Olympics in the Piano Studio!

Two summers ago I created an Olympic poster complete with colored rings and a large grid with each student’s name. I made 48 tasks (A real Olympic feat!) and a colored star system representing how many attempts were needed to accomplish each task. Gold was for first try, of course, and then I had 5 other colors.

The young students who were all in the same primer book had the task of playing each of their songs correctly (counting, notes, dynamics, etc) and there were 48 songs in the book. If a student had already finished 1/2 of the book, I simply used the 6th color to fill in the grid….unless, of course, when the student preferred to play them all again just to get the gold sticker! That was a pleasant surprise.

Older students had a choice to play 48 increasingly difficult rhythm cards or all of the major and minor scales in each hand. Both options had 48 total tasks.

Prizes were given upon completion and pictures next to the poster were taken. Not everyone finished, but fun was had by all.

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