Grand Staff for Beginners

I love this idea for teaching the grand staff to kids by drawing a sky, the ocean, and the sun on the horizon.  Draw some note heads in the ocean and in the sky.  You play some low notes on the piano that "sound like you're deep in the ocean" and high notes that "sound like you're high in the sky."  I love that Middle C is the horizon that separates sky and ocean.  I also love that the piano keyboard is the grand staff sideways.  I like his idea of superimposing your drawing on a grandstaff.  Draw birds and clouds in the treble clef, a boat on middle C and fish in the bass clef!  Then have the student draw their own picture on a grand staff.  So fun!

Grand Staff