Rainbow Games
Happy Pride Month! We have rainbows on the brain, so here are three easy ways to incorporate some rainbows into your music lesson games!
Table of Contents:
Rainbow Translator
Finger Twister
Rainbow Rhythm Coloring
1. Rainbow Translator
Materials needed:
Rainbow xylophone
Piano
How it Works:
Super short and simple. Take out different combinations of xylophone notes, and play a short pattern for your student to copy on the piano.
Want to make it ear training? Allow your student to see which chimes you are working with, but have them close their eyes as you play the pattern and recreate it on the piano by ear.
Want to make it expressive based? Select 4-5 xylophone tones and challenge your student to create a song on the piano using only those notes!
What concept does this support?
Key identification
2. Finger Twister
Materials needed:
How it Works:
If you’ve played regular Twister, you know how it goes!
Spin the spinner
Follow whichever finger and color it lands on. For example, for “Finger 1 Blue,” place your thumb on blue.
Keep each finger in its place until the spinner indicates otherwise. Get ready for some twisted fingers!
Check out our earlier blog post here with all of the expansion ideas and materials needed for Finger Twister!
What concept does this support?
Finger number identification
3. Rainbow Rhythm Coloring Sheet
Materials Needed:
Coloring sheet (found here)
How it works:
Think Paint by Numbers, but instead of numbers, it’s rhythmic notation. Have your students correctly identify each rhythmic notation symbol, and use the color code key to correctly color in the picture.
What theory concept does this support?
Rhythmic notation identification
-Mikaila Vieyra, LPMT, MT-BC