What is your 4-6 yr old girl getting??! I need ideas!!

Mine's nearly 6 but I'll share anyway..

a couple of lego games. She also loves lego and board games so I thought she'd enjoy these.
Junior cluedo and scrabble (but she is that bit older)
a jewellery box
a National Geographic junior explorer set - she's obsessed with DHs binoculars
books
a Leap Pad explorer - exxie but that means my mum and MIL can get her games :D
a couple of make your own lead light thingos for the windows
a cool retro pink tshirt with sneakers on the front from Oh Deer Me

she did ask me for a sewing machine (like mine) but I think I might upgrade mine and hand mine down to her, and a bike but that will be a birthday pressie i think.

The baby is going to get the kids a kids camera from **** Smith each when it arrives. They have a Barbie one.

We've bought DD the fairy series of books. She's quite a good reader, but these will extend her. Usually she gets something practical/significant, but this year I'm already working on the little sister she's been begging for!

Hun check out handmade rainbows on FB for play sets, there all home/hand made, they also live very close to you!! I've bought 4 sets from them recently

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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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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 :rofl:)

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.

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.

Like, you can get those doll heads in Kmart and target. There is a Barbie one that doesn't look scary. I saw a generic one that looked scary/evil! I think that is what my aunt is getting dd.

Thanks for reminding me about bubble bath! Dd has been eyeing some off in target that I might get today.

My dd has been asking for a cupcake maker as well. But I think we might do that for her birthday which is in feb.

From other ppl DD is getting cooking sets (Masterchef), swimmers, a baby doll and clothes, dresses, Santa is bringing her a walking, talking Pinkie Pie pony (she requested) and pens, smiggle case, skipping rope, dominoes, hair clips in her stocking, an outdoor table and chair setting, and a few other things from friends and relatives.

DD1 and DD2 7.5yr and 5.5yrs are getting target kids digital cameras. $20 each.

Lime, the doll head was from an educational online catalogue - Parents Direct I think. But I have seen them in Big W and Kmart I think. It is basically a head with hair on it and comes with combs, clips etc to do diferent hairstyles. Some also come with makeup.