Description
Need a piano sight-reading game that your beginner students will go nuts over? They will adore this Middle C Position sight-reading game Feed the Nutcracker!
This charming piano sight-reading game includes 30 melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, written in Middle C Position just for your beginners.
These short melodies help beginning piano students strengthen their sight-reading and ear training as they play this interactive hands-on sight-reading activity.
Students will also strengthen their recognition of note and rest values, dynamics, steady beat, and more!
Sight-read the melody, feed the Nutcracker, and collect a chestnut card. The player with the most chestnut cards at the end wins!
This Nutcracker piano sight-reading game is fabulous for private piano lessons and group piano.
It is also perfect for December piano parties, ice-breakers at recitals and other performance events, and more!
Feed the Nutcracker beginning piano sight-reading game includes:
- 30 melodies from The Nutcracker Ballet by Tchaikovsky.
- Range: The notes of Middle C Position, Bass F to Treble G, F3 to G4.
- Note Values: Quarter, half, dotted half, whole.
- Rest Values: Quarter, half, and whole rests.
- Keys: Accidentals are included within the melodies. No key signatures beyond 0 sharps and flats are used.
- Other: Single-line melodies. Tempo markings. Dynamics. Sharps, flats, naturals. Ties.
- The melodies might be in different keys or octaves, or have modified rhythms to give your students opportunities to sight-read melodies in multiple keys and ranges.
- Time signatures are included.
- Dynamics are included.
- Finger numbers are not included.
- Each card is numbered and corresponds with a chart that includes titles of all melodies.
- Includes instructions for teacher/student game and student only game.
- BONUS: Includes instructions for printing an extra-large Nutcracker onto 2 sheets of card stock and a MEGA-LARGE Nutcracker onto 4 sheets of card stock! This will be a phenomenal addition to your studio in December, and your students will love it!
How this piano sight-reading game benefits your students
Feed the Nutcracker Middle C Position beginning piano game is a fun piano sight-reading activity that is perfect for those last few minutes of a piano lesson.
Use this piano sight-reading game to help beginner piano students continue working on their sight-reading and ear training 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 melodies from The Nutcracker.
- Provides a way for students to view sight-reading as a fun aspect of piano lessons.
- This sight-reading activity is beneficial for students in private lessons and group piano lessons.
- Feed the Nutcracker can also be used as a starting point to teach your students about music history, ballet, and more!
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Using this piano sight-reading game with your students
This fun and versatile beginning piano sight-reading game can easily be used in a variety of settings with students who are classified as beginner piano and are reading the notes of Middle C Position (Bass F to Treble G).
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 recital
- Play this beginning piano sight-reading game instead of sight-reading from books or formal sight-reading materials
- To introduce melodies from The Nutcracker in an interactive way
Game Option #1: Teacher and Student: Ear Training
- Place the melody cards into the second bag (the one without the nutcracker on it) and shake to shuffle.
- The student draws 2 melody 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 nutcracker and puts the other card back into the shuffle bag. The student collects a chestnut card.
- If the student chooses incorrectly, both cards go back into the shuffle bag. The student does not collect a chestnut card
- Continue playing until you run out of time or all the cards have been fed to the nutcracker.
- The player who has collected the most chestnuts is the winner!
Game Option #2: Student Only: Sight-Reading
- Place the melody cards into the second bag (the one without the nutcracker on it) and shake to shuffle.
- The student draws a melody card and plays the melody.
- If the student plays the melody correctly, the student feeds the card to the nutcracker. The student collects a chestnut card.
- If the student plays the card incorrectly, the card goes back into the shuffle bag. The student does not collect a chestnut card.
- The student continues playing until all the cards have been fed to the nutcracker, or until you run out of time.
- The player who has collected the most chestnuts is the winner!
More Ideas for Playing This Beginning Piano Sight-Reading Game
Need some inspiration for implementing this game into weekly piano lessons?
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