Children's musical instruments are toys that are used not only for entertainment. They are great tools for development. Such toys are usually made in bright colors. In addition, they attract kids with emitting sounds that are unusual for those who have recently come to this world and are trying to learn everything.
Rattles Pipes
The first children's musical toys were rattles and bells. These things introduce babies to a variety of sounds. The kids are drawn to them, trying to perform such actions themselves so that the toys "talk".
Young children can enjoy children's musical toys in the form of drums, pipes, and wooden spoons.
Of course, these instruments will not be able to produce professional musical sounds in the hands of children. Kids so far only know their abilities and the ability to make noise and buzz of those objects that fall into their hands. They have the opportunity to solve the researcher’s first task: why does his mother succeed, but he doesn’t have what to turn, pull, click to make the toy sound. Any question requires an answer and action.
Find talent
A children's musical instrument is also a toy. But it is considered a transition to a serious decision for parents: whether to send your favorite child to a music school. Such miniature tools will help develop musical ear, a sense of tact and rhythm.
With the help of these toys, attention develops, as the baby needs to remember which key or button the adults pressed to make the sound appear. The child tries to perform various actions to achieve a result. And this helps the development of perseverance.
As it turned out, a child who had a children's instrument (musical) in his set of toys later became better at reading and writing, was a good student at school. Another huge plus is that he begins to master music and thus brings the whole family together, trying to create a noise orchestra. Parents and the baby have time for interesting communication with each other.
Maracas and Xylophone
Each toy tool can find a worthy application for itself in the life of a baby. For example, maracas will be needed for the first attempts to combine music and dance movements. Kids love it very much.
A wooden children’s xylophone will do a good job of young creative personalities. This is an old percussion musical instrument, which is a set of small wooden bars that you have to hit with wooden hammers in order to extract sounds. The melody of this original mini-tool will captivate the baby for a long time. Xylophone is sure to become the favorite toy of the small future composer.
The same melodic toys include bells and rattles. And for the first acquaintance with music and sound, pipes and whistles are used. No wonder in the old days, kids bought clay amusements that could publish different versions of whistling. Each of them had its own individual melody. In addition, all imitating
wind instruments toys have a beneficial effect on the development of respiratory organs.
Castanets and Tambourine
Children's castanets are very loved by young children. They train rhythm well. And for girls - this is a great find that accompanies a beautiful dance and develops the elegance of hand movements.
A tambourine or tambourine is also good - a children's instrument, musical and completely simple in the way of extracting sound. He turned to the side, raised - the bells touch each other and make pleasant sounds to the ears.
There is no doubt that children’s musical toys should be in the child from birth. It can be, for example, soft singing bears, elephants, dogs. They attract children, sing songs to them and eventually become real friends.
But gradually, from infancy, children will move to a different age period, in which they simply cannot do without developing toys. The kid must learn the sound diversity of the world around him. Distinguish the sounds of animate and inanimate nature.
For older preschool age
The set of musical instruments that parents will choose can be very different. You can buy a guitar, tambourine, harmonica, pipe for an older preschool child. All this will help to work with his hearing and sense of rhythm.
In general, it is easy to name those toys that accompany the child throughout his childhood - these are musical instruments. And it doesn’t matter at all whether the baby will attend music school when he grows up, but there is no doubt that he can find a drum, a rattle, a pipe in his room.
In order for not one child’s instrument (musical) to fall into the pile of annoying things, you need to teach your child not only to extract sounds from him, but also to try to inculcate a careful attitude towards him. Children love when mom dances with them, plays the tambourine or harmonica. Perhaps such joint games will serve as an occasion for serious musical studies in the future. Such a collective pastime will become a guarantee of love for music and will be desirable for the child.
For kindergarten
It is no coincidence that musical instruments for kindergarten are used in many classes with kids in any age group. Children are taught to distinguish them by external signs, by sound and method of playing the melody.
In preschool institutions, two types of instruments are used: noise instruments that can be used to create an entire orchestra, and melodic ones. With the first children are familiar from birth. These include rattles, triangles, and bells known to all.
Plates, drums, tambourines, spoons, maracas are especially loved by kids.
The melody is extracted with flutes and xylophones, accordions and synthesizers. Young children enjoy playing the instruments, they are interested in music. All this improves their abilities. And playing in the created noise orchestra, children also learn a sense of responsibility and collectivism.
Alternative to Purchased
You can try to make instruments with your kid for a home orchestra using improvised materials. For maracas, used plastic bottles and jars are suitable. Fillers can be very different: cereals, seeds and even dried felt-tip pens. In each case, the instrument has different sound tones.
Castanets are made from walnut shells. Lids from pans for a while can turn into a percussion instrument - cymbals, and the keys collected in a bunch will replace the bells.
In kindergartens, as we have already said, they use a wide variety of instruments and musical toys in games. This enlivens the learning process, makes it more interesting for children and educators themselves.
Piano and synthesizer
Most often, parents choose keyboard instruments for learning music . In order for the child to get used to the future instrument, to music lessons, so that he has a strong desire to learn the game and learn musical notation, a children's piano is useful.
This instrument belongs to the keyboard strings. But most often they use a synthesizer for teaching children music, which is referred to as keyboard electronic instruments. When the child has mastered the toy instrument, you can begin professional training in playing the piano. You can do this from the age of five.
A baby piano can be the starting point for serious music lessons. The thing is that such an instrument is just a musical toy with one or two octaves. The keys are small, for this reason you will have to master simple melodies with just one finger. Of course, the kid will not learn to play a professional instrument. But such first attempts at communicating with instrumental music will benefit the development of hearing, the love of extracting melodies and the desire to do it yourself.