Check out these singing time ideas for teaching the Primary song, Tell Me the Stories of Jesus. My favorite is using a storybook format. But whatever you choose, these Tell Me the Stories of Jesus singing time ideas are bound to accommodate your Primary’s learning style and needs!
Storybook
The title of this song longs to tell a good story! Teach the Tell Me the Stories of Jesus by creating a simple storybook! More details are on this post HERE for the first verse.
Interactive Storybook
Continue on with the storybook idea for teaching the 2nd and 3rd verses as well! Only this time, it’s interactive! Check out more details HERE.
A Children's Songbook Companion
A Children’s Songbook Companion contains a singing time lesson plan for every single song in the Children’s Songbook including Tell Me the Stories of Jesus. More details on this book can be found HERE.
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Teach Tell Me the Stories of Jesus with Handbells
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Merry Bells
Or another handbell option for Tell Me the Stories of Jesus is Merry Bells. Find more information on the DVD HERE. There are several options for Merry Bells bell charts:
- Purchase Merry Bells Primary Songs DVD HERE
- Purchase Merry Bells Single Note digital files HERE
- Purchase Merry Bells Multi Note digital files HERE
- Purchase Merry Bells charts to print HERE
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Crack the Code
Have your Primary crack this code for Tell Me the Stories of Jesus.
ASL
ASL is always a great option as well! Check out this simplified ASL demonstration video for teaching Tell Me the Stories of Jesus here:
Then make sure to check out my post HERE for more helpful tips for teaching sign language in singing time!
More Singing Time Ideas
Primary Singing has 21 various ways to teach Tell Me the Stories of Jesus.
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus History
This information comes from Stories from The Children’s Songbook by Sister Pat Graham.
William Henry Parker [the author] apprenticed in machine-construction in a lace-making plant, and was later head of an insurance company. In 1885, he wrote a text with six stanzas for the anniversary of the Chelsea Street Baptist Church in Nottingham, England. As an active member, he wrote many hymns for Sunday School anniversaries. Fifteen of his hymns appear in the National Sunday School Union’s Sunday School Hymnary, 1905.
In 1903, Frederic A Challinor [the composer] composed music for the six stanzas of W. H. Parker, and the song was the prize-winning rime in a competition sponsored by the National Sunday School Union, London. Challinor had labored in a brickyard and worked as a coal miner and in a china factory prior to earning degrees from the Royal College of Music and an English university. He published over 1,000 compositions and wrote his own verses to many hymns and songs. Some of his work is published in a Methodist hymnal and in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905.
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus Sheet Music and Lyrics
Find the sheet music for Tell Me the Stories of Jesus on the Church’s website. And did you know the lyrics to Tell Me the Stories of Jesus originate from a poem? Too bad the entire poem is included in The Children’s Songbook:
Tell me the stories of Jesus I love to hear; Things I would ask Him to tell me if He were here; Scenes by the wayside, tales of the sea, Stories of Jesus, tell them to me.
First let me hear how the children stood round His knee, And I shall fancy His blessing resting on me; Words full of kindness, deeds full of grace, All in the love light of Jesus’ face.
Tell me, in accents of wonder, how rolled the sea, Tossing the boat in a tempest on Galilee; And how the Maker, ready and kind, Chided the billows, and hushed the wind.
Into the city I’d follow the children’s band, Waving a branch of the palm tree high in my hand. One of His heralds, yes, I would sing Loudest hosannas, “Jesus is King!”
Show me that scene in the garden, of bitter pain. Show me the cross where my Savior for me was slain. Sad ones or bright ones, so that they be Stories of Jesus, tell them to me.
The Tabernacle Choir sang the second to last verse in the October 2023 General Conference:
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