What does your 6 year old girl play with?

[~Kim~]

Mine is a 'maker'. I've learned to let go of the anxiety that goes with associated mess. Mine pretty much have free reign with craft supplies.
Lego
Barbies (but she is right into pretend)
Lots of outdoor play
She would spend hours at my sewing machine if I let her

Have you asked her what she'd like to be doing?

[Gigi]

my nearly 6 DD is very keen on jigsaws, although i feel i have engineered that to a certain extent. All her life she has lived in small homes, so i've needed to find activities to do, that don't take up much space. I buy jigsaws for her. We do jigsaws together, so it's become a bonding activity i suppose. Now she's happy to do them on her own. She's up to the 100 piece ones, but the clear detail type, not the photographic/heaps of sky/water/snow ones that are too hard for her.

she loves making patterns and sorting, with baskets of pebbles, marbles, shells. She has a collection of play cloths (made from muslin) and i'm amazed how much fun she has with those, engineering her own little cubbies and costumes with them.

her fave thing right now, is to draw, it seems, every waking moment she is not at school. She has the little rectangular Lyra crayons, great for shading and detail. i have found if i provide her with crayons that are easy to use and handle, she becomes very creative.

she likes drawing hopscotch with chalk on footpaths. and rollerskating. and scooters.

so many outdoor forms of play i would love to provide her with, if we lived somewhere different.

[shellbell3]

DD will be 6 in sep, we are huge on craft here too. I have a craft section set up in corner with little kids table then all the stuff, glue, paper etc. If its real messy stuff like glitter or paint then thats an outside craft.

Other stuff she likes, barbies, board games are a big hit too, making cubbies. But craft stuff always is the thing to do around here.