Love Is Spoken Here is a beloved Primary song with a beautiful double melody. It’s perfect for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day or any day you want to celebrate love in the home. These Love Is Spoken Here singing time ideas make it easy to teach in a way your Primary will love!
These singing time ideas come from real-life teaching experience—so they’re not just fun, they actually work! Your Primary will sing with confidence, learn gospel truths through music, and feel the Spirit. Promise!
My favorite method for teaching Love Is Spoken Here comes from the Friend magazine! You know you can never go wrong when you use lesson plans published by the Church!
However, teach the Primary song, Love Is Spoken Here using any of these various singing time methods (click on the link to jump to that section):
Find the sheet music to Love Is Spoken Here on the Church’s website. The lyrics to this song convey the blessings we receive when when love is present in the home:
I see my mother kneeling with our family each day. I hear the words she whispers as she bows her head to pray. Her plea to the Father quiets all my fears, And I am thankful love is spoken here.
Mine is a home where ev’ry hour is blessed by the strength of priesthood pow’r, With father and mother leading the way, Teaching me how to trust and obey; And the things they teach are crystal clear, For love is spoken here.I can often feel the Savior near When love is spoken here.
You may also want to check out the sing along video for Love Is Spoken Here. It’s a great way for you to easily become more familiar with it or to show to your Primary during singing time.
Find Love Is Spoken Here lyrics in a printable flip chart format so you can easily post the words in your Primary!
Or this Love Is Spoken Here It flip chart with pictures is also available to download:
These printables are filed on the Resource Library page under Song Title > Love Is Spoken Here.
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This information comes from Stories from The Children’s Songbook by Sister Pat Graham.
Janice Perry’s two-part song was the first place winner of the Ensign song-writing contest in 1980. She said, “I decided to write about two things that gave me a feeling of peace and security in that (my) home —hearing my mother’s prayer and seeing my father’s priesthood.
I wrote one verse about each of them which could be sung at the same time over a common harmonic structure. ‘This was my first experiment with counter melodies.”
As previously mentioned, Love Is Spoken Here is a double melody (or a counter melody). All that means is the song has 2 different melodies that can be sung simultaneously (or at the same time).
Don’t let that verbiage scare you because it’s really easy and beautiful! However, I do recommend that you have a helper (whether that be a co-music leader, Primary teacher, presidency member or very confident Primary child) when conducting both melodies. It’s nearly impossible for you to do both at the same time!
Use this idea from the 2004 Friend magazine for teaching Love Is Spoken Here. Draw a simple home on the board and fill it with hearts and Gospel Art Book pictures that represent love and gospel living.
Review cards are my FAVORITE way to practice double melody songs! You basically create 2 random groups depending on what category the kids fall in. Once you have your groups, sing the parts together. Then repeat with new groups. It’s such a simple way to repeat over and over again without ever getting bored!
A Children’s Songbook Companion contains a singing time lesson plan for every single song in the Children’s Songbook including Love Is Spoken Here.
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Double melodies mean the accompaniment must match both melodies as well! My bell chart for Love Is Spoken Here uses chording to accomplish just that.
This post explains everything you need to know about using handbells in Primary.
These printables are filed on the Resource Library page under Song Title > Love Is Spoken Here.
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Merry Bells also has a play-along video for Love Is Spoken Here:
Flip charts can be boring—but not when they explode! Teach Love Is Spoken Here in a unforgettable way with an exploding flip chart your Primary will love.
Create simple heart signs that contain pictures of the keywords found in Love Is Spoken Here. Let children put them all in order!
Simplified signs is always a great route when teaching a new Primary song. Check out Janelle’s video for teaching Love Is Spoken Here:
Then make sure to check out my post for teaching sign language in singing time!
How will you teach Love Is Spoken Here in singing time? Leave a comment with your suggestions and ideas!
These printables are filed on my Resource Library page under Song Title > Love Is Spoken Here.
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