Janod Baby Forest Fawn Metal Xylo

By Alex Brands
Price $17.99
Age 12-36 mo.

Everything about this delightful early learning musical toy radiates quality and playfulness. Its visual appeal alone exerts such a magnetic pull that toddlers (and parents) gravitate towards it on sight. The xylophone's colorful fawn-shaped wooden base displays a lovingly illustrated face with felt ears and antlers affixed. Along the length of the fawn's body 4 brightly colored metal bars are attached, each of which rings out with a bell-like tone when tapped with either of the wooden mallets included. Once young ones experience the wonderfully physical act of making music with it, playtime takes on a joyful, almost magical quality. Unlike many children's musical toys, which can be fairly atonal, this xylophone plays 4 distinct consecutive pitches from traditional Western scales, providing a clear and valuable introduction to the pleasures of making music. Promotes fine motor skills, coordination, listening, understanding of cause and effect and, of course, musicality.