Welcome to the Spooky Collection of Fun Halloween Music Worksheets for Kids
Here you’ll find free printable worksheets plus games and activities that are perfect for private or group lessons. Scroll down for the fun way to teach music theory in October.
How to get started:
1. Click play to see an introduction to the activities on this page.
2. Scroll down to find the worksheets. To print any of the worksheets for free, just click on an image.
3. Play Halloween music games with your students. Double the effectiveness of each printable by utilizing the fun companion activities described below.
Spider Web Music Intervals
Reading music is so much easier when kids can quickly recognize music intervals. Use this worksheet to help students master fourths and fifths. The more practice they get, the faster they will be at recognizing intervals within their music.
To complete the worksheet, kids look at each pair of notes surrounding the spider. If the interval shown matches the interval named in the middle, students draw a line from the notes to the interval name. When they’re finished drawing lines they will have an interval spider web!
A large group can make a “real” spider web with this fun interval identification game.
Materials Needed: Ball of yarn and a copy of the worksheet.
How to Play: Divide the students into two teams and have the groups sit across from each other. Teacher tosses the ball of yarn to the first group, and whoever catches it gets to identify an interval. Teacher hands the student the worksheet and points to an interval. If the student answers correctly, she then holds on to the end of the yarn and tosses the yarn ball to the other team. If the student answers incorrectly, she can ask a teammate for help, and then toss the yarn ball.
When the student on the other team catches the yarn ball, he then gets to identify an interval. When he answers correctly, he holds onto the yarn strand and then tosses the ball to the opposite team. As play continues, an intricate web is woven between the two teams. Kids will love creating the web, and it gives kids great practice with music interval identification.
Frankenstems–A Stem Rules Worksheet for Halloween
A Frankenstem is a stem that is on the wrong side of the note or going in the wrong direction. Students can learn the stem rules to make sure that they never draw Frankenstems in their music theory assignments.
Review the stem rules and then give your student a copy of this worksheet. Ask him to correctly add stems to all the notes, and then check his answers and give feedback as needed. Now you’ll have a fun way to correct him if he forgets the stem rules in the future–just tell him that you found some Frankenstems in his theory assignment!
After completing the worksheet, students can practice watching out for Frankenstems with this fun game
Materials Needed: Pencils and blank staff paper for each student
How to Play: Divide students into pairs. Give everyone blank staff paper and ask them to draw 8 notes–4 with correct stems and 4 with Frankenstems. Then have students swap papers, search for the Frankenstems, and write an X on the notes with incorrect stems.
After finishing, students can show each other their answers and give each other feedback. Remind students to watch out for Frankenstems and always follow the stem rules.
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Candy Corn Note Name Challenge
Students will always and forever need lots of practice to learn note names. Teachers are wise to start early and regularly practice note identification. Use a variety of activities, like the worksheets on this website and the activity idea below to keep kids excited and engaged.
The worksheet is pretty straightforward. You just print and hand a copy to your student, along with a pencil and ask them to write the name of the treble clef note on the line beneath the staff.
While the worksheet above focuses on the treble clef notes, this worksheet isolates the bass clef. Some students seem to have more difficultly with the bass clef, so you may want to use this worksheet several times. You could time the student every week and celebrate with the student as their time improves.
Students love practicing note identification with this game because they get to eat Halloween candy!
Materials Needed: Bag of candy corn, a copy of the worksheet, timer, and a pencil.
How to Play: Give the worksheet to your student and tell him that he will race against the clock to see how many notes he can correctly identify. If he completes the first line before the timer goes off, he’ll get one piece of candy corn. If he makes it to the end of the second line, he’ll get two pieces. If he makes it all the way to the end, he gets three pieces of candy corn.
You might start with a one or two minute time limit, depending on the age of the student. For extra practice, repeat the activity every week this month and watch how excited your student gets as he improves!
Trick or Treat Rhythms
I love to use these worksheets with my youngest students. They get so excited to see all the trick or treaters and to talk about what costume they wore last year and what they want to be for Halloween this year.
This worksheet was actually inspired by a four year old student who was just being introduced to quarter notes and half notes. He was so excited when he saw the activity and it has continued to be a hit with other kids. I have used it with children as young as three years old.
Students hunt through the page to find all the quarter notes and then use their pencil to circle each one. Teacher then checks their answers and gives feedback or additional teaching as needed. It’s a simple yet effective way to help students practice and to check if they really are understanding the difference between the appearance of the two notes.
There are two versions of the worksheet so that if you like you can do the activity and search for quarter notes and then give your students the second version and have kids look for half notes.
This activity works well in either a private or group setting and helps kids have fun while working on rhythm notes.
Materials Needed: Copy of the worksheet for each student, small candies (M&Ms work well).
How to Play: Hand out the worksheets to each student, along with a small handful of candies. Be sure to tell them that they will get to eat their candy soon, but that they can’t eat it quite yet.
When teacher says go, students hunt for all the quarter notes on their sheet and place a piece of candy on top of each one. When the student has finished, she raises her hand and the teacher checks her answers. When she’s got all correct answers, she gets to eat her candy!
Halloween Mystery Thief–a Musical Terms Worksheet and Game
Here’s a super fun way to review musical terms. To use the worksheet, kids read the definition and then search for the Halloween character who has that vocabulary word. Kids then draw a line from the definition to the character.
This printable is definitely the most fun when used as a game (especially in group piano lessons), so be sure to read the game instructions below. My students LOVE this game!
This activity can be used in either a group setting or a private lesson. It is an especially fun game for a piano party.
Materials Needed: Large Halloween characters printed on cardstock–tape them to the wall and be sure to get them all over the room. Also need a copy of the worksheet for each student.
How to Play: Hold up a blank piece of paper and tell students that some sneaky Halloween thieves have taken all the note and music symbols from your sheet music. Tell them that you need their help to track down the thieves and get back all the parts to your music.
Hand each child a copy of the worksheet. Tell them that the musical elements you need are scattered around the room. They hunt for the vocab word and then draw a line from the definition to the picture of the character who “took” it. Your students will have a blast with this activity!
Bewitched Notes
Oh no! The witch cast a spell that made all the notes from this song disappear. Students can help reverse the spell by looking at the letter names beneath the staff and drawing in the missing notes.
If you’re wanting to focus solely on note names, have your students draw whole notes. If you’d like them to also practice the stem rules, you can ask your students to draw quarter notes
There are two versions of this worksheet so that you can help students with their trouble areas. I find that if a student is struggling with a particular clef, it helps to spend at least a couple of minutes every lesson isolating that clef to work on note names.
Take note identification one step further by having your student play the notes on their instrument and identify the tonic.
Materials Needed: Worksheet, a piano (activity also works for kids studying other instruments).
How to Play: After your student has written in the notes, ask him to take the sheet over to the piano and play the notes while saying the note name out loud. Vocalizing the name while playing helps with retention.
Next, help your student identify the tonic. Point out that there are no sharps or flats, so this song is in the key of C. Have your student circle the first and last note of the song. Does the song start and end on the tonic? Ask the student if the song sounds complete or if it sounds too random. Point out that starting and ending on the tonic is a good way to give pieces a strong start and a clear finish.
The Count of Musicland–A Rhythm Worksheet
This worksheet helps kids review note values. Students write the number of beats each note receives below the note. Then kids need to figure out which one note has the same number of beats to equal the sum of the first two. Kids then draw in that note (great practice for correctly drawing notes) and write the number of beats it receives.
Give students a brief history of “The Count” and then tap the rhythms on this page.
Materials Needed: Completed worksheets
How to Play: Tell students that a count is a nobleman from European countries. Way back in 1897, an author named Bram Stoker wrote a book about a vampire named Count Dracula. Count Dracula used his nobleman status and his magical powers to try to take over the world. The book was so famous that vampires have become a popular Halloween character.
Our count isn’t Count Dracula, and he isn’t trying to take over the world. He is the Count of Musicland–a nobleman with an extra special sense of rhythm. Students can become excellent counters, too! Practice rhythm right now with this worksheet. Clap and count out loud each of the rhythm examples. Ignore all the math symbols.
Black Cat Intervals
Black Cat Intervals gives kids practice with identifying music intervals. Tell children that while there is a superstition of it being bad luck to let a black cat cross your path, a surefire way to have good luck when sightreading at the piano is to be able to quickly identify intervals. To use the worksheet, kids identify the interval and then draw a line to the interval name.
Help kids get faster at identifying music intervals with this fun, fast-paced activity.
Materials Needed: Black Cat Intervals Worksheet (uncompleted) and token for each student
How to Play: Invite one student to the front of the room to be the “Black Cat”. The Black Cat calls out an interval and the other students race to be the first to place a token on the correct set of notes. Whoever is the first to place their token and raise their hand becomes the Black Cat and goes to the front of the room.
Newly Added Halloween Music Theory Worksheets
Knock, Knock, Trick or Treat
Fun new ear training worksheet for practicing rhythmic dictation. Kids listen and then fill in the missing measures.
Copy Cat
This is a music theory worksheet that focuses on helping kids learn to correctly draw music symbols. Kids practice tracing and then “copycatting” the treble clef, bass clef, brace and double bar line.
Whoo Whoo Halloween Song
Another new ear training worksheet. This time kids listen for the melody the owl hoots and circle the notes that match.
The Scarecrow Shuffle–Worksheet for Identifying Half Steps and Whole Steps
I created this worksheet with a couple of my younger students in mind. They’re needing extra practice identifying half steps and whole steps. In this activity, kids just look at the highlighted keys and then circle “half step” or “whole step”.
Can’t Ask Your Mummy–Music Note Name Worksheet
Seems like we can always give kids more practice with note identification! This worksheet helps kids name both treble and bass clef notes.
Spooky Piano Keys
This activity is especially for young beginners who are just learning the names of the piano keys. Kids just identify the highlighted key and then write the letter name beneath each keyboard.
New! Flat Key Signatures Drive Me Batty
This new Halloween music theory worksheet will help your students practice identifying flat key signatures. There’s an easy trick for figuring out the name of flat key signatures. Just look at the second to last flat. The only exception is the key of F (which only has one flat). Students will just have to memorize this one. But if they memorize F and then learn the trick, identifying flat key signatures will be a piece of cake!
Key Signatures Drive Me Batty
Learning how to quickly identify key signatures just takes time. But with the extra practice provided by worksheets like this one, key signatures will no longer drive your students batty! This one is pretty straightforward. Students just write the name of the key signature below each example.
Spooky Notes for Bass Clef
This is a note name worksheet for beginners who need practice with bass clef notes. For whatever reason, a lot of students seem to have more trouble with the bass clef, so it’s a good idea to start early and give them lots of practice. You can print out this worksheet and have your students write the letter name beneath each note. This worksheet has 6 notes, which I’ve found to be a good number for beginner kids who tire of longer worksheets.
How are You Feeling, Mr. Monster?
Here’s a fun way to do some ear training with your students who are ready to work on identifying major and minor chords. Give them a copy of this worksheet and then discuss with them how major chords are bright and happy while minor chords sound sad. Ask them to listen to a chord that you play and draw either a smile or frown on Mr. Monster’s face to match what they hear. If they hear a major chord, they will give Mr. Monster a smile. If they hear a minor chord, they will give him a frown.
Drawing Monster Rests
I’ve noticed students can have a hard time drawing rests correctly, so I created this fun Drawing Monster Rests worksheet. Students often mix up the half and whole rests, and when they draw them it helps kids to better be able to distinguish the two when they are reading their sheet music.
The biggest monster for most students, however, is the quarter rest. Drawing that little squiggly line correctly can cause a lot of frustration for kids. I like to have my students practice tracing it, and then when they freehand I tell them that it looks kind of like a “Z” with a tail. These instructions seem to help and it’s fun to see kids improve as they continue to practice drawing music symbols.
Spooky Notes for Treble Clef
This printable helps kids learn to identify the treble clef notes. It is designed for young beginners. I like that it focuses on the treble clef but also shows the bass clef. A lot of students have trouble understanding that a note on the top line of the treble clef has a different name for the top line note of the bass clef. So I think it helps if beginners they can often see the treble and bass clef together and recognize that they are not the same. To complete the worksheet, kids just identify the note and then write the letter name beneath each example.
More Holiday Music Theory Worksheets
If you liked these Halloween music theory worksheets, you might want to check out the free printable music theory worksheets for other holidays. Just click a link or an image below to visit the pages for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Saint Patrick’s Day and Easter.
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Awesome worksheets. Just what I needed to spice up my halloween month!
Thanks, Rebecca. Hope your students enjoy!
I love your creative, fun, and colorful worksheets!
Looking forward to others for upcoming holidays. Thank you for your sharing these!
LOVE LOVE LOVE these!! Thanks for sharing, my students are going to have so much fun with these, they won’t even realize they’re practicing their note reading! :)
Lol! That’s the way to do it–just make it fun and students are happy, no ecstatic, to be learning!
Thank you so much for these worksheets! They’re great to add something extra to practice & theory routines!
You’re welcome, Nicole! I know what you mean… it helps kids a ton to have something different when they need extra practice with a theory concept.
love the beginner note reading and identification- the rhythm worksheet is fabulous for feeling 8th notes
Thank, Clarissa. I agree, I’ve had tons of success with my students when I use these rhythm and ear training worksheets. My students are way ahead of where I was at their age!
Thank you! These worksheets are perfect for the Halloween Music Party I’m hosting for students this Friday. I really appreciate your help in bringing music to kids.
You’re very welcome, Christine. Hope your students have a ton of fun at your Halloween party!
Thanks for sharing, very helpful!
Sure thing, Janice! Thanks for visiting and for taking the time to say thank you. That means a lot to me!
Thanks so much! I am doing a group lesson the weekend before Halloween and this saves me some time on some of the project rotation worksheets. Thanks! Keep up the great work. :)
Hope you have so much fun at your group lesson. I’m glad this will help cut down your prep time. I know that all of us teachers put in so much effort and it helps when we can share ideas. Best wishes for a super successful lesson!
Thanks so much for all the help with my upcoming Halloween group lesson week! We’ve got seven different groups, all different ages, and there’s something here to engage everyone! Games, performances, and Halloween treats!
You’re welcome, Diana. I’m so glad that these will help you with your group lesson. Let me know how it goes!
Using your great ideas and worksheets in my studio! We all are having more fun and students look forward to the seasonal activities! Thank you!
So glad to hear it! Great job making your lessons fun.
Thank you!!!!!!! My kids will have lots of fun!!! God bless you!! Keep using your talent and love for music to enrich the kids!
You are so nice! Thanks for stopping by and for your kind comment. Best wishes for you and your students.
Thank you so much for sharing these darling worksheets!! They look so fun to do.
I am sure my students will enjoy them.
You’re welcome, Cheryl! Hope these help your students with their learning. I know that my students are way more excited about something fun and colorful. Keep in touch and let me know how it goes!
FABULOUS! Thank you!!!
Thanks, Andrea. Hope your students enjoy!
Wow! Just what I needed! These worksheets are fab!
So glad these will help, DeAnn. Hope your students have fun!
You are a GENIUS! Thank you for these :)
Lol–well, I don’t know about being a genius, but I am very glad that you like them! Thanks for stopping by, Taylor :)
VERY cute worksheets! Thanks so much for sharing.
Thanks, Anne! I’m so glad you like them. Hope they help your students have fun learning and practicing their theory.
I love your graphics – just what I need for my monthly group session next week. Thank you so much!
Wonderful! Hope you and your students have a ton of fun at your group lesson!
Thank you so much! These resources are great!
You’re welcome, Zoe. Thanks for visiting my website!
Thank you so much! My band students Loved your worksheets much better then my “old plain” ones! I came back looking for Thanksgiving themed ones. Do you have any? Thanks Again :)
Corrine, I am sooo glad I was able to help a band director. I was in high school band, and gained a deep respect for all band teachers. You all do so much–you typically have very large classes and you manage to get all those unruly kids working together to create music. It’s an incredible feat! And then there’s the fact that directors of beginner band hear daily the awkward, squeaky sounds of novice players on their instrument. My band director used to say that there’s a special place in heaven for those who work with beginner band students, and I have to agree!
I apologize that I didn’t see your comment in time to give you help for Thanksgiving. Yes, I have added some Thanksgiving worksheets and am in the process of adding Christmas themed printables. You can also access lots of worksheets with general themes from my site’s menu by hovering over “Resources” and then clicking on “Music Theory Worksheets”. Hope this helps and best wishes for your band!
Thank you Kristin for the awesome practice sheets….they are just what I needed for my son to practice notes recognition in a fun and interesting way. I am sure he will love doing it in the coming holidays and it will help him get better at learning the notes. You are so creative and generous with your creations. These are a boon for moms like me :)
Thanks, Sanjukta! I’m so glad to hear that these worksheets help make learning fun for your son. I also have to say that a mom like you is a dream for a piano teacher. I’m so impressed that you’re taking the time to practice with your son and find fun resources. Your involvement really makes a world of difference, and your son will benefit so much from it. Keep it up, you’re a wonderful mother!
Just printed all your Halloween themed theory sheets – put them in sheet protectors and then used them at my recent masterclass! kids paired up in teams and picked whatever one they wanted off the table and used dry-erase markers to complete them. Once complete I checked it to make sure it was right. We made it a competition to see which team could get the most done in half an hour! We had so much fun as they raced to name notes, draw stems, and even do rhythm dictation at the piano. It was great because there was such variety in the sheets that students of all abilities had something to do. My really advanced students paired with my beginners and got the experience of trying to help them understand new theory concepts! Thank you for making these sheets all FREE! My kids are all asking when they will get to do more of them – so I will be using them in their lessons in the next few weeks leading up to Halloween.
I LOVE they way you used the Halloween worksheets, Amy! What a fun master class. Thanks for sharing so that other teachers can try this fun idea.
These are great! I teach band and strings in high poverty schools so am always seeking new ways to engage my students. I will definitely use these. Love the ideas of using sheet protectors as that makes it even more fun!
Thanks for your comment! I am so happy to hear that these will be helpful for you and your school.
These are so much fun Kristin! Hard to pick a favorite, although I will be using the Black Cat Intervals for a number of students who need more help in recognizing them. I’m sure i’ll be using lots of these this year, and every year! Thank you!
Wow! Several new activities added this year! My students are always motivated by holiday themes. Thanks!
I had seen this page on Facebook and had saved for a later view. Just looking at it today – you just planned my Halloween Group Piano Party! Yay! Thank you for the great ideas, cute worksheets and suggestions! I’m so glad I found your site!
Thank you! I look forward to using some of these this month! Kids love any worksheet if it is a holiday theme.
Thank you for sharing! I love your worksheets! I will use them for my guitar class!
thank you for sharing! So creative and useful worksheets for my students! more power! :)
Thank you for such great worksheets! They are easy to read and look like a lot of fun to do. My job is easier because of your great worksheets!
Thanks, Jennifer!
Wow! You put in a lot of time and creativity into these worksheets. Thank you for making them available to everyone! I wish I had you for a piano teacher! I’m going to use them with my middle school band classes as the seasons cycle thru.
Thanks Gordon–I’m so glad these will help you with your classes. I’m always happy to help out a fellow teacher!
Thank you so much for sharing these delightful worksheets! I have been teaching for 36 years, and even though I have games that I have made, it has been so fun to have something new!
The students love them, and so do I!
Thank you!
So glad that your students like them! Thank you for your kind comment, and I hope you and your students have a fun October!
I have enjoyed all of your classes and also the free activities. My students love doing hands on activities at the end of their lessons. It is fun but also educational for them.
Thank you for sharing. I always love learning a new way to present music concepts to my students. I have been teaching MANY years but still enjoy learning new ways to teach.
Thank you, Marie. You are so kind. I love that although you’re such an experienced teacher, you still enjoy learning new teaching ideas. Your students are lucky to have you!
Hi Kristin,
Thank you very much for these really helpful and fun worksheets! I was looking for some more theory that were not part of the Bastien or Faber books and I am so grateful to have found these online. My students love the animations!!
You are very welcome, Janet.
I am using the Halloween Mystery Thief game with my 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes. I love it, however, I can only print the student sheets in black and white. When you print, the two bats look very similar, and they need to be either a different character, or have some other identifying feature so the kids know the difference between the green and purple bats. Thank you!
Thank you so much for being so Valuable! These will come in handy for my students this week. Many blessings to you!
Amazing resources. Thank you so much for sharing! They will be coming in handy for my online classes too!
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Thanks so much! My kids will love these.
Love, love love your Halloween sheets! So do my students! They have had so much fun with them! I will be visiting your website often. Thanks for all fo the cute creativity!
Donna Wicks
New Day Music Studio
Costa Mesa CA
Thank you so much!!
Just what I need for Hallowe’en activities!
Amazing games and theories!
I believe my students will love it!
Amazing! My students love halloween, I’m so excited to try these activities with them! Thank you so much!
I can’t wait to try these this week!
Just what I need for my students! Thank you!
How do I download the fun music theory worksheets for my students.
Hi Anita! All you need to do is click on the image of the worksheet. When you do, the PDF will open. Hope you and your students have fun!