This game is a favorite among my beginner students, and it’s easy to fit in during a piano lesson. I love it because it helps them learn the names of the piano keys faster so that they can make more rapid progress. All you do is print and then cut out the ice cream scoops. Hold up a scoop and ask the student to tell you the name of the key. If they answer correctly, they get to add the scoop to their cone. Before long, they’ll have a tall ice cream cone and they’ll be super excited. Click here to full the original post with full instructions and to print this game.
Send kids on a fun treasure hunt that helps them learn how to recognize and identify music symbols. Teacher hides the symbols around the room and then gives each student a map. Turn the kids loose to match all the symbols with the names on their pirate map. This is a great game for a group piano lesson. You can even give a prize to whoever finds all the symbols the fastest. Click here to print.
I created this cute poster for some younger piano students who were just learning how to differentiate the bottom, middle and top notes on the bass staff. To very young kids, all the notes can look the same, and it gets confusing when they’re asked to differentiate the notes–it’s just a bunch of circles sitting on top of lines! So I began by asking students to simply tell me if the note is on the bottom of the staff, the middle, or the top. I found this approach worked very well to help my youngest students begin interpreting music notation. Click here to print the poster and learn more about how I used it.
You guessed it! If there’s a fun poster for bass clef, there’s also one for the treble clef. Use this poster in a fun piano lesson game where your youngest piano students go on a pretend trip to visit the Treble Clef Zoo. There they will get to talk about the fun things they see at the zoo, and they’ll learn how to recognize and name the bottom, middle and top treble clef notes. The first letters of the animals’ names correspond with the names of the notes. With practice, kids will be able to picture the animals from the poster in their heads and correctly identify the notes. Click here to get the cute poster.
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Hi Kristin, first of all I want to congratulate you on your wonderful work and your willingness to share it. I am a beginner teacher and many times I have ideas but I have difficulties to carry them out, mainly because it does not give me time to draw and I feel limited with this artistic side. That’s why I loved your material and game ideas.
I share with you the importance of sharing our ideas among teachers, and I will try to share mine as you have done. I admit that I have technological difficulties to do so, since I do many things at hand like they used to. But I will try to share what I do in case someone is helpful.
Again, many thanks and congratulations because of your work. Sorry for my English, I am still learning.
I just want you to know how grateful I am for this website. Your dedication to creating a fun and educational environment for the students is incredible. And thank you so much for making this work accessible to those without a to of resources. THANK YOU!
Thanks C. Van! That’s so kind of you to say, and I’m glad that these resources have been helpful.