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Lab Activity
submitted by Michelle Gordon, MA

Find where your favorite composers are buried this Halloween at www.findagrave.com

Promote Your Studio
Submitted by Sandy Bryan, UT

Make a postcard size flyer with piano clip-art on it and the name of the piano studio, along  with the teacher’s name, address and phone number.  Leave a blank spot in the middle to tape on a package of “Smarties” candy.

 Underneath the candy put these words on the flyer “BE A SMARTIE – TAKE PIANO LESSONS AT MRS. SMITH’S PIANO STUDIO”  (Put the name of your own studio).  Hand these out to the trick-or-treaters!!

Halloween Recitals
Submitted by Marie Harris, UT

I do a different type of Halloween recital every year to keep things interesting.  I rotate between these three:

Costume Recital
Crazy Hat Recital
Crazy Shoes Recital   

I always do a contest with these recitals and hand out prizes for each category such as:

The Best (Costume,Hat or Shoe) and Song Matching 
The scariest (Costume, Hat or Shoe) 
The prettiest (Costume,Hat or Shoe) 
The special mention  (Costume,Hat or Shoe)  (The special mention award is for "something" that deserves an award but there isn't a category for it.)  

I also ask each family to bring one bag of "wrapped candy" to the recital.  I supply several big bowls the parents dump the candy brought to the recital and also supply "little" Halloween treat bags. When the recital is over the students line up at the table where all the candy is and they go trick or treating.     Sometimes I will hand out tickets for the audience members as they are arriving to enter in a drawing for tickets to attend a haunted house or tape several coupons under a chair for a donut at a local donut store.  

Click here to E-mail your ideas to Michelle to be posted on this page.  We are looking for Halloween ideas this month and will be looking for other ideas in the future.  All ideas submitted and posted are eligible for our monthly prize drawing.