Instrument Families Coloring Pages

Looking for a simple way to teach or review musical instrument families with young learners?

I created these worksheets to help students recognize instruments from the brass, keyboard, percussion, string, and woodwind families. Each family comes in four scaffolded versions, making them easy to adapt for different skill levels in music centers, sub plans, early finisher packets, or whole-class lessons. Students can color reference pages, trace instrument names on handwriting lines, solve letter-box spelling puzzles, or label blank outlines.

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24 printable worksheets.

• Brass family: 4 pages (reference coloring, name tracing, letter boxes, and blank outlines) covering bugle, flugelhorn, trombone, cornet, French horn, tuba, and trumpet.
• Keyboard family: 4 pages (reference coloring, name tracing, letter boxes, and blank outlines) covering harpsichord, grand piano, celesta, accordion, clavichord, pipe organ, and keyboard.
• Percussion family: 8 pages across two sets (reference coloring, name tracing, letter boxes, and blank outlines) covering 15 pitched and unpitched percussion instruments.
• String family: 4 pages (reference coloring, name tracing, letter boxes, and blank outlines) covering orchestral and folk strings.
• Woodwind family: 4 pages (reference coloring, name tracing, letter boxes, and blank outlines) covering 13 common woodwind instruments.

To use these pages, students need a pencil and coloring supplies (crayons, markers, or colored pencils). No answer key is included.

Instruments Included:

• Percussion Instruments: Bass Drum, Castanets, Chime Tree, Cymbals, Gong, Glockenspiel, Kettle Drum, Maracas, Marimba, Snare Drum, Tambourine, Triangle, Tubular Bells, Woodblock, Xylophone.
• String Instruments: Violin, Viola, Cello, Double bass, Harp, Guitar, Lute, Mandolin, Banjo, and Zither.
• Woodwind Instruments: Recorder, Bassoon, English Horn, Oboe, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Flute, Piccolo, Bagpipes, Panpipe.
• Brass Instruments: Bugle, Cornet, Flugelhorn, French horn, Trombone, Trumpet, Tuba.
• Keyboard Instruments: Accordion, Celesta, Clavichord, Grand Piano, Harpsichord, Keyboard, Pipe Organ.