Description

Do your piano students have a little trouble remembering music symbols and terms? These basketball music symbol matching games review 80 music symbols, and are perfect for your sports fans!

Students will slam dunk basketballs with music symbols into nets with the matching musical terms, they can play memory match with the cards, and they are also perfect to use as review and study cards!

These music symbol matching games are fabulous for piano lessons and music centers.

Treat your students to these fun basketball-themed music symbol matching games. Perfect for basketball tournament season in March!

Basketball Music Symbol Matching Games Includes:

• Instructions for use
• 5 activities in one!
  • Slam Dunk! Basketball search game instructions (sample instructions for this game are below ⬇︎)
  • Memory Match game instructions
  • Sorting game instructions
  • Study cards & flash cards
  • Choosing teams with the cards
• How to print smaller cards (8 per page instead of 4)
• A page to print onto the backs of the game cards
• A blank page you can use to create your own cards (personal use only)
• Colorful cards
• Black and white cards

Tips for Using Basketball Music Symbol Matching Games:

• Print the colorful pages you need onto white card stock, or print the black and white pages onto colorful card stock
• Cut the cards on the dotted lines
• Choose the symbols and number of cards needed for the allotted time in your piano lesson or music class
• Your students will enjoy reviewing music symbols and terms in a fun, hands-on way!

Sample Game Instructions: Slam Dunk!

• Choose the symbol and term cards you need for your specific group of students.
• Hide the basketball cards around your studio, but put the backboard cards in plain view.
• Have a”slam dunk! basketball search” with your students to collect all of the basketball cards.
• As each basketball card is collected, the student can match it to the correct term by saying “Slam dunk!” and “dunking” the ball into the hoop.
• Students could also collect all the basketballs, then play a quick group-wide matching game with the cards.
• To increase the competition, divide your students into two teams, then have two separate basketball searches and matching games.
• For extra fun, use a small Nerf basketball hoop or a trash can basketball hoop!
• The group who finishes first wins!

Basketball Music Symbol Matching Games Includes These Music Symbols (US & UK Terms):

1. Fortississimo
2. Fortissimo
3. Forte
4. Mezzo forte
5. Mezzo piano
6. Piano
7. Pianissimo
8. Pianississimo
9. Sforzando
10. Crescendo
11. Decrescendo
12. Diminuendo
13. Grand staff
14. Treble clef
15. Bass clef
16. Alto clef
17. Tenor clef
18. Double barline
19. Brace
20. Repeat
21. Barline
22. Time signature 4/4
23. Time signature 3/4
24. Time signature 2/4
25. Time signature 6/8
26. Common time
27. Cut time
28. Key signature
29. Metronome mark
30. Tempo mark
31. Andante
32. Allegro
33. Allegretto
34. Presto
35. Sharp
36. Double sharp
37. Flat
38. Double flat
39. Natural
40. Coda
41. Segno
42. Breath mark
43. Chord
44. Ottava
45. 1st and 2nd endings
46. Accent
47. Fermata
48. Staccato
49. Tie
50. Slur
51. Ritardando
52. Glissando
53. Tremolo
54. Ascending notes (Notes going higher)
55. Descending notes (Notes going lower)
56. Repeating notes (Notes staying the same)
57. CDE piano keys
58. FGAB piano keys
59. Piano keyboard
60. Trill
61. Arpeggio
62. Turn
63. Mordent
64. Appoggiatura
65. Four sixteenth notes
66. Sixteenth note
67. Triplet
68. Two eighth notes
69. Eighth note
70. Quarter note
71. Dotted quarter note
72. Half note
73. Dotted half note
74. Whole note
75. Sixteenth rest
76. Eighth rest
77. Quarter rest
78. Half rest
79. Whole rest
80. Measures
81. Semiquavers
82. Triplet
83. Semiquaver
84. Quaver
85. Quavers
86. Crotchet
87. Dotted crotchet
88. Minim
89. Dotted minim
90. Semibreve
91. Semiquaver rest
92. Quaver rest
93. Crotchet rest
94. Minim rest
95. Semibreve rest
96. Bars
97. Whole bar rest

Storing the Basketball Music Symbol Matching Games:

I love storing these music symbol matching games in colorful 4×6 photo boxes like these (affiliate link). They are my favorites because they’re the perfect size, and the colors are vibrant and fun!

Teachers like you said…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lisa J. says, “Yay! Just in time for March Madness! I’ve already used these with my piano lessons and the kids thought they were great! Thanks!”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jill C. says, “[…] Great way to engage my older boys especially who sometimes tune out toward the last half of the year. Great! Fun!“

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Two Little Barkers Studio. says, “At the end of the year, some of my kids said their favorite memory of music was playing this game as a class!“

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carolyn B. says, “Possibly THE best hook for my upper elementary kids EVER!!!“

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rebecca H. says, “My kids enjoyed this activity! I incorporated having them try to “land a shot” by tossing a ball into a basket for extra credit when the correctly named a symbol!“

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