Daniel Tiger — Raheel Yawar

The instrument wall: bongos, a djembe, a timpani and a tambourine on the left, an acoustic guitar in the middle and an electric keyboard on the right, hung on blue panelling above a wooden floor, with Daniel Tiger in his red hoodie looking on from the corner — Picking an instrument.

The mode picker for the keyboard: a plain keyboard in a rounded panel on the left, and on the right Daniel holding a keyboard with one paw raised, surrounded by music notes and splashes of colour — Free play or Simon says.

The keyboard filling the screen under a spotlight, its five white keys tinted yellow, blue, green, orange and pink, with a back button and a help button in the bottom corners — The keyboard.

The guitar close up: five coloured strings in pink, red, green, yellow and blue stretched across a wooden fretboard — The guitar.

The drum kit laid out under a spotlight: a blue djembe and a green djembe, a tambourine above them, a pair of bongos and a purple timpani — The drums.

A music toy built at Flying Sheep Studios for Daniel Tiger, shipped inside the Toggolino app. You take an instrument off the wall — drums, guitar or keyboard — and then choose between playing freely and a round of Simon says. Each instrument has five colour-coded notes, and in Simon says the phrase grows a note at a time from three up to five, keeping what came before rather than starting over.

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