milly the church mouse....

How cute is this little mouse. I found him in the clearance bin at Pottery Barn Kids and couldn't pass her up for being our church mouse in singing time. I'm sure some very talented seamstresses could sew one of these pretty easy. But it was worth $4.00 to me. :)

Here are a couple of ideas that I'm going to use her for...
1. Hot and Cold game... Choose a child to go out of the room. Hide the mouse. When the child comes back in, begin singing whatever song you are doing. As the child moves closer to finding Milly, sing louder and softer as the child moves further away from Milly. This game never gets old with children and is a great way to continue to review a song.

2. Introduce the {Junior primary}children to Milly and tell them that Milly really likes to come and listen to the children sing during primary. Milly really likes to hear the sweet sound of music but doesn't like it when the children become loud and irreverent. Milly will get to go to class with a class that is very reverent during singing time.

snowball...

This is my Arizona snowball for singing time. It's a mesh sponge that I picked up in the Dollar spot at target. I'm sure there are lots of fun things you can do with it. I used it last week {I'm going to use it again this Sunday} to help call on children who are being reverent to either participate, say the next word of a song, or answer a question. Anyway that you use it, it may be best if you are sure to keep the reverence in the primary room by first saying a child's name{someone that is being reverent}, look at them, and then throw the ball to them. Of course, always thank them for being reverent. This helps to make sure you don't have children jumping all over to catch the snowball.