Customer Rating: 
Summary: My Daughter Loves this Drum
Comment: What could be better for a thirteen-month old than a brightly-colored drum you hit with a brightly-colored mallet? From my daughter's point of view, just about nothing.
She really loves everything about this drum. The handles of both the drum itself and the mallet have a soft rubber tip on them, making this toy safer and fun to chew on while recuperating from heavy-duty jam sessions.
The mallet head resembles a cat toy, which is to say it's very light, so any particularly exuberant swings that stray off course won't hurt a hand or head.
Really, this drum is two toys in one: my daughter uses the mallet sans drum to create rhythms on everything from the dishwasher to the (poor, beleaguered) cat. To see her running wildly with the mallet toward a mundane object (a wall, for example) to see what kind of noise she can get out of it is to know that this drum represents money well spent.
And the babysitter has fun with it as well.
The drum is recommended for ages 3 and up but that seems conservative to me. Depending on the strength of your child, you might opt for one of the smaller models.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Value
Comment: We just bought this drum from another site ...! I wish I had found it here first. My son fell in love with this drum at a "school for the gifted" that he visited. They had a class set. What else can I say?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Warning: handle can easily break
Comment: I bought this toy for my daughter last year for Christmas, based largely on the reviews I read here. Less than two weeks after she got it, the handle snapped right off. Now, my daughter is not known for being particularly gentle with her toys, but still I expected a longer life span than that. Yes, it's an attractive, realistic-sounding drum, but potential buyers should know that it can also break easily.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A winner!
Comment: Colorful, fun, and easy on the ears. This drum definitely belongs on our favorite toy list! We also like the fact that it is easy to march with since it only has one mallet and the drum is carried in the other hand. Fun, fun, fun!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Goodbye, pots and pans!
Comment: My 27-month old was outgrowing his small plastic Fisher Price drum and mommy and daddy were going insane listening to him march around banging pot lids. The Lollipop Drum was a great solution. It is very simple but it is one of his favorite toys. The sound is nice and not ear-shattering. Mom and dad like to play on it, too. We bought ours in a toy store and offered him a choice of the Lollipop Drum and a tin drum with two sticks and a neck strap. It was no contest. We're getting another one for a cousin. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Summary: My Daughter Loves this Drum
Comment: What could be better for a thirteen-month old than a brightly-colored drum you hit with a brightly-colored mallet? From my daughter's point of view, just about nothing.
She really loves everything about this drum. The handles of both the drum itself and the mallet have a soft rubber tip on them, making this toy safer and fun to chew on while recuperating from heavy-duty jam sessions.
The mallet head resembles a cat toy, which is to say it's very light, so any particularly exuberant swings that stray off course won't hurt a hand or head.
Really, this drum is two toys in one: my daughter uses the mallet sans drum to create rhythms on everything from the dishwasher to the (poor, beleaguered) cat. To see her running wildly with the mallet toward a mundane object (a wall, for example) to see what kind of noise she can get out of it is to know that this drum represents money well spent.
And the babysitter has fun with it as well.
The drum is recommended for ages 3 and up but that seems conservative to me. Depending on the strength of your child, you might opt for one of the smaller models.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Value
Comment: We just bought this drum from another site ...! I wish I had found it here first. My son fell in love with this drum at a "school for the gifted" that he visited. They had a class set. What else can I say?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Warning: handle can easily break
Comment: I bought this toy for my daughter last year for Christmas, based largely on the reviews I read here. Less than two weeks after she got it, the handle snapped right off. Now, my daughter is not known for being particularly gentle with her toys, but still I expected a longer life span than that. Yes, it's an attractive, realistic-sounding drum, but potential buyers should know that it can also break easily.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A winner!
Comment: Colorful, fun, and easy on the ears. This drum definitely belongs on our favorite toy list! We also like the fact that it is easy to march with since it only has one mallet and the drum is carried in the other hand. Fun, fun, fun!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Goodbye, pots and pans!
Comment: My 27-month old was outgrowing his small plastic Fisher Price drum and mommy and daddy were going insane listening to him march around banging pot lids. The Lollipop Drum was a great solution. It is very simple but it is one of his favorite toys. The sound is nice and not ear-shattering. Mom and dad like to play on it, too. We bought ours in a toy store and offered him a choice of the Lollipop Drum and a tin drum with two sticks and a neck strap. It was no contest. We're getting another one for a cousin. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!