“I Love to See the Temple” Singing Time Ideas

“I Love to See the Temple” Path to the Temple Coloring Activity

Using a long piece of butcher paper, draw footprints following the path from one end to the other. Place it on the ground for your primary kids, with a temple at the end of the path (on the wall or the piano, wherever works.

Have the kids take turns walking on the path, and then invite them to sit on the ground and color or draw something on the path that makes them think of the temple or that prepares them for going to the temple!

Our primary had such a fun time with this one.

“I Love to See the Temple” Finger Lights Activity

This is a really fun activity to focus on the light of the temple! Show your kids the conducting pattern (3/4) with your finger light on and ask them to follow your hand. You can draw it on the board too.

Then pass out finger lights to each kid and turn off the lights in the primary room (ours never gets too dark), conduct it together.

Ask the children if they can sense which words are most important in the song by how you conduct and what words fall on the downbeat. This is like a directed listening activity directly embedded within, and I love doing this!

You can have the primary kids take turns conducting (one side of the room, then the other side, or ask volunteer kids to come to the front to conduct).

Bear your testimony about how the temple lighting up at night is meant to guide us, and we can be lights, just like the temple, by our examples.

“I Love to See the Temple” Envelope Game

You can do this activity 2 ways: with words, or with pictures.

Print out enough copies of the words and/or pictures, cutting the words and images out of the pages, and place the group of pictures/words into envelopes (enough for groups of 3-5 kids to work together on the envelopes). Too many kids in groups will make it less fun.

Instruct the kids that you have envelopes for them to challenge their brains. Start singing “I Love to See the Temple” while you pass out the envelopes. Tell them that when they are finished they can sit in their chairs and you’ll check their work. Kids sit on the floor and work on putting things in order while you sing it through as many times as you can. You can roam and check their progress.