Description
Easy-to-use music printables for Chinese New Year music lessons! Use these printable activities during the Lunar New Year in your elementary music class or for homeschool music. Purchasing this set of resources gives you a discount.
Many of the Chinese New Year music activities included have multiple versions or levels to allow you to adapt your lessons to a variety of elementary grades or ages within your family or classroom.
This Chinese New Year music lesson set includes:
- 10 posters on Chinese musical instruments in both color and in black & white for kids to color.
- 4 posters on Chinese musical pieces in both color and black & white
- 10 musical instrument matching cards (for matching or games such as memory or go fish)
- 10 Chinese music listening glyphs (students will color a picture according to what they hear in the music) with versions included that use musical terms (forte, piano, etc.) as well as versions with general words (loud, soft, etc.)
- 11 Chinese music listen & draw worksheets
- Recommended YouTube listening links for the instruments & pieces of music in the included activities
- 8 Color by rhythm worksheets (Lunar New Year-themed images) with each worksheet in 2 different rhythm levels as well as both North American & UK terminology versions (quarter note vs crochet).
- Worksheets on the music of China with included answer keys (this includes a word search, 2 levels of bingo-board style scavenger hunts, and 2 versions of written response/matching worksheets).
Musical Instruments to discover:
- Erhu
- Hulusi
- Gong
- Bianzhong (Chinese Bells)
- Chinese Cymbals
- Dagu (Chinese Bass Drum)
- Yueqin
- Guzheng
- Guqin
- Gudi (Bone Flute)
Musical Pieces to explore (includes ancient music, folk music, and 20th century music):
- Guangling Melody
- Autumn Moon Over Han Palace
- High Mountains and Flowing Water
- Gong Xi, Gong Xi (by Chen Gexin)
- Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto (by By He Zhanhao & Chen Gang)
- Lion Dance Music
- Horse Racing (by Huang Huai-Hai)
- Flute and Drum at Sunset
- Mo Li Hua/Jasmine Flower
This is a downloadable set of PDF files including a zip file for you to print at home.
