I pinned my accordion of pictures along the long wall in the primary room (accordion of picture instructions HERE) and I covered the first six prophets up with construction paper. Then (before primary started) I hung miniature versions of those covered prophets around the room (mini versions provided by Leafy Treetops Blog here). We then played Hot & Cold to guide one of the children to the first, second, third prophet, etc.
(Hot & Cold is singing or humming the song while you have a "seeker" looking around the room. The LOUDER the singing gets, the closer they are. The QUIETER they sing, the further away. Pick a new seeker each turn.)
I had junior primary hum the song so they could become VERY comfortable with the notes of the song. It can seem a bit all over the place to the little ones, especially when you toss in all those new/tune names. The kids seem to always find the missing prophet right around "David Ooooooo McKay". I like to point out those little tidbits to help the kids recognize different parts of the song.
Once the missing prophet is found, we uncover the big version and make sure they are a match. As a side note, with the little ones, I had the "seeker" come up and face me. I think asked the rest of the primary to point (no words!!!) where we were going to guide our seeker -- just to make sure we all were on the same page. This helped a lot. Senior primary is old enough that the seeker quickly stepped out of the room and then I had the rest of the kids talk with each other to figure out where to next. I never helped them and this made it all the more fun if they were wrong!
It can also be helpful to point out physical features on each prophet to help them remember. For instance:
Lorenzo Snow's beard looks just like snow!!
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