Teach Nephi’s Courage in singing time with stick puppets using Susan Fitch’s illustrations! Your Primary will be vying for a turn to act them out as you sing this favorite Primary song!
Nephi's Courage Puppets
To teach the 1st and 2nd verses in Nephi’s Courage, create puppet sticks. Three styles of printables are available to create them:
1. Susan Fitch Nephi's Courage Colored Clip Art
Purchase Susan Fitch’s Nephi’s Courage Clip Art Set in her Etsy shop. This option is what I used to create my stick puppets and LOVE them!
2. Susan Fitch Nephi's Courage Black and White Clip Art
Susan Fitch offers a black and white version that is available free on her website.
3. Church Coloring Illustrations
Or I enlarged these black and white images from the Church’s website. These are the links for the artwork:
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Whatever option you choose, print on white card stock, laminate, cut out and attach to craft sticks.
TIP: *For large Primaries, create several copies so each puppet so each class receives a set of puppets.
Teachers can choose children to work the puppets from their seats as indicated in the lesson plan below.
Nephi's Courage Singing Time Idea
- I will go: create a shield with one arm in front of body
- I will do: hold a sword upward with other hand
- the thing the Lord commands: swing the sword in front of the body to the beat
- I know the Lord provides a way: point to forehead
- he wants me to obey: soldier salute as if standing at attention
- [REPEAT]
- Nephi
- Laman & Lemuel
- Laban
- Plates
The 4 children holding puppets act out their puppet as the Primary sings the 1st verse, Sing the chorus using actions.
Repeat with 4 more children to take a turn holding the puppets. Repeat again until half the Primary has had a turn.
- Nephi
- Laman and Lemuel
- Boat
Repeat until all the children have had a turn to come to the front to use the puppets and to lead in the actions.
Bear Testimony
Nephi's Courage 3rd Verse Singing Time Idea
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16 thoughts on “Nephi’s Courage 1st and 2nd Verse”
Thanks for your ideas. I was trying to combine many of the great suggestions as well. FYI the first verse is about Laban and the plates. The second verse is about the boat. 🙂
Oops…thanks, I'll fix it ;).
Thank you so much for sharing. This is a great combination of visuals and actions!
Tracy in Frisco, TX
Fantabulous…just what I needed for Sunday, easy and effective. Thanks for putting the visuals all in one spot.
I'm doing this tomorrow but had a question, did you use some sort of backdrop for the puppeteering? Or just on a table or something?
I a PC. Can you explain how to enlarge and isolate the images?
I mean I HAVE a PC 🙂
Thank you! I used your ideas and the puppets and it worked wonderfully! The children loved the actions.
Sorry, this is a late response but maybe it can still help out…
Christine, I didn't do a backdrop. Thought about it but then decided it would be too much work so the kids just stood there. With the Jr. I put my hand on their head so they'd know when to raise up their puppets.
Bonnie, I just copied and pasted the webpages onto Pages (similar to Microsoft Word but on Mac) and then kind of played with the sizes. I really didn't need to change much. Then I just printed ALL the pictures out and discarded the ones I didn't use which was a lot but whatever works, right?
Hope that helps.
Everyone else, glad to help. For our Primary, it was a hit. The kids enjoyed the puppets and then being involved with the actions for the chorus.
Still looking for help on this. It didnt go as smoothly as I'd hoped. How do you do the actual acting out part?
Sorry about that…the kids just basically came up front and held the puppet. When we sang about that puppet, they just held it up. Some kids did a little more "acting" than others but for the most part it was simple. For Jr. primary I'd put my hand on their heads when their puppet should be held up. I did have some teachers come and do it and that was fun as they really hammed it up. I hope that helps. Good luck this week!!
where can you find the figure for Laban? I have all the other puppet figures.
I need to start to teach this next week so hurry hurry.
Hi Cherie,
Susan and I both overlooked that she's got no Laban. There is one if you are using the lds.org options. But I spoke with Susan and she will get Laban added this week (because she's the best!). Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
~Camille
Hi Cherie,
Susan has updated her artwork to include Laban. I hope that helps you. If you purchased her artwork, you should have received an email from her with the artwork to download.
~Camille
I could not find the sing language for command on the link you sent. Is there something I'm missing. Thank you.
Oh I found command sign language.