The Music Festival

Topic
- Music
Learning skills
- Creative thinking
- Communication & expression
Activity type
- Group discussion
- Physical distancing
Materials
- Printable downloads
Age
- 6 - 11 years
- 12 - 14 years
- 15 - 17 years
5 - 15 minutes
+5 players
Intermediate
Medium
Small (office, pavement)

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Everything you need to play this game

Educational game MUSIC A1 Download music-a1.pdf (8.1mb)

A step-by-step guide to play the game

Gather a group of five or more players in front of the Music Festival game.

Ask the players if they can find the instruments and artists on the game board by using the search function. The artist search function (Elvis, Shakira, U2, ...) is to be found on the left hand side of the game board, the instrument (guitar, drum, saxophone, ...) search function on the right hand side. Use this to make the players familiar with the game board.

After exploring the game board, ask the players about their favorite musical style or artist. You can also ask to perform their favorite song of that particular artist. The other players try to guess the artist and the title of the song. If they recognise the song, they can join the performance

Start the same activity again with another player. Discuss the different musical styles and try to come up with new songs and genres.

Extra game information

The Music Festival game board is all about sound and music. On the game board, the players can find a wide variety of musical styles, dances and objects that produce sounds from all over the world.

On the left side of the game board, you see nine artists on a banner. From left to right, top to bottom, you see Psy, Elvis Presley, Demis Roussos, Bob Marley, Michael Jackson, Shakira, Bono, Ravi Shankar and Fela Kuti.
On the right side of the game board, you see eleven musical instruments. From left to right, top to bottom, you see a piano, a saxophone, a djembe, a guitar, a sitar, a transverse flute, a tambourine, a didjeridu, a cello, a harp and a trumpet.
At the bottom, you see four groups of musical instruments. From left to right you see the wind instruments, the plucked string instruments, the bowed string instruments and percussion.

Variations

Draw a specific artist or musical style on the mobile school blackboard or on a piece of paper.
Perform one of the dances depicted on the game board.
Try to link musical styles and dances to their specific country or continent (by combining the Music Festival game board with the World Map - GEOGRAPHY A2/A3).

Specific learning objectives

Discover different styles of music by listening to each other's songs.
Learn to express personal preferences about different styles of music.
Get to know different instruments.

What people said about this game

Sander Degeling

Partnership Coordinator Africa & Asia StreetwiZe • Mobile School BE

22 August, 2019

(1)

Wonderful activity to discuss about music with the kids! Love it!

Vicky Konstantinidou

Project Coordinator Ladies Union of Drama GR

22 August, 2019

(1)

Rob Sweldens

Manager StreetSmart Mobile School NPO BE

22 August, 2019

(1)

Colourful and attractive method to discover and develop musical talents of children!

Arnoud Raskin

Social Entrepreneur StreetwiZe • Mobile School BE

22 August, 2019

(1)

Fun game, ... I love the famous musicians in there ???

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