Music Time! Try This Easy Picture Crossword for Kids!

How to Play This Online Word Puzzle?

• 1Click on a picture, and enter the letters of the matching word! If you fill in the word correctly, it will be validated automatically!
• 2Click on the "Check grid" button to see if you made mistakes and to mark incorrect letters in red.
  
• 3Use the Tabulator key on your keyboard to move to the next word in the crossword puzzle grid.
  
• 4Use the arrow keys on your keyboard, to move to the next or previous cell.
  
• 5Use the Delete or Backspace keys on your keyboard to clear a filled cell in the grid.
  
• 6To accomplish your mission and reach the final victory, find all the words in this online crossword game! Good luck!

Discover the World of Musical Instruments

Music can be made in many different ways. Some instruments are played by blowing air, others by striking or shaking something, and others produce sound when strings vibrate. Their shapes can be just as varied, from small instruments that are easy to carry to much larger ones designed to stay in one place.

Learning to recognize these differences is a simple introduction to the enormous variety found in music. Children can look at how an instrument is held, where the musician's hands are placed and what part of the instrument seems to be producing the sound. The colorful characters around this crossword provide plenty of visual clues to explore.

Different Ways to Make Music

Musical instruments can be grouped in different ways, and one useful approach is to look at how their sounds are produced. Strings can vibrate after being plucked, bowed or struck. In other instruments, a musician blows air to set a column of air vibrating. Percussion instruments produce sound when they are struck, shaken or otherwise made to vibrate.

The way an instrument is played offers another set of clues. Musicians may use their fingers, a bow, their breath, sticks or keys to control the sounds they make. Looking closely at these actions can help children understand that instruments which look very different may still share something in the way they create music.

Seven Musical Clues to Solve

This easy picture crossword introduces seven familiar instruments through illustrations of young musicians playing them. The relatively small vocabulary set and recognizable pictures make it a good starting point for children discovering music words in English. They can study each musician, identify the instrument and then work out how its English name fits into the crossword.

Once this introductory grid is complete, players looking for something trickier can move on to our Musical Instruments Crossword Challenge. It expands the theme with more clues and a larger grid.