Four Egg-cellent Piano Games You Can Prep Now For Easter Week Lessons

Spring always feels like it hits the fast-forward button… one minute you’re settling into March, and the next, Easter weekend is suddenly just around the corner.

But this year? I’m ready.

The week leading up to Easter is going to be packed with fun in my studio, and today I’m sharing four “egg-cellent” (and wonderfully easy) piano games that my students absolutely love.

If you’re looking to sprinkle a little extra Easter excitement into your lessons, you’ll also want to check out our Easter Note Reading Jigsaw Puzzles and our Easter Intervals Board Game.

Four Fun Piano Games You Can Play With Easter Eggs

For the four games below, all you need is a set of plastic Easter eggs (the kind that snap in half) and a few basic office supplies. These activities are low-prep but packed with learning and fun.

Spend just half an hour getting everything ready, tuck your materials aside, and you’ll be all set to bring instant Easter excitement to your lessons whenever you need it.

Ear Training Egg Toss

You will need:
6 plastic or paper cups, 6 plastic Easter eggs, a Sharpie, masking tape

How to play:

Using a Sharpie, write 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and octave on the bottom of each cup. Tape the cups together so they form a sturdy “six-pack,” then place them on the floor. Create a throwing line a short distance away using masking tape.

Give your student a basket containing the 6 Easter eggs and have them stand behind the line.

Play a melodic or harmonic interval on the piano. Your student names the interval, then tosses an Easter egg, aiming for one of the cups.

Check the bottom of the cup where the egg lands. If the label matches the interval played, the egg stays. If it doesn’t match, return the egg to the student.

Continue playing until all six cups are correctly filled.

The Egg Beat-er Game

You will need:
7 plastic Easter eggs, a Sharpie, 17 coins

How to play:

Using a Sharpie, draw one rhythm on each egg: a quarter note, quarter rest, half note, half rest, whole note, whole rest, and dotted half note. Place all seven eggs in a basket.

Have your student sit at a table with the basket of eggs. Place the 17 coins in a pile nearby. Explain that each coin represents one beat in 4/4 time, and the goal is to fill each egg with the correct number of coins based on its rhythm. For example, an egg labeled with a whole note would be filled with four coins.

On the word “go,” start timing as your student races to fill each egg correctly.

Record times and challenge students to beat their best score… or see who earns the title of “Egg Beat-er” champion!

Egg-cellent Scales

You will need:
16 plastic Easter egg halves (label two halves each with C, D, E, F, G, A, and B), 4 egg halves labeled with a flat sign, and 4 egg halves labeled with a sharp sign

How to play:

In this game, your student races to build major scales (up to 4 sharps and 4 flats) as quickly as possible.

To begin, call out a scale. Your student arranges the labeled egg halves in order on the floor to form the scale, placing them open-side down so they stay in place.

If the scale includes sharps or flats, your student uses the sharp or flat egg halves to cover the affected notes by stacking them on top.

Time each round, so your student has a score to beat.

For example, if you call out “D Major,” your student arranges the eggs as D–E–F–G–A–B–C–D, then stacks sharp egg halves on F and C.

Egg-sercise Fun

You will need:

This printable “grid”, 16 egg “halves” (use the halves from Game #3)

How to play:

Place the note-reading grid on the floor and set the egg halves off to the side. Start the timer, then have your student place the “note name” egg halves on the matching notes on the grid as quickly as possible.

For an added challenge, turn it into a keyboard awareness game by playing a note on the piano and having your student find it on the grid before placing the correct egg half.

Have You Heard Of The Very Useful Piano Library?

We all use method books. And for good reason! They are the backbone of piano lessons.

But method books can’t do it alone.

The most overlooked piano teaching tool is the supplementary piano book. It can, quite literally, save a student.

Why then, after hundreds of years of piano lessons, has someone not yet created a library of imaginative supplementary books that get kids really excited about practicing and making music?!

There are thousands of storybooks for kids who love dinosaurs. There are a thousand more for kids who love unicorns.

And yet the worldwide library of supplementary, story-based piano books could probably fit in a backpack!

For years, Andrea and I have wanted to change this. And now we have done so with Andrea and Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library.

You can check out all of the books here, or click on a cover below to check out some favorites.