Sing You're Heart Out- Mother's Day Activity

Since this week is Mother's Day I wanted to do something in singing time that related, but I didn't want to lose a week of teaching our song for the month.  So I decided to do a game I'm calling,
 "Sing You're Heart Out".  I made this "Mommy Meter" that has encouraging phrases on it that mom's might say to their children.

I'm going to teach the song "I Know That My Savior Loves Me". Then  I will use the meter to encourage the children to sing the song so we get in some repetition.   As they sing the heart will move up to each encouraging phrase until it reaches the smiling mom.  I will probably add in a few other songs so everyone doesn't get bored. If you aren't teaching a song this could also be used to sing Mother's Day songs or any other songs that you want to review.  

To make the "Mommy Meter" I  downloaded the mommy from HERE and then printed it out.  I cut a poster board so it was long and a little bit wider than the mommy's head.  Then I made a small hole in the bottom and top of the poster board to put the yarn through. I then tied both ends of the yarn at the back of the poster board, like this:

  

You want it to be tight enough that it will hold the heart close to the board, but not so tight that it rips it.  I secured the holes by putting a piece of scotch tape where the tension of the yarn looked like it might start to tear. 

Then I cut a piece of sturdy but thin cardboard (another piece of poster board would also work) smaller than the heart and secured it to the string so that their would be something to secure the heart onto.  

After I made sure that the pulley system was going to work I wrote the phrases about every 2 inches up the board.  The entire thing took me about 15 minutes to put together.