I'M TRYING TO BE LIKE JESUS: VISUAL IMAGERY & VIZ ON A STICK

  As promised, here are a couple of other visuals to use for

"I'm Trying to
Be like Jesus" 

instead of the
same ol', same ol'
flip charts.

One is a

Visual Imagery

of a girl who loves and wants to be just like Jesus and I have used speech bubbles to represent her telling about being like Jesus. There are also pictures to represent the phrases that are like the ones in the flip chart. I did not use the picture from the FC for the phrase, "I try to remember the lessons he taught" since the flip chart one was harder to see with the reduced size, so I did a different one. As I go through each phrase of the song with the children, I will post each speech bubble and its picture(s). I will explain more on how I plan to do that in the next post I'll do Saturday morning. Ooooooo, so much to do!

PREPARATION FOR THE VISUAL IMAGERY

1. Print them out on card stock. You may want to print the speech bubbles on colored card stock for some extra fun POP! I just used four different colors of card stock plus white for the chorus. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE ARE 2 DIFFERENT VISUALS IN THE FILE, EACH WITH THEIR OWN SET OF SPEECH BUBBLES, SO SELECT ONLY THE PAGES YOU WANT TO PRINT.
2. Cut them out.
3. Laminate them (optional).
4. Put magnetic tape on the back (also optional and depends on what type of board you will be using).
5. You may want to number the pictures on the back or cut out and tape the phrases I typed on the pictures in the file for reference to the pictures to help you know which picture goes to which speech bubble.

VISUAL ON A STICK
In the file is another visual you may want to use instead. It actually is what I originally made for singing this song with the children a couple of years ago. It is speech bubbles on sticks or rather tongue depressors. You can use the speech bubbles without the pictures or with. The phrases I have two pictures for in the flip chart, I only used one picture per speech bubble. Verse one has all the speech bubbles pointing in the same direction and the second verse pointing in the opposite direction. Helps to differentiate which belongs to which verse as well as you can put the verses back-to-back if you want. You can add the pictures as well on both sides, but the pictures won't line up the same, so if that bothers you, just put the second verse on their own sticks. Actually, not having them back-to-back is a better idea since the kids that I sometimes had to help hold them up would get mixed up and flip them around. So I revised mine to keep the verses separated. It is kind of cute with the children holding the speech bubbles above their heads.

PREPARATION FOR THE SPEECH BUBBLES ON STICKS

1. Print the speech bubbles on colored card stock for some extra fun POP! I just used four different colors of card stock plus white for the chorus. PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE ARE 2 DIFFERENT VISUALS IN THE FILE, EACH WITH THEIR OWN SET OF SPEECH BUBBLES, SO SELECT ONLY THE PAGES YOU WANT TO PRINT.
2. If you want to add the pictures, print the pictures from the visual imagery portion on white card stock.
3. Cut them out.
4. Adhere the pictures to the speech bubbles if you are using the pictures.
5. Laminate them (optional).
6. Adhere them to a tongue depressor sticks.
7. You may want to code the back of the speech bubbles for easy reference in case you get them mixed up, e.g. V1-1, V1-2, V1-3, V2-1, V2-2 and/or glue the words to the back before laminating them. That might help you if you are holding them up and forget the words.

Now you have a few choices for visuals here. Which one will you use????

I'm Trying to Be Like Jesus-Viz-Nalani