Zig-Zag Xylo Train

By Patch Products
Price $18.99
Age 18 mo.+

A xylophone that's also a pull-along train, this is classic play at its finest. Zig-Zag Xylo Train elicits exploration and wonder in young children, inspiring the kind of play essential to their physical and mental development. The train cars, with colorful xylophone bars on their backs, start out lined up side by side to form a traditional toy xylophone. But pull on the attached mallet and the xylophone unfolds into a smooth-riding, 17-inch long pull-along train that wends its way wherever your child chooses to take it. It can be played musically regardless of which form it's in. And because the brightly colored train cars are connected in a way that enables them to be turned, angled, and manipulated in numerous ways, there's a simple, almost puzzle-like quality that gets youngsters actively curious. Fascinated by the shapes, colors, sounds, and motion, they wind up checking out everything they can possibly do with this toy. And in doing so they build motor skills, musical ability, experience self-expression, and gain a sense of where they fit into the physical world and its possibilities.