Mad Gab

I love the game Mad Gab and had seen some versions others had made for their singing times. I borrowed a few titles from them and then had a great time with my husband coming up with some of our own!

This is definitely a Senior only game! 

Supplies needed:

• list of 8-10 songs you want to sing
• small slips of paper with the Mad Gab titles for each song written/printed on them. Here are ones we've used over the years:
• Poppy Core Paw Pink = Popcorn Popping (p. 242)
• Low Of His Poke In Ear = Love is Spoken Here (p. 190)
• Gigs Add They'll It Ills Trim = "Give," Said the Little Stream (p. 236)
• Bug Have More Men Store Rice = Book of Mormon Stories (p. 118)
• Knee Vice Core Rage = Nephi's Courage (p. 120)
• Won Stare Us As Gnome An = Once There Was a Snowman (p. 249)
• Rev In Tall Leak White Alley = Reverently, Quietly (p. 26)
• Lad Heard Yea Prop Hits = Latter-day Prophets (p. 134)
• Fall Loathe Heap Raw Fit = Follow the Prophet (p. 110)
• Key Up Duck Amen Mints = Keep the Commandments (p. 146)
• Dews Aimed Owing = Do As I'm Doing (p. 276)
• I'll Hike Duel Hook Foreign Boas = I like to look for rainbows (When I Am Baptized, p. 103--they don't usually know the title of this one so I use the first line)
• small bag/container to put the slips in

Set up:

1. Put your slips in your bag/container--easy, easy!

Game play:

1. Explain to the children how to play Mad Gab. 
• This is usually best done through an example, so use one of the examples above that you DON'T have in your plans that day.
• read them the Mad Gab title and see if they can guess what it really says. Repeat it several times, accenting different parts of the sentence. 
• Usually you'll have a child or two catch on pretty quickly. If not, repeat the sentence with almost the correct pronunciation/accent until they can "hear" what you're really saying
2. Have a child draw a slip and read it to the Primary.
• Usually after they read it once, I read it again for clarity. 
• I'll also repeat it several times with different parts accented until someone "gets" it.
3. Sing the song, then do it again!