Top 15 Musical Games for Preschoolers - Exciting and Fun

How to play:

• Pair up 2 children, hold the ball between their stomachs, and hold hands like a dance pose, without using hands to hold the ball.
• The teacher plays music with various tempos – slow, fast, normal, slow, fast... and asks children to listen to the music and dance, changing the rhythm according to the music, without letting the ball fall.
• The pair that drops the ball is eliminated.

This game enhances children's musical auditory skills, develops motor skills, and fosters teamwork to accomplish the task.

Note: For this game, the whole class will dance together. If odd, the teacher invites a student to be the referee with her and takes turns playing on the second round.

How to play: The teacher selects a group of small friends. Then, instruct them to dance to the music, creating their unique dance moves. When the music stops, they must freeze and maintain the pose until the music starts again. The game continues, and if any child continues to dance when the music stops, they are considered out.

How to play: The teacher arranges a set number of chairs (e.g., 10 chairs) in a circle and selects 11 students to participate. As the music plays, the students move around the chairs, clapping to the rhythm. When the music stops, they quickly take a seat. The student who fails to secure a chair is out, and one chair is removed. The game continues in rounds until a winner is found.

How to play:

• When the teacher claps once, the child sings softly. When the teacher claps twice, the child sings loudly. When the teacher doesn't clap, the child stops singing.
• The teacher repeats this 2-3 times.
• Feedback on the child's performance.

Preparation: Pictures depicting the content of songs.

How to play:

• The teacher has small drawings depicting the meaning of songs like 'Good Little Flower,' 'Pink Melodies,' 'Tet is Coming,' 'Spring is Here'... (depending on the class's lesson content, the teacher selects drawings suitable for the song content)
• Each child picks a drawing, and if the drawing corresponds to a song, they say the name of the song, the author, and the class listens to that song.
• If a child doesn't recognize the song, the teacher will provide hints or directly introduce the name of the song, the author, and encourage the child to sing that song.
• Children can also invite a few friends to sing together or perform a dance as an illustration or provide rhythm for their singing.
• After singing, the child introduces another friend to continue the game.

This game has 2 ways to play:

Option 1:

• On the class floor, draw circles (exercise hoops or drawn with chalk). The number of children participating is more than the number of circles. For example: 4 circles, 5 children, or 5 circles, 6 children.
• Children listen to the teacher sing and walk around the circles: When the teacher sings fast, children walk fast. When the teacher sings slowly, children walk slowly. When the teacher sings softly, children walk slowly closer to the circle. When the teacher sings loudly, children quickly jump into the circle. Each child in a circle, whoever does not occupy a circle loses and must jump around the class. While jumping around, the whole class reads or sings a chorus of a song...

Option 2:

• The teacher does not sing loudly, softly, quickly, or slowly but sings normally. However, at the predetermined line in the song, the children jump into the circle. For example, the teacher pre-determines the line “Cô dạy cháu múa ca” in the song “Cô giáo miền xuôi,” and when it comes to “múa ca,” the children jump into the circle.
• Note: Children only play with songs they know well and sing regularly.
  

Preparation: Dice, horn, drum.

How to Play: The teacher introduces the children to the sound-producing tools she has: dice, drum, wooden stick. The teacher invites one child to come up, wears a cone hat, then the teacher invites another child to play one of the tools she has. After that, the teacher lets the child guess which tool was played.

How to Play: Children sit in a circle. Child A goes outside the class. The teacher hides an object with one child, each child at a certain distance from each other. The whole class sings, and child A, coming back into the class, moves among the seated children. As Child A gets closer to the hidden object, the class sings louder, and if Child A moves away from the object, the class sings softer. Child A listens to the singing to pinpoint the location of the hidden object. If Child A guesses correctly, the whole class cheers, and the child with the hidden object continues as the next seeker. If Child A cannot find the hidden object, they have to play 'Duck, Duck, Goose' or stand in the middle and sing a song, and the teacher designates another child to play.

How to Play:

• The teacher provides children with colored doors, for example, red, green, yellow, and purple.
• Behind each door is a corresponding picture for each song. For example, if there's a picture of the sun, the song might be about the sun, and if there's a picture of a cat, the song might be about washing like a cat,...

Purpose:

• Develop auditory skills
• Children's attention and spatial orientation abilities.

How to Play:

• A child stands in the middle of the class, wearing a hat to cover their eyes or using a blindfold.
• One or two designated children sing.
• The blindfolded child can't see the one singing but listens and points in the direction of the singing, stating the singer's name. Once the game is mastered, the teacher can enhance it by having the blindfolded child not only point to the singing direction but also say the singer's name. If correct, the class applauds; if wrong, they play leapfrog or sing a song.

How to Play:

• The teacher selects words familiar to children, often found in nursery rhymes. For example, words like 'flower' or 'bird.'
• The teacher presents the chosen word, and the children recall which song contains that word and sing the corresponding verse.
• For instance, the word 'flower' in the verse 'flowers and leaves are fresher.'
• The word 'bird' in the verse 'the bird is singing sweetly.'
• Children can play as a whole class, compete in teams, or form groups. Those who cannot sing the correct verse are eliminated, and the last person or team standing is rewarded.

How to Play:

• Divide the children into 2 teams, each team selects a representative to hold a dice to determine the answering order after hearing the melody of the song...
• When the music ends, the team that shakes the dice first has the right to answer first. The team that correctly names the song wins.
• Allow the children to play (2 rounds).

Purpose: Children learn to gallop fast and slow to the rhythm of the song.

Preparation: 8 animals to decorate dice or tambourines.

Execution:

• The teacher chooses a wide area, in the middle, she can create a scene to make a forest, the forest scene can be 4 trees, 4 corners, in the middle with some animals, if there are tambourines and dice, the animals have something to wear or hold in their hands.
• The teacher says: “Little horses, over there is a beautiful forest, you and your moms have to go and play in it, remember to follow the music to find the door to enter the forest.”
• The children stand around the teacher, get on their horses (front legs, back legs, two hands folded at the elbows) while she gallops and sings Slow – Fast - Slow, the children gallop to the rhythm without lining up.
• After galloping, the little horses go into the forest to eat grass, neigh...
• This game is played only once (3 times singing for the children to gallop fast and slow).

How to play:

• Divide the class into 3 teams standing in 3 circles.
• Each circle has 2 maracas.
• While singing, continuously pass the two maracas to each other.
• When the song ends, whoever is holding the maracas loses.
• You can sing faster and pass the maracas more quickly to make the game more lively.

How to play:

• Divide the class into teams.
• The teacher sticks pictures corresponding to the songs into a square box and throws it. Sing the song associated with the picture that lands facing up, and let the children take turns throwing the dice.