I shared last year that my FAVORITE resource of 2013 was the Ultimate Guide to Brain Breaks. We used them in our homeschool and absolutely LOVED them. {You can see our full review here.}

Well, recently, I’ve begun teaching piano lessons in my home. I have 16 students right now and their ages and attention spans vary greatly!

I’ve been searching Pinterest and have started a board for teaching piano lessons. There are SO many creative teachers out there! I have found games, printables, and many ideas that will help me to be a better teacher.

I have used several games successfully at this point, but I was still needing more for a few wiggly students.

This week as I was teaching, it hit me — BRAIN BREAKS!!

Did you know that movement is good for our brains? It helps improve focus and learning! 

So I highly recommend The Ultimate Guide to Brain Breaks if you are a classroom teacher, a homeschool teacher, a Sunday School teacher…ANYONE with a group of kids {or one wiggly student!}  that you need to pay attention and get work done for any period of time. Help them to pay attention and focus by allowing them fun movement activities!

And now, if you are a piano or music teacher, you might be interested in this free printable in addition to the ones in Heather’s book. Her book contains several pages of brain breaks you can print out. I had mine laminated and in a jar for whenever we needed one. I would recommend using these in addition to the Heather’s ebook so that you have more choices.

Free Printable for Piano/Music Teachers

I created a FREE printable of brain breaks for piano teachers! I would suggest printing this, maybe on a colored piece of paper, laminating it and then cutting into squares. You can keep a jar of brain breaks available on your piano to use at any point in a lesson when your student needs to re-focus!

Muscial Brain Breaks 

(click on this link or the graphic below to download your PDF)