Rhythm War Music Card Game for Elementary Music Centers Level 2

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 2. Some card include on rhythm, and other cards include more than one rhythm which students will need to add together (2 half notes = 4 beats). Each card occurs twice. (Level 1 includes more rhythm options, but each card has only on card on it)

Rhythms include:

Whole notes - breve
Whole rest - breve rest
Half note - minim
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 - semiquavers
Single sixteenth notes - semiquaver
Sixteenth rests - semiquaver rest

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
96 playing cards in color
96 playing cards in black and white
96 playing cards in color, stick notation
96 playing cards in black and white, stick notation