Easter Holiday Music Challenge

Easter Holiday Music Challenge: Printable Practice & Composition Activity (PDF Download)

Keep your students motivated over the break with this engaging Easter Holiday Music Challenge. Designed for instrumental pupils and classroom music learners, this printable activity encourages independent practice, research, creativity, and performance during the Easter holidays.

With a fun, interactive format, students complete musical challenges and colour sections of an Easter egg as they progress, providing a clear visual incentive to stay engaged with their learning.

What’s Included:

A structured Easter-themed challenge sheet featuring a variety of musical tasks, including:

• Composer Research Challenge

Find a composer whose surname begins with the letters that spell “EASTER”.

Research their full name, dates, instruments played, works written, and interesting facts.

• Performance Challenge

Share a video performance of a current piece with a friend or family member.

Teach part of a piece to someone at home.

• Composition Challenge

Write a short melody (8–16 bars) using the given rhythm and melodic ideas.

• Progress Motivation

Colour in sections of the Easter egg for each completed task.

Compare progress with friends by the end of the holiday.

Key Benefits:

• Encourages independent music practice during school holidays

• Develops research skills and musical knowledge

• Reinforces performance confidence and communication skills

• Introduces basic composition techniques

• Suitable for primary and lower secondary music students

• Ideal for instrumental teachers to set as holiday homework

• Supplied as a printable PDF, ready to send home or upload digitally