Hi All! This week and next week my kiddos are going on a scavenger hunt that starts in the studio and continues outside to the front yard. Above is a picture of one of the hiding places near the piano bench.
I created six scavenger hunt clue cards; a set for my older students (picture above) and a set for my younger students (picture below). I left the last word out of each rhyme for my older students to figure out. I laminated them.
I bought a few inexpensive decorative pumpkins from Walmart and put velcro dots on them like the picture below.
A few of my students have just learned their C position notes from the grand staff so that's what I'm using the hunt to test them on. I've also created matching items to test other things like sharped and flatted notes, musical terms, primary chords, melodic/harmonic intervals, Major vs. minor scales, etc. Here's a picture of one set of pumpkins below. They hunt for the pumpkins that match the picture on the back of their clue cards and they place the pumpkins in a bag.
I went ahead and hid pairs of pumpkins inside and outside. Here are a few hiding places.
These are near a shiny black bin.
Here's how it works: I hand them the first clue card, they find the location of the first set of pumpkins, they pick the correct pumpkin, place it in their bag, and pick up the next clue card that I placed with the first set of pumpkins. So clue card #2 is placed with pumpkins number #1, clue card number #3 is placed with pumpkins number #2, and so on until they're done.
I hope this inspires you to create a scavenger hunt of your own. Let me know how it goes!
Until next time, piano blogger signing off.......
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