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Description

Beavers place sweets like mini Easter eggs on to a 5 line stave to represent a few notes or particular musical notes.

Resources

A4 sheets in landscape orientation, with the 5 lines of the stave drawn across. One per Beaver.
Lots of sweets/ mini Easter eggs.
A means of producing a few notes of music (glockenspiel, or keyboard or guitar or similar)

Instructions

Introduce the need to remember music by writing it down on a stave. Music is written and read left to right just like the written word.
Higher sounds are towards the top of the stave, lower notes towards the bottom.
Play a few notes max. 5 (e.g. 'close encounters of the 3rd kind' notes) ask Beavers to show the same tune by placing 5 sweets in order on their stave. They can eat if correct (correct pattern it is not necessary for them to be the exact same notes).

Extension: Beavers can compose their own short tune by placing 5 sweets on a stave and then maybe demonstrate playing their own or someone else's on a glockenspiel.


Teach the note names using the lines of the stave from bottom to top as 'Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit'. Or the fingers and thumb of their left hand when held sideways across their face. Beavers can be asked to place a sweet on the line for D or G etc (can eat if correct).

Similarly the spaces between the lines of the stave from bottom to top as 'F A C E' and the spaces between the fingers and thumb of the left hand when held sideways.Beavers can be asked to place a sweet in the space for A F etc (can eat if correct).

Tags

• Easter
• music
• musician 1

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