I love flipcharts! They are such a simple yet effective way of teaching the Primary songs. Children love pictures, and remember so much better what they are taught when the lesson is accompanied by a picture. A flipchart generally consists of pages of pictures with cue words or phrases from the song being learned. They can be displayed and protected wonderfully well in our Picture Presenter, available from our website here. The Music Leader flips the pages one by one as they are learned or sung. It’s quite exciting to see which picture will come up next… certainly a good way of holding the children’s attention as they are taught the gospel through music.

Each month we offer a FREE flipchart for you to download here from our site. The new flipchart each month is designed to teach the new Primary song of the month. Towards the end of the month, that month’s flipchart moves to our Resources page, where it is still available for you to freely download, and the flipchart for the next month becomes available in the FREE box for new subscribers, or available upon request (use our Contact Box) for previous subscribers.

In addition to the typical flipchart (consisting of pictures and text), we also offer a flipchart with pictures only for most songs. This flipchart is particularly useful the day you introduce the new song. You can use it in the following way, and you will find that your children have to really think about… and thus, hopefully, really internalize… the message of the song:

1. Print the pictures (in this example, for the song “As a Child of God” from the 2012 CSMP) out and tape them on the walls around the Primary room in random order.
2. Sing the first line, “I came to earth with power to choose.” Ask the children to find the picture that best illustrates that line. When they find the picture, you can place it directly in the Picture Presenter, on the magnet board with magnets, or on the chalkboard with tape or poster putty… and discuss the meaning of the line, or the story the picture represents, more fully. Then sing the line together.
3. Sing the next line, “Good choices bless me and my family too.” Have the children find the picture, discuss it and put it in order. Then sing the line together. Then sing both lines together.
4. Continue in this fashion as you learn the entire song (may take a couple of weeks).
5. The pictures (either these without text, or the pictures with text) can then be placed in the
Picture Presenter for learning and review in future weeks. The Picture Presenter keeps them nicely organized, ready for you to use at a moment’s notice, and protected from certain destruction in the hands of small children!