Music Bingo

Music Bingo is now a free resource with an updated creative teaching and planning grid.

This resource is intended to be used as flexibly as possible by teachers and their students. The games may support students preparing to take ABRSM ‘Music Medals’ tests. The game explores minims, crotchets, quavers and crotchet rests.

It meets the requirements of the National Curriculum for Music (2013) ‘to use and understand staff notation.’

The set includes:
Creative teaching and planning grid;
24 differentiated music bingo game boards;
6 Note Value ‘playing cards’;
6 Note Value Names ‘playing cards’.

The bingo games may be adult or student led. Students may be able to suggest variations and extensions to the bingo games.

The games are suitable as starters to lessons or as extension activities.

Play traditional games of bingo with an adult or student acting as the ‘caller’. The ‘caller’ shows a ‘playing card’ and players either place counters or the ‘playing card’ over the corresponding note.

A set of ‘playing cards’ are placed face down and each player takes a card in turn to try to place it over a matching note on their game board. May be played by one player or a group and can be self-directed.

Play ‘Bingo Equivalents’ where notes may be covered by the equivalent note, note value name or rest.

Enlarge to A3 and the game may be played as a group activity enabling ‘talking music’ discussions about the placement of note values.

Although staff notation is introduced in Key Stage 2, I have very successfully introduced pupils in years 1 and 2 to minims, crotchets and quavers.