The objective is to get all the cards in your hand.Ī note “trumps” a rest. The player that plays the note or rest of the highest value, takes all the cards and adds it to their own stack of cards. Each student takes a turn flipping over a card. Each player keeps their stack of cards face down. They now ask to play this as often as I will let them! Be careful - don’t teach them this game before you are good and ready to have some serious fun!Įvenly divide the cards (available on War! Music Note Card Game) among the group of students. We played it once and my students were hooked.
This game has got to be one of my students all time favorites! I first found this idea off of. For other variations of this game, visit Word Search with Music Notes. You can use the same word, or mix it up and use a different word. They put them in the right order and they are done! First one to get it wins that round.ĭo the same with the bass clef. For example, if the word is ACE, then they must find an A, a C, and and E. Call out a word (go to Word Search with Music Notes for examples of words you can use), and see how fast they can put together the word using the note cards to create the word. See how quickly your music students can put together a word once you call it out! Played alone or with a group, this game really makes sure you know the names of the notes - and be quick about it, too!īegin by mixing up the treble clef. Whoever is not able to grab a spoon before the other players is “out”. Once a player has 3 consecutive cards, they can grab a spoon. The last player makes a “discard” pile that can then be used again if needs be. Player #1 picks up a card from the pile, decides if he/she wants to keep that card, then places down a card to the next player so that player #1 maintains 3 cards in their hand. This is a fast paced game! Don’t let it stress your music students out…the more they play, the better they will get at it! It takes skill to look at a note and be able to figure out it’s correlation with the other notes in your hand! A player wins when he/she has consecutive notes that either ascend or descend. This game is designed to help build sight reading skills by reviewing notes on the staff and learning to quickly correlate notes with each other (steps, skips, etc.).
Watch out, because as they touch the notes, they will find themselves losing their balance as they work around the notes and around each other! It’s hard to play this game and not end up on the floor laughing. For example, if a 2 is rolled, they can step on a half note, or 2 quarter notes, or 1 quarter note and 2 eighth notes, etc. Whatever number is rolled, they need to touch notes on the floor to add up to that number. Spread out the music note and rest cards (available if you click on the Music Note Twister link) all over the classroom floor face up. This game is designed to review note & rest names and values. Looking for some fun and creative games and activities for your music classroom? These games are fun, easy to explain and execute, and great at teaching and reinforcing musical concepts! You will find most of the materials for the games in free, downloadable links, or items you will probably already have.
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