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Great ideas all!! Forgot about board games, I was going to hunt a few down and forgot about it, she's got a scooter from my mum /santa, and is not really a girly girl but in between really - will play Lego and trains with JJ but also get her dolls and Barbies out so you would think it would be easy! Going to look at the pogo stick too - looks like something both would enjoy!!!
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From santa, a new bike. From us a boogie board, snorkel and flippers. From others, a globe of the world, skipping rpe, elastics, cookbook, Hairdresser doll head, clothes and books.
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Ooooh globe is something I have been wanting to get them both! yay thanks Nai!
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Barbie all the way for my little miss 4 1/2! But we also got her some dress ups, a craft box (with glitter, stickers, coloured paper, scissors ect...), story books about things she loves or what is happening in her life (we got a book about going to pre school, one about dancing and a barbie story), some activity books with NSW cursive writing in it (sheis learning to write and LOVES to write at the moment), some playdough and playdough tools (roller, cutters, ect...).
Big thing we got for all of them is a swing set.
How about some outdoorsy stuff, like a soccer goal thingy, or those tennis sets with the ball on a string, a mini tramp, sand pit, water play table, slip n slide, subby house. OR some kitchen-ish stuff, like pots and pans, maybe a kitchen if she doesn't have one? Even if she doesn't kitchen stuff with playdough goes down well at our house! My DD loves it!! Or a dolls house with little dolls/people. Educational stuff like leapfrog or vtech computer-ish things.
HTH, and Good luck!
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What is the hairdresser doll head, Nai? DD would love that! (Presently she gets DH in the bath whenever she can and he is made to sit there for an hour while does his hair)
Haven't worked out what is from Santa and what is from us yet, but DD1 (just turned 4) is getting a Barbue cd player - very pink! lol Some more Grug books, a few other books, come colouring books, a new dress, a frisbee and some little toy animals, a Leap Pad if I can hunt one down, and a Dora hopalong bouncy thing (the balls with the handles you sit on and bounce around on); a Disney princess watch, a worm farm. Will probably get her some bubble bath and hair clips too.
We tend to give her a fair bit at Christmas, so far my brother and sister have been beyond slack sending her gifts from Melbourne at birthday or Christmas (as in, couldn't be arsed even sending a card) and MIL didn't even send her a birthday card from NZ this year either. She has spoken to BIL and said she is going to give us money to buy something for her ourselves (not impressed with that at all). We have a friend coming to stay for Christmas so he is getting her a Dora doll of some description I think.
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Like you Limey, i give DD more than i would if she had relatives that gave her pressies (cos that doesn't happen), so i try to make up for that.
i got her a mermaid pop up style book at the book depository, and a cd of the songs from The Gruffalo's Child, cos she loves those songs. I'm making her a felt matchbox dolly house (miniature, to wear like a necklace). She's getting a renovated wooden doll's cradle from me (hope she's not too old for that but this is the first chance i've had to get her one, after wanting to get her one since she was two), and a pre-loved bike with pedals from her dad.
other ideas (cos her birthday was so recent)
lipstick - i got her lip balm, she is thrilled with her "lipstick"
mermaid cloth dolly
the best open ended toys she has, seem to be the playcloths i made out of metres of muslin, and dyed them. i was so sus, that she would find them boring, but she finds endless ways of playing with them.
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