach us the gospel and strengthen our faith and testimonies. They can help us want to repent and keep the commandments. They can make us feel happy when we are sad and can fill our minds with good, clean thoughts (see enrichment activity 5). They remind us that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love us.
See Music for ideas and stories on how sacred music helps us.
The Lord said that sacred music “is pleasing unto me.” Help the children see singing as not just a fun activity but also a way to worship Him. Singing is one way we can show our love for God.
- Teach the children a song about singing, such as “Lift Up Your Voice and Sing” (Children’s Songbook, 252),
Friend March 2021 “Scripture Time Fun: Name that Song” Have a family song challenge! One person hums a Church song. Everyone else guesses what song it is. When someone guesses right, everyone sings the song together! Then take turns choosing the next song.
