Looking for some fun Halloween-themed games and activities to use with your students this month?
Here’s a quick reference guide to all of the Halloween resources and game ideas available on Pianimation.com. Enjoy!
Games
Pumpkin Patch Steps & Skips
Turn your studio floor or floor staff into a giant-sized step and skip game
Build-A-Skeleton Interval Challenge
A Halloween-themed game to play with interval flashcards
Major-Minor Dash & BINGO
Halloween is the perfect time to introduce major & minor to your elementary students
Candy Listening BINGO
A game to drill interval recognition (could also be adapted to use with other listening concepts)
Note: This game isn’t specific to Halloween, but it’s a great way to use up leftover candy!
Rhythm Resources
12 Days of Halloween Rhythm Cards
Students match pre-written lyrics to the “12 Days of Halloween” to a set of rhythm cards, then have an opportunity to write their own spooky lyrics
Purple People Eater Rhythm Dictation
A colorful elementary-level dictation worksheet
Composing Resources
Halloween Composition Starters
A handout with lots of ideas and sample first lyrics for elementary compositions
12 Days of Halloween Composing Worksheet
Use this as a follow-up assignment to the rhythm activity listed above
Repertoire
Check out this postfor a listing of some of my favorite Halloween repertoire pieces
A handful of free, elementary-level Halloween sheets are available on the sheet music page
Perfect timing! Classes are next week – good to see all these in one handy list. Poison Rhythm (was that yours?) never gets tired in my classes.
LaDona,
Thanks for mentioning Poison Rhythm – that one’s a hit in my studio, too! I can’t take credit for it, though… I re-blogged someone else’s idea.
Here’s a link with information on the game, if anyone else is curious about it:
http://www.pianimation.com/2010/09/13/new-resource-sites/
(Look for the game “Don’t Clap this Back.” For a Halloween twist, the rhythm that is NOT to be clapped back is labeled as the “poison” rhythm.)