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):
- Fortississimo
- Fortissimo
- Forte
- Mezzo forte
- Mezzo piano
- Piano
- Pianissimo
- Pianississimo
- Sforzando
- Crescendo
- Decrescendo
- Diminuendo
- Grand staff
- Treble clef
- Bass clef
- Alto clef
- Tenor clef
- Double barline
- Brace
- Repeat
- Barline
- Time signature 4/4
- Time signature 3/4
- Time signature 2/4
- Time signature 6/8
- Common time
- Cut time
- Key signature
- Metronome mark
- Tempo mark
- Andante
- Allegro
- Allegretto
- Presto
- Sharp
- Double sharp
- Flat
- Double flat
- Natural
- Coda
- Segno
- Breath mark
- Chord
- Ottava
- 1st and 2nd endings
- Accent
- Fermata
- Staccato
- Tie
- Slur
- Ritardando
- Glissando
- Tremolo
- Ascending notes (Notes going higher)
- Descending notes (Notes going lower)
- Repeating notes (Notes staying the same)
- CDE piano keys
- FGAB piano keys
- Piano keyboard
- Trill
- Arpeggio
- Turn
- Mordent
- Appoggiatura
- Four sixteenth notes
- Sixteenth note
- Triplet
- Two eighth notes
- Eighth note
- Quarter note
- Dotted quarter note
- Half note
- Dotted half note
- Whole note
- Sixteenth rest
- Eighth rest
- Quarter rest
- Half rest
- Whole rest
- Measures
- Semiquavers
- Triplet
- Semiquaver
- Quaver
- Quavers
- Crotchet
- Dotted crotchet
- Minim
- Dotted minim
- Semibreve
- Semiquaver rest
- Quaver rest
- Crotchet rest
- Minim rest
- Semibreve rest
- Bars
- 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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