Raeanna, I'm teaching my daughter right now to play, using a little portable Casio keyboard that she loves. The acoustic piano keys are really too big for her little fingers (she's 5), but the Casio is just right and she loves it.
I taped colored smiley faces on each key (one color per note letter, C for example is yellow in all octaves) and I translate her favorite songs into colored dots written with a felt pen. She loves following the dots to play her songs.
As she gets older I'll probably get her an adult keyboard with weighted keys like a Yamaha P88, which is lightweight, portable, and a good learner keyboard. That way she'll have her own keyboard that she can use for practicing with headphones, and of course she'll always have the acoustic that she can play anytime she wants.
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