Test your piano students with three gingerbread-themed games that get them reading notes in treble clef, bass clef and ledger lines.
The games
Next Stop: Gingerbread Village (2–4 players): a racing game. Name the note, find how many spaces to move, and race to the Finish.
Gingerbread Moving Day (2 players): Name the note to move your gingerbread man into their new house. But if someone already lives there, you bump them out!
The Smart Cookie Gingerbread Shop (2 players): name the note to sell the cookie. The first player to sell out their shop wins.
Students practise:
Reading treble clef, bass clef and ledger line notes (there are 36 ledger line cards!)
Naming notes quickly and accurately
Finding notes on the piano
What’s included in the digital download
Instructions for how to play each game
A guide to using the question cards and grids
22 Treble clef and bass clef question cards
36 ledger line question cards
Print ’n’ Play Note Grids (Ledger Lines, and Treble & Bass)
2 Gingerbread Village game boards (lettered and blank)
Note/Space cards and Gingerbread Piano Grids
Gingerbread Moving Day board and counters
Smart Cookie Gingerbread Shop shelves and Sold Out tokens
Printer-friendly black-and-white version
Colour version
What you’ll need
A printer (I recommend printing on card or laminating to make the games stronger)
Scissors or a guillotine
Two dice, or an online dice roller (for the print ’n’ play grids)
A playing piece for each player (for Next Stop: Gingerbread Village)
Optional: Your own counters (if you don't want to print and cut out the ones in the download)
Quick note:
The ledger line grid has no clef, so you can choose treble or bass before you start
