The best toys for 4 and 5-year-old boys and girls
What are the best toys for 4 and 5-year-old boys and girls?
These children like to invent complex and dramatic make-believe scenarios. They can build upon each other’s play themes, create and coordinate several roles in an elaborate scenario, and better understand story lines.
Many of these children still have difficulty understanding the differences between fantasy and reality. For example, children of this age may believe that monsters are real. They enjoy stepping into roles of power, like a parent, doctor, policeman, lion, or superhero, which helps them to better understand these roles, to make them less scary, or to fulfill wishes and express a broad range of emotions. Gentle television characters begin to lose their popularity as superheroes and other more action-oriented characters begin to replace them.Toys that are based on popular programs let children share roles with other viewers of the same program to create a ready-made play script.
They begin to desire objects with more realistic detail, yet they still are not very concerned about mirroring reality. They enjoy frequent trips outside to run, climb, hop, skip, and chase. They are learning to ride small bicycles, first with and then without training wheels. They are much more able to cut with scissors, paste, trace, draw, color, and string beads than 3-year-old. They also have enough dexterity and coordination to start using a computer keyboard.
What great ideas 🙂 I am always running around trying to figure out what to get my niece and now I now I will make her a little Dr coat and buy a kit for Christmas.
Hi Tammy,
Thanks for your feedback. I know , it’s really hard to find a perfect gift for our little ones. wow those will make your niece very happy. I’m so glad my post was helpful.
Ok, this may sound redundant (related to the comment/question I left you in another one of your articles), but what Christmas Gift suggestions could you share with me pertaining to a 4 year old girl who’s emphatic about “PRINCESSES?”
Do you have a specific site or link to product ideas that you could share or point me to?
Thank you in advance!
All The Best,
Jeremy David Wilson
Hi Jeremy,
Absolutely, as I said in the other post I will make a post about it. The “princess” theme is actually one of the things I love about the product I’m going to share. I know how much happy she will be, no doubt. Thanks for asking. I will contact you as soon as I finish with the post.
Cheers
Where can /I buy the toys? I know Tha I use to get a lot of stuff from amazon. but never kids toys. do you know if I can go to amazon and have them deliver stuff to me? I’m not sure what he would like and I want to look at some ads first but going to a store with him is a nightmare
What do you suggest?
Hi Mike,
I haven’t yet made a list of toys for this age group but if you have a specific product in mind you can give me some information, and I look around to see what I can find for you. Amazon also delivers to your house.
Let me know if you want me to look for it,
Cheers
When I was fie I was huge into ninja turtles. I wanted to be one I think. I had a costume and a sword and would just always practice ninja stuff. its funny later in life, my interest were still the same. I love martial arts and ninja are cool. also, I have turtle but no mutation so lol.
What are the kids into to day? as in ninja turtles was very popular when I was young and I’m sure this played a role.
Hi Jim,
To be honest, I listened to the theme song of TMNT on repeat for like an hour. It brought many memories so thanks for reminding me of it(Michaelangelo is a party dude :))) ). The cover of their VHS was the first picture I painted. Ninja custom might forever be cool thing.
As far as I know, SpongeBob, adventure time and actually ninja turtle as well are hot these days.
Thanks for asking, it was great to remember my childhood heroes.
Cheers