Soft guitars

If you're the kind of parent who tuts at the idea of rock stars breaking up their musical instruments onstage, then this is the toy for you - and your kids. The soft guitar comes in all sorts of different models and colours, and you can bump it, jump on it, and swing it round and round without doing any harm.

The only thing your kids probably shouldn't do is emulate Jimi Hendrix and set it on fire, although I'm sure that its makers have to adhere to more safety standards than Fender did when they made Hendrix's Stratocaster. She says, pretending to know her guitars.