Percussion Family
Brass Family
Woodwind Family
String Family
Bonus Challenges!
100
An instrument you hit with a stick.
What is a drum? 
100
An instrument that wraps around the body that Miss Yarnell often describes as something Dr. Seuss would play.
What is a Sousaphone?
100
This small woodwind instrument can be made of wood, metal, or even plastic.
What is a recorder? 
100
An instrument that you strum or pluck to play, used in lots of popular music.
What is a guitar?
100
The way you play a percussion instrument.
What is hitting or shaking?
200
A round instrument with tiny metal pieces on the sides that jingle when you shake it. (Hint: Miss Yarnell uses it in Listening Center.)
What is a tambourine?
200
A brass instrument that is very large and makes a deep sound.
What is a tuba?
200
A woodwind instrument that you blow across the mouthpiece of to play, and that the player holds to the side instead of in front.
What is a flute?
200
An instrument similar to a guitar with a circular bass that is often played in country or bluegrass music.
What is a banjo?
200
This action makes sound from any instrument. (Hint: Remember our Magic School Bus episode. It's not the way an instrument looks....)
What is a vibration?
300
An instrument that rattles on the inside when you shake it.
What are maracas?
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What are eggs?
300
This brass instrument only has 3 buttons.
What is a trumpet?
300
An instrument that Squidward plays. Poorly.
What is a clarinet?
300
An instrument with many strings that you normally sit to play.
What is a harp?
300
The way you play a woodwind or brass instrument.
What is blowing into the mouthpiece?
400
A group of drums placed together so that someone can hit all of them while sitting in one place.
What is a drum set?
400
This brass instrument looks almost like a circle, but if unwound would be about 5 feet long.
What is a French Horn?
400
An instrument similar to a flute but smaller. (Hint: It sounds like pickle.)
What is a piccolo?
400
An instrument that is held up to the chin and played with a long stick with strings called a "bow."
What is a violin?
400
The family of instrument you could make with a carrot and a bell pepper.
What is the woodwind family?
500
Two metal plates that are crashed together to make a loud sound.
What are cymbals?
500
An instrument that has a long bar that can be moved away from the mouthpiece to make a deeper sound.
What is a trombone?
500
A woodwind instrument that is curvy at the top, often used in jazz music.
What is a saxophone?
500
A large, standing instrument that has buttons called "keys" that hit the strings.
What is a piano?
500
The wooden base of a string instrument that contains air and vibrates when played.
What is a sound box?