As a songwriter, I've always felt that it is impossible to write a song unless I have a certain depth of understanding and connection with the subject of the song - usually obtained through long involvement and experience with that subject. The more involvement and experience I have, the better the song will be. If I'm writing a song about washing dishes, it helps if I've washed dishes before, the more times the better. If I'm writing a song about service, I darn well better have some experience with service.
Background
Project Zaynab is a two week youth training project in Portland Oregon, whose purpose is to train youth to begin leading classes in their own communities for the spiritual education of children ages 5-9 and of younger youth ages 11-14. The project's schedule called for 9 days of intensive training at the Beaverton Oregon Bahá'í Center, followed by another 5 days of training and service, assisted by a resource person, either in the Portland area or in their home communities.
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It seems like most Bahá'í websites are built on a model that the web is currently running away from: the Myspace-profile sort of model, where one or a few people - the administrators of the account - create a profile-like set of a few pages
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Book 3 of the Ruhi Institute is now being used by Bahá'ís around the world for training teachers of children's classes. Each of the 15 lesson plans in the book includes a song. These songs for children's classes are presented below with very simple instrumentation, in the hopes that teachers of children's classes will be able to learn and use the songs. There is also a "karaoke" version of each song for people to sing along with.