If you're in the winter of 2024, chances are your older kids have come in with their Stanley tumbler, and what a way to connect!

This resource Tumbler Rhythms is terrific for your kids as an introduction to quarter notes+rests, eighth notes+rests, and sixteenth note patterns

40 rhythms with 4 different levels

1. Quarter Notes + Quarter Rests with Eighth Notes (4 beat patterns)

2. Quarter Notes + Quarter Rests with Eighth Notes**(6 beat patterns)**

3. Quarters, Eighths, with Eighth rests (4 beat patterns)

4. Adding all of the above with sixteenth notes

This colorful resource can be used with instruments (such as rhythm sticks, Orff, etc), and can be put to background music (at any tempo you desire) or even be played by itself. Or you can use it as a sightreading exercise, counting which whatever system you prefer.

Have a great time with this and have your kids light up when they see their favorite color! :D