What are you getting your daughter for Christmas?

Person_one

Do 'Get Set' kits still exist?

tea_lover

All these ideas sound great, much better than the rubbish I'll end up with for christmas.

Wonder if 34 is too late to ask for a my little pony and a bracelet making kit??

dizziblonde

I'd probably go along the lines of arty crafty stuff - even if it's nice notepads, pencil cases and disgusting coloured gel pen type stuff depending on the level of mess you can cope with at home. Or play dough kits?

Between the "girlie" and "tomboy" girls most seem to revel in having things like little notepads they take out on the playground at breaktime with glee when I've been in schools.

Could be worse - my mother's bought my 19 month old a mountain of musical instruments for Christmas. I've put ear plugs on my Amazon wishlist.

balletshoes

You say she likes dolls etc, and at the moment she's not got a great attention span. So what? She might still be playing with whatever doll/girlie thing you get her this Christmas/Birthday in 5 years time, going back and forward to it .

My DD was 11 before she stopped playing with her Bratz doll collection (built up from the time she was around 4) and her Littlest Pet Shop ginormous collection (again, she started getting them at around age 4). She has a great imagination and it was used to full effect with both those sets of toys. As she got older, she played with them in a different way, including making mini-movies with them using her tablet and camera etc.

whitewing

A dressing up box with lots of different dressing up kits? Asda had some I think, or you could collate your own.

Also bookpeople books are great.

It does sound a little like you need to appreciate her for the person she is. It's not so much that you don't know what to get her (my DH is much better than I at picking presents for the children), but you do sound disappointed in her as someone else said.

My health visitor pointed out to me that I wasn't spending enough time playing with my daughter. I don't like playing really and I thought she was getting enough from DH, DS and nursery. But she really blossomed when I made the effort, it was such a surprise. (I don't have much of a relationship with my own mum, and was a tomboy; I'd've preferred a boy so much that I almost convinced myself that I was having one. I was alright when she arrived but DH had been very worried).

onlyroz

She does like arty-crafty stuff but has to be supervised at all times, or the colours end up on the walls/floor/clothes. As for play-doh - it's good fun, but the new kits all seem to focus on mixing the colours together, e.g. I saw an icecream kit which pushed all the colours through tubes to make a multi-coloured sundae - which would surely mean that I'd have to keep buying her more dough as it would soon turn into a grey sludge (not to mention ground into my carpets).

She's got some musical instruments, including an electric guitar toy that screehes out ear-splitting riffs at top volume and has been banished to the top of the wardrobe. Thank-you granny for that one...

onlyroz

whitewing wrote: »

It does sound a little like you need to appreciate her for the person she is. It's not so much that you don't know what to get her (my DH is much better than I at picking presents for the children), but you do sound disappointed in her as someone else said.

She is a handful and wears me out. Part of my reason for this thread was a hope that I could find some things to get her that we might enjoy using together - rather than taking the easy way out and using the TV as a babysitter.

claire16c

LannieDuck wrote: »

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).

Me & DH were reminiscing about them the other day!

I had some that were like stand up models.

On amazon they were hard to find but magnet ones were easy to get only cost a few quid and I thought was a good starting kit.

DH wants me to order some for us to make :rotfl:

Person_one

onlyroz wrote: »

She does like arty-crafty stuff but has to be supervised at all times, or the colours end up on the walls/floor/clothes. As for play-doh - it's good fun, but the new kits all seem to focus on mixing the colours together, e.g. I saw an icecream kit which pushed all the colours through tubes to make a multi-coloured sundae - which would surely mean that I'd have to keep buying her more dough as it would soon turn into a grey sludge (not to mention ground into my carpets).

Um, yeah, she's four! :rotfl:

That's all par for the course.

claire16c

onlyroz wrote: »

She is a handful and wears me out. Part of my reason for this thread was a hope that I could find some things to get her that we might enjoy using together - rather than taking the easy way out and using the TV as a babysitter.

Craft stuff will be good for that.

Or board games?

It is hard when they only have a short attention span, my mum was lucky in that respect me & my sister could play with the same thing for ages.

We used to also like just sticking bits of paper, ribbons etc together and making pictures. You could buy scrap booking type stuff for that and coloured paper.