Nutcracker music lessons

Looking for an exciting and unique way to enhance your elementary music curriculum? Nutcracker Music Lessons: Engaging and Standards-Based Ideas for Creative Elementary Plans offers you just that! This resource will inspire you with innovative and standards-based activities that will captivate your students while meeting their educational requirements. Liven up your lessons while meeting curricular goals!

Here are some of my favorite ideas for teaching the Nutcracker from lesson processes to books, DVDs, extra resources, and lots more!

Lots of Nutcracker activities, lesson plans, & ideas for elementary music with info on the cultural stereotypes associated with it.

Here's a super simple circle dance to a klezmer tune that you can use any time of year!

Enjoy this fun original song that uses a melody from the Nutcracker. We sing, move our bodies and practice impulse control!

Nutcracker Ballet unit study. inks to the free web resources we will be using. I have listed them by subject rather than by the order we will be using them. Including nine study guides from different Ballet Companies all over North America might seem a bit over the top but they are all different. Be sure to check out each guide as they all have unique suggestions for activities, puzzles and games. Each guide also outlines the theatre, cast and crew for their performance. Some of the…

Today's post is how to use some fun and effective holiday movement activities. Use a pool noodle and watch the engagement happen.

Use The Nutcracker Coloring Page Set to teach music vocabulary and listening skills without taking the fun out of this holiday classic? Listening glyphs allow students listen to The Nutcracker, coloring the pictures to show what they hear in the piece. These Nutcracker listening glyphs are great for holiday lessons and are great if your voice is tired or testing is going on next door. They are a fun and chill way to slide into the holiday season.

This post contains affiliate links. Nutcracker Unit Study Resources I have adored The Nutcracker since I was a little girl. The music alone draws me into another world. Dare I admit that I even love Barbie in The Nutcracker? I’m not ashamed. Use these great resources to put together a Nutcracker Unit Study for some [...]

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