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MUSIC GAME LIBRARY



Below are some of our favorite games to use with students. Full credit goes to our musical friends who have created these games! Please see the attached link that will take you to their websites if you would like to support their hard work! Check back for updates!


ACCIDENTAL EWE
Identify sharps and flats.
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Accidentals

Music Discoveries
AMAZING INSTRUMENTS
Someone acts as Master of Ceremonies.  They choose card for each turn.  If the answer is correct, then the player moves their game piece the number of spaces indicated under the answer.
Picture
Level:  2

​Concept:  Instrument families
BATS AND CATS
Bingo with a rhythm card.
Halloween themed.
Picture
Level:  1-3

Concept:  Rhythm

Susan Paradis
BOO
Clap rhythms.  Halloween game.
Picture
Level:  1

Concept:  Rhythm clapping
BUG FLASHCARDS
Pointer for note to match flashcards.
Picture
Level:  1-2

​Concept:  Matching staff notes to keyboard
BUNNY HOP
Identify instrument families.
Picture
Level:  1-3

​Concept:  Instrument families
CANDY CORN
Match the letter name, to the note on the staff, to the placement on the keyboard.  Halloween themed.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

Concept:  Note to keys relation

Layton Music
CANDY CORN FINGERS
Pick a card, match to candy corn.  Halloween themed.
Picture
Level:  Beginning
CHRISTMAS FLASHCARDS
Regular music note flashcards with a Christmas theme.
Picture
 CHRISTMAS TRAIN NOTES
Present flashcards match the letters on a train.  Christmas themed.
Picture
Level:  1

Concept:  Music alphabet

Jeana Beasley
CHRISTMAS TREE
Match letters to flashcards.
Picture
Level:  Beginning

Concept:  Music alphabet matching
CLASSICAL & ROMANTIC COMPOSERS CARD GAME
Normal deck of cards that includes composer facts. 
Picture
Level:  1-5

Concept:  Composer Facts

​www.usgamesinc.com
CONDUCTING CARDS
Identify music characteristics.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1
DOG BONE RHYTHMS
Clap rhythms and match time signatures.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

Concept: Time Signatures & Rhythms

CPTO Member Created
EASTER EGG SCAVENGER HUNT
Playing cards with matching terms and symbols.  Easter themed.
Picture
Level:  Early Elementary - Elementary

Concept:  Terms and Symbols

​Melody Payne
EYEBALL FINGERS
Pick a ball, identify the finger.  Halloween themed.
Picture
Level:  Beginning

Concept:  Finger numbers
FIND THE MISTAKE
Christmas carols with wrong notes.
Picture
FIND THE NOTE
Lines and Spaces Identification.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

​Concept:  A-G as line or space note
FINGER DICE GAME
Roll dice and play those fingers.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1
FINGER FINDER
Identify hand, finger, and letter.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

Concept:  Finger and Keyboard Letters

CPTO Member Created
GRAND STAFF PASS
Keyboard match to notes on a grand staff.
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Notes to keys relation

Color In My Piano
HALLOWEEN SPIDER WEB VS. TREBLE CLEF
Treble clef notes. 
Picture
Level:  1

​Concept:  Notes in treble clef
HAND PLACEMENT
Pick cards and play them at piano.
Picture
Level:  2-4

​Concept:  Note reading
HAPPY NEW YEAR HAT
Symbols to define and cover a party hat.  Happy New Year themed.
Picture
Level:  1

Concept:  Music symbol recognition
IT'S A STRANGE STORY
Match terms to the definitions.
Picture
Level:  3

Concept:  Terms to definitions

​Solo Time Music Games by Lois
JUMPING FROPS BASS CLEF
Match the frog bass clef note to its matching lily pad. 
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 2

Concept:  Bass Clef Note Reading

​CPTO Member Created
LADY BUG GAME
Navigate through the music ABCs by selecting a card and saying the correct letter. Move to that letter and whoever gets to the end first wins. 
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

Concept:  Keyboard Recognition

​Susan Paradis
LEAVES MATCH UP
7 letters match to the keyboard.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

Concept:  Music alphabet and keys
LEGATO LAKE
Students select a playing card. Players take turns flipping over "bait" cards and place a marker over the selected term or symbol it it appears on their playing card. 
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  

​Keys to Imagination
MAKE ME A MEASURE
Choose a clef and a time signature. Fill in each measure with notes and rests. Finish with bar lines.
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Rhythms

​Joy Morin
MINI MUSIC INSTRUMENT / MUSIC BINGO
Moderator calls out an instrument or a music term.  Player marks with a bingo chip.
Picture
Level:  1-3

Concept:  Recognition of music instruments and terms

MiniMusic Kjos
MISSING MUSIC ABC'S
Fill in the missing music ABC's.
Picture
Level: Beginning - 1

Concept:  Music ABC's

​MiniMusic Kjos
MONEY FLASHCARDS
Identify symbols and collect money.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 3

Concept:  Music symbols identification
MONKEY AROUND BASS CLEF
Match the monkey bass clef note to its matching banana.
Picture
Level Beg - 2

Concept: Bass Clef Note Reading

​CPTO Member Created
MONSTER EYES NOTE VALUES
Select a card, determine the note or rest quantity, place that many googley eyes on one of the felt monsters.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

Concept:  Note & Rest Values
​(2 sets)
MUSIC ABC CUPCAKES
Students create their own game board by placing the cupcakes in music ABC order in any path of their choosing.  Select a game piece, flip a flashcard and move that lettered cupcake.  First to the end wins!
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 2

Concept:  Music ABCs & Beginning Notes

​CPTO Member Created
MUSIC MOTOR MATCH
Identify 4 notes and their counts.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

Concept: Note values

​Color In My Piano
MUSICAL PAINT BRUSHES
Match symbols to definitions.
Picture
Level:  2-3

Concept:  Music terms and symbols

​CPTO Member Created
MUSICLAND
Board game of music definitions.
Picture
Level:  3-4

​Concept: Music definitions
NOTE MATCH
Match Keyboard to grand staff.  Includes ledger lines and can be separated into different levels.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 2

Concept:  Note location on keyboard
NOTE VALUE PIE
Make a "whole" pie using pie slices.
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Note values/musical math
NUTCRACKER MUSICAL LABELS
Place the correct presents in the correct location.
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Terms and symbols

​CPTO Member Created
NUTCRACKER SPOT IT
Lay over several spot it cards.  Take turns naming symbols and other players race to find it first.
Picture
Level:  1-3

Concept:  Terms and symbols

​Piano Possibilities
OVER THE EDGE
Identify intervals or note values.  (2 people or more board game)
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Intervals and note values identification
PENGUIN NOTES
Flashcards to letters A-G treble clef.
Picture
Level:  1

Concept:  Treble clef music alphabet

​Beth Wheeler
PIANO HAND HUNT
Find finger cards and play them.
Picture
Level:  Beginning

Concept:  Key recognition
PIANO KEYS
Place the lettered paper key on the matching real piano key.
Picture
Level:  Beginning

​Concept:  Key recognition
PRIMARY POUNCE
Players reveal their cards one by one.  Be the first to pounce on the key signature and primary triads when they turn up.
Picture
Level:  2-4

Concept:  Key signatures and chords

Three Cranky Women
PUMPKIN RHYTHMS
Clap basic rhythms.  Halloween themed.
Picture
Level:  Beginning

Concept:  Rhythms
QUIRKY BIRD, PUPPY DOG
Identify if the stem is incorrect and place under Quirky Bird, or if the note is correct place under Puppy Dog.
Picture
Level 1

Concept:  Stem direction

Music Discoveries
RAINY RHYTHM
Arrange the rain drops and rainbows into rhythms and have students notate on the manuscript paper.
Picture
Level:  2-3

​Concept:  Rhythm / Composing

Color In My Piano
RESTAURANT RHYTHMS
Match each food to the matching rhythm or number of beats.
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Rhythm and Note Value
RHYTHM BLOCK GAME
Make your own rhythm to fill in the blocks.  Clap and count.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

​Concept:  Rhythm
RHYTHM CARDS
Clap rhythms.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

​Concept:  Rhythms
RHYTHM PIZZA
Whole to 1/16 notes pieces to complete a whole pizza.
Picture
Level:  All

Concept:  Rhythms and musical math

​
RHYTHM RIOT
Students select a playing card.  Spin the tempo spinner.  Draw a tempo card and clap the rhythm at the spun tempo.  Students place a marker on their playing card if they have that rhythm.  First to fill their card wins.
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Rhythms

Keys to Imagination
RHYTHM ROLL
Bingo of rhythm values with dice.
Picture
Level:  1

​Concept:  Rhythm
SCAVENGER HUNT
Match symbols to definitions in a treasure hunt.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 2

Concept:  Music symbols
SCREAMIN' MATCH
Match musical term and musical sign cards by drawing from one another's hand.
Picture
Level:  1-5  (Teacher adjust leveling.)

Concept:  Terms and Symbols

Three Cranky Women
SEASONAL WORD
Match words to their rhythms.
Picture
Level:  1

Concept:  Rhythmic words
SIGHT-READING FINGERS
Identify finger and play.
Picture
Level:  Beginning

Concept:  Finger and note recognition
SNOWMAN BINGO
Identify staff notes.  Christmas themed.
Picture
Level: 1

Concept:  Notes on staff identification
SNOWMAN MUSIC ABC WREATH
Put the Music ABC's in order around the wreath.  Christmas/Winter themed.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

​Concept:  Music alphabet
SNOWMAN/
​REINDEER INTERVALS
Match the correct number on the game board to the interval.  Christmas/Winter themed.
Picture
Level:  2

Concept:  Intervals
SNOWMAN/
REINDEER RHYTHMS
Match the correct note or rest to the correct number of beats.  Christmas/Winter themed.  
Picture
Level:  1

Concept:  Note and rest values
SOCCER INTERVALS
Identify 5ths vs. 6ths and place the soccer ball in the correct soccer net!
Picture
Level:  2

Concept:  Intervals

​Solo Time Music Games
SPACE PLACE
Students select a game card and a playing piece.  Turn over an interval card, name the correct interval and move to that number.  First to get to the end wins!
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Intervals

​Keys to Imagination
STEMS
Identify how to draw stems.
Picture
Level:  Beginning

​Concept:  Drawing stems
STEP SKIPPING GAME
Identify a step or skip.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

​Concept:  Steps and skips
STOP BUGGING ME
Rhythm Board Game.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 1

Concept:  Rhythm
TIC-TAC-TOE
​Call out the definition and have students place chip on the gameboard when they answer correctly.
Picture
Level:  1

​Concept:  Symbols and Definitions
TREBLE/BASS NOTES
Identify letters within a staff after selecting treble or bass clef.
Picture
Level:  1

Concept:  Note Names
​
TRIM THE TREE
Picture
TRIPLE THREAT TILES
Music Dominoes.  Match symbols and definitions.  2 levels and two separate games!  Level 1 and Level 2
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Symbols and Terms

​Keys to Imagination
TURKEY TERMS
Identify music terms.  Thanksgiving themed.
Picture
Level:  Beginning - 3

Concept:  Music symbols recognition
VALENTINE NOTES
Flashcard with heart notes.
​Susan Paradis!!!
Picture
Level:  1-2

Concept:  Note identification

Susan Paradis
YELLOW CAT MUSICLAND CARDS
Bass Clef!  Use as regular flashcards or check out website for other game ideas.  www.yellowcatpublishing.com
Picture
Level:  1-3

Concept:  Note Recognition

​Yellow Cat

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