"Hooked" on Music

This is a nice quick game where students match terms or in the case from the picture below, grand staff notes to keys by hooking them onto magnetic hooks adhered to a magnetic wipe off board.  The board I used is higher up on one of the walls in my studio so to add extra fun to this activity I had my kiddos stand on a step ladder to reach the board.  We're not talking WAY high up on the wall, just a few feet from the floor.  I set up a very sturdy 2-step step ladders. Oh my gosh, did they enjoy that!  They loved playing this game from a height.  I stood on the floor right behind them as an added safety measure. There was one student who didn't want to step onto the ladder so I simply pulled the pieces farther down on the board closer to them so they could reach the hooks while they stood on the floor.

The materials I used were cardstock, a thin tipped black marker (to draw in the sharps and flats), a paper cutter (if you don't have a paper cutter use scissors), 10 magnetic hooks, a hole puncher, magnetic board, blank grand staff paper, and keyboard paper. Down below is a picture of one of the keyboard papers I created to give you an idea of what I did.  

Grand Staff Paper

I made 2 copies of the blank grand staff paper and drew notes on 10 of the staves; 5 bass clef notes and 5 treble clef notes (any notes of your choosing) for the game above, I added sharps next to some notes and flats next to other notes and laminated the sheets. I cut them out and punched a hole near the top of each game piece.

I then copied the keyboard papers onto cardstock, laminated the sheets, cut out the pieces I needed, saved the other pieces for another game, and punched a hole at the top of each piece.  The picture below is one of 3 keyboard papers I created marking each white and black key with either a black or white asterisk. 

Keyboard Paper with Asterisks Marking Notes

I spaced out the magnetic hooks onto the board and hung the grand staff notes from the hooks. I set up the step ladder, had my students step up to reach the board, gave them the keyboard game pieces, and told them to match the pieces in their hands to the pieces on the board by hanging their pieces on top of the matching pieces on the board like the picture below.

Other ideas for this game would be to match white notes to letter names, C Position staff notes (no added sharps or flats) to keyboard pieces, intervals drawn on the staff to the names of the intervals, primary chords drawn on the staff to the name of those chords, and musical terms (pictures to names of those pictures).

Alright, until next time.  Piano blogger signing off............