Shamrock Keyboard Race – a fun keyboard game for St. Patrick’s Day

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Shamrock Keyboard Race is for students who are learning the notes on the keyboard or you can play it with anyone just for fun. I like to have a variety of seasonal and holiday activities available because I think they help students learn and keeps piano lessons from becoming predictable. While these cards are fun around St. Patrick’s Day, I use them all during the year. I also have Pumpkin Keyboard Race cards and various other holidays. I have found that pencil erasers makes the perfect pawn. They are not too big and don’t fall off the keys.

You can buy an inexpensive pack of many different colored pencil erasers. Mine only cost $1.00 for a large supply. I use the yellow and green erasers for this game. I keep the erasers with the cards so I can use them quickly.

You may run out of cards before you get to middle C, so you can turn the cards over and start again, or you can print out more cards and play past middle C and down to the other end of the keyboard.

I added an optional F# and Bb card to the deck, just in case you want it. It is a good way to introduce the two accidentals that are used first in a lot of method books.

This is a quick game, the students like to play it, and really does teach help them learn the keyboard. It is a good game to play if you have a minute or two left before the next lesson.