Elementary music games

Looking for engaging, musical games to play with your students? Here are a few of my favorite games and activities for elementary music classes, children's choirs, and elementary group classes.

Your elementary music students will have a hoppin' good time with this rhythm frog game! Students can play competatively with a partner, or individually! This is a perfect game to teach your students for those days you have a substitute in music, a class party, or just as an everyday center!

Who doesn’t love music and what all it represents? And as you all already know it is said that having a musical education can help your brain to develop stronger in other educational areas as…

Need a fun rhythm game? Use Shark Attack in your elementary music classroom to keep kids engaged and interested.

Such a fun game idea for elementary music students! Includes ideas for extra rhythm challenges and free composition worksheet to add to the lesson plan.

Playing games that incorporate music is a great way to engage your children in learning about music. There are more options for musical games for kids than musical chairs! Find many of them in this article.

Do you have a favorite rhythm game or activity to use in your music lessons? Rhythm is something that always needs review, so you can never have too many

One of the most important things we can do in music class to learn students’ names. Here's 5 fun name games for elementary music class.

A list of five circle games that are great for elementary music. There are so many concepts you can teach with these games, and the kids will love it!

If you've been looking for elementary music games, these are 4 of my favorite ones. Kids retain what they're learning through hands on activities.

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Coming up with engaging games for a middle school classroom can be daunting. They are at an age where they want to be independent, yet need some hand holding. They start the “I’m too cool for school” attitude and it can be intimidating at times when you introduce a new game or project - immediately the eye rolling takes over and you are stuck with questioning yourself. I’m here to tell you, I’VE BEEN THERE! MAKE SURE TO CHECK OUT MY AWESOME MUSIC GAMES THAT REQUIRE NO MATERIALS AND THE KIDS…

Singing games are a great way to teach musical concepts, incorporate movement, and give children an opportunity to sing alone and with others. They're perfect as gathering activities, ice-breakers, or a quick change-of-pace in the middle of rehearsal. A few months ago, I shared seven fun

Which free piano teaching games are the best? Which ones do you need in your teaching toolkit? These top 9 are the perfect place to start!

Extra Beat, Take a Seat is a really fun game to play with upper elementary students to help them count beats. This can be played with no materials or rhythm sticks.

The Yellow Brick Road Blog is a website dedicated to providing music teachers with fun education resources for serious music literacy.

Check out this post for creative and exciting ways to add scarves into your music activities. Also, find some specific scarf music examples.

...enhanced learning through tactile means. Here are a few of the most frequently used music manipulatives in my elementary classroom...

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