Musical Instruments worksheets

Four colouring pages built around the instruments a young child might actually see or hear before ever naming them: a guitar with its curved body and strings, a piano and a keyboard piano side by side, and a triangle waiting to be struck. The shapes range from the piano's neat grid of black and white keys to the guitar's looser curves, so there is something for a child who likes colouring inside careful lines and something for one who prefers broad, simple shapes. It suits preschoolers who are starting to notice instruments at nursery, in picture books or during a family sing-along, and it gives them an easy way to talk about sound and shape while they work. Colouring the piano keys or the guitar strings is also a gentle way to practise steady hand control, since both call for shorter, more careful strokes than an open outline would need.