If you’ve followed my blog for a while, you know I am a big fan of auditory perception and listening games.

I use these games in my music therapy sessions with school-age clients and teens as a way improve their social relationships and their ability to focus in school.

I have always created these games myself, using my own ideas, and music or songs I pull up online. (Check out this Spooky Music Listening experience, just in time for Halloween!)

It might be a game of Name That Tune / Name That Instrument where students listen to excerpts of pop songs played on different instruments. For example, “Havana” played on flute, or “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” played on saxophone. It’s their job to guess the song and guess the instrument.

Recently however, I found some very cool websites that have added to my arsenal of music listening games.

The Carnegie Hall Kids website (not a sponsored post ;) has some awesome online musical games.

My favorites to use with tweens and teens are – Animal or Instrument, and Sights You Can Hear. I’ve done a version of the Sights You Can Hear game using songs I found myself, but it is so convenient to have these games already created on the website.

They are also great to pull up in a pinch if you have extra time at the end of a session.

I currently provide services to clients in and around Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (in person) and Miami, Florida (virtually). So, I use these games to work on those all-important auditory perception and listening skills in a way that is engaging and fun.

Want more ideas?

You can find nearly 35 blog posts with FREE creative ideas for addressing auditory attention and perception skills in music therapy here.

And you can access the comprehensive Attention & Perception E-Course for CMTE credit here.

These resources, along with Carnegie Hall Kids, will give you tons of ideas to use with your music therapy clients.