Looking for a great children’s gift for this year’s birthday or holiday? How about starting a new tradition: the music basket.

Add to the collection with every celebration: rattlers and shakers are safe for small hands and encourage a baby’s natural love of rhythm; tambourines and small glockenspiels expand a preschooler’s understanding of music and help everyone learn to move and work together.

Quality musical instruments are the perfect way to spark an interest in history, art, and culture. A Rudolph Steiner kinder-harp or a handmade African drum offers great ways to start fun conversations about where the instruments came from and why they were made

Begin building music baskets for all your favorite kids, and start a tradition that will last for generations

Toddler rattlers, shakers, bells, gongs, maracas, harmonica.

Preschool rhythm sticks, small glockenspiels, kazoos, tambourines, small hand drums.

Elementary xylophones, stringed instruments, recorders, kinder-harps, castanets.