FREE Easter Egg Music Flashcards

Free Easter Egg Music Flashcards!

Easter is such a bright spot in the year! After a cold, tough winter, it feels especially wonderful to be celebrating Easter this year!

I’m excited to share with you that we’re giving away a new Easter-themed resource – our ComposeCreate Easter Egg Music Flashcards! You don’t have to purchase anything to get and use these. They are free to you for being a ComposeCreate teacher or for signing up to get our newsletter.

These are a little bigger than our usual flashcards. However, they’ll still work fairly well for holding them in front of a webcam if you teach lessons online.

How can I use these Flashcards?

There are lots of ways to use the Easter Egg Music Flashcards. Here are just a few suggestions:

• Drilling note names
  Your elementary students can always use a fresh looking flashcard. Hold an Easter Egg Flash Card up to the camera and see how quickly they can name the notes.
• Playing notes
  It’s super important that students are not only able to name notes, but to know exactly where they are on the piano. So do a round where the student plays the correct note instead of just naming it.
• Studio Challenge!
  You can still do a studio challenge with live or online lessons. Set up a challenge in your studio with challenges at different levels. You might have 5 levels of challenge and each student would start at the beginning challenge. Some possible ways to do challenges are to challenge based on hand position (Level 1 would be middle C position notes, Level 2 might be All the notes between C and C, Level 3 might include the low G all the way up to the high G, Level 4 might start including low and high ledger line notes and level 5 might include all the cards including the ledger lines that are in the middle of the staff). Alternatively, you could do what the Piano Safari creators did and use line and space notes, then adding ledger lines.
  However you divide the cards, I would suggest having the students name the notes as the first part of the challenge. Then, play the notes as the second part of the challenge.
  Do not underestimate this challenge activity! My own child learned all her note names and where they were long before she needed to know them in playing because her teacher did a challenge like this with her! Keep your student winners displayed on a wall chart for added motivation!

• Matching Game
  This set of Easter Egg Flashcards comes in two PDFs. That way, you can have a set with just the letter names and a set with the notes on the staff. Your students can match these if they are doing lessons in person. OR you can email them the PDF file of the letter names and have them hold up the letter name when you show them a staff note!
• Easter Bunny Race
  Students can learn their white key note names by placing 2 erasers at the top or bottom of the piano. The players (you and the student) take turns drawing letter names and moving the eraser to the next closest corresponding note. The player to the opposite side of the piano first wins! This can even be done with online lessons. The student keeps track of where you both move with something like an eraser or game board pieces they have at home.
• Challenge Game
  When you are doing group lessons, it’s fun to divide students into two teams and have them line up behind a table. Place a call bell between them and have two students face you with their hands behind their backs. Show them an Easter Egg Music Flashcard. The first student that rings the bell and answers correctly gets to keep the card. Alternatively, you can have them race to the piano to play the correct note which makes it even more of a physically exciting game!

How will you use these Easter Egg Flashcards? Be sure to come back and leave a comment so other teachers have ideas!