Forget the average, flat-to-the-ground toy keyboard – your kids can be Schroeder from Peanuts with the Deluxe Grand Piano from Hape. This mini piano is part of a series of designs from Hape, which include mini black and pink baby grands and a mini red upright piano. However, looks-wise, the Deluxe Grand Piano in white takes it that extra bougie level.

Complete with a matching stool, this wooden toy is made beautifully to give it a stylised Grand Paino shape. It isn’t just a toy, either – this is a functional keyboard, with 30 keys that are helpfully labeled in coloured stickers to help your children learn their notes. The piano even comes with simplified sheet music – rows of notes written in colour-coded circles that match the stickers above the keys – to get them started on playing tunes. They will have to re-learn sheet music later down the line, but this is a great way to get them engaging with the concept whilst at a young age.

This ‘piano’ is teeny-tiny, made to be suitable for your little’uns, but they will quickly outgrow it. It is even more quickly outgrown than a traditional, flat toy keyboard, because this piano requires you to sit at it. It is recommended for 3+ years, but you only have a few years until your kids are too big, and ready to move on to a real piano. This is a good thing, in a way, getting them used to ‘their own’ piano of accessible size and resistance whilst they are too small to use a regular one, but like most kid’s toys, it doesn’t have a long shelf life.

However, that’s par for the course, and this piano definitely looks fantastic, and it teaches kids to go towards and enjoy a piano in a way that allows them to actually play it successfully, which could set them up brilliantly for learning music in the future.

www.hape.com/
£119.99

Pros:
Cute design
Well made
Helpful labels on keys
Accessible size and weight for kids to play
Accompanying ‘sheet music’

Cons:
Will be outgrown quickly
Has fewer functions than a traditional electronic keyboard