3 Creative Ways to Use St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets

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3 Creative Ways to Use St. Patrick's Day Music Colouring Sheets

How can these awesome St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets benefit you and your studio?

The month of March is cold, windy, and dreary in many parts of the world.

But you are a savvy music teacher who knows how to liven up the atmosphere with a little musical fun! Whether you live in Ireland or not, these cute St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets will be a hit in your music studio this March.

 

Your instant download includes:

  • Colour by treble notes: 6 coloring sheets
  • Colour by bass notes: 6 coloring sheets. These are the same images as the treble clef sheets, which is advantageous as will be seen below.
  • Answer keys for all coloring pages
  • All at a very affordable price!

The treble notes range from Middle C to Treble C (C4 to C5).  The bass notes range from Bass C to Middle C (C3 to C4).

This note range is perfect for first-year piano students, who typically learn from method books that either begin in Middle C hand position or C hand position.

3 creative ways to use st. patrick's day music colouring sheets

 

Here are some creative ways to use your St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets in your piano studio or music classroom:

 

1. Have Students Do the St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets As Assessment

For some reason, very often beginner piano students struggle more with learning to read their left-hand (bass clef) notes as opposed to the treble clef notes.

Students have given me reasons such as, “I’m right-handed, so learning the left hand is harder for me,” or “We learn to play the recorder at school, so I’m more used to reading treble clef notes than bass clef notes.”

Whether we teachers agree with our students’ reasons (excuses?) or not, these adorable St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets are a good way to find out where students stand with their treble vs. bass note recognition skills.

During a private lesson or in a music classroom, print and distribute a treble clef worksheet to your students, then a bass clef page.

Either formally or informally, take notes on their progress.

You might want to time how long it takes students to complete a treble clef St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheet versus a bass clef one, for example.

Don’t tell your students you are timing them, of course.  The activity should be fun, not filled with pressure!

If you don’t want to time your students, another way to assess them is to simply keep track of how many questions they ask you while coloring the pages.

Since this is not a test, students are free to ask the teacher if they are unsure of any notes, right?

Teachers can make a mental note of how many times a student must ask for help while coloring their treble clef images as opposed to the bass clef images.

There are no doubt other ways that these coloring pages could be used as assessment — tell us your suggestions in the comments below!

 

2. Use the St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets As a Contest

These clever music worksheets feature a variety of familiar St. Patrick’s Day images and scenes, such as rainbows, a pot of gold, leprechauns, lucky clovers, etc.

How perfect for a coloring contest in your studio or music classroom, especially during the month of March where enthusiasm for piano lessons may be lagging.

Students who love to colour will be interested in entering the contest.

These St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets are no-prep, ready to print activities, so print enough copies so that your students can choose which image(s) they’d like to colour.

Invite them to use crayons, markers, pencil crayons, or whatever works for them.  Online students can even “colour” on their iPad!

Run the contest for only a week or two.  This should be enough time for everyone in your studio or music classroom to colour at least one worksheet.

I find that my really keen students will tend to ask if they can colour more than one, and of course the answer is yes!

Award prizes for first, second, and third place.

The prizes don’t have to be extravagant. Gold foil-covered chocolate “coins” will do the trick.

The point really is to build excitement and have your students do music theory in a leprechaun-approved yet educationally sound way.

Finally, display all the completed artwork prominently on a bulletin board for the rest of the month of March.

Ensure that your students have written their names at the top of their work. These images will brighten up your teaching space considerably!

 

3. Set up the St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets At One Station During a Music Party

Do you run the occasional group music class in your private studio?

For my private piano and guitar students, they get to participate in a group music class twice during the school year — once in November and once in March.

The reason for the March group class is because my school-age students have their two-week Spring Break during the last two weeks of March.

Since I still teach lessons all through their Spring Break (most of my students don’t go anywhere during this time), I feel the need to make at least one of the weeks special.

How? By offering a super-fun group class instead of their regular private lesson.

During the group class we play music games, perform a bit for each other, and …. complete the St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets!

The beauty of setting this up at a workstation is that the more experienced students are encouraged to help out the less experienced students.

Thus, the teacher doesn’t have to stand at the coloring table the whole time they are doing this activity.

At the end of your music party, send the students home with their completed artwork. They’ll be proud to show their parents what they have achieved.

As the teacher, you’ll be proud that you snuck in a little music theory as part of your fun group music class!  🙂

3 Creative Ways to Use St. Patrick's Day Music Colouring Sheets

 

How Will You Use These St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets?

If you are a classroom music teacher who includes choir, recorder, ukelele, or guitar as part of your curriculum, you’ll find the treble clef coloring pages useful as well as time saving.

If you teach band or orchestra, both the bass and treble clef activities can be used as extra review for your students.

Whether you teach private piano or other instruments, or whether you teach in the K – 12 system, these St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets provide a creative and interactive way for your students to identify treble and bass clef notes.

Grab your very affordable St. Patrick’s Day Music Coloring Sheets today and sneak in some extra theory practice without your students even realizing it!

3 Creative Ways to Use St. Patrick's Day Music Colouring Sheets

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Celeste-tina Hernandez

Celeste-tina Hernandez

Celeste-tina is a Royal Conservatory of Music trained pianist and music teacher. She holds a B.A. in Music and Drama from Trinity Western University and an M.A. in Arts Education from Simon Fraser University as well as numerous teaching certificates. She is a long-time member of the British Columbia Registered Music Teacher’s Association and regularly contributes to Progressions, the provincial magazine for registered music teachers. Celeste-tina currently teaches 65 piano, voice, and guitar students from her home studio in Chilliwack, B.C. She enjoys teaching students from ages four to adult and people of all abilities, both individually and in groups. She counts it a blessing to be able to share her love of music with so many and can’t wait to get back into the studio every Monday morning to begin another fun-filled week of music making.

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