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.

Not sure where to start when it comes to the first day of school in elementary music? Find out what to teach, games, lessons, ideas, and more!

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…

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!

We've all been there: one class is ahead of the rest of the grade level, it's the last day before a vacation, you're stressed/ tired/ sick and can't think straight to teach a regular lesson, it's a weird schedule day and the kids are spinning in circles, there's a last-minute change and you can't do the lesson you had planned... Whatever the reason, we all have days when we need to step out of our regularly-scheduled sequenced curriculum and do something different for one class period. Sure…

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