Practicing music therapy during a time of social distancing and virtual connection has inspired our team to adapt our interventions and techniques.
One way we have found to connect is through virtual musical games. One of our current favorites is Musical Bingo. While it may look like a fun game on the outside (and it is!), it also is targeting several goal areas, such as receptive communication, problem solving, reading, auditory discrimination, and many more. When playing with a virtual group of friends and family, it promotes positive socialization and engagement.
Free Virtual Card. If you want to simply play a card on your device right away, then our free virtual card is perfect for you. Click the squares and get a BINGO! Play bingo with virtual cards. In order to save ink and paper, players can join your game and play a virtual. Play Musical Theater quizzes on Sporcle, the world's largest quiz community. There's a Musical Theater quiz for everyone.
Keep reading to learn about our favorite resources for creating a musical bingo experience.
Bingo Boards
Either make your own Bingo board like our one below, or click this link to create one online.
Make a playlist like ours on Spotify, but customize it for your own Bingo board!
Press shuffle and have a blast listening to your favorites and see who gets to yell “BINGO!”first.
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Online Musical Games
Play the Strings & Woodwinds
Click on each instrument below to hear it play. Once you’ve explored, take our fun quiz to see if you can match the instrument with its sound – or save the quiz for another day and keep listening to your heart’s content!
Musical Memory
Play this fun memory game online right now or print a downloadable version here to play at home. You can also purchase them on our merch store to have a beautiful, packaged set mailed directly to you.
Play the Brass & Percussion
Music Bingo Virtual
Click on each instrument below to hear it play. Once you’ve explored, take our fun quiz to see if you can match the instrument with its sound – or save the quiz for another day and keep listening to your heart’s content!
Compose With Us Now
Check out this easy composition game that will have you creating new music in no time! When you’re done composing, click “share” to get a link you can send to friends. Click to share it with us as well – you just might get to hear your very own composition performed by professional musicians in a special project we’re working on!
Virtual Bingo Company
*If your composition won’t play back for you, give it a try in full-screen mode.
Online Rhythm Composer
Get creative with our online rhythm composition activity to compose your own rhythm pieces at home.
Virtual Musical Bingo Cards
Going Further
- Play along with your music as you play it back.
- Practice with the recording until you’re able to play it on your own.
- Give your piece a title and write words that go along with the rhythms.
Music Maps
Music Maps are great advanced listening tools for kids to work on independently from elementary school and up. Depending on the age of your kid(s), they’re likely already familiar with the concept of story maps – visual representations of what happens in a story, from beginning to end. We’ve put our own musical spin on it with Music Maps. Music Maps will ask your child to focus and be attentive to what they’re hearing as they map out the progression of the music. Here’s how it works:
- Press play to listen to the piece of music. Listen once through before starting the music maps activity.
- Drag and drop the tiles, each depicting different music events, to reorder them in the order that they happen in the music.
- When you think you have the order correct, click “Check My Music Map” to find out.
What’s Musical Bingo?
Musical Bingo is a fun way to help learners young and old to recognize the sounds of the instruments. Your musical ears will really be put to the test as you work towards being able to shout out BINGO in victory!
Musical Bingo is the same as regular Bingo, except instead of marking off the numbers that someone calls out, you’ll listen to music samples and mark off the instruments you hear. If you want to train your ear a little more before you play, head over to our blog posts about the string and woodwind and brass and percussion families to listen to every instrument one by one.
Play Online
Pick the Parts
To help kids understand how musicians work alone and as a team, we have an interactive activity with some of our wonderful musicians playing from home at your command!
- You can turn the sound and videos of each musician on and off by clicking on them.
- Listen to what parts different instruments play and how they work together.
- Try as many combos as you like!
NOTE ON TECHNOLOGY:Please use Google Chrome for this activity. Since Apple will only allow one video to play at a time on an Apple device, visit this page from a non-Apple device to do the interactive activity. If you are on an Apple device, you’ll still have access to the full performance video.