{"id":4569,"date":"2020-08-30T21:50:19","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T02:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww2.thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2021-02-10T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T16:14:08","slug":"at-home-music-activity-music-matching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/blog\/2020\/08\/30\/at-home-music-activity-music-matching\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Music Matching Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

I love cross-skilled activities. My kids love to play matching games and we have a variety of themed matching games (seriously, Avengers, Moana, Sesame Street\u2026). It was time to mix it up and make up a music matching game.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Except, we did not have any, so, it was also time to get crafty for some music matching!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Making the Game<\/em><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

I printed out two worksheets that had a grid of musical instruments like these<\/a>\u00a0 and gave one to each kid to cut. I had found some 3\u201dx5\u201d notecards and cut them in half so that we had appropriate-sized cards to use. They pasted the images to the cards while I queued up some example videos and we were good to go. Fine motor skill portion of the activity \u2014 check!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Playing the Game<\/em><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We reviewed each instrument on the card, said its name and identified its instrument family.\u00a0 Next, we watched a quick clip on YouTube of each instrument (because I didn\u2019t have all of them on hand). YouTube has plenty of instructional videos, but I loved these<\/a> by the Philharmonia Orchestra UK . I usually found a good 15-30 second clip per instrument and capped it there.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

After we heard and discussed each instrument, it was time to play. We played a traditional match game, but you couldn\u2019t \u201cwin\u201d your match until you were able to identify what instrument pair you matched. Memory and recall portion of the activity – check!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

This was a fun one. The kids had a sense of pride in knowing they physically made the game and they were very excited to talk about the instruments they remembered. I saved the cards for another day. Maybe even for another activity!<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love cross-skilled activities. My kids love to play matching games and we have a variety of themed matching games (seriously, Avengers, Moana, Sesame Street\u2026). It was time to mix…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[34,60,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-4569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music-activities","8":"tag-music","9":"tag-music-game","10":"tag-music-matching-game"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thejamcatsmusic.com\/morriscounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}