Music class ideas

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.

Five fun and action-filled circle games to practice rhythm, pitch, and more with your elementary music students.

Learn how to practice rhythms with this budget-friendly and fun rhythm game in your elementary music classroom.

Here's a list of fun activities you can do with preschool and kindergarten using rhythm sticks!

Organized Chaos: helping music teachers embrace the chaos of creativity through purposeful organization and simple ideas!

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!

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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

These fun Musical Games with ping pongs are great for music classes, they're fun, cheap and easy to set up and always very popular!

Kindergarten students love using instruments! Here are 5 tried and true rhythm activities to get your little ones engaged in music class.

One of the fundamental aspects of music that students need to explore in general elementary music is tempo, but it can be difficult to come up with different lesson ideas to keep students engaged while giving them the practice they need. Today I want to share some of my most effective strategies and lesson ideas for teaching tempo, no matter what grade level or specific aspect of tempo I'm working with.

Tips and Tricks for using Workstations or Centers in Your Elementary Music Class…

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Do you teach elementary music to fifth graders? Are you struggling to teach fifth graders? Here are some tips and tricks to help you out!

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…

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

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

If you're starting centers in elementary music class, then you may need some ideas. These are my favorite rhythm centers for general music!