Looking for some engaging summer music activities you can use with your piano students? In this post, I’ll share a variety of music activities from games, to puzzles, to coloring, to worksheets–and you’ll spot a couple of free downloads you can try out as well.
While classroom teachers are taking a much needed break from their duties, us piano teachers are still around and looking for fun ways to spice up music theory time!
Some of these summer music activities are perfect for small group lessons, others work great in private lessons, and still others make an excellent at-home assignment–so you’re sure to find something that will work with your students.
Watch for a couple of freebie sprinkled in:
- Free Summer Break Practice Bingo
- Free Summer Color-By-Note Coloring Page
And if you’re thinking, “Enough talk! Just show me the resources!” You can…
Summer Rhythm Bingo
This is a summertime version of my bestselling music game: Rhythm Bingo.
The game works just like traditional bingo, but the teacher will call out rhythms. Students will then need to match the rhythm they heard to the corresponding rhythm on the board.
I love this game because it helps link the note and rest values students see in their method books with the musical rhythms they hear every day. After all, what good is music theory if you can’t apply it to what you’re playing?
The game includes three levels, each progressively harder:
- Level 1 shows the rhythm + picture + words
- Level 2 shows the rhythm + picture
- Level 3 shows the rhythm only
This helps teachers to work with groups of various ages, even combined age groups.
Plus, there are endless ways to use these bingo pages as a rhythm teaching tool!
I also created the same resource in an alternate version: Vacation Rhythm Bingo. What’s the difference? Just different phrases!
Summer Rhythm Bingo is more stay-in-town-by-the-pool vibes.
Vacation Rhythm Bingo is more destination beach vacation vibes. And this version could be used around Spring Break as well.
Check out Summer Rhythm Bingo, Vacation Rhythm Bingo. and other bingo variations in my TPT store.
Free Summer Piano Practice Bingo
And here’s our first freebie! Summer Practice Bingo for your piano students.
Now, this bingo is not a bingo game like the Rhythm Bingo.
This is a take-home page to encourage piano practice over summer break.
This printable is perfect if…
- you are a piano teacher who takes the summer off, or
- you are a piano teacher who takes a long break in the summer.
Print one bingo board for each student just before the break.
Instruct them to complete as many activities as they can over the break, marking their board along the way.
And when they return to lessons, they’ll show you their completed board.
Offer a reward for each “bingo” completed (5 in a row).
Hopefully this fun little incentive will keep them coming back to the piano over break!
Grab this Free Summer Practice Bingo from my TPT store here.
Summer Beach Van Matching Games
Our next summer music activities are music theory matching sets in a fun, retro beach day van style.
These sets cover a variety of music theory concepts. There is a set for…
- Piano Keys + Basic Notes on the Staff
- Note Values + Rest Values + Music Addition
- Notes on the Staff (match 2)
- Sharps & Flats (on the keys + on the staff)
Here’s how each music matching set works:
- Print the retro beach van page.
- Print and cut out the matching squares.
- Allow the student to make matches with the squares in the windows of the van picture.
There is also an alternate way to play with game instructions for each matching set.
And, you can save 25% by buying all four sets together in a bundle! Clicking the link below will bring you to the bundle and you can navigate to any individual set from there.
Shop Summer Beach Van Matching Sets in my TPT Store here.
Summer Music Coloring Pages
Little kids and big kids (myself included) love coloring! Even the most anti-theory students will usually smile at the prospect of completing a music theory coloring assignment.
One of my favorite ways to use music coloring pages is when I have two siblings that arrive together. I can easily send one sibling to the desk with a box of markers while I work with the other. No explanation needed–every kid understands color-by-code!
There are three sets of music coloring pages available:
- Color By Note (notes on the staff)
- Color By Rhythm (note values + rest values)
- Color By Symbol (dynamics + music symbols)
And each set comes in three levels:
- Level 1 (Easy)
- Level 2 (Medium)
- Level 3 (Challenging)
Clicking the link will bring you to the music coloring bundle (save 25%) and if you want to check out an individual coloring page pack, you’ll find a link to all three on this page…
Shop for Summer Music Coloring Packs in my TPT store.
Free Summer Music Coloring Page
And if you’re not ready to spend money on a coloring page pack today, no worries!
Here’s a free music coloring page featuring notes on the staff to try out with your students.
Grab the Free Music Coloring Page from my TPT store here!
Summer Music Theory Worksheets
If more in-depth music theory learning is your goal this summer, you might find these summer music theory worksheet packs just the thing.
These worksheets are a good balance of solid music theory review and student-friendly summer fun.
Once again, clicking the link will bring you to the summer music worksheet bundle (save 25%), but there are 5 worksheet packs to choose from!
Customize based on the music theory concept you want to work on:
Oh, and, if you do purchase the Summer Music Worksheet Bundle, you also get all of the coloring packs as well!
Click here to check out the worksheet bundle or any of the worksheet packs.
More Summer Music Activities?
I hope you found something interesting listed here that your piano students will enjoy this summer!
I couldn’t include all of my summer music activities in this post, so if you want some more fun ideas…
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