Fall is coming, and it’s the perfect time to bring a little seasonal fun into your studio. 🍂 Instead of using the same old resources, you can spark fresh motivation with scarecrow-themed interval flashcards that students actually make themselves.
Today’s free printable, Plant and Play Intervals, is a DIY activity where kids draw intervals in treble C and C five-finger scales to complete their own flashcard set.
Along the way, they’ll strengthen interval recognition, review important concepts, and finish with a deck they’ll be excited to use at home.
SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT! And these interval flashcards are the perfect lead-in to what’s coming next week:
Eatcorn Straw-vinsky Is Going, Going, Gone! Supplementary Songs And Activities For Level 1A Piano Students. Written in C position and treble C position, this motivating new book gives kids the confidence to play music with harmonic intervals—all while keeping piano lessons playful and engaging.
How Our Plant and Play DIY Intervals Works
With Plant and Play Intervals, your students won’t just be handed a finished resource—they’ll build it themselves. Each card has an interval name printed on the front and a blank staff on the back. Students read the interval name, then draw it in either the treble C or C five-finger scale. By the time they’ve worked through all 18 cards, they’ll have created their very own complete set of scarecrow-themed interval flashcards.
Here’s how to use them in lessons:
- Have your student pick a card and read the interval name on the front.
- Ask them to draw the matching interval on the staff on the back.
- Continue until the set is complete.
- Shuffle the cards and use them as a review game—quiz the interval image on the back, then flip over to check the answers.
This hands-on approach keeps kids focused and engaged while also reinforcing the reading and writing of intervals on the staff.
And the timing couldn’t be better: next Tuesday we’ll be releasing Eatcorn Straw-vinsky Is Going, Going, Gone! Supplementary Songs And Activities For Level 1A Piano Students.
Like today’s printable, this book strengthens interval recognition—but it goes even further, giving your students confidence as they encounter harmonic intervals in real pieces of music. Together, the activity and the book create a perfect one-two punch for building interval fluency at the Level 1A stage.
Download Our DIY Interval Flashcards
Click here or on the image below to download the Plant and Play DIY Intervals Flashcards from the Teach Piano Today Homework Pages.
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