Pop! Pop! Piano

Pop! Pop! Piano -Jumping, popping musical stars!

Pop! Pop! Piano is a simple to use, color-coded musical toy. There are six colored tubes, six stars of matching colors and six keys to push with the same six colors. You can see the stars in the image above. These stars are not printed on the clear plastic, as it may appear. This is just their way of showing you that the stars will jump up and over when you hit a key. Everything is self-contained and the unit cannot be opened without breaking it.

Shake the piano so that the stars are mixed up and land back into the tubes.
Press the key with a specific color and if there is a star in that tube it will jump up and out. It may fall back into the same tube or it may fly to the side. The plastic is curved around the tubes, front and back, so the stars cannot jump to the back or front of the tubes, just above or sideways. 

If the star color does not match the tube color, your job will be to remove the star in the tube and get the correct star (of the same color) into the tube. This is fairly easy for an adult, so well-doable. If two stars land in a tube, grade the pressure as you push so that only one jumps out (unless you want both of them to jump out, then push the key a little harder). The keys are very easy to push down.

Now the piano part - You can turn it on and hear a note play each time you hit a key, or you can leave it off for no music. The six notes go up step-wise, just short of an octave. You can play simple tunes that only take six notes or less. For instance, I played Mary Had a Little Lamb, Jingle Bells, Do You Know the Muffin Man and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (the ABC song) on just those six keys.

Takes 3 AA batteries. 

Try this:

• Use index cards and colored markers to "write" out songs for kids to play. For instance you would make the colored circles green, blue, purple, blue, green, green, green for Mary Had a Little Lamb. Make the circles in short lines, from left to right, to help train the eyes for reading. Only show one line at a time on the card if the individual does not know where to start or how to proceed on a busy card.
• Play a song without worrying where the stars fly.
• Turn it upside down so the stars fall out. Tip it right side up and put one star in each tube. How many can you get into the same color tubes?
• Isolate and use different fingers to play each song.
• Work on visual discrimination, colors, spatial relations, position in space, eye-hand coordination, manual dexterity, finger isolation, motor planning, process skills, executive functioning skills, play and leisure exploration and participation  

In the box: One musical unit

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