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Colorful musical toys from Eichhorn - playfully explore the world of tones and sounds

Children often love music in the womb, it helps to relax and later in development. Therefore, many parents choose to offer early musical education, which can be done not only in music classes, but also at home with musical instruments for children.

The following guide will tell you what to look for when buying musical toys for babies and older children.

What are the benefits of playing with musical toys?

Whether music toys for babies, toddlers or schoolchildren - music inspires children at every age. Playing with music toys relaxes them and helps them express their feelings. It also creates a great sense of community when children make music together with their parents or other children.

Music as relaxation for the children

A music box to fall asleep to or soothing sounds providing comfort - the right music can be very relaxing for babies and children in certain situations. They often fall asleep much faster when they go to bed in the evening after an exciting day with their favorite music.

Expressing feelings with music

With their first instruments, children also learn to express their feelings - whether positive or negative - in a playful way. Joy and fun, but also anger and annoyance can be expressed without words through the use of musical toys. Even babies find making "noise" with toy instruments great and take real pleasure in it.

Creating community through music

Making music and singing together with siblings and parents or in a group of children - that connects generations. The sense of community that develops here is unique and often shapes children for a lifetime.

Promoting the development of children with music

Musical instruments also promote the development of the child, including creativity, accurate hearing and the ability to concentrate and learn. The interest in sounds and music is awakened at a young age and continues to develop. Music can even promote the interconnection of both hemispheres of the brain and thus later learning at school. The acquisition of language is often promoted by the accompanying singing at the same time.

Which musical toy is suitable from what age?

Sound toys are already suitable for babies who can grasp safely. The baby rattle produces the first sounds, continuing from about one year with simple instruments such as the Eichhorn Rainmaker or Eichhorn Music Set Griffin.

For older children, the Eichhorn Music Sound Table, the Eichhorn Music Wooden Guitar, the Eichhorn Music Tambourine, a xylophone and many other musical toys are ideal for getting started and gaining their first musical experience.

Tip: If a child develops an increasing interest in a particular sound toy and plays it regularly and with perseverance, this may be the right time to switch to a real children's instrument.

What criteria should you look for when buying musical toys?

When buying toys for making music, it is not only the age recommendation from the manufacturer that matters. The individual developmental stage and factors such as safety, sustainability and product quality also play a role.

Age recommendation

Sound toys are usually divided into three categories: music toys for babies, music toys from one year and music toys from three years. For baby music toys and products from one year, it is important that they do not contain small parts, as children at this age still explore many things with their mouths and could easily swallow small parts. From about three years, a musical toy may already be a little more professional.

Product quality

Handling toys for making music is often wild and not for sensitive materials. Therefore, high product quality is important for sound toys of all kinds. It should be robust and durable, and it should not mind being dropped or subjected to rough impacts.

Security

For a toy to be safe for making music, it must not have sharp corners and edges, nor be contaminated with harmful substances. Varnishes and paints that are harmful to children therefore have no place on sound toys.

Sustainability

The sustainability factor is very important to many parents and also to Eichhorn. The environmentally friendly toys are produced with beech wood from sustainable forestry and often cover only short transport distances after manufacture to the customer, as Eichhorn produces in Germany.

The Eichhorn range of musical toys

Whether it's a children's guitar, flute, tambourine, harmonica, rattle, rainmaker or other musical toys, discover Eichhorn's versatile range. In addition to xylophones, you'll find children's rattles and entire sets for young musicians, for example.

Children's xylophones

Xylophones work very simply and are suitable even for the youngest. With the music toy xylophone even first melodies are possible. How about, for example, a beautiful wooden xylophone from Eichhorn?

Kids rattles

You can discover rattles of all kinds in this category from Eichhorn. There are rattles for babies and older children, such as the Eichhorn Rainmaker.

Music sets

Give your child a treat with an Eichhorn music set, which is available in different versions. For example, the set with colorful maracas or the wooden ball sound set for babies to carry out their first sound experiments.

Conclusion: music toys from Eichhorn - the right instrument for every child

Music is fun, relaxing and developmental for young and old alike. Whether children's guitar, xylophone or rattle - inspire your child early for the world of music.

With the high-quality musical toys from Eichhorn, children are stimulated through all the senses, the focus is on coordination and concentration as well as endurance.

Eichhorn toy instruments are available for all ages with high product quality and a wide selection. You can find the complete Eichhorn range on the homepage. In addition, you can discover many other categories from here, such as role play toys, crafts & painting, farm & play worlds, children's and baby toys and more.