Follow the Prophet

"Follow the Prophet" (CS110) is a really fun song! I decided to do verses 1, 2 and 9 from the Children's Songbook, so Adam, Enoch, and then just modern day prophets.

I wanted to do something active for the song because it is quite a "bouncy" song.

So what I did was set up a circle of chairs in my part of the Primary room, with half of the chairs being brown and half black.

I first taught the chorus, and what we did for the chorus was everyone stood up and we'd walk around the inside of the circle, all following each other. For "Don't go astray" I got them all to do a bit of a side step, and for "He knows the way" we all held up one hand ahead of us. Then wherever they were standing when the chorus ended they'd have to sit down. The idea was that they'd all sit in a different place for each verse.

Then for the verses I split each line in half. We'd have the people on the black chairs singing the first half of the line, and the people on the brown chairs singing the second half of the line. I stood at the break between the types of chairs and I'd point to the group that had to sing each time, and I managed to make it a bit of a competition too (I always find that helps ;o) ) Then when we got to the chorus we'd all stand up and march around the circle doing the actions, and we'd end up sitting in slightly different places. So they all got to sing both sides of each line.

I taught the chorus and verse 1 the first week, and then verse 2 the second week (the Elders joined us for Primary that day, and the kids loved having them join in the marching and singing) I had to also explain about the story of Enoch so that they'd understand what they were singing about. For the third week I was sick, so my sister taught verse 9, using the same formula, but there were a lot of kids missing that day.

The fourth week I needed to do verse 9 again because of all the kids who'd been missing, but I didn't want to do the same thing again. So I cleared the room, and then got them all to line up next to each other at one end of the room. We'd sing the verse (and we recapped all 3 verses) and then for the chorus I'd choose who had sung the best and they got to lead everyone down the length of the room and back again, doing the normal side step and raised hand. Most of the kids got a turn to be the leader, and they just loved it!