Nursery World - Funky does IT

Funky Footprints and Funky Keyboard are two new products that create sound effects and 'music' by pressing a series of pads. Funky footprints is designed for children from 12 months old. It uses sounds and flashing lights to reward a toddler's first steps. Each of the 12 footprints plays a different sound and triggers a light effect if stepped on.

Funky footprints is designed for children from 12 months old. It uses sounds and flashing lights to reward a toddler's first steps. Each of the 12 footprints plays a different sound and triggers a light effect if stepped on.

The Funky Keyboard, designed for children aged three years old and over, has many more options. Eight hand-shaped musical pads, arranged much like a keyboard, play different sounds, each getting progressively higher as you move from left to right. Children can program the pads to play traditional piano sounds, bell sounds, 'meowing' cats, 'quacking' ducks or 'woofing'

dogs. Children can explore the keyboard in free play mode by pressing their hands or feet down on the pads to create sounds. This mode could be used to copy sound patterns, for counting games or in some interactive story telling.

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