What are you getting your daughter for Christmas?

onlyroz

Person_one wrote: »

If she likes dolls, then I suppose she likes dolls, and that's just as legitimate as liking lego or computers! What about getting some stuff she can incorporate into her playing with dolls, like shop sets, doctor's kits, art materials or kits to make new clothes/blankets/toys for the dolls etc?

I'll probably go along this line - some of the things she has with her toy kitchen are starting to look a bit tired so I can update her toy food and toy cooking equipment. She has a cash register and a trolley but I could probably put together some sort of "shop" for her to put the things in, and then some more things to go with her dolls (and perhaps *one* more doll to add to the family). She's just so different to me - I think there must have been some sort of mix-up at the hospital at times...

VJsmum

Tickets to a show or panto?

When my Dd was around that age we got her a Disney princess dressing up outfit and she wore it to the panto on Boxing Day. She still remembers it now. Warning though, she is now obsessed with theatre and wants to be an actress, it can get expensive. 12 years on my now 17 year old DD is having tickets to Miss Saigon.

POPPYOSCAR

What about an Art easel that folds up?

Ikea have a great one that is a blackboard one side and has a space for a huge roll of paper that you just pull up as you go along.

They also do all the paints etc. to go with it.

Also Moon Dough like play dough but I am told it is better. They do lots of different sets.

Person_one

onlyroz wrote: »

I'll probably go along this line - some of the things she has with her toy kitchen are starting to look a bit tired so I can update her toy food and toy cooking equipment. She has a cash register and a trolley but I could probably put together some sort of "shop" for her to put the things in, and then some more things to go with her dolls (and perhaps *one* more doll to add to the family). She's just so different to me - I think there must have been some sort of mix-up at the hospital at times...

You sound almost disappointed with her.

POPPYOSCAR

VJsmum wrote: »

Tickets to a show or panto?

When my Dd was around that age we got her a Disney princess dressing up outfit and she wore it to the panto on Boxing Day. She still remembers it now. Warning though, she is now obsessed with theatre and wants to be an actress, it can get expensive. 12 years on my now 17 year old DD is having tickets to Miss Saigon.

My 17 year old daughter also wants tickets to the theatre.

Last year, just before christmas, I was lucky enough to win tickets to the Nutcracker Ballet which she had always wanted to go to. Saved me £120.

tesuhoha

How about buying her a keyboard. My children always loved musical gifts and my daughter was into girly stuff. They start reasonably cheap on Amazon. You could always balance it with a My Little Pony gift. My daughter used to adore these. Also badminton/shuttlecock sets are good fun. Magic colouring books, painting by numbers etc

onlyroz

Person_one wrote: »

You sound almost disappointed with her.

I'm not disappointed - I'm just utterley baffled. I'd like to get her things to help make the most of her interests but just don't really know where to start. My son is easy peasy - he's like a small clone of my husband and will happily spend an hour playing with a handful of lego bits, or puzzling out the next level on Lego Harry Potter - but my daughter is much more flighty and won't concentrate on anything for more than 10 minutes or so.

claire16c

I find girls easy to buy for, my nieces are 5 And 4 and i love buying stuff for them.with my nephew I have to call and ask his mum what he likes!

At the moment they both love barbies, so last year I bought one a barbie swimming pool and matching barbie, and the other a barbie zipbin/box and barbie & Barbie DVD.

This year one is getting a barbie car and the other a fairy craft kit.

For Xmas they both also love fairies so I've got them fairy plaster of Paris kits to make fairy magnets with, a 'fairy dust' necklace, barbie sticker book and some hair clips, cost about £15 for everything.

I remember at that age I had a dolls crib I really liked, a pretend market stall, dolls, outfits, barbies.

My sister liked cars so had lots of cars, trucks and road mat.

My niece also likes her play kitchen which I've got her accessories for.

Sylvanian families are cute too.

My nieces are just starting to get into the Friends Lego but a little young to be patient at putting stuff together themselves.

Person ones suggestion of a drs kit is good, me & my friend used to spend hours delivering each other's babies lol!

LannieDuck

Craft stuff? I used to love little kits to make things. You can get allsorts - jewelry, marbelled paper, candle making, sewing projects, card decoration, calligraphy. Pick to suit age and child's interests

I had a stamp set of Egyptian hieroglyphics that I loved.

LannieDuck

claire16c wrote: »

I've got them fairy plaster of Paris kits to make fairy magnets with

I'd forgotten the plaster of Paris kits! I used to love those. You made them and then painted them (and sometimes varnished them too).