Shhh Don't Wake Dad

With Father's Day coming up I wanted to find a fun activity that I could use to review already learned songs as well as sing some of the Father's Day songs in the primary song book.  I found this fun idea called "Shhhh Don't Wake Dad" HERE.

 For those who are familiar with the game "Don't Eat Pete" this is a variation of that game.

To play the game you need to print the board.  This can be done by downloading HERE and printing it at a print shop in size 11x14 or Camille's Primary Ideas has a link HERE to print the board in a tiled format.  With this method you print at home and tape the tiles together to make a full board.  I opted to use the tiled option and it turned out great.  I decided to laminate my board and then tape together.  This way I can take it apart and store it for future use.  You will also need to print out the game pieces HERE.

How to play the game: post the game board where everyone can see it and explain that the primary is going to sing the dads to sleep.  Sing your fist song and then choose a child who was singing well to go to the hallway.  The other children will choose the dad that is going to wake up.  When the child in the hallway returns they will start to place the game pieces on each dad until they come to the dad that was chosen.

When they try to touch the dad that was chosen the primary will whisper 
"shhh don't wake dad".  Then that child will return to his/her seat and you will sing your next song and continue play.  Make a list of songs that you want to sing prior to primary starting and coincide them with the dads.  My list is going to be a combination of review songs that we have learned this year, songs about fathers and movement songs. Their are lots of variations that could be used so just be creative and have fun.