Music - Blacklight for Samuel listens
We put together a black light hand show for our music workshop using the song Here I Am Lord. The kids wore white gloves in a darkened room and we put black lights in front.
We sang "Here I Am Lord." and made hand motions (like a rolling wave, a giant heart, the word "save".) Each class practiced individually as part of our rotation. We added an extra week onto the rotation and had all the kids practice together and then perform the song for their parents. We found "Here I Am Lord" to be a perfect illustration for our kids about the story of Samuel.
A few notes that might help others:
- We had permission to copy a song so we made a CD and sent it home with the kids to help them learn the song.
- This only works if you can get the room really dark.
- Washing the white gloves in Tide (which contains phosperous) helps the gloves glow better in the dark.
- We used the same motion for the chorus and assigned one verse to each class to make it simpler to learn.
- A women who knows sign language helped us with the sing-signs for much of the song which helped us come up with hand motions.
- Go to you tube and see what adult choirs are doing to get ideas. (Don't think our children's performance equaled the professionalism of the adult shows. In fact, some of their hand motions were pretty hard to pick out. But they learned a lot and had a great time.)
See a full lesson which uses this idea of blacklight for this story.
Originally posted by member kbalbert
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