After you have spent weeks and months on preparing for this program, learning a fun song will be fun for everyone. There are 6 birthday songs in the Primary Songbook. Most primaries sing one, possibly 2, when a child has a birthday. Choose one you don't know.
Make a "paper" birthday cake:
- use a white piece of paper and round off the two top corners to look like a cake. (It doesn't matter whether the paper is portrait or landscape - tall cake or wide cake)
- color frosting on the top half to make it look like the frosting is dripping down the side of the cake - any color will do - chocolate is always a favorite
- cut out 8 candles from different colored paper - flame is optional
- Sing one phrase at a time and have the children repeat it with you several times.
- Add a candle to the cake.
- Sing the next phrase and repeat the process until the song is learned.
- To reinforce the learning, put the names of the months on pieces of paper.
- Ask a child to draw a paper and read the month.
- All the children who have a birthday in that month can stand while you sing the new birthday song to them.
- Continue, as time permits, to choose a month and then sing to the children who have a birthday in that month.
Note: I Like My Birthday, p.104, is a song for those turning 8. It is a great song to sing to those on their eighth birthday.
