Toy Musical Instruments

All children, without exception, love music, some like to listen to melodies and sing along, others like to dance to musical compositions. And no matter what the child does to the music, in any case, it is extremely positive effect on its development. In particular, music develops the ear, imagination, memory and creativity of a child. There are a large number of different musical toys, with the help of which you can introduce children to music and favorably influence their development. There are two categories of musical toys:

• The first category includes toys in which music is played after pressing a button. These are all kind of soft and not only toys that reproduce the already finished music.
• The second includes toys, in which to extract music should make some effort. This category mainly includes toy musical instruments, differing from the present only in size.

In this article we will take a closer look at the second category of toys - musical instruments.

Drums

It is better to start introducing a child to music through percussion instruments. Special knowledge in this area is not required, slapped, knocked - the sound appeared. "Play" on such instruments as a tambourine and a drum can and six months old child. Older children begin to extract sounds with sticks. This greatly expands the number of percussion instruments.

Shelves are used when playing on the xylophone - wooden sticks of various sizes, lined up and tuned to different sounds, metallophone - similarly, with the exception that the sticks are metal, the timpani is an instrument like a drum, and also on a triangle - in principle, quite serious instrument, which is part of symphony orchestras. There is also a huge amount of primordially Russian percussion instruments: wooden spoons, a rattle, a ruble is a ribbed board, which is played with sticks.

Brass

This type of tool is more suitable for older children. Extracting sound is different, blew - that’s the sound. With the help of wind instruments, you can extract a variety of sounds and even play a melody. At the first stage it is better to start with simple instruments - with a whistle. Of course they have one sound, but the types of whistles are various: in the form of birds, animals, and so on. There are tools and more difficult to master: harmonicas, pipes and toy flutes. The main thing is that the child has an interest in the tool, and it will definitely arise.

Strings

In this kind of instrument, the sound produces a vibrating string. And on such instruments you will not play "just like that", as, for example, on drums or pipes. Therefore, the strings are of interest in older children. For starters, you can try to learn the game on cymbals - this is a tool like gusli, but the sound is extracted using hammers. If the child has already well developed motor skills in order to “tweak” the strings, you can try the igu on the harp and on the balalaika. Yes, even on the guitar and harp - it is only important that the child enjoy in the game.

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Keyboard keys

The most common instrument in this form is a synthesizer. With it, a child can listen to how different instruments sound. Arrange a disco at a children's holiday with the help of ready-made melodies recorded on the instrument. Included with the synthesizer is often a microphone, which allows the child to experiment with the performance of songs. And, probably, the most important moment, everything reproduced and sung can be recorded and then listened to as much as you like, which allows you to develop creativity.

No matter what toy instrument the parents choose together with the child, it will favorably influence its development in many directions. The only thing you should take into account some points when choosing toy musical instruments:

• Sounds that emit toy tools should be pleasant to the ear and not scare the child.
• By coloring the toy should not be too bright, and the shape - the simpler the better. A variety of colors should also be minimized.
• The toy should not be overloaded with various functions and small buttons, it will disorient the child.

And if the parents purchased a toy musical instrument for their children, you should be patient and listen to all the sonatas and suites of the novice musicians.

The author - Stanislav Kolesnik

To set the mood, watch a positive video in which a child plays a toy guitar: