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Little Hands Basket - 15 Instruments

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EY -KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4 SEN 1+ yrs
Weight: 2.40 (kg), Stock: 30
“A great success, thank you; adults as well as children wanted to use the instruments”-Vicar, Hutton Rudby Church
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Description

 

A fabulous collection of 15 tactile musical instruments specially designed for Early Years settings, whether at home or in the Nursery. Some of the instruments are based on established full size favourites – for example the pingpong, bento and pangi shakers, the lightweight animal clacker – others are completely new: the fabulous multi-functional “drumscrapeshaker”, the bamboo mini drum, the bamboo shaker, the beautiful jingle bell, the kenari shaker, the three different sizes of eggs on sticks . . . All of them will delight and stimulate the youngest of young musicians and we think you'll find them hard to resist too. The instruments and basket retail separately for £65 + VAT but the price for the collection is designed to be irresistible - RRP £57 + VAT, Schools £39.90 + VAT. That’s 40% discount for schools! Delivery to mainland UK addresses is approx £8.

 
How it's Played

 

All the instruments are "pick up and play" - they don't really need any instruction.
 
The basket comes complete with a copy of our brilliant “Grown-Up’s Guide”, 16 pages of practical and creative musical activities for developing well-balanced young musicians. The Guide has been written especially for non-musicians ad is in three main sections: Exploring Sounds, Making Music and Using the Instruments to Improve Learning. It covers amongst other topics:
 
Creating Sounds
Sorting Sounds
Talking Sounds
Playing Pictures
Exporing & Building with Rhythms
What Animal is That?
Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales
Echoes
Mixing Rhythms
 
and the final section shows how music and rhythm can tansform other fields of learning, from counting to phonetics, making them easy and fun to learn.
 
 
 
Traditionally

 

Contents:

Squeezer shaker, Drumscrapershaker (multifunction), Mini wind chime, Bamboo mini drum 12cm, Animal Clacker Lightweight, Bamboo mini shaker, Egg on stick 5cm, Egg on stick 7cm, Egg on stick 9cm, Heart shaker, Jingle bell (Gongseng), Pangi mini shaker, Pingpong mini shaker, Kenari rasta mini shaker, Pink music bracelet

 
Depending on stock we may occasionally need to make changes to the above list, but we'll always guarantee quality and value.
 
What it goes well with

 

All of the "Little Hands" instruments sound well played together but you can have fun experimenting with different subsets of sounds. Try starting a rhythm with one instrument and then add new rhythms on top, one by one. Or start by "sorting" the sounds into high, medium, low or hard and soft (how else can you sort sounds - see the activity in the Grown-Up's Guide?) and then try combining sounds using instruments from within one group and compare this with combining sounds from each of the groups. There are so many possibilities and they all produce different results.

 
How it's Made

 

All our instruments, and the baskets, are made in Bali using natural and local materials. Most are made to our designs in local villages where they create a useful source of income for families and a low stress, clean and safe type of work.The jingle bell is from cast bronze and is made using traditional casting methods.
 
The beautiful and sturdy baskets are woven by hand from bamboo fibres and are traditionally used by Balinese artists, musicians and dancers for carrying their costumes and materials.
 

 

 
How to look after it

 

None of the instruments need any special maintenance. Just be careful not to let the basket and contents get damp and don't put it on radiator or anywhere too hot. The instruments are tough but they're still instruments and need to be treated with respect and smaller children should have some supervision.