The String Family of Instruments

Click on the instrument to learn more about it...

Sounds Abounds! Click here to test out your String Family instrument identification knowledge!

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Activity Sheets:

Assessment sheet: Name the instruments, parts, facts

The String Family - blank for colouring/ cartooning

 Music to our Ears - Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending

The Violin

An introduction to the Violin...

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Violin in a different way...

Activity Sheets:

Label the Violin/ Viola - differing levels of challenge!

Draw a Violin - step by step drawing the instrument bit by bit

How Many Violins? - Early Years/ Y1/ Y2 activity. Find the instrument, write the name

Complete the missing violin parts. Drawing sheet

Violin and Lilllies Colouring sheet

The Viola

An Introduction to the Viola...

Viola in a different way...

Ed Sheeran Perfect - original

How much is this viola?!

Full story here on the New York Times website...

Activity Sheets:

Colour the Viola/ Violin: what it says on the tin

Draw yourself playing the viola (KS1 activity)

The Cello

 The Cello...

Jacqueline du Pre 1967 recording...epic!

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The Swan by Camille Saint-Saens played by Yo-Yo Ma

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The '2Cellos' performing slightly differently...! 

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This is a very famous piece for the cello...but which animal do you think it is describing? Click on the animal to find out if you're correct!

Activity Sheets:

Colour the Cellos: Early Years/ Y1/ Y2 activity

Draw you playing the cello!

The Double Bass

This is a very famous piece for the Double Bass...but which animal do you think it is describing? Click on the animal and check if you're correct!

Activity Sheets:

Colour the Double Bass

The Double Bass - an introduction.

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Camillle Saint Saens - The Elephant from Carnival of the Animals 

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(Click here for something very special played on a Double Bass!)