How to choose a musical toy for your child

A trumpet to play like the grown-ups! This colorful wooden trumpet is perfect for introducing children as young as 2 to the joys of music. Easy to hold thanks to its handle designed for little hands, it invites them to discover the connection between breath and sound: simply blow to produce a fun and surprising noise! An excellent way to develop coordination, motor skills, and musical curiosity. With its bright colors and playful design, it transforms every moment into a joyful sonic experiment. This trumpet belongs to the Gioia range, an invitation to musical awakening in a joyful way, allowing toddlers to discover the world of sounds in a playful and collaborative manner. This musical toy is made from FSC™ certified wood. Let the fanfare begin!

A keychain just like the grown-ups' (and even better)! Here's a wooden keychain specially designed for children 18 months and up! With its silicone casing, it's pleasant to handle and perfectly suited to little hands. This clever developmental toy encourages children to imitate grown-ups' actions while developing their fine motor skills and coordination. Children can handle the keys and have fun pressing the buttons to trigger sounds specific to the automotive world. By pressing the red button marked with a padlock, the vehicle unlocks or locks. That's the first step to getting it going! To start the engine, press the pastel blue button marked with a car. And to honk the horn? There's a sky-blue button decorated with a trumpet! But that's not all! A white button with the hazard lights symbol makes a flashing light sound. Enough to awaken the senses and imagination of toddlers! Another advantage of this keychain: the pretty, colorful keys incorporate a pop-it feature—small raised areas that the child can press to feel a gentle "click." This fun and soothing action stimulates touch and contributes to sensory development. This toy is made from FSC™ wood and requires 3 LR44 button cell batteries.

A keychain just like the grown-ups' (and even better)! Here's a wooden tractor keychain specially designed for children 18 months and older! With its silicone casing, it's pleasant to handle and perfectly suited to little hands. This clever developmental toy encourages children to imitate grown-ups' actions while developing their fine motor skills and coordination. Children can manipulate the keys and have fun pressing the buttons to trigger tractor sounds. Pressing the red button with the padlock symbol unlocks or locks the tractor. That's the first step to getting it going! To start the engine, press the blue button. And to honk the horn? There's a white button with a trumpet symbol! But that's not all! In addition to making sounds, this keychain lights up! A yellow button turns on the tractor's headlight. Enough to awaken the senses and imagination of toddlers! Another great feature of this keychain is its pretty, colorful keys, which incorporate a pop-it function: small raised areas that children can press to feel a gentle "click." This fun and soothing action stimulates touch and contributes to sensory development. This toy is made from FSC™ certified wood and requires 3 LR44 button cell batteries.

It's springtime in the baby's room! Cute flowers and animals have gathered on this lovely wooden dexterity game. It will allow your little one, from 18 months old, to develop their fine motor skills while having fun. The Tap Tap Xylo Pure is a 2-in-1 game: a bee hammer to hit the 3 balls that fall, making the xylophone keys jingle. The xylophone itself is removable so it can be played anywhere! Your child will learn about colors by placing each ball in the hole of the correct color. They will awaken their senses, imagine, and create their first stories.

It's a well-known fact that kids love to imitate us when we talk on the phone or use the remote control, so why not give them their own phone to play with? This wooden sound phone is suitable for children aged 18 months and is much more alluring to kids than adults’ smartphones! With its 7 soft plastic buttons that produce different sounds, your child will be able to set an alarm clock, take photos, check messages and spend hours chatting with friends. And because it's important to take good care of belongings, the phone is protected by a removable silicone cover. What stories or big discussions will your child invent today?

Ready for a quick family selfie? You'll have to stop for a moment with your children, who will be able to do as grown-ups do with their new, very realistic camera! This imitation camera made from wood and silicone is ideal for children aged 18 months and over. It's a pretty, early learning toy that has lots of surprises in store for baby photographers! First of all, each time toddlers press the shutter release button, the sound of the shot can be heard, just like a real camera! This will be followed by a flash; something little ones can look out for in their photo shoots! And finally, children can use the kaleidoscope viewfinder to discover all sorts of amazing colours and shapes that will make both young and old laugh. An added extra: the camera is protected by a lovely turquoise removable silicone shell, which also allows children to hold on to their toy better. The camera measures 10.4 x 4.5 x 7.6 cm.

Two adorable swallows ready to dance! This little wooden tambourine will bring music to the hands of toddlers from 18 months old. With its soft colors and practical size, it's perfect for discovering sounds and rhythm from a very young age. You can shake it to hear the cymbals jingle or tap its drumhead to produce a lovely sound. Thanks to its hole on the side, it's easy to hold and manipulate with one hand. Its small size makes it ideal for children's first musical improvisations and helps develop their sense of rhythm. It's sure to turn every moment into a musical celebration! This musical toy is part of our Gioia range, an invitation to joyful musical awakening, allowing toddlers to discover the world of sounds in a playful and collaborative way. Made from FSC™ certified wood. Let the show begin!

Clack, clack… rhythm comes home! This charming wooden accordion-shaped clacker will delight toddlers from 18 months old. To use it, simply hold the two wooden parts and rock them back and forth: the white reeds clink together, producing a crisp, funny sound, like a cheerful little clap! With its bright colors and convenient size, it fits easily in small hands. This musical toy is ideal for developing motor skills and coordination, introducing children to the joys of rhythm, and encouraging them to try their hand at musical improvisation. This clacker is part of the Confetti range, a complete line of musical instrument toys with Pop N' Rock designs! Full of color and joy, Confetti musical toys allow young musicians to discover the joys of musical improvisation. This musical developmental toy is made from FSC™ wood.

This rainstick is so pretty, with its delicate colours and spring-themed illustrations. It’s a great way to develop babies’ musical ears. The rainstick will also help to develop their observation skills, since the beads inside the stick are visible through the transparent window. When baby turns the stick over, beads in 3 different colours will fall down through the tube via the 5 wooden propellers, which themselves have 2 different shapes. The resulting rain sound is very pleasant to listen to. Its ergonomic design and small size (length 17 cm) means it’s easy for even little hands to hold. Suitable for children aged 6 months and over.

Drum away baby! Discover our wooden baby drum that’s suitable for budding musicians aged 18 months and up. This musical toy will introduce your child to the joys of music and promote their sound awareness. This wooden drum can easily be grasped, even by little ones. Pick up the drumstick and prepare to make sounds resonate. Thanks to this early-learning musical toy, little ones can explore the world of music and develop their sense of rhythm! Its key to introduce babies to a variety of sounds from a very early age. This will help with their development, whilst also keeping them entertained! And if there's one thing your child is bound to master at around 18 months, it's drumming and banging their toys. It is in these moments that they understand the cause and effect relationship. By gifting them a toy musical instrument, you are reinforcing this learning, whilst introducing them to sounds! This little drum measures 15.5 cm in diameter and also features all-over beautiful illustrations: the adventures of a young elephant. Offer this early-years toy to baby and narrate this story, show them how to make music and give them room to experiment! Little ones will be surprised by the soft sounds this wooden drum can produce. This toy musical instrument is part of our Gioia range; a joyful musical awakening is in store for little ones as they discover many a sound in a fun, sharing-focused way. FSC™-certified wooden toy.

This beautiful multi-activity push-along trolley is great for helping children learn to walk. It’s suitable for children aged 12 months and over, and comes with an invisible, removable brake that allows you to stop and release the wheels as required, so you can control the speed of the trolley as your child learns. As well as helping your child get on their feet, the trolley also gives your child 9 different ways to test their motor skills and dexterity: an abacus, a shape box, a maze, gears, a rotary switch with built-in sound, a “scratchy” button, a magnifying rotary mirror, a drum, and metal xylophone to develop their musical ear. And with its felt mat to reduce the noise of falling blocks and its silent wheels, our designers really have thought of everything! Given all that and its trendy design, you and baby are bound to love it! We love this early-years trolley’s natural wood and the white and grey colour scheme, which is accentuated by the splashes of colour that come with the nine different activities! The Sweet Cocoon collection features toys for infants with soft colours and rounded shapes, providing a wide range of fun activities that will keep babies and toddlers entertained for hours!

A box of toys designed for babies aged 12 months and up: it’s the Janod Box! Our play set – specifically designed to stimulate the senses – contains 4 fun early-learning toys.

• The first is a wooden frog shape-sorter with its 3 colourful babies: each of the slot-in shapes provides a different sensory activity (mirror effect and coloured filters) and a distinct colour to help your child solve their first shape-sorting toy. For an even richer sensory experience, 3 different-textured fabrics are also included. Hide them in the shape-sorting box and let baby grab them by reaching inside!
• The second is a 3-part round pond-themed pyramid with 2 wooden duck figurines: ideal for stimulating fine motor skills and encouraging interactions with baby!
• The box also includes a cloud-shaped wooden rain stick which is sure to arouse your toddler's curiosity: its rounded shape is perfect for holding and the small coloured beads are fascinating to look at.
• Last but not least, there’s the adorable wooden puzzle: it comprises 3 pieces that can easily be grasped by their pegs and will prompt baby to discover the pond inhabitants who like hiding beneath the multi-sized water lilies.

At 1 years of age, babies will discover the world and love to experiment. We have therefore worked closely with a psychomotor specialist to offer a box filled with early-years toys that go hand in hand with the developmental pace of your little one. As a result, these durable wooden toys are sure to stimulate their sight, hearing, vocabulary and fine motor skills: structured development is key! The detailed booklet found inside the Janod Box will help you ensure your little one makes the most of these early-learning games. This box is part of our collection of 4 age-specific boxes of toys, which bolster the early-learning discoveries of children aged 12 to 36 months, thanks to the high-quality games, adapted specifically to their skill level. FSC™-certified wooden and cardboard toys.