Heart Costume for LDS Primary Chorister Singing Time

We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. If you have questions about this, check out my post HERE.

Dan {my cute hubby} is the primary chorister which means that for a an hour or so on Sundays he gets to sing primary songs with the kids. After the overwhelming response from sharing Dan’s Valentine Primary Chorister idea on Instagram yesterday, we decided to post instructions to help those that would like to replicate it. 🙂 It was a blast and the kids LOVED it!

The felt heart costume was easy to make and was perfect because felt is super cheap by the yard. We found ours at JoAnns for only $2.99 per yard. It’s 72″ wide, so you don’t need a lot to make the costume. We got 4 yards because we wanted it to be big. Velcro sticks perfectly to felt <—a necessity for our game.

First, fold 2 yards of your felt in half and draw half of a heart. We just eyed it.

Then we used our first heart as the pattern to cut our second heart. We wanted them to be exact replicas since we sewed them together.

Sew them together, but don’t sew the entire thing. Leave a large opening at the top and leave the bottom open also.

Make sure it fits before going on to the next step.

After you know your costume fits, cut slits in each side for your arms to come out of.

I’m sure you can do this part with many items, but we had a spare piece of foam in the garage so that’s what we used. We cut two pieces to go in each side at the top of the heart to help the heart stay up. Cardboard would probably work also.

After we put in the foam, the heart wouldn’t stay out so we placed a dowel across the back to hold it in place. It worked great.

Here are the instructions for the arrows:

We used my son’s bow and arrow set, but you could use a lot of different things. As long as the velcro is wrapped around the item it should stick.

We made felt numbers to indicate the different songs for the kids to sing. We got these at JoAnn’s but my sister in law said they had them at the dollar store too.

In order to get them to stick, we used sticky back velcro. It worked like a charm.

We put the numbers in places that hopefully would help the kids avoid injuring Dan.  Hence no numbers below the belt if you catch what I’m dropping. 🙂

Then we placed velcro on the end of the bullet.

Then we made hearts to stick on the end of the bullets too. The fuzzy velcro on one side of the heart stuck perfectly to the velcro on the end of the bullet.

Then on the other side, we placed as much velcro as possible to help it stick to the felt.

It worked like a charm! We were so excited on Saturday night when we were testing it.

Now that you know how to make a ROCKIN’ heart costume and bow and arrow set, let me explain the game. In a nutshell, the kids had to shoot the heart with a bow and arrow to pick which “love” songs to sing.

My hubby Dan is a good sport. He called himself the “King of Love”, {the wand and heart crown also came from JoAnn’s}. He talked about how much we love each other, how much Jesus loves us, how much the Bishop loves them, how much their parents love them…etc.

For junior primary, he just pulled a name and had them shoot. {We had a teacher that helped them since most could not shoot on their own}. Whichever number the arrow hit closest to was the song we sang. {see list of songs below}

For senior primary, we did it a little bit different since we knew a lot of kids would want to participate. We told the teachers to pick one child from their class and each class had a chance to shoot at number 1. After everyone had shot, whichever class had the closest arrow won a point. Then we sang song number 1.

After we were done singing song number 1, we moved on to song #2. Again the teachers chose a member of their class to shoot. {We made sure they were picking those who were being reverent.}

…etc going from number 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

The love songs were:

1. I love to see the Temple.  Page 95

2. Love is Spoken Here. Page 190

3. I know my Savior Loves me. Found HERE

4. Love one Another. Page 136

5. I’m trying to be like Jesus. Page 78

6. He Sent His son {since February is focusing on this song} Page 34-35

I hope your Primary kids enjoy it as much as ours did!

XOXO,

Brooke