Musical educational toys: the five great advantages that contribute to children's development

Music is fundamental in the lives of children, because it contributes to their brain development and gives them multiple multiple benefits, helping to improve their concentration and body expression, favoring speech learning, stimulating their imagination and creativity, and developing their intelligence.

An excellent way to incorporate music into children's lives is through the use of musical educational toys or toy instruments. We give you some keys to succeed with your choice and we tell you everything they can contribute.

Use of musical educational toys: all are advantages!

Surely you know all the benefits that music brings in the development of children. Perhaps this will lead you to put music to your baby on the iPad or resort to electronic toys with various melodies and sounds.

However, these types of strategies do not encourage such important aspects as creativity or psychomotor skills. Instead, through musical educational toys, Children can create their own music from feeling and imagination, with nothing or anyone to direct or guide them in their activity.

Among the advantages that provide this type of toys include:

  • Curiosity and creativity

Many of the toys that children have reproduce endless melodies, sounds and songs with the press of a button.

However, with musical toys, the children will soon learn that what they have in hand needs them to play musical notes or sounds, either by percussion, wind or strings. And as your creativity and curiosity increase, the sounds reproduced will form more complex melodies.

  • Contributes to language acquisition

Sound stimuli are key to learning the baby's speech, and that is that language, like music, has strong rhythmic patterns. Thus, listening to the different sounds that musical instruments reproduce, children will also learn to distinguish rhyming from syllables, favoring language development.

  • Promotes artistic expression

All children carry within themselves an artist, and depending on the education and stimuli they receive in their first years of life, the artist will emerge or not. That is why it is so important that the child experiments with various artistic disciplines from an early age (among them, music), in order to provide you with the tools you need to express your emotions and feelings.

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  • Promotes relationships with others

And given that through music the child finds the possibility of improving the expression of his emotions, this will also help him improve his relationships with others. Not surprisingly, music is said to be the "universal language."

  • It helps develop motor skills and coordination

In general, music helps the motor development of children, as it improves coordination, balance and reaction to stimuli that come from abroad.

But also, musical educational toys involve a constant exercise in psychomotor skills, since the child must move arms, hands and fingers to create sounds, also improving his eye-manual coordination and body expression.

What educational musical toys can I offer my child?

When choosing an educational musical toy we must take into account the child's age and its development phase, since there are toys or instruments that may require greater coordination and skill when playing music, so they would be indicated for somewhat older children.

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Among those recommended, they would highlight:

  • Percussion musical toys, such as drums, bongos, Chinese box, xylophones, tambourines, castanets, triangles or cymbals.

Most of these types of educational toys are made of wood and specially designed for the little ones, because it does not require strength to reproduce sounds, the child feels motivated to discover them.

Touching them involves a constant exercise of psychomotor skills, and a fantastic way to express emotions and develop concentration.

  • Wind musical toys, like the flute, the harmonica or the trumpet.

They are perfect for preschoolers, since they require some skill to reproduce sounds, which babies or very young children may not have reached.

Its size is very manageable and, unlike the previous ones, they offer children greater possibilities when creating melodies. Wind musical instruments help the child control his breathing.

  • String musical toys, such as the guitar, ukulele or keyboard.

On many occasions, parents offer their children guitars, ukuleles or toy keyboards, as a previous step to buy them the real instrument. String musical toys allow the child an infinite variety of combinations of sounds, maximizing their ability to create, promoting their psychotricity and body expression.

Let's offer our children musical instruments from an early age; They are all advantages, and may even help us discover a little genius that until then we did not know.