A series of cards with key names and note positions. How to use your cards: Place all the cards face down and take it in turns to turn over two cards at a time. If you find a matching pair, you keep that pair. The player with the most pairs at the end is the winner. Divide the cards into two piles and play snap, identifying snaps for the same key name, the same key or the key name with the correct key. Use the cards with the keyboard. Place a pile of the cards face down beside the keyboard. Turn over the cards one at a time. If you turn over a key name, play all the keys on the keyboard that have that note name. If you turn over a keyboard card, name the note and then play every key on the keyboard that have that note name.

I made this as a small team building activity to do with my children’s choir. I printed the file and asked the children to put a finger print on the staff in different coloured inks. We then framed it and put it up in the classroom. In one simple gesture help nurture the understanding that making music together is about all of us in the team. We all contribute different things but those things are all equally worthwhile.

A pack of Solfege Cards with a Christmas theme.