Oval Xylophone

This is an entirely wooden, mallet-struck instrument: there is no electronics, no speaker and no battery compartment, so button-cell and battery-door requirements do not arise. Independent reviewers who bought and played it report that the wooden keys produce soft, somewhat muted tones that are far less jarring than a metal xylophone, and the sound is quiet enough that an owner's complaint is that it does not make enough sound rather than too much.

ASTM (USA) and EN71 (Europe) are named for this xylophone, and an ASTM test report and an EN71 test report are published against this specific item rather than only at brand level.

The toy is made from preservative-free reclaimed rubberwood, treated by kiln-drying rather than chemicals, coloured with organic pigments and water-based dyes, sealed with a water-based lacquer and assembled with formaldehyde-free E-Zero adhesive; PlanToys states it poses no hazard if a child mouths it and that it is Proposition 65 compliant. One parent independently sent PlanToys rubberwood to a laboratory and it came back free of additives, matching the company's account. That test covered the wood; the painted key surfaces were not part of it, and the paint is acknowledged to fade if chewed.

Independent reviewers who bought and used this xylophone found it well constructed — five keys strung on a strong flexible cord over a sturdy oval base with a built-in handle, light enough that grabbing fingers are not hurt — and they confirm the limitation PlanToys states itself: the wooden keys sound soft and muddy and are not accurately tuned, so it works as a tone explorer rather than an instrument for playing melodies. One reviewer notes its play value tails off after about a year, and an owner said the same.

Independent GIC lab testing in March 2021 graded this xylophone for 12 months and up under the CPSC age-determination guidelines, matching the brand's own label, and passed it on the ASTM F963 small-parts, sharp-edge and sharp-point tests for that age, so no small-parts warning is required. A toy-safety watchdog listed it in 2017 over the slender 9.5-inch mallet handle, a shape no toy-safety standard limits, and one retailer sells it as 3 years and up.

We queried the full CPSC recall corpus (9,944 records covering 1973 to August 2026) and found a single PlanToys entry: a 2017 recall of about 500 baby gyms whose side rope crossbars posed a strangulation risk, remedied with a free replacement gym and with no injuries reported. That record sits in a different product category from this xylophone, and no other recall or violation is filed against the brand.

PlanToys asserts ASTM (USA) and EN71 (Europe) safety-standard compliance for this xylophone and publishes an ASTM test report and an EN71 test report against the item itself, plus company-level ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001 and SA 8000 certifications and a Proposition 65 compliance statement. No certificate or report numbers, testing-laboratory names or issue dates are printed alongside those claims, and the company states plainly that it is not FSC certified because it uses reclaimed plantation rubberwood rather than forest wood.

The material build is disclosed component by component — reclaimed rubberwood treated by kiln-drying rather than chemicals, formaldehyde-free E-Zero adhesive, organic pigments, water-based dyes and a water-based lacquer — with the country of manufacture stated as Thailand. PlanToys sells replacement parts for missing, broken or defective pieces and runs a toy repair clinic. A warranty length is not published.