Musical Note Values Matching Activity (teacher made) - Free Printable

Let’s solve this step by step.

We need to match each musical note with how many beats it gets. Here are the notes shown and what they mean:

1. Whole note (looks like an empty oval) → This is worth 4 beats.
2. Half note (empty oval with a stem) → This is worth 2 beats.
3. Quarter note (filled-in oval with a stem) → This is worth 1 beat.
4. Eighth note (filled-in oval with a stem and one flag) → This is worth ½ beat.
5. Sixteenth note (filled-in oval with a stem and two flags) → This is worth ¼ beat.
6. Dotted half note (half note with a dot next to it) → The dot adds half of the note’s value, so 2 + 1 = 3 beats.
7. Double whole note or “breve” (looks like a rectangle with lines on sides) → This is worth 8 beats.

Now let’s match them from top to bottom in the left column:

- First note: Whole note → 4 beats
- Second note: Double whole note (breve) → 8 beats
- Third note: Half note → 2 beats
- Fourth note: Quarter note → 1 beat
- Fifth note: Dotted half note → 3 beats
- Sixth note: Eighth note → ½ beat
- Seventh note: Sixteenth note → ¼ beat

Wait — looking again at the image layout, there are only 6 rows? Let me recount based on standard matching worksheets.

Actually, in both columns, we have 6 boxes on the left and 6 on the right. Let’s list the notes as they appear vertically in the left box (from top to bottom):

Top to bottom:

1. Whole note → 4 beats
2. Double whole note (breve) → 8 beats
3. Half note → 2 beats
4. Quarter note → 1 beat
5. Dotted half note → 3 beats
6. Eighth note → ½ beat

But wait — the right column has these options:

- 1 beat
- 2 beats
- 3 beats
- ½ beat
- 8 beats
- 4 beats

That’s six values — perfect.

So now match each note to its correct beat value:

Left column (notes) → Right column (beats)

1. Whole note → 4 beats
2. Double whole note → 8 beats
3. Half note → 2 beats
4. Quarter note → 1 beat
5. Dotted half note → 3 beats
6. Eighth note → ½ beat

Note: There’s no sixteenth note here — the last note is eighth note (one flag). So we’re good.

Final matching order (top to bottom):

→ 4 beats
→ 8 beats
→ 2 beats
→ 1 beat
→ 3 beats
→ ½ beat

Let’s double-check:

- Whole note = 4 ✔️
- Breve = 8 ✔️
- Half note = 2 ✔️
- Quarter note = 1 ✔️
- Dotted half = 3 ✔️
- Eighth note = ½ ✔️

All matched correctly.

Final Answer:
From top to bottom, the matches are:
4 beats, 8 beats, 2 beats, 1 beat, 3 beats, ½ beat