4-Day Christmas Music Workshop

ALL ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS MUSIC WORKSHOP I ORGANIZED AT MY MUSIC SCHOOL

Happy New Year everyone!!

This is the first post of 2023 and I wish all of you another creative and promising music teaching year.

In this post you are about to read about the 4-day Christmas music workshop I organized at my music school  during  the last week of December.

In Cyprus where I live, we stop piano lessons for two weeks during Christmas holidays so I decided to have morning workshops for the students they wanted to attend (due to an extra amount of fee).

We were a great team of 8 students, myself and my daughter who is 18 years old and she was helping me with the small children. I had three 6-year-old children  and the rest of them were 9 and 10 years old.

What was included in the 4-day workshop

The main idea was to teach children music with fun ways and to introduce them to many aspects of music like music theory, piano ensemble, boomwhackers, body percussion, history of music, form and composition  but I also added some time every day for unique crafts and drawing while listening to some music.

Our Projects

Jingle Bells

That was an easy and  fun ensemble because all the students knew the song and most of them were familiar with the piano notes in different versions each. I gave them the new ensemble arrangement and  they learned how to perform it in two days.

I gave some boomwhackers to the small children because it was easier to follow than teaching them the piano version.

Here you can watch a 6 year old student practicing

In the Hall of the Mountain King- Grieg

That was our main piano and boomwhackers ensemble and it was a whole project that I really enjoyed teaching.

In this project children learned:

We created a nice video of our performance. You can watch it here:

Radetzky March by J. Strauss

That was a fun piece to create some body percussion patterns. Kids enjoyed it a lot.

What they learned:

Educational Music Games and activities

Besides the performing projects that we had during our 4-day workshop we had time for educational fun music games.

We played our favorite Music Finale (which is the music version or the well-known UNO game) and the Music Mall which is the music version of the well-known Monopoly game.

If you live in Cyprus you can purchase them from Partasides &CO Music Store

If you live in Greece you can find them at Fagotto books

For more ideas and inspirations on how to create your own fun music board games read my post  Music board games, benefits and a guide

I also created some pdfs with games for my students like Find the instruments but also found some great resources on the internet with rhythm patterns and various other activities for music students.

 

FREE PUZZLE FOR YOUR STUDENTS IN GREEK AND ENGLISH

You can get for free the hidden words puzzle I 've created for your students by entering your name and email below.

In English:

 

HIDDEN WORDS PUZZLE

for little musicians

 

In Greek:

ΚΡΥΠΤΟΛΕΞΟ

για μικρούς μουσικούς

Crafts and other activities

Crafts was one of my students’ favorite activities. That's because they kept being creative but at the same time they had a break from the rehearsals or our music projects.

We had three different craft-project options to create for every day. Each child chose one project to create for the day. Sometimes when they finished one project they could go to another. We created beautiful Christmas and music creations and they were very pleased.

Drawing and coloring was another activity that kept my students quiet and creative.

We were listening to some Christmas songs while coloring and kids had fun with their creations.

Everyone was happy about this 4-day music workshop and I am sure I will organize this for Christmas '23, too.

You can find the arrangement for the ensemble In the Hall of the Mountain King by clicking here.

 

You may find more piano or boomwhackers arrangements for your workshops in my e-shop

If you are interested in music workshops you may find the following posts helpful:

Summer fun music workshops part 1

Summer fun music workshops part 2

Piano ensembles for students

Boomwhackers workshops for your students

Run a summer music program for your students

For more photos from my 4-day Christmas workshop you can click here

To get the Find the word game I created IN GREEK for your students click below:

ΚΡΥΠΤΟΛΕΞΟ

για μικρούς μουσικούς

Get the hidden words puzzle in English here:

 

HIDDEN WORDS PUZZLE

for little musicians

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