For this activity, you need a giant staff. I made mine by using a Sharpie marker to draw five evenly spaced lines on a piece of heavy white fabric. The fabric was leftover from a friend’s IKEA curtains adventure, so the whole thing was free. Alternatively, you could check out the curtains/tablecloth section in Goodwill. No need to spend a lot of money on a nice, new piece of fabric.
What You Need:
- A giant staff
- A treble or bass clef
- It doesn’t matter if your clef doesn’t match your staff in size. Mind doesn’t.
- Some kind of marker, such as a bean bag, bottle cap, whatever
Setup:
- Lay out your giant staff
How to Play:
- Stand beneath the staff and toss your marker onto the staff.
- If the marker lands on a space, you’ll be hopping spaces. On one foot, hop to the first space and name the note you’re on. Then hop to the next space and name it. Skip the note with your marker. When you reach the top, turn around (still on one foot) and hop back.
- If the marker lands on a line, do the same process with the lines.
Variations:
- To make it easier, don’t do all the hopping. Just jump to the note your marker is on and name it.
- To make it harder, change the interval. Jump up in fourths or fifths. You may or may not want to even use the marker in this case.
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