I’m always on the lookout for ways to make score study fun, relevant, and motivating. While we were decorating our family Christmas tree the other day, half of the lightbulbs on a string of lights suddenly went out. Inconvenient, yes (we had it half-wrapped with a now-defective light string) but my own mental lightbulb was shining brightly with a piano printable.
Today’s score study printable reinforces primer-level note reading and will become a fast favorite with your holiday-happy piano students. The thrill of “decorating” a Christmas Tree will provide all the motivation your students need to dive into their piano pieces.
Trim The Tree While Having Score-Study Fun!
Today’s printable is easy to use and will find a happy place in the piano binders of a wide variety of your students. All you need is the printable (see download instructions below), a set of small round stickers (find them at Staples if you don’t already have something), and your students’ current pieces.
To play, have your students follow these instructions:
- Sit on the floor with the worksheet, two dice, a pack of colored dot stickers, and a primer piano book opened to any piece.
- Roll the dice and add the resulting value. Find the measure in your piano piece that matches the number rolled (roll again if a matching measure is not available). Use a colored dot sticker to cover a note name on the Christmas Tree that matches the first note of the measure. If a matching note name cannot be found the turn is over.
- Repeat Steps 1 – 3 ten more times. How many note names on the tree were you able to cover?
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Thank you for a great, quick-to-prepare, game to use during the busy Christmas season. I printed the game board and slipped it inside a page protector. We will use the red plastic Bingo markers that I already have on hand to mark the notes, so that the game board will be reusable. Thank you for sharing your creative ideas!
Thank you for noting how you use bingo markers, as I was reading, the first things that popped into my head was “How can I make this reusable instead of using stickers that may wear and tear the board?”
Hi Keila – if you laminate it you could use a dry erase marker to color a circle and then wipe it off too 🙂
I love how this is versatile enough to you with any level of note reading!
Hi Heidi – glad you can use it! Yes, we tried to make it flexible enough that you could use it with many different students 🙂
I also slip them into sturdy page protector pages. Great if you don’t have access to laminating equipment. The dry-erase markers also work on these. Hand sanitizer or alcohol erase cleanly.
Thank you for this lovely printable. I laminate and then put sheets like this on a magnetic whiteboard, and use small round magnets to cover the items. I made some by sticking magnetic discs to ordinary plastic counters!
I use contact paper to laminate for cheap. It has worked great! I can’t wait to try this game with my students!