The school year is winding down, but the music theory is ramping up!

📏🐍🍉 Our 1st contributor made the most creative variation on the 12 Tone Tape we've seen yet! He made it into a snake & named the snake Watermelon 💚🩷💚

🎵 Our next contributor has completed all Theory Book 2 for Violin videos through Note Reading Part 1

🔠 Our final contributor added his musical alphabet to Theory Book 1

🎶📏🐍🍉🎵🔠🎶 June 11, 2025 ⬇️

This week many of our theorists are in stages of their work that are less exciting to photograph, but we still have contributions to the gallery!

𝒫 𝑚 𝑓 Our 1st contributor completed his dynamics manipulative

📏||||🎵 Our next 2 contributors completed the 12 Tone series: Measuring Tape & Notes on Diagram! ⭐️

🎶🌈 📏||||🎵⭐️🎶 June 5, 2025 ⬇️

Your MusiCraftsSM creator was overloaded with practicing her own repertoire & missed a week of Workshare Wednesday! Contributions from the last 2 weeks:

📏 🎵 Our 1st contributor is the 1st to complete the 12 Tone Measuring Tape! She also completed the Note Reading series

🌈 ||||🤫🎵 Our next contributor completed the Strings Diagram/Secret Pocket & Note Reading series

⏳ Our next contributor completed the Time Signatures series

↯ Our next contributor added contour to his terms booklet

||||🤫 Our next contributor completed the Strings Diagram & Secret Pocket series

🌈 ||||🤫🎵 Our next contributor completed the Strings Diagram/Secret Pocket & Note Reading series

||||🤫🎵 Our next contributor completed the Strings Diagram/Secret Pocket series & started the Note Reading Series

||||🤫♻️ Our final contributor completed the Strings Diagram/Secret Pocket series & is working his "2nd life paper" game

🎶🌈 📏||||🤫⏳↯♻️🎶 May 28, 2025 ⬇️

🎶 Our theorists have been hard at work as usual!

🎨 A student who did his Note Reading series drew a line he didn't like, so he made it into a drawing! I taught him the phrase, "There are no wrong notes in jazz, only passing tones," which we modified to, "There are no wrong lines in MusiCraftsSM, only doodles to be added!"

|||| 🤫 Two students finished their Strings Diagram with Secret Pocket series

⏳ Finally, two students finished their Time Signatures Booklets

🎉 As always, everyone demonstrated mastery in their lessons!

🎶📚🎨|||| 🤫⏳🎶 May 14, 2025 ⬇️

🎶 Steady progress from our theorists once again 🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻‍♂️

🎵 2 students finished their Note Values series & demonstrated mastery in their lessons

|||| 🤫 Another student added the Strings Diagram with Secret Pocket

⭐️ Our 5-year-old student was very excited to say that he did the Twinkle letter names video all by himself with no help!

🐌 Our final contributor started his Terms Booklet

🎶💖🎵|||| 🤫⭐️🐌💚🎶 May 7, 2025 ⬇️

Your MusiCraftsSM creator was overloaded with practicing her own repertoire & missed a week of Workshare Wednesday! Contributions from the last 2 weeks:

🎵⏳ Our 1st contributor completed Note Values & Time Signatures Booklets

⭐️ Our next contributor has completed all available videos!

📗 We have a new contributor who created his book cover

🎵⏳ Our final contributor also completed Note Values & Time Signatures Booklets

🎶⏳💖🎵💚🎶 April 30, 2025 ⬇️

🌸 Spring break continues, but we still have contributions to the gallery 🌱

⏳ Our 1st contributor completed the time signatures booklet

𝒫 𝑚 𝑓 Our next contributor completed her dynamics manipulative

🏡 Two students made note reading houses & added terms booklets

👯‍♂️ Twin brothers made mostly-twin terms booklets

|||| Our final contributor added to his strings diagram

🎶⏳💖𝒫 𝑚 𝑓🧡🏡💙👯‍♂️💚||||🎶 April 16, 2025 ⬇️

🌸 It's spring break, but we still have contributions to the gallery 🌱

𝒫 𝑚 𝑓 Three students completed their dynamics manipulatives, including a very colorful crescendo & decrescendo 🌈 & an illustration of the alligator-mouth nature of the crescendo 🐊

✂️ Finally, sometimes you do a little surgery during your lesson

🎶𝒫 𝑚 𝑓💖🌈💚🐊💛✂️🎶 April 9, 2025 ⬇️

🎶 Steady progress from our theorists 💪

🏆 The top contributor this week completed all available Theory Book 2 for Violin videos!!!

🏡 Our lead Theory Book 1 for Violin contributor added a term & drew a Music Notes House 

 𝒫 𝑚 𝑓 3 students completed their Dynamics inserts

💖💚 2 new students started Theory Book 2 for Violin journeys

🎀 |||| Finally, a 5-year-old contributor added to his Bow Distribution & Strings Diagrams

🎶📚🏡𝒫 𝑚 𝑓🎨💖❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🎀 ||||🎶 April 2, 2025 ⬇️

🤩 Wow!!! There is so much to share!

⭐️ 3 students finished all available Theory Book 2 for Violin videos!!!

🏆 Our top Theory Book 1 for Violin contributor finished the entire book!!!

 🎨 5 other students started their Theory Book 2 for Violin journeys

👯‍♂️ Finally, twin brothers still have twin books

🎶📚💖❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🎶 March 26, 2025 ⬇️

🎉 It's an exciting week here at MusiCraftsSM...we now have a contingent of students working on Theory Book 2 for Violin!!!

⭐️ Our top contributor this week, 9 years old, finished all available Theory Book 2 for Violin videos!!!

👩‍🎨👨‍🎨 Next up we have 2 contributors who are quite the artists

🔥 Our 6 & 8-year-old sibling team completed Theory Book 1 for Violin videos through #10

🎀 Finally, our 7-year-old contributor added to his bow distribution diagram

🎶📚💖🧡💛💚💙🎶 March 19, 2025 ⬇️

🖼️ This week we have 2 contributions to the gallery 🖼️

𝒫 𝑚 𝑓 Our 6-year-old contributor completed his dynamics booklet & used it to demonstrate understanding of the concept Dynamics Booklet Prep & Dynamics  

🎀 Our 5-year-old contributor completed Bow Distribution Markings Part 1 & correctly identified all parts of his bow during his lesson

🎶📕𝒫 𝑚 𝑓📗🎀🎶 March 12, 2025 ⬇️

Our theorists are on fire!!! 🔥🔥🔥 

A 6-year-old contributor has not only completed through video 16, but came to his lesson demanding a gold star for his understanding of octaves. After a brief quiz he demonstrated understanding & was rewarded with a real gold star! ⭐️ (Ok, a sticker, but a tangible gold star 😂)

Our 8-year-old contributor completed Bow Distribution Prep & Bow Distribution Part 1 🎀

Our 5-year-old contributor completed Symbols: Down, Up, & Rest & Bow Distribution Prep ↓↑🎀

Finally, another 6-year-old contributor completed Bow Distribution Prep & Bow Distribution Part 1 🎀

🎶🔥🎀📕📘📗📙🎀🔥🎶 March 5, 2025 ⬇️

Solid progress from our beginning theorists!

We now have our 1st Note Reading House by an intermediate-level violinist 🎶🏡

Our 5-year-old contributor labeled his bow diagram, doing all of the writing independently, 1st in pencil, then tracing that in marker ✏️🖊️

Our 6-year-old contributor has completed 14 of the Theory Book 1 Videos 🤯

Our 7-year-old contributor labeled his bow diagram & started the symbols booklet...& was very excited to tell me he went faster than I did in the video 🏃🏻‍♂️

🎶🎨🏡📗📕🎶 February 26, 2025 ⬇️

So many things to share this week! 

Our 5-year-old contributor labeled his violin diagram 🎻 

Our 6-year-old contributor has been hard at work, completing 10 of the Theory Book 1 Videos 🤩 

Identical twins have identical books, now with letter names on A & E strings 👯‍♂️ 

And we now have two new drawings from the Visualize Good & Bad Tone art project in the Just for Fun Section! 🌈⛈️

🎶📗📕📘📘🎨🎶 February 12, 2025 ⬇️

This week we have a new 5-year-old student joining  the MusiCraftsSM  club & we have updates from three other students. Everyone is doing great work & demonstrating mastery in their lessons!

🎶📗📘📙↓↑||||📗🎶 February 5, 2025 ⬇️

This week your MusiCraftsSM  creator was sick, so pic collection was minimal, but 1 student still has a contribution! You know how it is...you're 6 years old, you're crushing it in the theory department, & then you realize YOUR NAME is right in the word!!! 🤩

🎶📕✌🏼🎶 January 29, 2025 ⬇️

This week we have pics of updated work by last week's contributors, who all worked through video 4, Labeling the Bow Diagram. We also have two new students joining the MusiCraftsSM  club with their 1st contributions to the gallery! 

🎶📕📗📘📙🎶 January 22, 2025 ⬇️

We have our 1st gallery pics! Four students completed the 1st two videos this week & two of them even completed the 3rd video! Astute observers can see that work peeking out from the interior of the blue & orange books. 

🎶📕📗📘📙🎶 January 15, 2025 ⬇️