Keyboard Instruments Basket

What you'll need

• A small toy piano or mini electronic keyboard
• A melodica if you have one
• Small colored dot stickers
• A simple song card (three notes is enough)
• Optional: a small stool at the right height

How to make it

1. 1

   Place the keyboard on a low table and set the stool in front.

2. 2

   Stick colored dots on three or four keys — for example, red-yellow-blue.

3. 3

   On the song card, write the same colored dots in the order of a tune (like 'Twinkle Twinkle': red-red-yellow-yellow-blue-blue-yellow).

4. 4

   Show your child how to press the keys in the color order to hear a real song.

5. 5

   Let them invent their own color patterns and 'read' the music they wrote.

6. 6

   For the melodica, breathe into the tube while pressing one key at a time.