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 | (SP230) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal Cut out these Valentine rhythm cards and fold to make a tent card. Place them around the room with the heart facing. Set a timer, call out a rhythm value, and have your student quickly find the notes. Students love this game. Great for groups or an individual lesson. For a non-seasonal version, see ... (More) |
 | (SP234) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal Students draw flash cards and cover the note names on the game board. There is one game board and 3 pages of flash cards. Students can play this game individually or with a group. Please see my blog for game instructions. ... (More) |
 | (SP235) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal These cards are for beginners who are learning the names of the keys on the piano. Use the gameboard of the Hearts and Club Game #SP234 above, except substitute these keyboard cards for the notes on the staff. ... (More) |
 | (SP236) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal For this interval game, there is a gameboard and 2 pages of intervals flash cards. Please see my blog for instructions. ... (More) |
 | (SP238) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal The object of this game is to cover all the hearts on the game board with the heart cards posted below. Please see my blog for instructions.... (More) |
 | (SP239) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal These are the cards that go with the Steal a Heart Valentine board posted above. These cards contain many difficult ledger line notes for older students, but the first page has easy notes. Print what your students need. The fourth page contains.... (More) |
 | (SP263) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal This game is a take-off on Cecilly's Sharp and Flat Race to Middle C. It is a great game to learn the piano keys! There are two pages to this game. Print out.... (More) |
 | (SP265) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal Shamrock Rhythms is a very simple board game that you can play around Saint Patrick's Day, or any time! .... (More) |
 | (SP310) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading I made a summer game in bright colors that appeal to children. Students use either grand staff or keyboard flash cards and move to the correct letter name. Flash cards for the game are found below, including optional backs for the cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP311) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading These are the cards that go with the Ladybug Board Game posted above. Please see my blog for directions. The playing cards are on pages 1-4..... (More) |
 | (SP315) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Print these on either printable magnetic sheets or regular card stock. Students match the symbol to the corresponding colored graphic. Please see my blog for instructions. ... (More) |
 | (SP405) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This game is for teaching or reviewing the keys to play when a note has an accidental. Sharps and flats are often confusing on the keyboard. This game is great for tactile learners, and it.... (More) |
 | (SP406) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Scales Play this game or use it as an activity to teach how to construct major and natural minor scales on a piano keyboard. Students love to play it, and it makes learning the concept easier. This is great for students who have trouble understanding "WWHWWWH ... (More) |
 | (SP417) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a fun music game to learn note names and practice note identification. The printable is black and white and looks great on colored card-stock. After printing, choose which cards you want to use for your student or group..... (More) |
 | (SP419) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading You can use this as a game with a magnetic wand and as a diagnostic tool to test your beginning student ... (More) |
 | (SP420) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a fast Bingo game to review the notes on the Grand Staff. Depending on your time, you can play 3 in a row or black out. If you use a ... (More) |
 | (SP425) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a grand staff large enough for a student to manipulate a dime (or a small colored stone) up and down the lines and spaces. Young students can often learn better with manipulatives. On this staff they can easily see the C is the landmark note in the middle and can count up and down from there ... (More) |
 | (SP426) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures Another teacher suggested this worksheet. Give each student a bag of candy corn and use it to to practice placing key signatures. ... (More) |
 | (SP428) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Have fun using peppermints to "write ... (More) |
 | (SP431) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is another grand staff to use for learning steps and skips, learning note names, or taking music dictation. I use glass "stones.... (More) |
 | (SP495) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is an early childhood activity to learn to identify piano finger numbers, and to identify LH as left hand and RH as right hand. Students will match the glove to the hat. Please see my blog for directions. ... (More) |
 | (SP554) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Goofy Piano is played like the Old Maid card game. There are 22 cards. The object of the game is to match up 3 of the same note in different octaves. Students do not want to end up with the goofy piano card! ... (More) |
 | (SP555) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Print several of these for students to arrange the music alphabet, write white key 5 finger scales, arrange the music alphabet backwards, and anything else you can think of. If you print 2 copies, students can start the music alphabet at different places. This is good to use at the first lessons .... (More) |
 | (SP575) Level: Late Elementary and up Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a really fun board game from Cecilly that you can play with 4 students. Don't let the fact that it is not colorful keep you from using it. Once students put their colorful Skittles on it, it will look good. .... (More) |
 | (SP576) Level: Late Elementary and up Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols This is the game board that you use for Cecilly's ... (More) |
 | (SP577) Level: Early elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a game that, hopefully, new students can play. There aren't very many difficult symbols, just the ones students learn in the first few months of lessons. The game is for 2 students, or modify it for one student. .... (More) |
 | (SP578) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols These are the game pieces for the New Years Game I posted above, #577. ... (More) |
 | (SP582) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a 3–page set of single staff flash cards to play fishing games. Make a fishing pole for your students with a dowel, some string, and attach a magnet on the end of the string. Or you can do what I did and buy a toy fishing pole at a dollar store..... (More) |
 | (SP583) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a very simple game for students just learning the names of the notes (keys, to be precise) on the keyboard. You call out a note and the student covers it with a token. Later, you can also make the game more challenging by using flashcards with the notes on a staff. Two keys ... (More) |
 | (SP584) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Here are some small music alphabet cards to cut out and use to draw and place on the key when playing the Cover the Keys game. I think these cards make the game more fun to play..... (More) |
 | (SP585) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading All the world does not use the same names for music notes. If you are from a Spanish or French speaking country, here is the musical notation you can use with your students. There are many games you can play with this, so try them out! .... (More) |
 | (SP588) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal I made this for a group lesson with beginners. There are 4 cards. The teacher calls out a letter and the student covers the key. The first student who covers a row or covers all the keys, wins. ... (More) |
 | (SP600) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard This is large 2 octave keyboard you can put together and use of the floor for games, such as Cecilly's Keyboard Middle C Bean Bag Toss. There are 5 pages to print, cut out, ... (More) |
 | (SP601) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading There are two pages to this set of cards for the Keyboard Toss game above. This is a game by Cecilly. There is a set of cards for each hand, one color for the RH and on for the LH. .... (More) |
 | (SP602) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a different and somewhat more difficult version of Cecilly.... (More) |
 | (SP603) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a large grand staff (22 inches high) for early elementary students to practice moving guide notes around the staff. There are 2 pages to print out which you can attach to make a grand staff. It is called Three C's because we are learning middle C, treble.... (More) |
 | (SP604) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading These are notes to place on the giant staff posted above. I cut the notes out including the inside of the whole and half notes before I laminated them. ... (More) |
 | (SP608) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a quick game to play with beginning students who are learning the names of the piano keys. It it is a lot of fun with students of all ages. It is the same game as the Shamrock Keyboard Race, but with an Autumn theme. One card has pumpkins, and the other autumn leaves. The teacher a.... (More) |
 | (SP609) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Sub-type2: Seasonal When I made my first Keyboard Race game, I really had no idea that it was going to be the first in a series of games for every season. I ... (More) |
 | (SP610) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal If you did not play the Shamrock Keyboard Race game last year, you can try it during the winter months with a snowflake graphic. Print 2 pages of the cards and cut them out. Give one set to the student and the other set to the teacher..... (More) |
 | (SP612) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard There are several ways to use these cards. - You can use them to play Swat the Fly like the Fly Flash Cards I posted earlier. Place the cards on a table, call out a letter, and the student swats it as quickly as possible.
- You can play hide and seek with the cards, hiding the ca ... (More)
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 | (SP634) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas timed note game to review 7 notes of your choice on the grand staff. Please see my blog post for complete directions and objectives. You can use your own flash cards for this game. .... (More) |
 | (SP636) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas timed interval game to review intervals from 2nds to octaves. Please see my blog post for complete directions and objectives. The cards for this game are available below or you can make your own. Th.... (More) |
 | (SP637) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal You can use the cards with the Christmas Snowmen and Interval Game. These rhythm flash cards include quarter, half, dotted half, and beamed eighth notes. There are also half, whole, and quarter rests. Please see my blog ... (More) |
 | (SP638) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas timed rhythm game to review note values in 4/4 meter. Please see my blog post for complete directions and objectives. The cards for this game are available below or you can make your own. This game .... (More) |
 | (SP639) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal You can use the cards with the Christmas Snowmen and Rhythm Game. These rhythm flash cards include quarter, half, dotted half, and beamed eighth notes. There are also half, whole, and quarter rests. Please see my blog .... (More) |
 | (SP645) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Christmas bingo game to review all the notes on the grand staff. There are 2 game boards on each page, enough different cards for 8 players. It can also be played with teacher and student..... (More) |
 | (SP646) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Sub-type2: Seasonal These cards can be used as "calling cards" for the Christmas Note Bingo game. You can also use them for other Christmas and winter themed games. See my blog for suggestions. An "H ... (More) |
 | (SP650) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Scales I made a music bingo game that is easier than some of the ones you can buy. This game is appropriate for students in Level One of their method book. The shortest note value is an eighth note. I also made a wild card that the students love..... (More) |
 | (SP651) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols This music bingo game only has 8 squares, so it is quick for young students with short attention spans. It includes only words and symbols from the Primer level of most method books. Students can play one or more cards at a time, depending on their age. I.... (More) |
 | (SP652) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal Musical Christmas Lights is a simple bingo type game to identify note values with a few other symbols, too. Students can win by covering three of the same color or they can play "black out", depending on how much time you have..... (More) |
 | (SP653) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal Newly Updated! Sometimes I use these game pieces when I play this game. You can print out as many as you need, but you can also play the game without them. ... (More) |
 | (SP654) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the first in a set of Memory Games to teach music theory vocabulary words. This set uses the words in Level 1 of the TMTA Student Affiliate theory test. There are 2 pages to this PDF. The second page is the back to the first page, so use your printer.... (More) |
 | (SP655) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the second in a series of memory games to teach vocabulary words and musical symbols. Included are the dotted half note, sharp, flat, piano, forte, 2nd, 3rd, and half step. There are two pages, and the second page is the graphic for the back of the cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP656) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the third level of a musical symbol and vocabulary memory game. Students try to match the words and symbols with the difination. This game correlates with level 3 of the Texas State Theory Test, but is suitable for all elementary piano students. The PDF is two pages, and includes a back f.... (More) |
 | (SP657) Level: Elementary Type: Games This is level 4 of a series of memory games I made to learn music symbols and vocabulary words. There are two pages to print, front and back. The second page is the optional backs of the cards. Students turn over two cards and if the definition matches the word, the student keeps the cards.... (More) |
 | (SP658) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the 5th level of a memory type game for music vocabulary words. Levels 1-4 are found above. Print the first page on sturdy card stock, being careful to set your printer to print page one only. After printing the first page, re-insert the page.... (More) |
 | (SP659) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the second part to the 5th level of a memory type game for music vocabulary words. Levels 1-4 and 5A are found above. (You can mix and match these cards to create a game just for your own students.) Print the first page on sturdy card stock, being careful to set your printer to.... (More) |
 | (SP675) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a fast, easy game for Thanksgiving. It can be played with student and teacher or modified for groups. Students try to "save the turkey.... (More) |
 | (SP676) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a slightly more advanced gamed than posted above. Please check out my blog for the simple directions. Concepts in this set include tie, slur, accidentals, half step, intervals of a 4th and 5th, and a few more notes in middle C position. ... (More) |
 | (SP680) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary Play this game to review music vocabulary and symbols at various levels, intervals, and some key signatures. There are 7 pages in the printable, but the 7th page is an optional back to the cards. Print only the cards you need. You can also play this game using your own music flash cards to review no ... (More) |
 | (SP695) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading If you're looking for a quick game to learn music intervals, try this colorful bingo game. This is a 6 page PDF with 4 different bingo cards and 2 pages of teacher calling cards. Print in landscape orientation. This bingo game can be played as "black out.... (More) |
 | (SP700) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading Steps and Skips are such an important part of learning to read music that I made a category for them. This game can be played in many ways, with one student or a group. The simple way to play with one student is to hold up a card and the student moves a step or skip on the board. The objective of.... (More) |
 | (SP701) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading You don.... (More) |
 | (SP704) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a set of bass clef cards that step, skip, and a few that repeat. You can use them with the Step Skipping Game above, or make up a new game with them. ... (More) |
 | (SP740) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal This is a Halloween game to reinforce counting. The object is to match the 'bat.... (More) |
 | (SP745) Level: Elementary Type: Games For those of you in the UK, here are your rhythm terms such as crotchet, semibreve, and minim. ... (More) |
 | (SP746) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Do you have a student who forgets the rhythm names of simple notes and rests? Sometimes students know how many beats a note receives, but can.... (More) |
 | (SP747) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm These cards are for the game Rhythm Round About. They are made to be printed on 2 X 3 1/2" ... (More) |
 | (SP748) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm My students love to have a colorful back for the cards I print out for games. Print this on the back of.... (More) |
 | (SP752) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This game is about as simple as it gets. I made it for beginners who are just learning the value of notes in 4/4 time. If they draw a whole note they move 4 places, dotted half note, 3 places, and so on. You can play with one student and it makes learning the notes more fun. As with all my games, yo ... (More) |
 | (SP753) Level: Pre-Reading Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm You can use your own cards or print these. The little happy faces are game tokens, in case you have a need for them. ... (More) |
 | (SP754) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Having trouble explaining 8th notes to a student who hasn ... (More) |
 | (SP761) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm These are the cards you can use for a beginning rhythm activity by Cecilly called Quarter Note Hunt. Go to my blog for the directions for this activity and a photo of the cards ready to be used. ... (More) |
 | (SP762) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This is a game from Cecilly. You can get the full instructions to the game here. ... (More) |
 | (SP763) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm These cards go with the game above so you can add 6/8 meter to the game. ... (More) |
 | (SP766) Level: Early Intermediate/Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This is a game for older students who need some reinforcement on dotted eighth notes and sixteenth notes. To get instruction for this game and see pictures of students playing the game,.... (More) |
 | (SP768) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm I had some beginners who wanted to play the flash card fishing game, so I made these cards. To help students to focus, I tried to make the colors more basic. For older students, we see how many they can catch and identify in a certain amount of time. ... (More) |
 | (SP770) Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm You can make a game out of these cards and the fish rhythm cards posted above. All a student has to do is match the rhythm note cards with the number value on these cards. Students can fish them out, or you can use them as matching cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP771) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal These are cards you can cut up and use for mystery tunes or mystery rhythms and use in group lessons. You can print out a sheet to list the tunes you are going to use below. ... (More) |
 | (SP772) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal Use this sheet if you want to make a list of the tunes you will be using for the Christmas Tune Challenge. ... (More) |
 | (SP773) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is a group lesson game. Students pick one card with a silly sentence and one card with a music vacabulary word. ... (More) |
 | (SP774) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is a group lesson game where students read a silly sentence using the musical vocabulary expression cards above. Print and cut out the cards and let the students draw a sentence card and then an expression card to read to the group. The first person to guess gets to be the next reader.... (More) |
 | (SP775) Level: Early Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This is a memory game for students who have learned the basic notes and rests. .... (More) |
 | (SP776) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm If you want to make the Rhythm Memory Match Game more interesting, print this on the back. You might want to print a test copy to make sure the front and back line up, because that can be a little tricky. ... (More) |
 | (SP777) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm This is an activity where students hold up a small sign after listening to a piece (Olympic style) to indicate if the meter moves in 3 or 4. There are two pages to print out. One page has 3's and the other 4.... (More) |
 | (SP779) Level: Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Symbols \ Vocabulary This is the same game posted above for Christmas, but it is black and white so it can be played anytime. There are two pages, one with the vocabulary words and the other with the "silly sentences ... (More) |
 | (SP780) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal This Easter activity is so much fun for students. Hide these eggs with rhythms on the back around the room. When the student finds them, he taps or claps out the rhythm. Eighth, quarter and half notes are used. Be sure and set your PDF document to print just the first page before you inser.... (More) |
 | (SP781) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Rhythm Sub-type2: Seasonal This game is like Quarter Note Hunt, but for the Easter season. Print and cut out the cards. Fold each card in the middle so that the egg is on one side and the note on the other, like a tent..... (More) |
 | (SP801) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard Revised! Young beginners often don.... (More) |
 | (SP802) Level: Pre-Reading Type: Games Sub-type: Piano Keyboard This is another way for beginners to learn the keyboard. After printing it, cut it out into puzzle pieces and let them see how fast they can put it back together. It's a good activity to use at the first lesson, because with the bright colors they can ... (More) |
 | (SP811) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading This is a three page set of grand staff flash cards to use with games where students identify notes with by swatting them with a fly swatter. Students love this! Go to my blog to find ideas on how to use these cards! ... (More) |
 | (SP814) Level: Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading These are larger than my other fly flash cards so they are more helpful for younger students. Give your young student a fly swatter and call out note names for him to swat. Or let him call out note names as he ... (More) |
 | (SP840) Level: Late Elementary Type: Games Sub-type: Music Reading These flash cards contain words made with the letters in the music alphabet. Use a large staff board or a paper keyboard to write out the words. Check out my blog for an activity from Cecilly using these cards. ... (More) |
 | (SP845) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures This board game reinforces the key signatures of C, G, D, A, E, F, B flat, E flat, and A flat. It is fun and colorful, and students love it. See my blog for directions. ... (More) |
 | (SP846) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures You can print as many of the cards as you need for flash cards or card games. This page is in black and white. If you want some color, be sure and print the backs, which are posted below this. Set your printer to landscape. ... (More) |
 | (SP847) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures This can be printed on the back of the Key Signature Cards above. The name of the keys are not on the cards so they can be use for games. To make it line up properly for printing on the back of the Key Signature Cards, set your PDF printer page scaling to "none" and your printer to ... (More) |
 | (SP848) Level: Early Intermediate Type: Games Sub-type: Key Signatures Print this is you want the answers on the back of the Key Sin gature Cards so you can use them like flash cards. A set is published ... (More) |