This melody map is for the bridge of "Anytime, Anywhere."
 
1) Print (if I have a big group, I like to print "poster-size" with 4 sheets of paper per page). Affix to the board out of order. 
 
2) Ask the children: What do you see? What do you wonder? What is the same? What is different? 
 
3) Challenge the children to figure out what the map has to do with the song. Sing the song. Ask the children what they learned. Collect answers, offer praise. If they are still figuring it out, sing the song again, tapping a few key notes on the board. 
 
4) Ask the children to help you put it in the correct order.  Be sure to check their work for another repetition. ;)
 
5) Challenge the children to figure out what each color, pattern, and size represent. Sing the song again. Collect their answers and offer praise. Repeat. 
 
Questions to keep in your pocket:
What word is the highest in the bridge?
Why do those two shapes have stripes?  Why do those have polkadots?
Why are these rectangles red? Purple? Green? Teal? 
Why are the shapes the same on the first and third posters?  How do you know you got them in the right order?
 
Extender activity: You sing the colored rectangles, and I'll sing the white ones.  We'll both sing the ones with patterns.  Then switch.

Note: this activity is definitely better for older children who know how to read.
 
Key:
Purple: words that start with M
Red: words that start with a vowel
Green: words that start with H
Teal: words that start with W
Stripes/Dots: rhyming words
Height: pitch (how high or low a note is)
Width: note duration (how long or short a note is)
 
7) Challenge the children to sing only the colored symbols while you sing the rest of the chorus. Sing again, challenging them to sing the blue dots while you sing the colored symbols.
 
**If I were to use this with a younger group, I would keep the maps in the correct order and only go until step 6.

**I think the key to this song is pretty easy, but the one that might be a little more tricky is the pink circles.  I kept them pink to highlight the alliteration of "humble heart."  If you have sung any of my songs before, you might know I'm a bit of a sucker for alliteration. ;)