Musical Instruments
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Wooden Rolling Wheel Sensory Rattle - Rainbow
£17.99Crafted from smooth natural wood, this authentic wooden rolling wheel sensory rattle provides babies from 6 months with an enriching tactile experience that inspires self-directed discovery.
Designed to nurture early grasping and sensory discovery, it introduces fundamental concepts through calm, focused hands-on play.
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Montessori Musical Awakening Activity Box Set
£14.99A gentle introduction to music at home, inspired by Montessori principles 🎼
"My Montessori Musical Awakening Box Set" invites young children to discover sound and rhythm from an early age. Inspired by Maria Montessori's pedagogy and the Marie Jaëll method, this activity box set offers 30 playful musical activities to nurture fine motor skills, concentration, and auditory sensory discovery.
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Wooden Memory Game & Matching Tiles Set
£98.99Crafted from smooth natural wood, this authentic wooden memory game & matching tiles set provides babies from 6 months with an enriching tactile experience that inspires self-directed discovery.
Designed to nurture early grasping and sensory discovery, it introduces fundamental concepts through calm, focused hands-on play.
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Giant Outdoor Wooden Dominoes Game (XXL)
£147.99This wooden toy piano with a fox design has 11 white keys and 7 black keys. A well-finished, quality instrument to introduce young children to the piano and to the world of music.
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Hand-Painted Wooden Recorder Flute
Embark on melodic musical discovery with this charming Hand-Painted Wooden Recorder Flute. Featuring a beautifully decorated wooden body and accurately spaced finger holes, it produces warm, clear tones that introduce children to finger placement and breath modulation.
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Wooden Baby Jingle Bell Rattle Bracelet
£10.99Spark acoustic discovery with this gentle Wooden Jingle Bell Rattle Bracelet. Fitted with polished metal bells and smooth wooden beads, it jingles softly with every kick, wave, or shake, teaching little babies the joyous connection between movement and sound.
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Montessori Rainbow Double Maracas Wooden Rattle
£11.49This large double-ended wooden maracas rattle is an inspiring Montessori acoustic percussion instrument that fosters auditory tracking, rhythm, and grasping reflex from 12 months.
Features vibrant rainbow bands on both shaker bells, creating a soft, rhythmic swish that soothes and captivates young ears.
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Montessori Wooden Hand Drum Rattle & Tambourine
£3.99This traditional wooden hand drum rattle and tambourine introduces toddlers from 3 years to musical rhythm, acoustic cause-and-effect, and wrist dexterity.
Fitted with natural drum skin heads on both sides and weighted strike beads that create a crisp, resonant rhythm when spun.
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Rainbow Wooden Tambourine - Percussion Music Instrument
£13.99Bring rhythm and movement into your child's day with this colourful wooden tambourine. Featuring shiny metal jingles set into a rainbow-painted wooden frame, children can tap, shake, and rattle their way to musical discovery and motor coordination.
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Wooden Harmonica for Children - Early Music Instrument
£13.99Inspire a love of music with this delightful wooden harmonica. Compact, lightweight, and gentle on lips, it features 16 sound holes that produce melodious tones whether blowing or drawing breath, offering immediate musical gratification.
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Wooden Baby Maracas Rattle - Sensory Musical Toy
£10.99Introduce your little one to music and rhythm with this charming wooden maracas rattle. Ergonomically shaped for small hands, it produces a gentle, soothing sound that encourages auditory tracking, motor coordination, and sensory discovery.
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Wooden Toy Trumpet - Sensory Wind Instrument for Kids
£4.99This wooden toy trumpet is a first wind instrument for children aged 3 and up. At 11 cm long and just 25 g, it sits easily in a small hand: your child puts it to their lips, blows, and the sound comes straight away. Nothing to learn first, just breath and a bright note.
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Pastel Collection Wooden Baby Maracas Rattle
£4.99This elegant wooden baby maracas rattle from our Pastel Collection introduces infants from 6 months to gentle percussion sounds, sensory tracking, and grasping coordination.
Finished in soft Scandinavian pastel tones with charming unicorn and dragon motifs, delivering a soothing, mellow acoustic rhythm.
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Wooden Slide Flute Toy
£4.99Create swooping acoustic melodies with this delightfully simple Wooden Slide Flute. As children blow into the mouthpiece and push or pull the smooth wooden slide, they produce expressive gliding pitch variations from low to high notes!
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Wooden Handheld Castanet - Rhythmic Clapper Toy
£4.99Make lively click-clack rhythms with this smooth wooden handheld castanet! Sized comfortably for little palms, it produces a clear, resonant percussion sound with every squeeze, strengthening hand grip muscles and rhythmic timing.
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Children's Wooden Sea Animal Castanets
£5.99These charming marine-themed wooden castanets introduce children from 3 years to the joy of rhythm, clapping cadences, and finger motor control.
Styled with delightful sea creatures (whale, dolphin, sea turtle), each castanet delivers a satisfying wooden click with every squeeze.
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Wooden Guiro Percussion Instrument
£5.99Of all the percussion instruments, guiro rasps make a lovely first choice for children aged 3 and up. Your child holds the hollow body in one hand and draws the scraper stick down the ridges: a slow stroke gives separate clicks, a quick one a rolling rasp. At 16.5 cm and 50 g, it sits comfortably in a small hand.
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Wooden Egg Shaker Maracas - Sensory Rattle Toy
£6.99Sculpted from smooth natural wood to fit snuggly into a toddler's palm, this wooden egg shaker maracas produces a gentle, soothing percussion sound. An ideal first instrument for rhythm exploration, sensory play, and fine motor grip.
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Solid Wood Claves - Pair of Rhythm Sticks
£6.99Introduce early musical appreciation and rhythmic coordination with this pair of solid wooden claves. Sized comfortably for young hands, they produce a bright, resonant acoustic click that encourages tempo awareness.
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Musical Triangle with Wooden Striker
£7.99This triangle musical instrument is made for children aged 3 and up: they hold it by its loop, tap a side with the wooden striker and listen to the clear note ring on. One small gesture, one sound that lasts, which makes it a lovely first percussion piece.
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Wooden Recorder Flute - Children's First Musical Instrument
£7.99This wooden flute is a simple 20 cm recorder for children aged 5 and up, with tone holes to cover and uncover as they find high and low notes. At 45 g it is light enough to slip into a school bag, and you can pick a coloured or a natural wood finish.
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Handcrafted Wooden Musical Maracas
£9.99Introduce gentle rhythm and acoustic delight with these Handcrafted Wooden Musical Maracas. Featuring an ergonomic wooden handle and soft rattle filling, they produce a soothing, warm percussive sound ideal for sensitive toddler ears.
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Carved Wooden Guiro Frog Musical Rasp
£9.99This wooden frog instrument is a carved guiro for children aged 3 and up: draw the stick along the ridges on its back and the frog croaks. Tap the head of this little frog wood carving instead and you hear a dry click. Choose small, medium or large depending on the hands that will play it.
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Montessori Rainbow Xylophone
£23.99This colourful wooden Montessori xylophone introduces young children to cheerful musical sounds, early rhythm, and fine motor dexterity.
Each key of this rainbow xylophone plays its own note when tapped with the wooden mallets, so toddlers link their movement to the sound they hear. A bright first instrument for exploring colours, rhythm and hand-eye coordination.
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Wooden Marching Drum with Drumsticks
£26.99March to the beat of early learning with this sturdy Wooden Marching Drum! Complete with an adjustable neck strap and a pair of balanced wooden drumsticks, it allows toddlers to explore tempo, dynamics, and joyous acoustic rhythm on the move.
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Children's Frog Wooden Toy Guitar - 63 cm
£39.99This splendid 63 cm children's wooden toy guitar features a whimsical cheerful frog motif and genuine tunable nylon strings, allowing young musicians from 3 years to explore authentic sound and rhythm.
Provides a wonderful gateway to bilateral hand coordination, finger plucking, and imaginative performance.
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Montessori Colour Tablets Box - 63 Shades Chromatic Set
£58.99 -20% £47.19This classic Montessori Colour Box 3 contains 63 wooden tablets representing 9 distinct colour families in 7 graduated shades from darkest to lightest. A refined sensorial material that trains visual discrimination and chromatic sensitivity.
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Acoustic Wooden Guitar for Children
£65.99This acoustic wooden kids guitar is made for children aged 5 and up who want to strum like the grown-ups. It has a hollow body and real strings tightened with tuning pegs, so every note rings out properly. Colour sent at random.
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Montessori Musical Discovery Box Set with 12 Percussion Instruments
£136.37Gentle musical discovery at home, inspired by Montessori principles 🎼
"My Montessori Musical Discovery Set" invites young children to explore sound and rhythm naturally. Inspired by Maria Montessori and the Marie Jaëll method, this comprehensive set features 12 wooden percussion instruments and 30 fun musical activities designed to develop fine motor skills, focus, and sensory awareness.
From the xylophone to drums, bells, flutes and shakers, our musical instruments for children run from wooden maracas for newborns to a real acoustic guitar from age 5. Each one makes a real sound and is sized for small hands, so the first concert can start on the living-room rug.
What is a xylophone?
A xylophone is a percussion instrument made of bars of different lengths laid side by side and struck with a mallet: the shorter the bar, the higher the note. Its name comes from the Greek for wood and sound, and wood xylophones still give the warmest, roundest tone. Ours include a rainbow model and a xylophone-glockenspiel for little ones from 18 months, and a large Montessori version from age 3. Unlike drums and other percussion instruments, xylophone bars each give a fixed note, so a child can soon pick out the start of a nursery rhyme.
Shakers and rattles for babies
For the very youngest, wooden baby maracas are suitable from birth, with a pastel version too: shake them gently beside a newborn, and within a few months small fingers close round the handle themselves. From 6 months, the sound shaker egg fits a baby's palm, and a baby soon learns to start and stop the sound on purpose.
Drums, tambourines and percussion from age 3
Around 3, children want to keep a beat. A marching drum with sticks, rhythm claves, a frog guiro to scrape, a triangle and wooden castanets let them march round the room to the drum and freeze the moment it stops. The 8-note handbell set plays a full scale, like the bells kept among classroom Montessori educational toys, so you can ring a simple tune together, one bell each.
Wind and string instruments for older children
A trumpet or slide flute suits ages 3 and up, the harmonica age 4, while the wooden recorder and acoustic guitar wait until 5, when fingers can cover holes and press strings. Before a recorder, check that your child can seal a hole with a fingertip: if every note squeaks, the slide flute is the kinder place to start.