Music Printable Puzzles

A word search is a strange way to enjoy music, but it works, because naming instruments and genres out loud while filling in a grid is close enough to singing along that people don't mind doing it.

A word search is a strange way to enjoy music, but it works, because naming instruments and genres out loud while filling in a grid is close enough to singing along that people don't mind doing it. This hub covers the ground a general audience actually cares about: musical instruments, genres from classical to country to hip-hop, decades of pop music, Broadway and musical theater, and the vocabulary of a school band or choir room. A middle-school band director uses the Instruments puzzle on the first day of class before anyone's touched their assigned instrument; a wedding DJ or party planner prints the Decades of Music set as a table activity between courses. Because musical taste splits so sharply by generation, several of these themes are pitched deliberately at different audiences — the Classic Rock set skews toward adults, while the Musical Instruments puzzle is built for an elementary classroom with plain, recognizable words like DRUM, FLUTE, and TRUMPET. None of the puzzles reference specific artists or song titles, keeping the whole category free of licensing concerns and usable anywhere from a school hallway to a retirement community lounge.

All music puzzles

Every puzzle includes its answer key

The answer key prints on a second page, so you can hand out the puzzle without handing out the answers. All 18 sheets on this page are formatted for US Letter and A4 with margins wide enough for a home printer.