Making piano lessons fun and engaging!: April 2022

Saturday, April 9, 2022

"Planting" Flowers Game

This week my younger students will be "planting" flowers in this festive flower garden! I have to say, it's WONDERFUL to be teaching lessons IN PERSON again. Woohoo! Virtual lessons served it's purpose during a tough time but nothing compares to holding lessons in the studio! Back to the game......

The kiddos are given a basket full of faux flowers with musical terms, intervals, notes, etc. attached to the leaves with velcro dots. There are four containers around the flower garden that have styrofoam squares underneath the "grass" for the flowers to stick to and musical terms adhered to the outside with velcro dots. The kiddos look at the item on the leaf of each flower and match it to the correct items on the container. There are twelve items in all.

I give my students five minutes to "plant" their flowers. So far my younger students are loving this game! Stay tuned for more in-studio ideas.

Piano blogger signing off for now......

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