This ready-to-use coloring pack brings instrument study to life for young learners.
Each page features a clear, student-friendly illustration and instrument name so children can color, label, and discuss as they learn about instrument families, timbre, and orchestra roles. Use them to introduce new instruments, reinforce listening activities, differentiate by ability, or display student work for a cross-curricular music corner.
Includes one coloring page for each of the following instrument families and instruments:
Brass instruments
- Tuba
- Trumpet
- Cornet
- Trombone
- French Horn
- Sousaphone
Percussion instruments
- Maracas
- Timpani
- Triangle
- Bass Drum
- Cymbals
- Gong
- Snare Drum
- Xylophone
- Marimba
- Vibraphone
- Tubular Bells
- Tambourine
String instruments
- Violin
- Viola
- Bass
- Cello
- Harp
- Guitar
Woodwind instruments
- Saxophone
- Clarinet
- Bass Clarinet
- Bassoon
- Contrabass (listed under woodwinds in the pack)
- English Horn
- Flute
- Piccolo
Organ & Piano
- Pipe Organ
- Piano
How teachers & homeschooling parents can use these pages:
- Introduce instrument families before a listening example.
- Compare timbres by coloring pages while students listen for specific instruments.
- Label parts of an instrument (add hand-written notes for older students).
- Create instrument displays, flashcards, or a classroom “orchestra wall.”
- Differentiate by assigning simple coloring for young learners and research mini-projects for older students.
- Assess listening comprehension by asking students to color the instrument they hear in a recording.
- Extend with writing prompts (invent a short biography of the instrument or its player).
What’s included:
- Single-page, printable coloring pages for every instrument listed above.
- Clean black-line art designed for easy coloring and classroom copying.
- Perfect for whole-class lessons, music centers, sub plans, and homeschool enrichment.