Looking for an easy way to review music notation and pitch reading with your elementary students this October?
I created these Halloween coloring worksheets to give students hands-on practice identifying notes, rests, dynamics, symbols, and staff pitches across both treble and bass clefs. The activities are organized into three differentiated levels: matching identical symbols, reading terminology to find symbols, and creating custom color codes.
These pages require no prep and work well for music centers, sub plans, early finishers, or quiet desk work.
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30 printable worksheets (60 .pdf pages total, including 14 full-color answer keys and 10 blank customizable coloring pages):
- Set 1: Symbol to Symbol (10 pages): Students match identical symbols, rhythms, dynamics, and staff pitches using a pre-labeled visual color key.
- Set 2: Symbol to Term (10 pages): Students read musical terms, note names, dynamic definitions, and pitch letters in the color key to identify matching symbols on the page.
- Set 3: Own Key (10 pages): Students create their own color key for musical terms and pitch letters before coloring the worksheet.
- Blank Coloring Pages (10 pages): Unlabeled outline templates for custom teacher-created assignments or open coloring.
✨ Symbols used: treble clef, bass clef, staff, bar line, double bar line, time signatures (2/4, 4/4), repeat sign, fermata, flat, sharp, natural, whole note, half note, dotted half note, quarter note, dotted quarter note, eighth note, two eighth notes, four sixteenth notes, whole rest, half rest, quarter rest, eighth rest, pianissimo, piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte, fortissimo, crescendo, decrescendo, sforzando, treble clef pitches (C4–C5), and bass clef pitches (F2–B3).
Students will need crayons, colored pencils, or markers in blue, orange, yellow, green, purple, red, brown, and gray.
This set includes:
1 – Spider – color by music symbols
2 – Castle – color by music symbols
(Symbols used: staff, time signature, bar line, double bar line, repeat, treble clef, bass clef, natural, flat, sharp, fermata.)
3 – Trick or Treat Basket – color by notes and rests
4 – Cat – color by notes and rests
(Notes used: whole note, half note, dotted half note, quarter note, dotted quarter note, eighth note, 2 eighth notes, 4 sixteenth notes.
Rests used: whole rest, half rest, quarter rest, eighth rest.)
5 – Ghost– color by dynamics
6 – Pumpkin with face – color by dynamics
(Dynamic symbols used: fortissimo, forte, mezzo forte, mezzo piano, piano, pianissimo, crescendo, decrescendo, sforzando.)
7 – Bats – color by treble clef note names
8 – Witch hat – color by treble clef note names
(C first – A second octaves)
9 – Owl – color by bass clef note names
10 – Cauldron – color by bass clef note names
(E first – C second octaves)
