Hide the Elf

Here is a fun Christmas Worksheet that works on identifying notes in Middle C and C position.

I also have a keyboard recognition game.  You simply match the correct elf to the note or key.

Hide the Elf

Christmas Games

It's officially Christmas and I wanted it make it easier for you to find some of my Christmas resources.

Christmas Songs for Children

Key Signatures

Christmas Circle of Fifths
Circle of 5th on TPT

Bell Game

Bell Game on TPT

Keyboard and Staff Recgonition

Christmas Train

Intervals

Christmas Intervals       

Rhythm

Rhythm Dictation

Christmas Music Games

I have a new resource available for Christmas called Gingerbread Music Games.  There are 7 different games with multiple levels of play.  Included is:

Gingerbread Cookie Chords: A fun activity to promote major and minor chords.  A step/skip version included for elementary level students.
Draw a Gingerbread Man: Students use Rhythm Problems to draw a gingerbread man.  5 levels of rhythm cards included.
Catch the Gingerbread Man: A version of Old Maid with a gingerbread twist.
Match the Gingerbread Boy and Girl: Match the girl and boy.  Levels include keyboard recognition, staff notes and key signatures.
Home Sweet Home: Students identify and perform rhythms to get the gingerbread boy to the correct gingerbread house.  5 different levels included.
Find the Gingerbread Man: Students try to spy the gingerbread boy who is play hide and seek among musical symbols.  54 cards included.
Gingerbread Alphabet: A cute gingerbread alphabet with three suggested activities.  Accidentals included.

Includes: Games, printables and instructions

Format: PDF

Printing: 8.5' x 11' 

Price: Price: $15.00

Instructions on using it with Paypal:  Click on the Buy Now button.  You will be asked to pay with Paypal.  Once your transaction is accepted, a zip file with the games will be sent to you.

Christmas Circle of Fifths

Here is a fun activity that has students filling out the circle of fifths with ornaments around a wreath.  The student chooses an ornament and places it in the correct circle on the wreath.  You can have the ornaments all out on the table for the students to put them in order or the student can pick one at a time (a little harder).   I glued my ornaments to bottle tops for a more sturdy playing piece.

Christmas Circle of 5ths

I put my bottle cap ornaments in a peanut jar covered in Christmas wrapping paper.

Students picked one ornament and placed it on the wreath.

They continued until they completed the circle of fifths with note names.

 Then they added the key signatures on top.

Then they advanced to minor key signatures.

Christmas Train with New Easy Level!

Can you help Santa get the presents to the right house?  Match the notes to the correct train car.  You should be able to print out the train and put it together in one long row.

Game idea: Take turns placing the presents on the train.  Whoever gets the last card on the train wins that pile.  Whoever has the most piles wins!  I made extra presents so you can have at least five of each note.  You can also make extra copies to have the number of presents you need.

Christmas Train

Christmas Interval Worksheet

Here is an interval worksheet with a Christmas theme.  Help Santa get the presents to the right house by matching the intervals to the present.

Present Intervals

Bell Game

This is a matching game for notes on the staff and key signatures.  The bear is trying to find his bell.  Help him by matching the correct letter with the correct note or key.  You could play a memory game with the bear and bell cards.  I might spread the bell cards out in a grid and have the children pick a bear card and match the bear to the bell.  There are many ways to use these cards, so have fun!

Bell Game

Rhythm Dictation Christmas Style

We are taking the Christmas music (that started right playing on the radio stations right after Halloween) and using it this week for rhythm dictation.  Using some familiar Christmas songs, the students will write the rhythms symbolically.  Beginner students use chips to represent the different rhythms.  


If I clap one half note and two quarter notes then the student would put a chip on the 1st, 3rd and 4th beat.  For more advanced students I have them write the correct rhythm in the ornament.  I use a page protector and a dry erase marker so that I can use the sheet over and over again.   You can use whatever song you like, but here are some songs with simple rhythms:


Jingle Bells
Up on the House Top
Jolly Old St. Nicholas
Little Drummer Boy
Here Comes Santa Clause
I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause
O little town of Bethlehem

Rhythm Dictation