Making piano lessons fun and engaging!

 Happy Holidays everyone!  Here's a super inexpensive and quick game to put together for the holiday season.  Grab packs of plastic candy canes and 3 festive mugs from your local Dollar Store, copy 4 keyboards onto plain paper, use small mulit-colored dot stickers to locate particular notes on the keyboards,  copy blank grand staves onto adhesive labels, draw staff notes that match the colored dots from the keyboards, adhere the notes to the candy canes, hide them around your studio, have your students hunt for the candy canes, and place them in the correct holiday mugs corresponding to the location of the colored dots on the keyboards, and you've got yourself a candy cane hunting and sorting game. Until next time, piano blogger signing off.........

Well, if a picture's worth a thousand words then a video is worth that much more,right?!  Click on the link below to take a tour through the maze!  If you have any specific questions about the game please leave your comments below.  I would love to hear from you.  Happy Halloween! https://youtu.be/qEIJjy9TeWY Piano blogger signing off.........

Hi Everyone!  I decided to share this Valentine's Day game my students are playing this week and next based on the game show "Deal or No Deal". So far my older students are LOVING it!  I tried it out with two of my kindergarteners and they weren't totally getting the gist of it but they did enjoy winning a little prize at the end. As I was roaming through the "Dollar Tree" I noticed that they were selling V'day cards for 50 cents each.  WHAT?!  I bought 20 of them along with 4 red poster boards ( just in case I messed up), some V'day treats and prizes like erasers, pens, a pack of markers, V'day stickers, bubbles, gum, etc..  I didn't know what I was going to do with them at the time but I knew a game would come to me.  Eventually it hit me! I had to look at an episode of "Deal or No Deal" to figure out just how to play the game.  The V'day cards would serve as the suitcases from the show.  Inside each card I wrote some...