I love the Bigjigs wooden toys as they are always good quality and I got the wooden tambourine to go in the music play box at home. The tambourine is made from solid thick wood and there is a space on the side for placing your thumb. Because Bigjigs use such chunky wood, holding the tambourine is very comfortable and doesn't cut into your thumb as I have seen with other ones made of plastic. The design is lovely- it has a real circus feel! The ouside of the wood has been painted in bright, jazzy colours and patterns. There is stripes, polka dots and block colours all designed to make the tambourine eye catching. There are 2 cymbals ...  Read the complete review

When me and my son used to attend the local Salvation army playgroup, there would always be a musical session towards the end of the morning. My son and all the other children, thrived on these sessions. The play leader would place a huge box in the middle of the large circle we had all created. Within this box was a huge quantity of different hand held instruments. One such instrument was this fabulous bigjigs tambourine. It is easily recognisable due to it's wonderful bright and eyecatching design. I remember that due to it's larger size and bright and snazzy apperance all the children would scramble for the few bigjigs tambourine's that were in the music ...  Read the complete review