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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
- 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 nut card.
- If the student chooses incorrectly, both cards go back into the shuffle bag. The student does not collect a nut 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 nuts 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 nut card.
- If the student plays the card incorrectly, the card goes back into the shuffle bag. The student does not collect a nut 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 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
- Learn 10 Ways to Use Sight-Reading Games in Piano Lessons.
- Learn 4 Ways to Use Feed the Music Monster Sight-Reading Games with your piano students.
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