Try one of these fun summer music activities with your piano students! Free Summer Break Bingo and Summer Color By Note!
And if you’re thinking, “Enough talk! Just show me the resources!” You can…
This is a summertime version of my bestselling music game: Rhythm Bingo.
The game works just like traditional bingo, but the teacher will call out rhythms. Students will then need to match the rhythm they heard to the corresponding rhythm on the board.
I love this game because it helps link the note and rest values students see in their method books with the musical rhythms they hear every day. After all, what good is music theory if you can’t apply it to what you’re playing?
The game includes three levels, each progressively harder:
This helps teachers to work with groups of various ages, even combined age groups.
Plus, there are endless ways to use these bingo pages as a rhythm teaching tool!
I also created the same resource in an alternate version: Vacation Rhythm Bingo. What’s the difference? Just different phrases!
Summer Rhythm Bingo is more stay-in-town-by-the-pool vibes.
Vacation Rhythm Bingo is more destination beach vacation vibes. And this version could be used around Spring Break as well.
And here’s our first freebie! Summer Practice Bingo for your piano students.
Now, this bingo is not a bingo game like the Rhythm Bingo.
This is a take-home page to encourage piano practice over summer break.
This printable is perfect if…
Print one bingo board for each student just before the break.
Instruct them to complete as many activities as they can over the break, marking their board along the way.
And when they return to lessons, they’ll show you their completed board.
Offer a reward for each “bingo” completed (5 in a row).
Hopefully this fun little incentive will keep them coming back to the piano over break!
Our next summer music activities are music theory matching sets in a fun, retro beach day van style.
These sets cover a variety of music theory concepts. There is a set for…
Here’s how each music matching set works:
There is also an alternate way to play with game instructions for each matching set.
And, you can save 25% by buying all four sets together in a bundle! Clicking the link below will bring you to the bundle and you can navigate to any individual set from there.
Little kids and big kids (myself included) love coloring! Even the most anti-theory students will usually smile at the prospect of completing a music theory coloring assignment.
One of my favorite ways to use music coloring pages is when I have two siblings that arrive together. I can easily send one sibling to the desk with a box of markers while I work with the other. No explanation needed–every kid understands color-by-code!
There are three sets of music coloring pages available:
And each set comes in three levels:
Clicking the link will bring you to the music coloring bundle (save 25%) and if you want to check out an individual coloring page pack, you’ll find a link to all three on this page…
And if you’re not ready to spend money on a coloring page pack today, no worries!
Here’s a free music coloring page featuring notes on the staff to try out with your students.
If more in-depth music theory learning is your goal this summer, you might find these summer music theory worksheet packs just the thing.
These worksheets are a good balance of solid music theory review and student-friendly summer fun.
Once again, clicking the link will bring you to the summer music worksheet bundle (save 25%), but there are 5 worksheet packs to choose from!
Customize based on the music theory concept you want to work on:
Oh, and, if you do purchase the Summer Music Worksheet Bundle, you also get all of the coloring packs as well!
I hope you found something interesting listed here that your piano students will enjoy this summer!
I couldn’t include all of my summer music activities in this post, so if you want some more fun ideas…
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