New Music Valentines – Free!

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New Music Valentines!

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to use manipulatives like these new free Music Valentines with your students! Not only do new games and activities give your student something to be excited about, it gives you a chance to see if they’re truly retaining the theory you’re teaching them during lessons. Wendy hired an artist to create these beautiful Music Valentines, and they look fantastic! Not only can they be used for student games and activities – they’re pretty enough to use a Valentine’s Day decorations around your studio! Just click here to download or click on the green button below.

How can I use these Music Valentines?

You can use these Music Valentines in many ways, but here are the most popular:

  1. As valentines to give to your students
    Just print these off, make two cuts and then you have a lovely music valentine. Attach it to a bag of candy if you want and they’ll be tickled pink (or green or purple or orange) to figure out the mystery message.
  2. One minute race
    Place the “lovely mystery messages” in front of your student and see how many they can correctly name in one minute.’
  3. Music valentines as decorationDecorations
    Use removable ticky tack and fasten these to your walls. Your students may just wander around your studio figuring out all of the mystery messages! Put them on your door for the next few weeks too and see how many students can decode them.
  4. Mystery Message Competitions
    If you have at least 2 students (3 is better so you can mix up the competition), you can show them a card and see who names the mystery message first. The person who gets it correct can keep the card and then move to compete against the next student. Students can continue to shift so that they are always competing against someone new. (Never let the student who gets it correct stay to compete against everyone. That can get discouraging for students who are slower at naming notes.)
  5. Use a call bell
    I love using the call bell for group lessons if you are doing the competition as described above. I ask my students to stand with their hands behind their backs until they know the answer and then they reach out and ring the bell before they can answer. The bell adds a little more excitement.

Click the button to download the Music Valentines! Leave a message in the comments to tell me what you think or how you will use it!

Don’t want to miss the full post on Valentines Music Games! There are so many fantastic ideas and games that will help you practice neglected areas like melodic and rhythmic dictation, practicing in the alto clef, and more. Plus, even more fun ideas using candy as manipulatives, which is guaranteed to keep your students interested and motivated! And with the newest Little Fuzzies piece “Box of Chocolates”, Valentine’s Day may become your students’ new favorite musical holiday!

Music Valentines | ComposeCreate.com

Just for fun: Can you find the new 2017 Music Valentine that has a texting message? Leave a comment to let me know if you can find it and how you are going to use these!

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19 thoughts on “New Music Valentines – Free!”

  1. These are adorable. I do love how real they look. I’m sure the kids will make comments about how they look good enough to eat! Thanks for adding more fun to my studio!

  2. Wendy, thank you so mich for the cute Music Valentine gift! It is just perfect timing for me to use in my studio for 1 minutes notes recognition. We are starting our challenge next week and will definitely enjoy looking at them

  3. These look really cute. I am wondering what type of paper you recommend for printing these valentine. Also, when I click to download them, I get a message saying I will receive football flashcards. Is this just a mistake? Thanks!

  4. Hi Sandra,

    Thanks so much for telling me you like them. I’ll let the designer know! I always recommend card stock for printing resources like these. So just white 110 lb card stock that you can get at almost any store should work great.

    Yes, that was a mistake in the wording. The picture was right, but I just forgot to change the wording, but I edited it. YOu should definitely get the valentines. Let me know if you don’t!

  5. Thank you Wendy, and your design artist, for creating the awesome Valentine’s! I was looking for something like this and they are just perfect! I’m going to hang them around my studio and give the students more to engage in while they are here!

    Thanks again!

  6. Thank you so much for making these available for us!! They are so fun and very beautifully designed.

  7. How about a game of musical hangman? Two can play. The object is like regular hangman “Don’t be the first to fill your hangman. Obviously, each person gets a turn to identify a card.

  8. Wonderful colorful card game. My students will enjoy 1-minute note recognition and note identification race to the end of the keyboard. Thank you for the beautiful gift. Kudos to the illustrator. They will make lovely cards to go with candy bracelets for girls and sweet tarts for boys. Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

  9. Hi Wendy,
    I don’t know what the problem is but I tried this link for the valentines and it does not come to my email. I had tried with the snowmen a couple of weeks ago, I went in and added you to my contact list and still nothing comes through. I know you said you could try the email but I got busy and didn’t follow through. any ideas?

  10. I”ve looked on the back side of my email program and it has definitely sent all that you asked for!

    I’m guessing that it’s going to your spam filter. Can you check your spam filter (it might also be called junk)? If any of my messages are there, be sure to move it it to your inbox or mark it as not spam.

    Also, I’m not familiar with your domain name, altonweb.com. If this is an internet service provider, you could call them and ask about always allowing messages from “wendy@composecreate.com” to come through. Their security settings may be too high for you.

    But try looking in your spam folder first! I’ll bet that’s the issue. I also sent you a confirmation email which should help with email deliverability. If you can find that and click the link to confirm your email, you should start to get them.

    Either way, please email me back to let me know what you find out! I can always resend the resource, but not until it stops being flagged as spam which is what you’ll have to look into.

    Keep me posted!

  11. Thanks so much for all your gifts to us! My students will be thrilled with this fun, new, creative resource!

  12. Michelle Willford

    My students loved coming into the studio and seeing it “all decorated!” Most of them were walking around trying to figure out what all the valentines said. So much fun, thank you!

  13. During the first few minutes of each lesson, I have a quick activity to reinforce note reading or rhythm on a small table in my studio. While I go over their assignment book, award practice points, collect bills, etc., they do the activity. This will definitely be their activity next week. Thank you so much!

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