Product Description
This xylophone helps develop hand-eye coordination and reinforces children's natural sense of harmony and rhythm. This xylophone helps develop hand-eye coordination and reinforces children's natural sense of harmony and rhythm.
Playtime Ideas:
- Using the mallet to hit the bars will help develop fine motor skills and stimulate eye-hand coordination.
- Each bar produces a different sound. Telling children to hit the bars by switching the colors, will help stimulate hearing and listening ability, develop recognition skills and teach about colors at the same time.
- Hitting the bars with the mallet has a positive effect on children; it generates interest, develops concentration and also helps to release tension.
Product Details
| Publisher | Plan Toys |
| UPC | 084543640527 |
| Features |
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| Minimum Age | 12 months |
| MPN | PT6405 |
| Brand | Plan Toys |
| EAN | 8854740064059 |
| Release Date | 2006-09-01 |
| Label | Plan Toys |
| Title | Plan Toy Oval Xylophone |
| Studio | Plan Toys |
| Manufacturer Maximum Age | 1188 months |
| Amazon Maximum Age | 48 months |
| Batteries Included | No |
| Amazon Minimum Age | 12 months |
| Model | 640502 |
| Manufacturer | Plan Toys |
Customer Reviews
As good as a block of woodReview by Jamie Gerdes, 2010-08-21
There is very little difference in tone between the various bars on this toy. Certainly not enough to play a recognizable tune. Save your money on this one.
Buy the Drum Instead
Review by In Search of Value, 2010-06-30
So I read the reviews about the bad sound quality and then bought the Plan Toy Solid Wood Drum instead. The drum sounds great with several different wonderful tones. My 17 month old son loves the drum and loves music so I bought the xylophone hoping it would sound as nice as the drum. It doesn't. The musical quality of the xylophone is pretty bad. I love Plan toys but this isn't one of the best. If you're considering this xylophone, I recommend the Plan drum instead.
Attractive, not musical
Review by C. Strole, 2010-05-02
My purpose in buying a child's xylophone was to teach basic concepts of scale. This one is not tuned to any scale and has minimal musical quality. It's visually soft and pretty, the keys bounce in an interesting way, as they're suspended on elastic strings, and the sound will not hurt your ears, but the tones are random. Also the head of the mallet fits into the one-year-old's mouth, so he popped it in and started tottering around; that is not safe. I'm sending it back.
A wonderful collection of pitches...
Review by A. Brock, 2010-04-06
F - B - Ab - D - Ab
Teaching my child about something other than major and minor scales. Two thumbs up!
Birthday gift for grandaughter
Review by Bruce R. Karn, 2010-03-23
This was a birthday gift for a one year old grandaughter. Her parents had to take it away from her to get her to open her other gifts. It remains her choice to play with a month later. She wants it first thing in the morning and plays it much of the day. Probably the biggest hit ever for a gift for a grandchild!
