When teaching little students, finger strength board games are as important as note reading activities.
A student may have an innate sense of rhythm and pick up note reading easily, but if they can’t control their fingers, piano lessons will be a bust.
How sad would it be to lose a musical student just because his physical capabilities do not match his mental capabilities?
To make sure this doesn’t happen, today we are sharing a finger strength and coordination board game you can use with your youngest kids.
Building Coordination With Finger Strength Board Games
Finger coordination exercises and finger strength building are often left out of piano lessons.
I believe these activities get ignored because finger coordination problems are not easily noticed.
When really little kids play basketball or take dance lessons, their coordination shortcomings are in your face. Because of this, a lot of time and effort is spent helping kids learn to dribble a basketball or balance on one foot.
This isn’t the case with piano lessons.
It can be difficult to know if a note played wrong is the result of a note reading problem, a keyboard awareness issue, or a coordination challenge.
So, teachers must assume that all little children need to play finger strength board games. Even if a child is fairly coordinated, extra finger strength training can’t hurt.
Before You Download Today’s Finger Strength Game
Today’s finger coordination game works well as a standalone activity, but works wonders when paired with our alpha note book from Andrea And Trevor Dow’s Very Useful Piano Library!
Nuts For Alpha Notes is a pedagogical powerhouse jam-packed with piano songs and activities.
Inside you will discover 7 loveable piano pieces with lyrics and teacher duets, keyboard awareness games, rhythm reading practice, finger number exercises, a coloring activity, a practice tracker, and a certificate of achievement.
And there’s more…
Nuts For Alpha Notes contains piano solos composed on the Wunder Staff.
Unique to the WunderKeys Method Books and resources, the Wunder Staff is a modified grand staff used with very new piano students.
Its unique design builds a foundation for future note reading success while also providing a home for alpha notes so students can learn the directional movement of music with much greater success.
Click on the first cover below to buy Nuts For Alpha Notes or check out some other books in the V. U. Library.
Download Our Finger Strength Board Game
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