
The card that is of the most value/longest duration wins all the cards. Place them in a pile in front of each player (face down).Įveryone flips over the top card and places them in the middle of the players. Pass out all of the cards evenly to the players face down so no one can see them. I also created a list for students to look at to check the values, like a cheat sheet. I declared that (set the rule) that note values beat its equal rest value. The notes and rests are on one side of the card and the other side of the card has scrapbook paper or a copy of scrapbook paper so it looks cute. You can make whatever rhythmic symbols the student is studying as nothing is set in stone. I made 4 whole notes, 4 dotted half notes, four half notes, four quarter notes, four (ti-ti’s), two eighth notes grouped together, four sixteenth notes four quarter rests. The whole note is the note of highest value (4). Assuming that you know how to play WAR with regular cards, the rules are similar. I have a card game that I created using scrapbook paper, a copy machine and note values based on the card game of War. When s/he finds a sticky note, s/he plays all of that note on the piano, then returns to searching until they’re all found. Then, whenever it’s convenient in the lesson, we can take a couple of minutes for the student to search around the room. Favorite places include inside the bench, on the back side of the music rack, behind the coat stand, etc. When building fluency with note names, I create a set of colored sticky notes with one note name on each, then pre-hide them around my studio before the student comes in. First one to the slurpee wins! Find The Sticky Note Each child draws a card that has an interval on the bass clef or treble clef and they have to move their mouse up the number of stairs that equals that interval.

At the top of the staircase is a 7-11 sign and a slurpee.

I made a 1D staircase that sticks to the magnet board along with several different color mice. This game is to reinforce the concept of skips and steps (2nd and 3rd intervals), but can be used for all intervals. Toss it around and where ever the ball lands in front of you, clap out that rhythm. Use a beach ball and add rhythm patterns on the white parts.
