Trick or Treat Halloween Rhythm Game BUNDLE for Primary Music Lessons

Need to practice rhythm AND get the wiggles out this Halloween? Try Trick or Treat! This is a silly rhythm game that your students can do during elementary music centers. They will love the silly “tricks”, and you’ll love that they are practicing rhythms.

To play Trick or Treat:

Students take turn pulling out a card from a bucket (eyes closed!)
Read a rhythm = get a treat
If you get a trick card, you will either have a challenge or have to put treats back.
Most treats at the end is the winner!
Tricks include saying tongue twisters, putting treats back, and even challenges like hopping on one leg, holding your breath, doing push ups, and more.

Your students have never been this engaged while reading rhythms.

This game never ends because after you’ve gone through the rhythms, you can mix them up and continue playing.

Rhythms included:

Quarter + eighth (crotchet and quaver)
Quarter rest (crotchet rests)
Half note (minims)
Barred sixteenth notes (semiquavers)
Dotted notes (dotted crotchet and dotted minims)
Triplets
Tikati +titika
Syncopa

I also like to listen and use it as an informal assessment.

Each set includes:

Directions
40 rhythm cards
8 treats (you’ll want to copy multiple pages!)
24 Trick cards
Everything in stick notation
Everything in color and black + white