Adventures with Beethoven

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Activities

Color a picture of Beethoven to hang up in your house.

https://coloringcafe.com/coloring-pages/beethoven/

Can you dress up like Beethoven?

Use items from around your house to make your costume. Decide whether you would like to dress up as a young Beethoven or when he was older.

Have you noticed Beethoven’s music used in one of your favorite shows?

His music is used a lot in TV shows and movies. See if you can find an example. With your adult’s permission, try checking out Fantasia, The Lost World:  Jurassic Park, Trolls World Tour, or The Peanuts Movie. See if you can find something by Beethoven in another favorite show.

Make your own family tree.

Use the template on the next page and fill your family’s forest with the people who are important to you. They may be your parents, grandparents, and siblings. They may be your aunts and uncles. They may be your godparents or friends who feel like family. Choose the most important people and add them to this page.

Beethoven’s family was filled with musicians.

When he was growing up quite often children followed in their parent’s footsteps for their own career. If your parent was a butcher or a teacher or lawyer, you probably would have become that too. This still happens in some families today. Are there teachers or doctors or nurses or accountants or farmers or some other career that several members of your family share?

Try clapping at different tempos.

Use the guide to tempos above and a stopwatch and try clapping the different tempos. Start with adagio 60 bpm, you will clap one time per second. Then try allegro 120 bpm, with two claps per second. Then pick a different tempo and see if you can get the right number of claps in a minute. Is it harder to clap fast or slow?