{"id":140,"date":"2011-05-15T04:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-05-15T04:07:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T04:07:00","slug":"elephant-conducting-wand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Conducting Wand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It sure was fun last week on Mother’s Day. I enjoy my little granddaughters so much. They are the light of my life. Here’s a picture my daughter snapped of us hanging out together last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Conducting helpers for Primary Singing Time…..not!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I thought this idea for a “conducting helper” was a real hit! It is an elephant poster with a circle cut out for the “trunk” and guess what the trunk is? Yes, that’s right, your arm as it is conducting the songs!
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Made by Brynn & Tifany from Port Orchard, WA.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Email- <\/a>thoeche@gmail.com<\/a>“<\/span><\/h3>\n

A link for a tutorial on how to make the conducting poster is HERE at Sugar Doodle.<\/a> Those kinds of things are always so engaging for the kids that they sing and don’t even realize they are putting in a lot of practice because they all want a turn to do the fun activity. Another kind of conducting wand that may be even easier is HERE at the Crazy Chorister<\/a>. She just tied ribbons to a dowel to make a “conducting wand”.  Either way it would be a fun way to get kids to sing with you and be engaged in the music as you drill those verses of this challenging song. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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This is a cute one I saw on Pinterest <\/a> and you’d just use a balloon and have somebody in back blowing it up. with a pump. So cute! <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Have 1 child from each class come up and conduct a verse of the song. Still working on Praise to the Man? This will be a great help to keep up some motivation.  A flipchart for Praise to the Man is HERE. <\/a>You could teach simple 1, 2 conducting. Most of the 4 year olds on up can do it.  For a senior primary maybe try the 4\/4 time conducting. It is good practice for the older kids to learn conducting. Plus they practice singing while they are concentrating on their conducting arms! So you get 2 birds with one stone. Yay! Have fun conducting.<\/p>\n

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It sure was fun last week on Mother’s Day. I enjoy my little granddaughters so much. They are the light of my life. Here’s a picture my daughter snapped of us hanging out together last week. Conducting helpers for Primary Singing Time…..not! I thought this idea for a “conducting helper” was a real hit! It … Continue reading “Elephant Conducting Wand”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[169,170],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pattiesprimaryplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}