Rhythm War Music Card Game for Primary Music Centers Level 1

Teaching students about beats in rhythms can be difficult, but you can make it fun with games! Use this Rhythm War card game to help students identify note durations in a fun way. It’s perfect for elementary music centers, sub plans, beginning band, piano lessons, and more!

To play:

Students get into pairs. Split the deck of rhythms in half.
Both students flip over the top card on their decks.
The students with the longer rhythm takes both cards, and put them at the bottom of the deck.
If they tie, flip again. Winner takes all.
When one person has all the cards, they win.
Rhythm War is available in color and black and white, regular and stick notation.

This set is level one. Each card only includes one rhythm on it. Each card occurs 8 times. (Level 2 includes multiple rhythms)

Rhythms include:

Whole notes - breves
Whole rest - breve rest
Half note - minims
Half rests - minim rest
Quarter notes - crotchet
Quarter rests - crotchet rest
Barred eighth notes - quavers
Single eighth notes - quaver
Eighth rests - quaver rest
Barred sixteenth notes - semiquaver
Single sixteenth notes - semiquaver
Sixteenth rests - semiquaver rest
Dotted half notes - dotted minim
Dotted quarter notes - dotted crotchet
Triplets
Sixteenth - eighth - sixteenth
2 sixteenths - eighth
Eighth - 2 sixteenths

All rhythms are available in regular notation and stick notation, to accommodate all music classrooms!

Includes:

Printable kid friendly directions in color
Printable kid friendly directions in black and white
Printing directions
72 playing cards in color
72 playing cards in black and white
72 playing cards in color, stick notation
72 playing cards in black and white, stick notation