Compose Yourself: a Music Composition Game for Kids

Compose Yourself from Think Fun is a music composition card game for kids — in the key of C. (This is the easiest key for beginners because there are no flats or sharps.) Kids arrange and rearrange the 60 cards and then input each card into the Compose Yourself website. They’ll be able to hear their composition in seconds — it’s so easy and lots of fun! You’ll need a computer and the Compose Yourself game. Arrange the cards so that you have four bars per row. Enter the code from the card in the computer underneath a blank bar of music. The music will appear on the computer screen.

Listen to how it sounds. You can pick to hear it either by the marimba, orchestra, or both. (Marimba is a percussion instrument.) Do you like it?

You can also flip it upside down, or delete if you don’t care for it.

Also, you can drag and drop bars to different positions in the music score.