Instrument Matching Cards or Music Display / Organisational Labels

The resource includes photographs of 51 different instruments (common orchestral instruments and school percussion instruments) with their names underneath.

The resource can be used in so many different ways and - if printed on card and laminated - it is a resource that can be used time and time again!

Ideas for activities and uses:

• Matching the instrument to its name.
• Sorting /ordering according to different criteria, e.g instrument families, pitch of the sound, size of the instrument…
• Venn Diagram sorting, e.g. wood/metal, played with a beater/played by hand…
• Display or working wall labels.
• Music trolley/cupboard labels.
• Stimulus for a composition - assign or have pupils choose a number of instruments to incorporate in their piece.
• Provide pupils with a title for a piece of music, eg. ‘The Storm’ - what instruments might you use?
• Baseline/end-of-unit assessment task.
• Listening activity: play a piece of music and have pupils pick out the instruments that they can hear from the pile.

As well as PDF, the resource is provided in Word format in case you want to edit the font or use a different name for a particular instrument.

Thank you for looking and I hope this resource saves you some time!