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Elementary Music Fall Activities to sing, move, play and create in the elementary music classroom.
Looking for some fun elementary music fall activities? This post has lot’s of ideas to sing, move, play and create in the elementary music classroom.
Elementary Music Fall Activities for preschool through 4th grades.
Find free songs, games, activities to teach music concepts in our free music library.
Warm up little voices using fall themed vocal explorations!
I love using the video in this activity.
It’s a great class starter! I play the video and have the students follow the path with their fingers as I get everyone situated and take roll.
Fall Music class Vocal Explorations to practice high and low. Students follow the path of the apples to experiment with their voices. Perfect for elementary music classes preschool through 3rd grade.
SING THIS FREE FALL SONG
“It’s Fall” is a song on the Sing Play Create YouTube Channel and a Free Resource in our library.
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The falling leaves,
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are blowin’ off the trees. They’re piling high,
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right up to my knees. I’d rake them up,
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But they make me sneeze!
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So now there’s leaves all over me!
“It’s FALL! “It’s FALL!
The time when everyone throws a football!
“It’s FALL! “It’s FALL!
Aren’t you glad it’s fall!
You can get all the details on how to use this song and other FALL FREEBIES in this blog post.
Free Fall Song to Sing and Play
Rhythm activities can be the basis of all music lessons. If the children “get” rhythm-then they’ll be able to sing, move and play the music too!
After warming up and getting into the “fall” spirit, it’s time for some rhythm practice.
You’ll want to download the FREE FALL SONGS AND ACTIVITIES from the Sing Play Create Resource
Library.
FALL BEAT AND RHYTHM CHARTS, CARDS, POSTERS
These are the songs you’ll find in the library.
TOSS THE LEAVES
FALL IS HERE
“Fall is Here” is a well know Kodaly song that’s perfect for this activity.
Fall is here, fall is here,
Birds and flowers disappear!
You can have your students tap the rhythms to the words.
Scarf activities are great for fall. Students can pretend their leaves are scarves. Play some fall music and have your students wave their scarves.
GET THE FREE SCARF MOVEMENT CARDS for this activity.
Here’s some FALL MUSIC that you can easily use for scarf activities.
APPALACHIAN TRAIL GUITAR AND BANJO AUTUMN MUSIC
PLAY INSTRUMENTS
Then we’ll put our scarves away and play a rhythm game.
My students love games and they love to play instruments. That’s why this activity is os poplar with my students.
Fall Rhythm Game “Would You Rather” L1 Rhythm Play Along Activities
This is a beginning level rhythm game to learn quarter notes and joined eighth notes. (ta and ti-ti)
The narrator in the video gives the directions and ask the questions.
Your students will choose their answer and then play the rhythm that matches their answer during the music.
Your students will LOVE this interactive activity.
I like to play the Toss the Leaves Game at the end of class.
Finally, you can sing the songs as students line up too.
Need a complete package?
You may want to look at this Fall Music Lesson: “Five Little Acorns” Game Song, Solfege, Rhythm, Video.
Music Teachers and Students will love this animated lesson video and a Rhythm Playing Video with timed 4 Beat Rhythms. Students can play the Rhythms, Sing the solfege, Sing & Play the Melody, Bass and Ostinato parts finishing off with a fun game. A great Fall music class unit of lessons.
Fall Mixed Rhythm Activities: Digital Google Slides, Video, Presentation September
Fall Drag and Drop Rhythm activities for online and in person elementary music class lessons.
Use the Video as a whole class activity. Students love moving the images into the boxes to create their very own rhythm patterns. Keep engagement high in your virtual classes using interactive google slides activities.
Keep on teaching rhythms, practice, assess using the presentation, video and google slides drag and drop activities. These materials make a great SUB lesson with video, presentation and google slides activities.
FALL MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES
READ THIS POST FOR SOME MORE ACTIVITY IDEAS
FALL MUSIC LESSON FOR CREATIVE MOVEMENT AND IMPROVISATION
Elementary Fall Music Lessons and Activities
Create a YouTube playlist of your “go to” activities.
Write the brain breaks into the daily schedule with links to videos.
Create and insert these activities into a google slides document so that you have immediate access without the ads!
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Hi there! I’m Sandra, one of the authors behind Sing Play Create. My goal is to provide teachers with interactive resources and activities to improve the effectiveness of their teaching and enhance student learning.
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