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Free Printable Music Notes & Musical Symbol Craft Templates & Coloring Pages

These are musical notation symbols for learning and crafts, not conventional coloring pages. Choose Black and White for accurate solid black symbols with the correct open noteheads, or Color for teal symbols. Outline follows only the outer cutting border and omits enclosed inner contours; do not use Outline or mirrored output to teach notation.

Make a music-room display, decorate a concert card or introduce musical symbols with nine printable designs. Choose quarter, eighth, half, whole and sixteenth notes, a beamed eighth-note pair, a treble clef, a quarter rest or an eighth rest. Each comes in teal, solid black and an outer cutting outline. Set your size and save a PDF, SVG or transparent PNG.

1. Choose a design

2. Set illustration size and style

Size details

Width starts at 1 cm, with no fixed 100 cm limit. Height keeps the original proportions. Large designs can span up to 100 printed sheets. In free arrangement, use Fit all designs after enlarging a design; adding sheets alone does not enlarge it.

Outline: outer contour for tracing and cutting out. Black and white: detailed line art for coloring pages and craft templates. Color: ready-made decorations.

Place multiple illustrations wherever you like, at any size.

Paper, line thickness and mirror

Tiled printing

Applies when printing across multiple sheets. With no overlap, trim the blank margins and align the image edges.

Save / load settings

Save a settings file to reuse later on this template page. Includes automatic arrangements, free layouts, paper, sizes and line thicknesses. Loading replaces the current settings; Undo restores them. Files are processed on your device.

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Musical symbols for classroom displays

Use Color or Black and White when comparing note and rest shapes. Black and White keeps the filled noteheads and the open centers of half and whole notes; it is a solid musical symbol, not a coloring-page line drawing. The beamed pair contains two eighth notes. A treble clef identifies pitches on a staff and is not itself a note.

Cut out notes for cards and decorations

Use the teal symbols on concert invitations, music folders or a classroom wall. Outline gives only the outside cutting border for tracing onto colored paper or felt. It leaves enclosed spaces uncut, so it is not a faithful notation diagram. For cutting, a width of at least 5 cm is recommended; 10 cm or more makes flags and treble-clef details easier to handle. A symbol's height follows its proportions, so tall notes may need tiled printing.

How many beats does each note represent?

Note values express relative durations. A half note lasts twice as long as a quarter note, a whole note four times as long, an eighth note half as long and a sixteenth note one quarter as long. The number of beats depends on the meter and which note value receives the beat. A quarter rest and an eighth rest indicate silence for their corresponding note values.

Can I use these as music note coloring pages?

These templates prioritize the shapes of musical notation. Black and White uses solid black symbols rather than hollow coloring outlines. Outline is for decorative tracing and cutting, not for teaching note values, because it omits enclosed inner contours. Use Color or Black and White for notation lessons.

Can I mirror a musical symbol?

Use mirrored output only for decorative reverse transfers. Mirrored symbols are not standard musical notation and should not be used to teach reading music.