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Dance with Us

15

Category

vocal
rhythm

Age

8+

Number of participants

6+

Duration

approx. 30 min.

Working method
  • playing in pairs
  • group work
Musical abilities of the trainers

1  2  3  4  5  6

Equipment and instruments
  • music player / app to play the videos
Competences
  • cultural / intercultural sensitivity
  • attention
  • movement coordination
  • cooperation
  • concentration
  • perception
  • expression
  • sense of rhythm

Dance with Us

Get to know the culture of other European countries
through music and dance.

AIM

The purpose of the game is to strengthen the unity between the group members and in a cultural sense with the other nations living in Europe.

Description

With the help of the videos below, get to know the specifics of the dances of different nations together with the group, and try to imitate the movements!

1 clap 2 claps

16

Category

rhythm

Age

8+

Number of participants

8-25

Duration

approx. 15 min.

Working method

group work

Musical abilities of the trainers

12  3  4  5  6

Competences
  • collaboration
  • attention
  • concentration
  • rhythm recognition

1 clap 2 claps

A rhythm based game with focusing on quick reaction.

AIM

This energizer game’s main goal is to keep the participants in deep focus. It is a competitive game and who has the quickest reaction, wins.

Description

Everybody stands in the circle.
The facilitator explains the task.

The facilitator or the group choose a music to play.
After the music starts the facilitator (or any other previously chosen member of the group) starts to clap to the rhythm of the music. The participant on the facilitator’s left has to clap to the next beat. Then the next participant to the left claps to the next beat. And they keep clapping to the rhythm round the circle one by one.
This way we create a method like playing a metronome.
What makes the task harder: if somebody claps 2 times within one beat, the sequence has to change (if they went from right to left, they have to change it to left to right).

If somebody makes a mistake by clapping not according to the order that participant is out of the circle.

This competition ends when 2 participants remain in the circle.

Cooperative Vers(us)e

17

Category

vocal

Age

8+

Number of participants

8-20

Duration

approx. 30 min.

Working method
  • group work
Musical abilities of the trainers

1  3 4 5 6


Competences
  • collaboration
  • creativity
  • attention
  • concentration
  • rhythm recognition
  • sense of rhythm

Cooperative Vers(us)e

Creating lyrics together as a team and singing in canon.

AIM

Helps group dynamics, improves creativity and vocality.

Description

Everybody stands in the circle. The facilitator explains the task.
The participants have to figure out short lyrics.
Possible variations depending on the abilities and motivation of the groups:
– use well known songs – change the lyrics
– use only the lyrics without music, only rhythm like rap
– create your own music as well along with the lyrics

The facilitator divides the group of ~4 small groups.
The lyrics they created has to be singed as follows:
First group starts singing the first verse.
When first group finishes the first line, the second group starts singing the song from the beginning.
When second group finishes the first line, the third group starts singing the song from the beginning.
And so on…

For example:

1st group – La La LA La La     – Le Le LE Le Le       – Lu Lu LU Lu Lu

2nd group                                – La La LA La La      – Le Le LE Le Le

3rd group                                                                  – La La LA La La

Rhythm Map

18

Category

rhythmic

Age

8+

Number of participants

10-30

Duration

approx. 10 min.

Working method

group work

Musical abilities of the trainers

1 2 34  5  6

Equipment and instruments
  • paper, pen
  • optional – any drums and rhythm instrument
Competences
  • creativity
  • collaboration
  • attention
  • concentration
  • rhythm recognition

Rhythm Map

In this game sheets with special characters (any character
that are not on a classic sheet) have to be created
and performed by the team.

AIM

This is a game for improving cooperation skills and developing focus in a creative way. Creating the sheet and coming up with rhythms is a great team building exercise. By living in the rhythm create a fun atmosphere.

Description

The facilitator creates two groups and explains the task.

First group has to find out a specific rhythm pattern that the other group needs to play on their bodies or rhythm instruments. This part of the game is like a music sheet creation task: they have to capture the rhythm, however they cannot use classic notes but symbols.

For example:
instead of „ ♪ ♫ ” they can use symbol “$” and they have to explain it means: beat with your feet
or with the symbol „❤” they want the other group to clap their hands etc.

When the first group finishes, the second group performs it based on the instructions – as a music reading task.

Composition Game

19

Category

vocal

Age

8+

Number of participants

8-25

Duration

approx. 15 min.

Working method

group work

Musical abilities of the trainers

1  2  3  4 5 6

Competences
  • creativity
  • collaboration
  • attention
  • concentration
  • musical hearing
  • rhythm recognition

Composition Game

In this game sheets with special characters – any character
that are not on a classic sheet – have to be created
and performed by the team.

AIM

This is a game for improving cooperation skills and developing focus in a creative way. Creating the sheet and coming up with a song with rhythms is a great team building exercise. By listening to the song to be performed, it adds to the fun atmosphere.

Description

The facilitator creates two groups and explains the task.

First group has to find a simple song that the other group needs to play on a music device or by heart. This part of the game is like a music sheet creation task: they have to capture the song, however they cannot use classic notes but symbols.

For example:
instead of „ ♪ ♫ ” they can use symbol “$” and they have to explain it means: sing „LA”
or with the symbol „❤” they want the other group to sing another note
etc

When the first group finishes, the second group performs it based on the instructions – as a music reading task.