Hohner has the perfect product to introduce children to the fascinating world of music. The Hohner 30″ Hardwood Child’s Guitar is a beautifully handcrafted musical instrument of smaller scale, specially designed for younger musicians.
This guitar is build with naturally finished woods, its construction creates a crisp texture to the overall sound of the instrument.
This instrument also comes equipped with light gauge nylon strings for easier fingering, so as to not discourage beginners.
The kid’s guitar includes instruction booklet, color-coded finger position stickers, and tuning pitch pipe.
Hohner has a reputation for creating musical instruments of excellence, also for supporting and encouraging music education. Recently, Hohner joined the efforts of the Guitar and Accessories Marketing Association (GAMA), in their campaign to start or enhance existing guitar programs within school systems nationwide.
Age 4+
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This Kawasaki Drum Pad is a sound lab for future sound engineers! This set of eight smartly distributed drum pads includes four drum effects and 16 drum sounds.
The keyboard features 30 alternative background rhythms for added fun. In addition, this musical instrument toy includes two drumsticks, volume controls, lights, and different play modes for a completely creative audiovisual experience.
Kawasaki Digital Drum Pad
If your children have a musical inclination but you are not ready to commit to an instrument yet, a toy musical instrument, like the Kawasaki Drum Pad, offers a great alternative for children to explore their musical talents and allow them to have a great time doing it!
Age 5+
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This exclusive child-sized instrument pack is ideal for family play-alongs or your child’s first introduction to musical rhythms. In addition to encouraging creativity, learning music enhances skills development including concentration, coordination, self-confidence, patience, and relaxation. The multi-instrument set includes a drum and pair of sticks, cymbals, tambourine, harmonica, claves, triangle, jingle bells, and tone block with mallet. A convenient sturdy canvas logo storage bag keeps them all together.
Ideal for your budding young pianist! Fun and educational, this quality wooden piano from Schoenhut includes a teaching color strip and songbook. In addition to encouraging creativity, learning music enhances skills development including concentration, coordination, self-confidence, patience, and relaxation. This beginner piano gets youngsters off to a great start! Manufacturer requires 2-5 business days to process all orders. Please note that orders placed with expedited shipping will take priority and ship as quickly as possible. These orders however may still require a 2-5 day shipping window.
Add to your musical band with these cute fish castanets. Easy for a toddler to grasp and play independently too! These colorful kid’s castanets are a blast! Each shaped like a fish and brightly painted in either red, green, or blue; eyes are painted on. These kid’s castanets are perfect for school or home! Constructed of wood with elastic cord.
This four key trumpet is accurately tuned, plus color and number coded to jump start the talented musician in your home. In addition to encouraging creativity, learning music enhances skills development including concentration, coordination, self-confidence, patience, and relaxation. Kids learn to play this gleaming trumpet in minutes by following simplified color or number patterns. The concert begins with an easy to learn song included right on the box. Add friends, siblings, and other instruments to strike up the band!
Age 3+
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A tin whistle is a simple but magical tube with a specially shaped mouthpiece, by blowing into it, the air going through vibrates to generate sound.
Depending on the shape and proportions of the tube, as well as how the holes are distributed, these toy musical instruments produce a wide range of musical notes ranging from low all the way to high.
Tin Whistle from Schylling
The tin whistle toy is a great alternative for children because they accommodate their small hands, the ideal choice would be a higher key whistle.
The tin whistle is generally consider a musical toy more than an actual music instrument, but tin whistles are really important in Irish and Celtic music traditions.
Tin whistles are also called penny whistles, it is not entirely clear if this association is due to the fact that they have been traditionally considered rather inexpensive music alternatives better suited for children. Or because children used to earn pennies by playing them on the streets of the British Isles, where the whistles originated.
Clarke Tin Whistle Deluxe
A good precaution to have with vintage or antique toy tin whistles is to look for lead, since this material has been normally used for these particular music instrument toys in the past.
If there is any doubt about the serious musical possibilities of this instrument and how far a child’s musical talent can be explored, check the tin whistle solo in the video bellow. It’s beautiful!
The sound and the music of toy bells is so special. This musical instrument is perhaps one of the most simple, but it has been present throughout history and is a symbol of joy, celebration and ceremony in many different forms.
A single yet powerful note coming from the vibration energy of a cup shaped sound making device isn’t really much, but in the hands of a child, a toy bell turns into a great opportunity to explore different sound patterns and rhythms.
Bell toys are especially designed for children to identify relationships of sounds with different colors, sizes, shapes or patterns. The materials are usually light and soft to the touch, the products are very colorful, and the notes produced are delicate.
Some of the most popular choices among bells as musical toys for children to play with are: handbells, “D” shaped jingle bells, jingle sticks, cage bells and bell clips. For interesting choices and good prices Click Here!
Cage Bells
Check out the video below for an outstanding exercise idea with toy bells.
Sounds are some of the first sensations processed by children after they come to exist, these early impressions of reality are just the beginning to a lifetime of discovery through the sense of sound. The importance of music for children’s exploration of the world and as a means of communication should never be underestimated.
Not only is music one of the most important themes to pretty much every culture in the world, it is a manifestation of Nature beyond the limits of rational thinking. Don’t birds and whales sing too?
What a musical toys provide to children is priceless, just as priceless are their reactions and expressions to the sounds they create since a very early age. Music is an experience of the soul as much as an experience for the mind. Musical toys are fantastic kids educational toys.
The wonderful thing about musical toys is that they come in a great variety for kids of all ages, you can’t really go wrong giving one of these toys to any kid. The outcome in a child’s life could be enormous.
To motivate interest in music represents another open door of opportunity for success in a child’s future, whether your kid becomes a master pianist or not.
Music is a gift, but it is also a skill to be developed, music is a mind expanding experience comparable to mathematics, but it is naturally enjoyable and fun. Music is a form of design that promotes creative thinking, and children’s minds have no barriers. A musical toy is a powerful developmental toy.
Don’t ever miss the opportunity to encourage the discovery of musical talents in children. Choose a musical toy and let the fun of a lifetime begin!
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