Yummy Food Rhythms

If you don’t have a hand drum, try making a drum using these instructions: Or just find a surface you can beat on!

The Game: Favorite foods are a great way to start exploring rhythm! First start by brainstorming some of your favorite foods: breakfast, snacks, desserts!

When a food is suggested, try tapping out the rhythm of the words. Go back and forth naming foods and tapping the rhythms.
When your child is comfortable with this, it’s time to make a combination!

CREATE:: create rhythm flashcards! On one side of an index card draw a favorite food, on the other write out the corresponding rhythm!

Food + rhythm combos

Rhythm Restaurant

Shuffle your flashcards and put them in a pile. One player will be the customer, the other will be the waiter.

Pick a card from the deck!
Place your order by saying the food in the rhythm and giving your card to the waiter.
The waiter will check your order by saying the food in the rhythm (or beating it on the drum) back to you!

Make the game more advance by drawing more flash-cards and ordering a sequence of foods!