Creative Music Room offers an engaging collection of music games for kids designed specifically for elementary school children, aiming to make music education both fun and interactive. These games blend the principles of music theory with hands-on activities, helping young learners grasp concepts like rhythm, melody, and harmony through playful exploration.
By incorporating colorful visuals, lively sounds, and easy-to-follow instructions, each game will capture the imagination and enthusiasm of your students. Plus, our games will enhance their creativity, critical thinking, and teamwork abilities while making your classroom a dynamic and enjoyable learning environment.
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Games
This is a playful, interactive game that allows students to search for icons that teach rhythm.
This is a playful, interactive game that allows students to search for icons that teach rhythm.
This is simply a musical variation on the age-old classic game of memory. This game can be easily adapted for any age. This game is for those older, more advanced readers, 4th grade and up.
"Beginner Rhythmic Bingo" is an easy, colorful, and fun approach to helping young students aurally and visually identify individual rhythms.
A fun and adaptable game of speed, accuracy and fun! The game of Dictation Derby is about writing down the answers to various music theory questions once the question has been asked.
"Dynamic Bingo 3rd-5th" is an easy, colorful, and fun approach to helping young students identify visually and aurally dynamic markings. The teacher will demonstrate the dynamic volumes through the attached mp3 melodies.
"Dynamic Bingo K-2nd" is an easy, colorful, and fun approach to helping young students identify visually and aurally dynamic markings. The teacher will demonstrate the dynamic volumes through the attached mp3 melodies.
This is an excellent way to review rhythms, practice memory skills, and solve math problems while playing games in your classroom. This game is like Go Fish.
"Let's Meet Our Notes" is a fun and adaptable activity that introduces the students to their very first rhythms, “ta”, “ti-ti” and “rest.”
This is an easy, colorful, and fun approach to helping young students identify simple rhythms. Included in this game are the quarter note, eighth note, triplet, quarter rest, half note and whole note.
This is an easy, colorful and fun approach to helping middle to late elementary students identify simple melodies.
This is an easy, colorful and fun approach to helping young students identify simple melodies.
Moving Pumpkin is a variation on a music game that has been played for many years in classrooms all over the world.
This is a musical variation on the age-old classic game of memory, using rhythms.
Answer a question in each category, in the style of music jeopardy, and earn the most “dollars” with their answers to win the game.
Answer a question in each category, in the style of music jeopardy, and earn the most “dollars” with their answers to win the game.
Your students will explore matching tones to colors in plastic eggs. They will learn to identify dynamic contrast between the matches. This is one of the most fun games I play with the kids and it works well for EVERY age!
This is an extended project that reinforces the fundamentals of music theory, notation, and more by having teams compete to get to the end of their ribbon obstacle course.
"Rhythm Bingo Level One" is an easy, colorful, and fun approach to helping young students identify more complex rhythms.
"Rhythm Bingo Level Two" is an easy, colorful, and fun approach to helping young students identify more complex rhythms.
Rhythm Headbands is a high-energy, interactive game that brings rhythm to life in your 1st-3rd grade classroom.
Rhythm Headbands is a high-energy, interactive game that brings rhythm to life in your 3rd-5th grade classroom.
This is a playful, interactive game that allows students to practice “feeling” and writing rhythms using the age-old game of telephone.
These word search games are meant to help fill any blank spots in a class, whether it be for sub-plans, or for a day when you just need to redirect your students to a quiet activity.
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When you join Creative Music Room you will have instant access to our entire collection of teaching resources including lesson plans, original songs, interactive games, Rhythmic Tales™, Sub Plans, “How To Teach” techniques and more!
Our site is packed with over 400 innovative and original resources – and more are added every month! So, dive in and discover how CMR can help you ignite a passion for music and make learning an unforgettable experience!
Whether you are new to teaching or you’re a veteran teacher looking for a little inspiration, I promise you will find what you are looking for right here at Creative Music Room.
