Making piano lessons fun and engaging!

Hi All!  I decided to have 2 different types of hunts going on last week.  I already posted one of the hunts, now I'll share this one.  I especially like this version because there's no resetting of the game between lessons and it goes a lot fast. I purchased a few bags of Autumn decor from Walmart like the ones above but you could probably find these on Amazon.  There were 8-10 items per bag.  I drew musical terms on each of the items (picture above) and placed sets of them in plastic storage bags. In addition to drawing a term on each of the pieces I wrote down the bag number they belonged to, just in case they were to fall out of their bags and get all mixed up.  I wrote down the list of terms from each bag on a piece of paper so that I could quickly decide which term I wanted each of my students to look for from the bags. I also drew the opposite of the terms on other pieces to make sure they really knew their stuff.  Look back at the first picture...

  Hi All! This week and next week my kiddos are going on a scavenger hunt that starts in the studio and continues outside to the front yard.  Above is a picture of one of the hiding places near the piano bench. I created six scavenger hunt clue cards; a set for my older students (picture above) and a set for my younger students (picture below). I left the last word out of each rhyme for my older students to figure out.  I laminated them. I bought a few inexpensive decorative pumpkins from Walmart and put velcro dots on them like the picture below.   A few of my students have just learned their C position notes from the grand staff so that's what I'm using the hunt to test them on.  I've also created matching items to test other things like sharped and flatted notes, musical terms, primary chords, melodic/harmonic intervals, Major vs. minor scales, etc.  Here's a picture of one set of pumpkins below.  They hunt for the pumpkins that match the pictu...