valentine – Color In My Piano

Do you enjoy incorporating seasonal activities into your piano teaching? In this post, I’ll feature 3 FREE printables you can use in your piano lessons around February 14 for Valentine’s Day.

The first is a fun rhythm activity that is a student favorite in my piano studio. (I use it year-round, but it’s especially perfect for Valentine’s Day!) The second and third downloads are free printable Valentines you can assemble and hand out to your students — whether accompanied by candy or not. 🙂

Enjoy!

1. Heartbeat Charts Activity

This activity is a staple for my monthly “Piano Parties” with my students. It’s such a good activity for working on rhythm and ear training.

Here is how the activity works: Each student is given a heartbeat chart and some game tokens (I use glass baubles from the floral aisle). The teacher claps or chants a prepared rhythm and asks the students to repeat it back together. Once they have internalized the rhythm, students notate the rhythm on their heartbeat charts using game tokens.

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Upcoming February Fun

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Guess what! February 28 marks the 5 year anniversary of this blog. How awesome is that?!

In celebration of the upcoming blogiversary, I wanted to announce that I will be holding a sale for the month of February: 20% off the items in the shop (ends February 28, 2014)! Stay tuned for the details. Perhaps you will want to start planning ahead for your summer camps so you can purchase some material while it is on sale. 🙂

February also brings Valentine’s Day. I thought I’d remind you that I have a couple of free piano-related Valentine printables available.

This is the valentine I designed last year. It is quick and easy to cut these out for your piano students. Click here to learn more.

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The valentine pictured below requires a little more assembly, but they are very cute. 🙂 Click here to learn more.

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Happy Valentine’s Day, my fellow teachers!

A reader recently shared this photo on the Color In My Piano facebook page, of valentines created using last year’s printable design. Love it!!

If you have photos of how your valentines turned out, I’d love to see them. 🙂

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Piano Valentine Printable #2

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Remember the piano valentines I made last year?

I was wasn’t planning to design a new music-themed valentine this year — but when inspiration struck, I just had to design it!

Is it a heart, or is it a piano?! Well, it’s both! 🙂

This design is simpler and easier to assemble than last year’s design. Just cut out the heart shapes! If desired, you can attach a piece of candy to each valentine using a circle of tape. I made a bunch of these to give to my piano students next week.

The free pdf printable can be downloaded by visiting the Printables > Other Resources page, and scrolling down to the P’s for “Piano Valentine Printable 2.” Enjoy!

Piano Valentine Printable 2 (146.6 KiB, 15,360 hits)