Description
Feed the Gingerbread Cookie is a printable Christmas piano sight-reading game that reviews treble and bass clef notes from F2 to F5. These 20 Christmas melody cards help piano students strengthen their sight-reading and aural skills as they play this fun hands-on activity. Sight-read, feed the gingerbread cookie, and move forward on the game board. First one to the finish line wins! Fabulous for private and group piano.
Feed the Gingerbread Cookie Christmas piano sight-reading game includes:
- 20 public domain Christmas melodies, including both secular and sacred tunes that will help your piano students work on their sight-reading and aural skills.Â
- Range: F2 –Â F5
- Note Values: Quarter, dotted quarter, half, dotted half, eighth, & whole notes. Quarter, eighth, and whole rests.Â
- Keys: C, F, G Major, A MinorÂ
- Other: Sharps, flats, naturals. Legato. Single-line melodies.Â
- Includes instructions for teacher/student game and student only game.
- Also includes a bonus game board!
- Click here for assembly instructions and more game options.
- Download the Feed the Music Monster Treble Clef Middle C Position set for free.
How this Christmas piano sight-reading game benefits your piano students
Feed the Gingerbread Cookie Christmas piano sight-reading game is a fun activity that can be used in those last few piano lessons before Christmas break.
Use this game to help students continue working on their sight-reading and aural skills in an engaging and interactive way.
- Helps them focus on the details of a very short piece of music (4 measures).
- Gives them the opportunity to sight-read a variety of familiar Christmas melodies.
- Provides a way for students to view sight-reading as a fun activity.
- This Christmas sight-reading activity is beneficial for students in private lessons and group piano lessons.
Using this Christmas piano sight-reading game with your students
This fun and versatile game can easily be used in a variety of settings. Here are a few suggestions:
- Private piano lessons
- Group piano classes or group lessons
- Music camps
- Piano parties
- As an ice-breaker activity
- A team-building activity
- In a game station after a Christmas recital
- Instead of sight-reading from books or formal sight-reading materials
- To introduce some of the public domain Christmas tunes to students in an interactive way
Game Option #1: Teacher and Student: Christmas Ear Training
- Place the cards into a container (a Christmas stocking or Santa hat is perfect!) and shake to shuffle.
- The student draws 2 cards.
- The teacher plays the melody on one of the cards.
- If the student correctly chooses which melody the teacher played, the student feeds that card to the gingerbread cookie and puts the other card back into the shuffle bag. If the student chooses incorrectly, both cards go back into the shuffle bag.
- Continue playing until you run out of time or all the cards have been fed to the gingerbread cookie.
Game Option #2: Student Only: Christmas Sight-Reading
- Place the cards into the Christmas stocking or Santa hat and shake to shuffle.
- The student draws a card and plays the melody.
- If the student plays the melody correctly, the student feeds the card to the gingerbread cookie.
- If the student plays the card incorrectly, the card goes back into the shuffle bag.
- The student continues playing until all the cards have been fed to the gingerbread cookie, or until you run out of time.
Using the Bonus Game Board with this Christmas Piano Sight-Reading Game
- Use the bonus game board to add some friendly competition in private lessons or group piano classes!
- After a student sight-reads the melody on the sight-reading card, they can roll the dice to see how many spaces to move on the game board.Â
- The first one to the finish line wins!
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Storing and Organizing the Christmas Piano Sight-Reading Game Cards
I love storing all of my game cards 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!
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