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violinstudent.com – Games For Violinists
Searching for more games for my violin students to play, I stumbled across this site which has online games of concentration, word puzzles, viola jokes, tic tac bow and some ideas for music you might like to play. Tic Tac Bow is easy enough for beginners. The concentration game (Music Match) is a great way […]
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Counts and Chocolate Cake
Ever had trouble remembering the note counts/values? When I only had a couple of students, and they were beginners, I would bake a cake (or cupcakes) and we would dissect them into Semibreves, Minims and Crotchets (aka whole notes, half notes and quarter notes). Now I just talk about the visual image to my students, […]
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Musical Mysteries – BBC Flash computer game with lesson plans
I was browsing through a few sites and came across a great game to help students become familiar with orchestral instruments. It can be found here: BBC Musical Mysteries. The aim is to help Robbie find his Grandfather’s music. The Grandfather is a conductor of an orchestra and he has lost his music. He needs […]
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Spelling Bee – violin game
My son was recently in a Spelling Bee competition at his school and did really well (was in the final top 10 – so proud of him!). I previously had my piano students play a game with cards involving words you could spell with the letters ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’, ‘E’, ‘F’ and ‘G’. The […]
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Giant Action Cards – Beginner Violin game
I remember using some giant cards I would hold up to teach a song to a group of students. The cards had things like ‘Sing Loud, Sing Soft, Ice-cream Lovers Sing, Stand up to Sing, Sit Down to Sing’ etc each with a different picture. I decided to make up my own set of giant […]
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Pass The Musical Parcel
I like to hold a group activity for my students at the end of the year. One year we played well known party games with a musical twist. This was one of the games we played and let me tell you, the kids had SO much fun, especially with the group singing part! Pass the […]
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Mad Fingerboard Dash
In an effort to make sure my students know their notes and not just “that’s first finger A” or “third finger D”, I came up with the Mad Fingerboard Dash. How to play:- Set up the Fingerboard Dash letter names on a table top, blue tack to the wall or lay on the floor. Hold […]
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Violin Skittle Game
After finding a fabulous “Skittles Board Game” from Susan Paradis’ website with a piano game board and playing cards, I realised that it would work very well for violin students. You need:- A violin fingerboard game board for each player A set of playing cards A packet of skittles How to play: Give each player […]
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Musical Adjectives
When you have a scale, exercise or piece that is necessary to play but just so boring, try a few of these to brighten things up. I have my students choose up to three cards if they have an exercise to play, and we will play it three times through to a different adjective each time. Musical […]
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Violin String Note Race Game
String Note Race Game Cards for String Note Race Game can be found here: Violin String Note Race Game Cards Print out note names C (do) D (re) E (mi) F (fa) G (sol) A (la) B (ti) High C (do) and laminate. Divide students up into two groups (or teacher – v – student). […]
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