I am most unmusical person you'll ever meet but DD....

[dilemma456]

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I would just let her enjoy it all for the moment.

Perhaps buy her percussion type stuff - tambourine etc.

do you have a piano?
Could you invest in one?

She is too young to learn yet but she may well start playing around on it and when she is 6 ish she can have lessons

I am totally unmusical and I have 3 very musical kids!!

Oh how strange - that was the song I used to play on my toy piano at the same age. I think I started lessons a bit older though, maybe 4 or 5. Learnt to read music as I was learning to read and it wasn't hard or stressful at all. That did come into it later though as I hated competitions, performing for an audience and the pressure to apply to a specialist music school but you can always avoid all that and just let her enjoy herself

she's lucky to have you - many kids have musical mums pushing our own frustrated musical ambitions on to them!
let her lead the way.
You can get a cheap child's guitar for £30. Ask her dad to tune it to an open tuning - this means that it will sound tuneful even if she is just touching the strings without putting her fingers down on the fingerboard.

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you don't sound pushy at all. relax and enjoy her!

Agree with Beety, let her enjoy playing with instruments but don't even think about proper lessons, she's too little.

We're lucky to live near a music centre that offers lots of things but particularly Ragamuffins classes on a Saturday morning. They don't 'learn' an instrument, it's all play, but they do bash a few bongos, hit triangles, etc. etc. etc. And without pushing anything, they help children discover rhythm, fast/slow, loud/quiet.

I think ds was about three when they started talking about Quinny Quaver and Chrissy Crotchet (I know it sounds vile but this is age-appropriate). A very clever 'curriculum' that allows them to explore music for fun but in a way that will prepare them for learning an instrument when they are older.

Google Monkey Music or Ragamuffins and see if there are any classes near you on a Saturday. Ds loves it! (And I am not musical at all, fell into it because took ds along to a toddler sing a long, hadn't realised it was actually leading to anything.)

Btw, ds is now five and apparently yesterday they were all playing with violins. I asked him if he'd plucked the strings and he said no, they'd used a bow, and did a pretty good impression of someone actually playing. I'm sure the noise must have been appalling but he did enjoy it!

He did a summer workshop and they let the children try out the cornet and a children's clarinet, designed for little fingers.

I started violin lessons when I was 4 because I begged my mum for them after hearing a girl play on the radio. We were NOT a musical family. The lessons weren't high pressure or anything. They were with the 'Suzuki method', in a class of around 5 children, and I LOVED the lessons.

Sadly, when the teacher moved away I switched to the more normal one-to-one lessons and hated it and gave up...

I think Suzuki also do guitar teaching. You could probably find them on the internet.