Some card games are evergreen. The passing of time does little to erode their relevance and compromise the level of fun they shower on young children - adults alike! SNAP! is no exception. This perennially popular game injects an adrenaline-laced thrill within players who make it their sole mission to win as many cards as they can using their quick reflexes.
I've decided to deviously incorporate a small twist to this game. Instead of yelling SNAP! after spotting two similar cards on the table, I upped the challenge that this golden word surfaces together with identifying the card with the higher / lower note value.
Aim of the game:
To help students to recognize notes and note values, and their position in the ecosystem of music.
Game Mechanics
Prepare one-sided cards with notes like semibreve, minim, dotted minim, crotchet. These are great for beginners and for the slightly advanced ones, you can also introduce quavers and semiquavers. Flash cards are also great ready-made materials to save you the effort from creating from scratch.
Evenly divide the cards into two separate piles, faced down.
Two players (usually teacher and student) take a card each and reveal the note at the same time.
The player who points to the card with the higher-value note and yells SNAP! first gets to keep the pair. If your student is unable to multi-task, he/she can simply point to the card. This ensures dedicated, 100% concentration.
If two cards are of the same value, they remain on the table. Repeat steps 3 and 4. This time, the player who correctly points first may keep all the cards on the table.
The winner is the player who has the most number of cards at the end of the game.
P.S.: You can also change the context to identifying the note with the smaller value.
My student, L, and I had so much fun! I couldn't stop laughing at my "slow" reflexes. Truly, I was completely gamed but I lost to a 7-year-old index finger, twice. L was humble to attribute it to "beginner's luck". I know better though.
It is age, indeed. 😅
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