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make Music Theory fun (because it is)! You will find simple activities that can be played with things you already have in your studio, free printables, and engaging games available in the Toucan Piano Store.

make Classical Music and the Great Composers relevant to students (because they are!). You will find practice challenges, composition projects, and music appreciation activities that connect students with Classical Music.

make Practice engaging and fun (because it can be!). You will find creative ideas to use during lessons to teach students how to practice and tips to help parents engage with piano practice at home.

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About Me

Hi, I’m Stephanie. Thanks for stopping by! Toucan Piano is a labor of pure love for all things piano. It is a way for me to share the resources and ideas I’ve used with my piano students over the years. I LOVE coming up with fun, creative, and interesting ways to teach music and make names like Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, and Stravinsky part of students’ everyday vocabularies! Everything I share here not only helps my students but it is also a fun outlet for my own creativity. I hope you will find something here that your students love! Read more

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This month only: Limited edition “Dead Serious Musician” vinyl sticker in the shop!

A vinyl sticker shaped like a musical note, designed with a skeleton motif, resting on a piano keyboard. The sticker features the text 'Dead Serious Musician'.

Check out the latest Blogpost:

A colorful turkey character holding a sign that says 'Practice Challenge' with a background of Thanksgiving-themed decorations. The text below reads 'Save the Turkeys! Make practice meaningful and consistent with this fun Thanksgiving-themed practice challenge.'

Featured posts from the Blog:

A colorful holiday ornament shaped like a treble clef with musical notes, hanging on a snowy tree with a vibrant background and a caption promoting a holiday gift guide for music-themed gift ideas.
Composer Mysteries is a spooky Halloween piano game that combines music theory and music history
Inside the Piano Bag: Everything students get on Day One to start lessons off on the right foot!
A piano student rubs her temples as she tries to calm the thoughts in ther mind. The subtitle reads: Internals Distractions - How to minimize internal distractions and maintain focus during performance practice sessions.
A cellphone sits on a piano. The captions reads: External Distractions. Part 1 of our Performance Practice series explores how to minimize external distractions and maintain focus during practice sessions
A player holds up the note A while drawing a Clover Card in the game Clover Craze. The title reads: Clover Craze - Students will build chords and hope that the luck of the Irish is on their side!
A hand with long white fake nails is held above a piano. The title reads: The Fingernail Dillemma. A discussion on balancing personal expression and the practical needs of learning the piano for healthy skill development and longevity.
A quarter note clover sits on top of a rainbow staff. The Caption reads St. Patrick's Day piano games: These fun St Patrick's Day activities will have your students feeling lucky as they learn.
Looking for a fun and effective way to strengthen your students' rhythm skills? Rhythm Relay is a no-prep, high-energy game that is perfect for group lessons or classroom settings. This interactive activity helps students internalize rhythm patterns, sharpen their notation skills, and improve memory retention. Ready to get your students moving and mastering rhythm? Let the relay begin!
Major and minor chords cards lay on a table. The subtitle reads: Make flashcards more than just a study tool with these creative and hands-on activities
A heart shaped pink chocolate eighth note is at the center of a circle of chocolate eighth notes. The caption reads: Valentine's just got a whole lot sweeter, and much more musical, with this easy craft
A chord game is laid out on table. It includes two printed keyboards, a chord flashcard, and wooden circles with pitch names on them.
A piano student looks down at her hands while she plays the piano. The subtitle reads: Eyes on the Music! Fun and Effective strategies to stop students from looking down at their hands
A frame of world flags surrounds gold, silver and bronze medals of the Rhythm Olympics.
Summer 60 showing a list of 60 of the greatest classical piano pieces ever composed
A piano student rolls a blue onto the gameboard as they play Slurs and Ladders, the Recital prep game.
Music-themed friendship bracelets sit in a pile on top of a piano
A circle of colorful kawaii eighth notes with cute smiling faces lay on a shiny black background
Easter eggs with pictures of classical music composer Joseph Haydn sit on a pile of fake pink grass. The egg has a pun that reads "What's Haydn in the egg?"
Piano keyboard inside a pink heart surrounded by pink heart shaped notes.
A piano student reads and sorts popsicle sticks with music notes on them to try to fill in the blank letters of a Valentine's Day themed word.
A zombie hand is emerging from a grave holding an alarm clock. Zombies walk in the background arriving for the zombie piano apocalypse.
A blue magnifying glass sits on top of sheet music and a piano. The magnifying glass symbolizes curiosity when studying music.
A glittery pink pencil sits on the keys of a piano.
A manuscript notebook lays open on the bookrack of a piano.
Three different types of metronomes sit on a piano.
A smartphone connected to a tabletop tripod sits on top a piano next to some sheet music.
A purple cube timer sits on top of a piano.
A white music clip with a gray rubber handle and decorated with a black and white eighth note sits on top of the keys of a piano.
A variety of mini-erasers sit on top of the keys of a piano.
Piano students writes out the proper counting of a rhythm sequence based on a game card that was drawn from a deck of cards of Don't Miss a Beat!
A felt piano sits on top of a black piano bench. Below are polar bear and snowflake mini-erasers flanking a deck of cards for the piano game Chord Snowblast.
Black plastic egg music notes sit on a white background with dry painted black music staff lines. It is an easy craft for games, students gifts, or decorating your teaching studio classroom
Music Theory Dice and colored dice sit on top of the keys of a piano. DIY Music Theory Dice are for use during piano lessons for games, drilling music theory concepts, and so much more.
Piano students sits at the piano while using the Decide Now app to pick a musical key to play a song in.
Stick figure shows the proper way to bow after a performance at a piano recital.
A piano birthday crown sits on a white table.
Colorful ping pong balls with the musical alphabet written on them in black sit on a white table above white plastic spoons. The plastic spoons have music notes written on them
Drumsticks sit on top of a rhythm game called The Path to your Heart, a fun Valentine's Day would you rather rhythm game.
Piano student places heart erasers one on top of the other to form a tower of erasers. The student is playing Sky High Love, a Valentine's day rhythm game.
Blank grand staff manuscript paper has been colorized to resemble a rainbow.
Pot of Gold Rhythm Game A quick Saint Patrick's Day game for elementary students Image shows a pot of gold sitting on a piano with rhythm dice on the piano keys
Two sides of the same coin A Saint Patrick's day game about enharmonics A green gnome sits crossed legged next to black cauldron Gold coins with clovers and music notes are scattered beside the gnome
Compose a ringtone A quick and fun music composition project using Garageband A cellphone sits on top of a piano The phone indicates that Mom is calling
A musical note, the eighth note, has been transformed to look like a basketball. It is the logo for a studio-wide music appreciation competition called Musical Madness.
Four stuffed toy snowballs sit on a wood table with popsicle sticks that have rhythm notes written on them. They are used to play a game called Snowball Rhythm. The subtitle reads Bust the January blues and flex your students' rhythm skills.
A comic version of Italian monk Guido D'Arezzo waves hello. He is on the cover of a book titled All About the Grand Staff with Guido D'Arezzo and Yookan the Toucan. The book teaches how to understand music notation.
A large pink foam die rolls across the image. It is used in a lesson starter game called The Die of Destiny.
Large pink paper heart with music notes written on them on both the treble and bass clefs are taped to a wall. They are part of a note-reading game called I Can Heart-ly Wait for the Punchline.
A crystal ball with a heart shaped music note at its center sits atop a purple and pink background. The crystal ball announces that a note-reading piano game called Musical MASH will predict your future.

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