Easy New Year’s Game
If you have group lessons or some extra time when students come back from the holidays, you might want to play this easy game for beginners. It has been on my site for over ten years, but originally it had only one card and one page of symbols. I finally got around to revising it. This game has changed into the Birthday Game. Now it can be used all year and it is a lot more fun!
In order to make this game easier for beginning students, many of the cards are in the form of questions to give hints for the answers. For example, the question for mf is, “Does this sign mean medium loud or medium fast?” To celebrate your students’ birthday and to make it more fun, there are also cards about birthdays such as, “If your birthday month has 28 days, draw two more times.” This is a fun game to play with a birthday student but it can be played anytime of the year in groups or with a teacher and student. You will need 12 bingo chips for each student. You can use cut up paper, pasta, or small pebbles if you do not have bingo chips.
Concepts include keyboard cards to learn piano keys, music vocabulary words, nine key signatures, rhythm names, music symbols, key signatures up to four sharps and flats, and treble and bass notes to identify. It is not necessary to use all the cards. Teachers can select certain cards to use with each group or remove cards that are too difficult. Complete instructions are included in the game. There are a total of 14 pages including 80 drawing cards 8 game boards, 1 page of game instructions, and optional back of cards.
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Hi Susan! I appreciate your resources and games! My students love to use them! I only wish you would include a pdf with the directions for the games so I can more easily print them out. That way, when I laminate the game, I can just have it on the back of one of the game boards and we can remember how to play. I use these games with my piano students and with the special needs kids at the school where I teach.
Thank you so much for your resources!
Lynne
You’re welcome. Glad they’re helpful and I appreciate the feedback. I try to include PDFs of items in the store, but in the free site I’m limited in what I can do.