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Your pre-staff to intermediate piano students will go nuts for sight-reading when they play these 5 engaging Christmas sight-reading games for piano – Feed the Nutcracker!

This bundle of interactive sight-reading games for piano includes 5 levels of sight-reading cards featuring 30 melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.

These sight-reading games for piano are tasty sight-reading snacks that will fuel your piano students’ sight-reading and ear training skills.

Students will sight-read a melody, feed the sight-reading card to the Nutcracker, and collect a hazelnut, walnut, or other nut card.

The player who has collected the most nut cards at the end wins!

These sight-reading games for piano are fabulous for students in private piano lessons and group piano, for Christmas piano parties, and for anyone who wants to improve their sight-reading.

This bundle of 5 Christmas sight-reading games for piano includes:

• Pre-Reading Beginning Piano Sight-Reading Game – Feed The Nutcracker
• Beginning Piano Sight-Reading Game – Feed The Nutcracker Middle C Position
• Treble and Bass Clef Piano Sight-Reading Game – Feed The Nutcracker
• Treble Clef Ledger Lines Piano Sight-Reading Game – Feed the Nutcracker
• Bass Clef Ledger Lines Piano Sight-Reading Game – Feed the Nutcracker

Music Game 1: Pre-Reading Beginning Piano Sight-Reading Game

• Your pre-staff piano students will go nuts over sight-reading when they play this beginning piano sight-reading game – Feed the Nutcracker!
• This adorable sight-reading game includes 30 melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.
• These short off-staff melodies help beginner piano students strengthen their sight-reading and ear training.
• Students will also strengthen their recognition of the white piano keys, right hand and left hand, piano finger numbers, steady beat, and more!
• Sight-read the melody, feed the Nutcracker, and collect an almond card.
• The player with the most almond cards at the end wins!

Music Game 2: Beginning Piano Sight-Reading Game in Middle C Position

• 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.
• Sight-read the melody, feed the Nutcracker, and collect a chestnut card.
• The player with the most chestnut cards at the end wins!

Music Game 3: Treble and Bass Clef Piano Sight-Reading Game

• Do your late elementary piano students need a treble and bass clef sight-reading game that they will go nuts over?
• They will adore this Christmas treble and bass clef sight-reading game Feed the Nutcracker!
• This charming piano sight-reading game includes 30 melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, featuring the notes from Bass C to Treble C (C3 to C5).
• Sight-read the melody, feed the Nutcracker, and collect a walnut card.
• The player with the most walnut cards at the end wins!

Music Game 4: Treble Clef Ledger Lines Piano Sight-Reading Game

• Are your early intermediate and intermediate piano students ready for a fresh approach to sight-reading?
• They’ll be delighted with Feed the Nutcracker treble clef ledger lines game!
• This engaging piano sight-reading activity features 30 melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, all written on the treble staff.
• Designed to provide a challenge, the game incorporates treble clef ledger line notes both above and below the staff, from G3 to C6.
• Students will sight-read the melody, feed the Nutcracker, and collect peanut cards.
• The player with the most peanut cards at the end wins!

Music Game 5: Bass Clef Ledger Lines Piano Sight-Reading Game

• Do your early intermediate and intermediate piano students crave a fresh way to sight-read?
• They’ll be excited about Feed the Nutcracker bass clef ledger lines game!
• This engaging piano sight-reading activity features 30 melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, all written on the bass staff.
• This game incorporates bass clef ledger line notes both above and below the staff, from C2 to E4.
• Students will sight-read the melody, feed the Nutcracker, and collect hazelnut cards.
• The player with the most hazelnut cards at the end wins!

Feed the Nutcracker bundle of Christmas sight-reading games for piano includes:

• 5 sight-reading games for piano, from pre-staff to intermediate
• Instructions for teacher and student game, and instructions for student only game.
• 30 melodies from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker for each level
• Nut cards to collect throughout each game
• A unique music-themed Nutcracker for each level
• Melody cards are interchangeable and can easily be used to play a multi-level sight-reading game in your group classes.
• 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 these Christmas sight-reading games for piano benefit your students

Feed the Nutcracker sight-reading games for piano are fun piano sight-reading activities that are perfect for those last few minutes of a piano lesson.

Use these sight-reading games for piano to help your pre-reading through intermediate 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 Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker.
• Provides a way for students to view sight-reading as a fun aspect of piano lessons.
• These sight-reading activities are 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!

Using these Christmas sight-reading games for piano

These versatile beginning through intermediate sight-reading games for piano can easily be used in a variety of settings.

Perfect for piano students who are classified as pre-staff through early intermediate and intermediate piano and are comfortable with the notes and rhythms listed above.

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 these sight-reading games for piano 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

1. Place the melody cards into the second bag (the one without the nutcracker on it) and shake to shuffle.
2. The student draws 2 melody cards.
3. The teacher plays the melody on one of the cards.
4. 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 nut card.
5. If the student chooses incorrectly, both cards go back into the shuffle bag. The student does not collect a nut card.
6. Continue playing until you run out of time or all the cards have been fed to the nutcracker.
7. The player who has collected the most nuts is the winner!

Game Option #2: Student Only: Sight-Reading

1. Place the melody cards into the second bag (the one without the nutcracker on it) and shake to shuffle.
2. The student draws a melody card and plays the melody.
3. If the student plays the melody correctly, the student feeds the card to the nutcracker. The student collects a nut card.
4. If the student plays the card incorrectly, the card goes back into the shuffle bag. The student does not collect a nut card.
5. The student continues playing until all the cards have been fed to the nutcracker, or until you run out of time.
6. The player who has collected the most nuts is the winner!

More ideas for playing these Christmas sight-reading games for piano

Need some inspiration for implementing this game into weekly piano lessons?

• Read some great ideas for using these sight-reading games in piano lessons
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