I do virtual singing time twice a month, and I don't find it too stressful, because I keep it pretty simple. It's on zoom, and my computer is set up across from our piano. My kids, ages 14, 11, and 9, help me. I pick a kid from the zoomers to say a prayer, then I talk just a bit about the Come Follow Me lesson from the previous week and what songs we're singing. Then I usually have some sort of thing that the zoom kids pick what song we're going to sing. For example, this coming week I'm using the worksheet from the Primary CFM manual that has prophets' prophecies of Christmas. I've assigned each prophet a song. A kid will pick a prophet, I'll briefly read a small part of that scripture, then I turn around and play the piano, my kids hold up the words/pictures for the song, and my kids sing the song while the zoom kids sing along. We usually get through four songs, in about 10-15 minutes. I've heard that people like it. The thought of making a video would be super stressful to me, so I would never go that route. I've been doing this since early June, and it's not too bad. Of course, I couldn't do it without my kids helping me! We've done other song picking methods, like growing a paper sunflower when we were talking about faith in Alma, etc. I often use magnets on a cookie sheet for my girls to hold up whatever thing the kids pick from. And we use the "sticks of fate" (popsicle sticks with names) sometimes, to pick which kid from zoom gets to choose. I try to put some "you pick" options in, so the kids choose their favorite song. They also like a game called "zoom out" that I play every month or two. I download pictures from the church website media library and have them up on my computer. I have to change the name, because the file name will show on top, and that would give it away... I have the pictures zoomed in as far as they will go, and I share my screen. ( Whoever is the admin of the zoom has to make sure you can share your screen.) I slowly zoom out, while the kids on zoom guess what the picture is of. When they get it, we sing the song that goes along with that picture, for example Nephi's Courage with a picture of Nephi building a boat. Does that make sense? My ward does Sunday School one week a month, and rs/eq/ym/yw one week a month at ten, and our singing time is at 9:45.
