I’m hard at work to get the St. Patrick’s Day game finished before the holiday! In the meantime, I thought I’d introduce one of our characters from the studio. (Don’t mind the dust, please!) This is Henrietta. She lives...
Read moreValentine’s Day Music Cookie Memory Game
This game was inspired by the Valentine’s Day cookie recipe passed down from my Grandma Maxine. My mother made these cookies every Valentine’s Day – rich butter cookies with red, pink, or white icing. (The stuff that dreams are...
Read morePiano Six-Hands and Eight-Hands
This is a follow-up post about a couple of group lessons we held two weeks ago. Between the winter weather and the cold/flu season, there were quite a few make-up lessons in queue. Rather than having individual lessons, I decided to hold group...
Read moreDIY Foam Keyboard
Here’s a little gem I made back in 2011. After making another music game, I had some white and black foam left over. The white foam piece was just about the size of piano keys, and so after seeing a few other examples of “Silent Keyboards,” I set to work. See below for directions.
Foam Keyboard Materials and Directions:
- White foam sheet
- Black sticky foam sheet
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Wooden craft discs
- Fine tip Sharpie Marker
- Patience and a calculator
Wordless Wednesday
Piano six hands!
Read more"Go Play in the Snow!"
Over the weekend I held my very first group lessons. After a round of sickness and really bad weather, I had quite a few lessons to makeup. (Like many, I do not offer reimbursements for tuition, but I do offer makeup lessons if given at least 24...
Read moreHeart Challenge!
From now through Valentine’s Day, students are collecting stickers to decorate their hearts! They get stickers for every homework/theory assignment and piece that they complete. (And yes, there are prize incentives for those who collect...
Read moreWinter Studio Games
Look out, the snowmen are coming! This a really cute matching game from Wendy Stevens at ComposeCreate.com. There are two sets of cards: one to identify note names (36 cards) and another to identify steps and skips (12 cards). It takes some time...
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