Description

Get your students off to a great musical start with this beginning music theory bundle!

Our first beginning music theory bundle includes three games that will help your students develop understanding and mastery with dynamics, rhythm, piano keys, and note reading.

The three beginning music theory games included are Dynamic Den (music dynamics), Counting Caterpillars (rhythms in simple meter), and Keyboard Kittens (keyboard geography and notes on staff).

You can play these music games with your students from Day 1 of lessons!

What’s included in the Beginning Music Theory Games Bundle 1

You will receive 3 complete music theory games:

• Dynamic Den
• Counting Caterpillars
• Keyboard Kittens

Included in these music games are:

• Dynamic Den formatted for US letter and A4 printing
• Dynamic Den game board
• Dynamic Den music dynamics game cards (lions)
• Dynamic Den hyena cards
• Dynamic Den Coloring page
• Dynamic Den “You Protected the Pride” success poster
• Counting Caterpillars formatted for letter size and A4 printing
• 2 Counting Caterpillars game boards (you can print as many as needed, but you need 1 per student)
• Counting Caterpillars cards (6 specialty cards, 42 note and rest cards)
• Counting Caterpillars  “I Flew My Way to the Top!” success poster
• Counting Caterpillars Color-by-time-signature activity sheet
• Keyboard Kittens game in US Letter size and A4 size
• Keyboard Kittens game board with the music alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F, G)
• Keyboard Kittens game board with solfege (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Ti)
• Keyboard Kittens Cards
  • 33 Level 1 cards (notes on keyboard)
  • 50 Level 2 cards (notes on the staff)
• Keyboard Kittens 8 kitten game pieces
• Keyboard Kittens success poster
• Keyboard Kittens activity sheet in US Letter size and A4 size
• Bonus Keyboard Kittens group game board (18 x 24”)

How to play these Beginning Music Theory Games

Play Dynamic Den

• Place the Dynamic Den game board on the playing zone (table, floor, piano bench, or other flat surface).
• Shuffle all Dynamic Den cards (lions and hyenas) and place the draw pile face-down.
• Student draws one card at a time and places it on the correct dynamic volume on the game board (e.g. mp goes on moderately soft).

But there’s a twist!

If a hyena is picked and there is no Lion King (fortissimo) on the board, the hyena scares the pride away!
All cards go back in the draw pile and are reshuffled.
Only when a Lion King (fortissimo) is on the game board is the pack safe from the hyenas.

When all the dynamics are on the board, the player wins.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love that the game is so exciting for the students! They want to play it over and over again and try to “attack” each other with the hyena card. It’s really quite amusing to watch them have a lot of fun and learn about dynamics along the way! – Rachel S.

Watch the video how to play:

Don’t see the video above? Watch How to Play Dynamic Den here 

Play Counting Caterpillars

In this rhythm music theory game, players will take turns drawing cards and creating measures for four different meters (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4).

When a measure is complete, the student will clap and count the measure for the caterpillar to metamorphose into a butterfly!

The first student to create all four measures (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 5/4) wins!

Watch our video tutorial to see how easy it is to set up and play!

Don’t see the video above? Watch How to Play Counting Caterpillars Here.

Play Keyboard Kittens

The gameplay is a simple, Candyland-type gameplay where students draw a card, identify the note, and move forward–unless, of course, they get a specialty card, in which they could move forward or backward!

We know your students are going to love it!

Don’t see the video above? Watch How to Play Keyboard Kittens on YouTube here.