Music class ideas

Looking for engaging, musical games to play with your students? Here are a few of my favorite games and activities for elementary music classes, children's choirs, and elementary group classes.

Five fun and action-filled circle games to practice rhythm, pitch, and more with your elementary music students.

Here's a list of fun activities you can do with preschool and kindergarten using rhythm sticks!

Movement lessons your fourth and fifth grade music students will want to do. These are simple & easy lessons for elementary music class.

Jocelynn Mattingly on Instagram: "✨OUR WELCOME SONG✨ . I use this welcome song with grades K-2. I love how it starts off our class with movement, creativity, and fun. I found it somewhere on YouTube ages ago and it stood out to me. I added the student idea part and it’s been a home run ever since! You will be AMAZED at the ideas your students present sometimes. My favorite move of all time is “dodge the raining tacos.” #musiceducation #musiced #musiceducationmatters #musiceducator…

Learning names can be a challenge for teachers. When you have a couple hundred or more every year the task is even more daunting. Even if you are a veteran at your school, there are always the youngest students and new students in each grade. These are some of the best names games for music […]

These fun Musical Games with ping pongs are great for music classes, they're fun, cheap and easy to set up and always very popular!

Do you have a favorite rhythm game or activity to use in your music lessons? Rhythm is something that always needs review, so you can never have too many

Back to school means it's time to set up your elementary music classroom-- but what do you do? Make it simple with these tips!