Worksheets, Practice Charts, and Handouts
2020-2021 Practice Aid Descriptions
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Fish and Monster Bow Stoppers!
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Fish Amazon Link:
Monster Amazon Link
These little creatures are great to put on your bow to help you play in specific areas of your bow. Put it in the middle of your bow to only play towards the frog, or towards the tip. They’re made of silicone so they don’t hurt your bow or your strings if they catch the string with their feet/fins!
Monster Amazon Link
These little creatures are great to put on your bow to help you play in specific areas of your bow. Put it in the middle of your bow to only play towards the frog, or towards the tip. They’re made of silicone so they don’t hurt your bow or your strings if they catch the string with their feet/fins!
Pinky Charms
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Pinky Charms Amazon Link
These little Charms are great for hanging off the end of your bow and using your pinky to hold them in place while you play. If your pinky is not touching your bow, your charm is going to fly away while you play! Always try to have your pinky curved while holding your charm down. Charms are harder to keep down with straight pinkies!
These little Charms are great for hanging off the end of your bow and using your pinky to hold them in place while you play. If your pinky is not touching your bow, your charm is going to fly away while you play! Always try to have your pinky curved while holding your charm down. Charms are harder to keep down with straight pinkies!
Bow Finger Separator
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Bow Finger Spacer Amazon Link
Yep, these are pedicure separators, BUT they can be really handy to use for keeping your fingers the appropriate distance apart on your bow. The separator goes on your fingers, with the long foam line right behind your bow. My pinky kind of moves around in the hole since my pinky is so small, so yours probably will too, and that’s okay.
Yep, these are pedicure separators, BUT they can be really handy to use for keeping your fingers the appropriate distance apart on your bow. The separator goes on your fingers, with the long foam line right behind your bow. My pinky kind of moves around in the hole since my pinky is so small, so yours probably will too, and that’s okay.
Scrunchie Wrist Holder
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Scrunchie Amazon Link
We’ve definitely used these in lessons with some of you! You can use rubber bands or hair ties, but I really like scrunchies for this practice technique because they are so soft. You can see in the photos above that you slip them over your scroll, place your hand in from the scroll side, and then make your violin hand. The scrunchie will pull your wrist back towards the scroll so you don’t end up making your “pizza hand” or collapsing your wrist. If these are too tight for you, you can find larger ones and just use this one for your hair or something!
We’ve definitely used these in lessons with some of you! You can use rubber bands or hair ties, but I really like scrunchies for this practice technique because they are so soft. You can see in the photos above that you slip them over your scroll, place your hand in from the scroll side, and then make your violin hand. The scrunchie will pull your wrist back towards the scroll so you don’t end up making your “pizza hand” or collapsing your wrist. If these are too tight for you, you can find larger ones and just use this one for your hair or something!
Giant Pipe Cleaner
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Giant Pipe Cleaner Amazon Link
These pipe cleaners have a lot of versatility. You can bend them under your fingerboard to create a barrier so that your bow doesn’t creep past it up onto the fingerboard. You can make yourself a crown that you have to keep on your head through a whole piece (something tells me you’ll need good posture for that). Why not make a little shape that has to stay on your violin through the whole piece and not slide off? What other things can you think of to help your practice with this?
These pipe cleaners have a lot of versatility. You can bend them under your fingerboard to create a barrier so that your bow doesn’t creep past it up onto the fingerboard. You can make yourself a crown that you have to keep on your head through a whole piece (something tells me you’ll need good posture for that). Why not make a little shape that has to stay on your violin through the whole piece and not slide off? What other things can you think of to help your practice with this?
Train Songs:
Acknowledgment: Special thanks to Johann and his parents for teaching me how to make these!
Additional Instructions: Listen to the recording and circle the notes you hear as long notes!
Additional Instructions: Listen to the recording and circle the notes you hear as long notes!
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Weekly Practice Chart:
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Suzuki Practice Game Kit:
***Some of these can be used for other songs besides the ones they are made for! Experiment with review songs!***
Twinkle Footpath (Page 1)
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Twinkle Footpath (Page 2)
Print Single Sided 
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Lightly Row Race
Print Single Sided 
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May Song Flowers
Print double or single 
Allegretto Marathon
Print Single Sided 
Minuet 2 Stepping Stones
Print Single Sided 
Gavotte Cookies
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Long, Long Ago Space Practice
Print Single Sided 
Andantino Puzzle
Print Single, Fold in Half, Glue Together 
Minuet 3 Treasure Hunt
Print Single Sided 
Fishing General Review
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Perpetual Motion Mystery
Print Single Sided 
Etude Bingo
Print Single Sided 
Happy Farmer Puzzle
Print Single, Fold in Half, Glue Together 
Violin vs. Bow Contest
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