All of the free printables can be found here on the website in the Free Music and Games Library.
Imagine how excited your students will be to play a colorful printable game.
Not only that! Parents will be delighted to see how much fun their child is having.
You will inspire confidence, and thus, retain students!
My students love games. For preschool students games are essential. Games are a great way to give older students a two to three-minute break from the music and reset.
Here are some great games you can play with your students online or in person including free printables you can download and send to your students. Many of these are featured in my book “The Ultimate Preschool Piano Activities Book”
Preschool/beginners
Hi-Low Flash Cards
Only one set is needed. Pick a card and place a penny on the corresponding key.
Example: Middle group of two is D
Printable
Origami Fortune Teller (2 versions beginning and intermediate).
This printable Origami Fortune Teller is part of the free Online Game Package at palomapiano.com
Download and send one to your student. Have fun doing the folds together. Then your student can play along with you and follow the prompts.
Advanced Beginner and Early Intermediate Students
Students with a bit of experience can play some fun games as well.
Here are a few games I like to play that just use the keyboard.
Name that tune – See how many notes it takes for your student to identify a song. It could be a familiar folk tune, pop song, or something from their repertoire.
Play Back – Start with one note and have your student find it on the keyboard. Add notes one by one, and see how many your students can get right. Your student can test you!
Clap back – same as above using rhythm.
Sing Back – Same as play-back except your student sings.
Printable
Rhythm Card Deck.
They are so much fun!
Print a set for yourself and have your students print out their own set to take home or play during an online lesson.
You can play games like battle or concentration.
To play battle each of you chooses a card from the deck, whoever has the higher note value wins the cards. If you get the same note value, turn three cards over and one up. The highest note value for that card takes all. To keep track each player makes two plies of cards so that you can count who gets more cards at the end.
Intermediate Students
Intermediate students can play games too!
They can play most of the games above.
There is an intermediate version of the Origami Fortune Teller.
Here are some fun games to play with older students.
Composer Bingo Classical Edition
This is a great one for group classes.
Match the piece to its composer. fill up the card and win!
These are a couple of ideas. Did you know Paloma Piano has 70 free downloads you can get for your studio right now? Games and sheet music too!
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All of the free music and resources can be found here on the website
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