What are you getting your daughter for Christmas?

delain

If she likes to dress up dolls and she has a big-ish one they have a kids clothing sale on in Tesco and they had lots of newborn/preemie size clothes inc dresses and such for next to nothing in my store the other day.

Works out much much cheaper than dolls clothes!

Xaniwoop

Orchard toys do lovely board games that are just right for this age. My DDs (4 and 7) love to play them with or without me.

My girls LOVE My Little Pony and are having a palace playset each. My little one is also having one of those styling head things as she's the girlie one.

what about some wooden cakes on a stand or other more unusal play food for her kitchen? Or a play coffee machine or food mixer.

Or more playmobil so she could combine it in imaginative play, there are some amazing sets.

onlyroz

Looks like a trip to Toys R Us might be in order...

Dunroamin

Person_one wrote: »

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

That's all par for the course.

It's also a pretty good marketing trick on the part of the company.

Person_one

Dunroamin wrote: »

It's also a pretty good marketing trick on the part of the company.

Even if you don't buy any of the gizmos though, just the pots, playdoh ends up as grey sludge ground into the carpet regardless.

Unless there's an adult around with a touch of OCD!

Its not a Christmas present OP, but making your own salt dough is just as much fun as playdoh, and you get to paint the stuff you make afterwards.

Dunroamin

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...

How about proper cooking as opposed to pretend?

There's children's cookery classes like these http://www.kiddycook.co.uk/find-a-class and lots of books with easy recipes she could make with a little help.

Do you think she might enjoy growing things, either indoors or outside?

Dunroamin

Person_one wrote: »

Even if you don't buy any of the gizmos though, just the pots, playdoh ends up as grey sludge ground into the carpet regardless.

Unless there's an adult around with a touch of OCD!

Its not a Christmas present OP, but making your own salt dough is just as much fun as playdoh, and you get to paint the stuff you make afterwards.

I just meant that the kits seem to encourage mixing colours which rather speeds up the grey gloop process.

Person_one

Dunroamin wrote: »

I just meant that the kits seem to encourage mixing colours which rather speeds up the grey gloop process.

Yes, I did understand what you meant.

Xaniwoop

I am the above mentioned OCD parent, in fact I can only allow the girsl to mix colours that form another colour (red and yellow etc). I know it's ridiculous but I remember feeling the same way as a child. I simply can't bear the sludgy stuff :eek:

Anyway my solution is to make my own playdough so they have as much as they want but all in one colour. I even put glitter in it and occasionally a drop of lavender oil to make it even more fun.

I figure if it's the worst hang up I pass onto the children I'll have parented successfully :rotfl:

claire16c

I couldn't bear to get my play dough colours mixed up as a child.

And I'd loose the plot if a barbie shoe went missing,

Clearly having tendencies like that must start from a young age :rotfl:

Salt dough is a great idea.