Keep the Commandments
CS p. 146
Materials:
Cardboard or posterboard
Masking or duct tape
markers
scissors or exacto knife
contact paper (clear) - optional

To Assemble:
Cut out two cardboard tablets (like commandments) and tape sides together on the outside to make a hinge.  You can decorate the tablets any way you choose.  I would sponge paint onto corrugated cardboard tablets to make a stone-like look.  Cover inside with contact paper if desired.  When complete, your stone tablets will open like an easel and sit on the table or the piano easily.

Print and color the art below.  Cut out and laminate or glue to heavier paper.  Use tape or velcro to place the art (5 parts per verse - so five on each tablet) onto the tablets.


Game ideas:
"Keep the Commandments" - cut out a small copy of the stone tablets from heavy cardboard.  Spraypaint and decorate as you see fit.  This is like "hot potato".  Hand one child the commandments, and pass it as you sing.  The child holding the tablets when the music stops is keeping the commandments, and can remove one of the pictures from your visual.  You then sing again from the beginning as the commandments are being passed.

"Sneak Peek" - Hold the tablets in front of you.  As you sing the song, keep the tablets open so the children can see the pictures.  At different times, close the tablets and see who remembers the words as you continue singing!  You can also have the children hum while the tablets are closed, then see who knows the next words as they are opened again.  And, another option is to have the pianist stop playing when the tablets close, and then pick a child to tell you what the next line is.  If they get it right, they get to hold the tablets for the next turn.

Art

To save an image (they are reduced to fit your screen), simply place your mouse icon over the picture, click on the right mouse button, and "save as".  Then, you can pull it into your word processor or graphics program like regular clipart.
The images will be larger and clearer than they appear on the screen.

VERSE 1


Keep the commandments; keep the commandments!



In this there is safety


In this there is peace


He will send blessings; He will send blessings


Words of a prophet:

(Point back to pictures #1, #2 and #3)

VERSE 2

We are His children; we are His children


And we must be tested

TRUE
To show we are true


Hold to His promises; hold to His promises


Heeding the prophets

(Point back to pictures #1, #2 and #3)

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