Musical awakening: what gift to give for Christmas?

For this Christmas 2018, discover new ways to approach musical awakening with your child thanks to new innovative toys, or wake up old memories with the toys of yesteryear. Who knows, this may be the occasion to arouse a vocation as an artist!

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    La collection Magic Touch — Hape

    Hape has partnered with Baby Einstein to offer a collection of musical instruments that combine both the nobility of wood and tactile technological innovation! The youngest, from 6 months old, will be able to discover the joy of hitting drums with those from the Magic Touch collection, which emit four different percussion sounds.

    While from one year, the child will be able to vary the pleasures and try the Magic Touch piano. Two modes are available: a first automatic, to listen to the nursery rhymes, and a manual mode to play them independently using colored scores.

    • Magic Touch drums – wood and plastic, from 6 months, € 24,99.
    • Piano Magic Touch — dès 1 an, 29,99 €.
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    Les Silly Squeaks — Lansay

    Discover eight funny, soft, musical animals to collect! Each of the Silly Squeaks has their own musical style: rock, country, hip hop, etc. Just press it to hear small noises or different melodies. In total, each one plays five different music and sixteen funny sounds. Two modes of play are available: in the first, the child discovers the melodies and can also press the Silly Squeak to hear, for example, the Latino Whisker cat meowing. The second transforms the animal into a musical key that emits a sound: it must then be associated with other Silly Squeaks to reproduce a 3D piano and play your own scores.

    • Age: from 3 years old.
    • 12,50 €.
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    The Shiver musical box – Cultura

    Cultura has developed a range of musical awakening instruments for children. Available individually, they are also grouped together in a single transparent box that is easily transportable.

    Inside, we discover 9 instruments: a kazoo (modifies the voice), a tambourine, a triangle, two sound eggs and a pair of maracas, a guiro frog, a sistrum (shaking instrument), a pair of claves (wooden sticks) and a rattle (spinning instrument dating from the Middle Ages).

    This complete kit will allow children to try out several instruments, and perhaps fall in love with one in particular. It will also be an opportunity to improvise small family concerts: good humor guaranteed at home!

    • Age: from 3 years old.
    • 49,99 €.
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    The musical caterpillar – Brio

    Here is a new game concept that will amaze the little ones from their first birthday! This caterpillar is made up of wooden balls that the child will place on a base with holes. For each element placed, a note is emitted and if all the balls are in place, the caterpillar is reconstituted and a complete melody is played.

    Ten ways are possible to connect the head to the tail of the animal, and therefore ten different melodies are to be discovered.

    This game thus plays both on musical awakening, but also on reflection and the development of motor skills, in a “test and learn” approach, which will be useful to the child later to approach new lessons in a way. experimental.

    • Age: from 12 months.
    • 40 €.
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    Musical chests – Auzou

    Éditions Auzou offers a collection of three musical awakening boxes, each comprising a book, a CD of 15 nursery rhymes and one or two musical instruments. The child will be able to choose between a drum and maracas, a drum and a flute or the new box with a xylophone accompanied by its wooden stick. Each of the instruments is suitable for small hands. Children can listen to their favorite nursery rhymes thanks to the CD and accompany them to music, thanks to the instruments.

    The plus: in the book, vocal and mime games are offered for each song to develop listening, singing and body movement synchronization.

    All you have to do is choose which rhyme to listen to: A Small Ship, The Turtle Family, etc.

    • Box n ° 1 and 2 with the drum: from 1 year old – Author: D. Roode.
    • Box n ° 3 with the xylophone: from 3 years old – Author: Inga Wilmink.
    • 24,95 €.
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    The new CD player with microphone – Oxybul, Eveil et Jeux

    In the Tempobul range of musical games, a new CD player with microphone is appearing for this Christmas. White and red in color, it is also more compact, with a handle, to allow easy transport and to be able to take it everywhere: whether at home, from the bedroom to the living room, or during outings at home. grandparents or on vacation. Your child will be able to listen to his favorite songs, and when the heart tells him, sing them at the same time, karaoke style.

    • Age: From 5 years old.
    • 39,99 €.
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    The Confetti musical table – Janod

    This table is ideal for starting the musical awakening, since it offers the discovery of several musical instruments: a xylophone, a cymbal and a drum with its two sticks. We also love its colorful polka dot design, specific to the Confetti range of the Janod brand. It is therefore an invitation to awaken several senses that is offered, both visual, auditory and manual!

    • Age: 12-36 months.
    • Dimensions: x 40 25 15 cm x.
    • 24,99 €.
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    The vintage Fisher-Price record player

    Souvenir and nostalgic atmosphere, with this record player which is not a novelty but a reissue of the first Fisher-Price record player launched in 1971! Parents will surely take as much pleasure as their children in placing one of the five colored discs on the device and listening to one of the ten melodies playing.

    • Age: from one year.
    • Number of colored discs: 5.
    • 34,99 €.
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    The Kidi Lightshow Party speaker – Vtech

    Finally, to complete this selection, return to the XNUMXst century with this new bluetooth speaker which also contains a disco ball! Guaranteed atmosphere for the next parties or evenings organized with girlfriends: all you have to do is start the music, light the luminous ball and join your friends on the dance floor. For the songs, the children can then choose whether they want to listen to their favorite hits on the radio or start a playlist using a microSD card (not supplied) or their smartphone, connected by bluetooth to the speaker.

    The plus: five melodies and songs are included as well as mini-games. Finally, the Kidi Lightshow Party can also be used as an alarm clock in the morning.

    • Age: from 6 years old.
    • Battery operated or with AC adapter (not included).
    • 47,99 €.

     

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