This Year's Hot Toy in the Classroom

I bought a roll up piano toy on e-Bay over the summer. When school started in the fall the student I had in mind when I bought it was no longer in my class, luckily one of my new students loves it as much as he would have and another student has started to take an interest in it as well. Everyone's favorite part is the "demo" feature which plays a variety of well known tunes. Our piano is made of silicon, but I would imagine some contain latex, you might want to ask before you purchase if that is an issue.

Yada Yada Yada

I came across this little device, the Yada Yada Yada, in the toy aisle of my local Walgreen's drug store. It is a very cool toy that records a 15 second message and plays it back with or without voice warp. Even cooler is the "lock" feature that disables the "say" (record) button and warp dial. One cool thing about the warp feature is that is you dial to the right it makes the recording faster and higher pitched, which sounds more childlike. Dial to the left and you get a lower pitched and slower play back, not effective enough to make my very girlish voice sound masculine though.

The Yada Yada Yada Voice Recorder cost me $8.99. I bought the last two. Look for them in toy aisles in any store. If you can't find them their are many on sale at Ebay, but for a few dollars more, plus shipping.

It is made by Big Time Toys of Tenessee. Their USA vendors are Walmart, Walgreens, Toys R Us, Kmart, Target, Meijer, KB Toys, Bed Bath and Beyond, BJs, ShopCo, and Rite Aid. I tried the Walmart, Walgreens and Target website and could not find this online. So if you want to order it you will have to go with Ebay, I guess.