Does your five-year-old talk your ears off, or do they never stop complaining about being bored or wanting screen time? Are you looking for toys that will keep them physically and mentally stimulated to catch a break from the iPad? We have all the help you need with that.
Girls at the age of five require toys that will keep them engaged, challenge them, and allow them to feel like mini ladies. Items such as paint sets, barbies, board games, puzzles, and dollhouses are the way to go. They also enjoy sensory and hobby-based toys such as musical instruments.
It can be confusing choosing suitable toys for girls this age because by now they going to school, they can have very mature conversations, and they need much more demanding activities to keep them stimulated. They also have the energy of a fully charged battery and need proper mental and physical stimulation to enhance healthy growth.
Importance of five-year-olds playtime?
With no agenda to it, open-ended play can be highly calming for them (especially after school) and in the evenings. Investing in toys that allow them to fully embrace who they are and spend time doing what they enjoy while being a total kid can be extremely healthy for their brain development and emotional well-being.
Because their minds are always working, they absorb everything, are super curious, and require proper stimulation; even during play, it is vital to get them toys that will keep them curious, challenged, and engaged without being overwhelming.
Here are toy options for five-year-old girls to help you decide what to purchase:
Toys under $25
Barbie Reveal Doll Surprises
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Barbies have been a classic favorite amongst young girls for generations. It is the starting point that gets most girls interested in fashion, makeup, and hairstyles.
Kids love to role-play with barbies. It helps their social skills and brings about an interest in real-life skills. They are easy to carry around on outings and encourage independent play.
This Barbie reveals doll comes with 7 surprises. There are 4 mystery bags inside that contain hairpieces, skirts, shoes, and earrings.
Your kids get more than just a regular barbie doll in this product. The packaging is part of the fun. You open the tube to find a color reveal barbie doll covered in a marble-pink coating. To discover which doll is inside, you fill the tub with warm water, put the doll in, swirl it around, and be surprised.
To change the doll’s look, you add ice-cold water to the tube and be surprised from finding an almost new doll. With these change moments, your child can feel like they have a new doll every day and adds to the fun process of keeping them busy for longer.
Kids love an element of surprise, and this barbie kit offers them just that for a boost in morale and entertainment. It also adds a little bit of a scientific experiment, therefore, sparking your child’s interest and allowing for enhanced imagination.
Tea Party Play Set
Pretend-play is everything to a five-year-old. They want to do everything to act and feel like adults. They want to be involved in adult things and know that they are a part of the adult world.
A tea party set will allow them to bring out their little charm by making, serving, and having tea with caregivers, siblings, friends, or toy dolls.
It will boost their social skills. Additionally, they will have fun role-playing and boosts imagination. It will keep them entertained for hours and allow for interactive and engaging play.
The set comes with 12 pieces, including a fully illustrated storybook (perfect for practicing reading), 9 pieces of the tin tea set, an adorable high-tea-looking pink hat, and a matching little-lady purse. The tin tea set is floral printed and contains 4 cups and 4 sauces – perfect for the next play date (with real or pretend friends).
Other than allowing them to practice reading, the storybook has a delightful rhyming story with illustrations about a little girl who has her first tea party and everything she does to plan and host the perfect event.
LOL Surprise OMG Lights Fashion Doll
If your child loves LOL dolls, she will surely love this upgraded OMG doll from the LOL range. It comes with 1 doll, 5 fashion pieces, 2 doll hangers, 2 doll garment bags, q doll purse, 1 doll glasses, and 2 doll necklaces. There is also 1 doll hatbox, 1 doll shoe box, 1 doll stand, 1 brush, and 2 stickers.
The OMG doll includes a black light that you shine on your fashion doll to reveal a black light surprise. You can reveal a neon glow surprise on the doll’s face and more. The package becomes a reusable play space for your doll to strut her stuff.
Your five-year-old will be able to enjoy all the fashion fun and surprise of a regular LOL doll with the additional black light element in this OMG LOL doll and feel like she has an extra toy.
It is engaging and interactive and will keep your child busy for a long time. They can play independently and gain a boost in confidence and excitement, realizing what they can do with the doll.
Popits Fidget Toys
There are so many uses for these popper poppits. It is the latest craze, but unlike the fidget spinners that came out a few years ago, these are extra fun and way more versatile.
This is a set of 6 with different shapes, including a horse, dinosaur, rainbow, unicorn, and a couple of other fun characters. They are all colorful and different sizes for added experience and entertainment.
At age 5, kids can pick up on sentiments and stressful situations while also having their own. School can be overwhelming, and home situations may be scary, so having a healthy, fun method to fidget can ease their anxiety. This way, they are not biting their nails or hitting their friends.
In addition to using the poppits as a fidget toy, it is exciting to pop the tiny bubbles, make patterns, and race with someone playing together.
That’s not all; you can let your kids get creative in the kitchen with their poppits. They can make molded chocolate, semi-circle jelly balls, and even mini-ice.
We are not done yet. You can take them with you to the beach or put them in your kids’ sandbox or kinetic sand tray, and they can make poppit-shaped sand.
Wooden Solar System Floor Puzzles
Puzzles are an excellent way for kids to learn problem-solving, critical thinking, and logical thinking skills. It also boosts their confidence and self-esteem. It is a way for them to use deep thinking and implant the ability to tackle adult problem-solving skills later in life.
Puzzles are educational in terms of the developmental benefits but also spark creativity and imagination through the pictures. Additionally, they provide extended amounts of genuine, organic, engaging fun without feeling like there is learning involved.
This puzzle is challenging enough to keep a five-year-old interested and simple enough for her to get used to and complete, feeling proud of her accomplishments.
The puzzle is 48-piece astronomy and planetology themed with a guidebook on the topics included. The puzzle, once completed, ends up in a fascinating round shape picturing the space and planets surrounding the earth.
Not only will your child gain the benefits from building and solving puzzles, but it may also spark an interest in astronomy if she doesn’t already love that.
We found an additional simplified puzzle, also space-themed, but a regular rectangle one that is 24 pieces and will be much simpler if your five-year-old is just starting out on big kid puzzles.
Ludo and Snakes & Ladders Wooden Board Games
At the age of five, your kids can be well into enjoying family board games. Ludo and Snakes & Ladders are classic ones and very simple to explain and understand. You can also bend the rules a little bit for your five-year-old as they learn to follow the rules and get used to the game.
Board games like this boost morale and encourages social skills. It teaches indirect math with counting and calculating and can allow kids to experience healthy disappointment if they lose. It teaches fairness, resilience and improves motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
We especially love this set because it is double-sided, so you have two games in one. It uses less space and provides more fun. Both games come with all the accessories needed to play and includes instruction manuals.
Wooden Geometric Tangram Set
You would be surprised at how creative kids can be at the young age of five. Their imaginations are so innocent yet so vast. Tangram is another incredible way to let them dig into those imaginations and expand their creativity.
The set contains 155 well-designed variety-shaped wooden pieces to create different formations and models. There are 24 designed cards they can use to imitate patterns with different levels of difficulty. They can also use their own discretion to create linear pieces of their own.
It is an educational concept without direct education techniques. It teaches and reinforces basic patterns, math concepts, and visual learning. Additionally, it improves hand-eye coordination and spatial reasoning.
The pieces come in a convenient drawstring bag for storage and easy removal and packing for kid’s independent playing.
Marble Paint Craft Kit
Painting is always a good idea for kids. It is creative, imaginative, tactile, and sensory. Kids typically love to paint, and at the age of five, they are able to paint more progressively and create beautiful images and portraits that will blow your mind.
Painting allows kids to experiment with colors, textures and broaden their self-esteem. It is also a terrific method of releasing hidden fears, anxiety and helps with emotional and mental well-being.
Painting can become a fun activity, a lifetime hobby, and possibly a career if your child continues to pursue it.
This paint kit steps away from the mainstream paint sets and offers your child the opportunity to experience painting with marbling paint. They can layer, smear, drag, and transfer it onto paper.
The package comes with a tray, several papers, 6 bottles of dye, 3 baggies of carrageenan, 3 designing needles, 1 measuring spoon, 1 tweezer, 2 pipettes, and 1 comb. There are also instructions details on the package for how to use the paint correctly.
The painting starts in the tray. From there, your kids can make patterns as they like with the tools provided, and then all they have to do is transfer the paintings onto paper. They can enjoy unlimited engaging fun independently or with others.
Toys under $50
Washable Makeup Play Set
Makeup is fun, exciting, colorful, and brings out an artistic side to personalities. Little girls love to role-play with makeup, use it during princess dress-up, and play makeup artist on others.
It is great for interaction between the child and caregivers. It serves as a fun activity for playtime and can be a learning curve in terms of colors, techniques, and facial features.
Playing with makeup allows for pure, organic entertainment and lets your child enjoy pretend-play and artistry.
All the makeup comes in a real cosmetic bag to keep it combined and stored neatly when not in use. The bag can be used for real-life purposes like traveling or stay-overs at grandma’s place.
The makeup is washable and will be cleaned out with plain water, no need for soaps or makeup removers like with adult cosmetics. Using these washable makeup items helps kids stay away from the damage of adult products.
The set contains nail polish which all girls love. It is made of tearable material, and the nail polish can be easily removed after it dries.
In total, the set contains 28 pieces with a variety of products and tools for your little girls to enjoy. Let their imagination run wild and play with color, exploring their creativity and boosting their practical ability and skill development.
Fort Building Kit
Is there any kid who doesn’t love building forts and playing camping? Now you can prevent your entire living room furniture from being rearranged to build a tiny fort by investing in one of these sets for your kids.
It comes with 130 pieces of a variety of sticks and connector balls to build various-shaped fort structures and tunnels. Your kids can throw some sheets over their structures and enjoy the feeling of being in a tent. They can use it indoors or outdoors and never run out of fun.
It helps kids with problem-solving, creativity, imagination, logical thinking, motor skills, and muscle development. It provides mental and physical activity and will keep your children engaged and entertained.
Play-Doh with Crafts Table
Sensory play is essential for expanding imagination and improving creativity. It improves motor and tactile skills and builds muscle development in the hands. Your child can create their own models and formations or use the cutters to cut out specific shapes.
The set comes with a crafting table that has storage in the legs. This allows you to store all the play dough and accessories inside. It’s also convenient that there is a designated surface for the play dough, so you don’t have to worry about your furniture getting damaged.
There are 8 cans of play dough and more than 25 tools and accessories to use during playtime. There is enough to last your child a long time and can help with social skills when playing with other kids or caregivers. Additionally, it encourages independent play and keeps kids engaged for hours.
Toys under $100
Portable Karaoke Machine
The machine system comes with 2 mics, a room-filling light show, a retro light panel, and works via Bluetooth. No CDs are required, and you can YouTube your favorite songs to karaoke or use music from your smartphone and tablet.
There are 10 multi-color LED light modes, 6 sound effects, and 5 voice effects to make the sing station starburst fun for all ages and part themes.
The two microphones allow your child to sing solo or as a duet with you or a friend to double their fun. It will provide endless and unlimited entertainment and develop their auditory, vocal, and visual skills development.
You can take it on the go for a staycation or playdates by using batteries to power it. There is no limit to the fun it will provide!
Children love to sing, and your five-year-old can sing her favorite songs and nursery rhymes using this karaoke machine. It will boost her confidence, spark a hobby, and maybe even increase the chance of a future career in singing!
Magnetic Building Tiles
Kids this age absolutely love to build structures. It enhances their imagination, and they can get really creative. These 3D magnetic tiles step away from the standard blocks as we know them and step into a whole new world of creativity and building.
The round-edge design makes it safe for your kids. It has ultrasonic welding making it solid and durable. It is high-quality BPA-free and ABS plastic that is non-toxic and safe. The bigger-sized magnets make it stronger to keep structures maintained.
It encourages independent play and also helps build social skills with other kids and caregivers. It teaches sharing, taking turns, resilience, and confidence.
The package contains 130 pieces with a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors to create a range of fun and unique structures.
This product will keep your kids busy for hours and stimulate their minds through organic play.
Toys above $100
Charlotte Classic Wooden Dollhouse
Having a dollhouse is every little girl’s dream toy. If we are being real, most females don’t grow out of wanting to have one. There is something so special and unique about having a dollhouse to play with as a child.
A dollhouse gives a child the feeling of having their own home, being in charge of everything in it, and there is no doubt that having tiny little pieces of furniture is the cutest and most fun thing ever.
The product features 14 pieces of furniture and accessories. 4 levels of the house, 6 rooms, and twin balconies. It has a classic design with scalloped details, pastel colors, and open, airy windows.
The unique wooden furniture is laser-cut for precise detailing, and antique styling making is heirloom-quality furniture.
The house is fully furnished to provide warmth and texture. There are mixed materials, including wood, plastic, and fabric, to give it a realistic feel.
Your little girl can go to town, admiring and playing with her dollhouse. She can spend hours redecorating and role-playing with her dolls.
At age five, kids are typically a lot more mature and understanding in how they should take care of their belongings. They are also aware of playing safe with smaller items, and they fully understand the concept of playing house.
The quality and aesthetics of this dollhouse makes it a beautiful piece of décor in any playroom or little girl’s bedroom. Additionally, it will last a really long time, allowing them to keep it for years to come and maybe even hand it down to their own kids one day.
Balancing Beam Connector Blocks
This is a great option to get your kids using some of their physical energy, especially towards the end of the day, so they are all burned out for bedtime.
The set comes with 12 straight pieces, 12 curved pieces, and 4 connectors. The pathway can be built in a straight line, in desired shapes, or manipulated as you see fit. Your kids can choose how they would like to build it before walking on it.
It helps teach children balance and confidence and enforces creative thinking. It also improves coordination skills and logical thinking.
You can make it into an obstacle course, indoors or outdoors, and make up creative games while using it.
Balance Stepping Stones
The floor is lava! Kids are obsessed with this imaginary game, and now they can play it more efficiently. Here is another physical playtime product for the overactive five-year-old child. Stepping stones create an obstacle course anywhere.
It works well and is safe both indoors and outdoors. Your kids can play with it by stacking it up or using it to jump, hop, walk, and skip around a self-made pathway.
The package contains 3 extra-large stones, 3 large stones, 5 medium stones, and 4 small stones. They are lightweight, durable, stackable, and come with rubber grips so they will not slide or slip upon contact.
It helps to develop balance and coordination skills, imaginative play, and creativity. Additionally, it is beneficial for muscle development and good health.
Musical Drum Set
There is no need to look any further if you search for a fun and stimulating musical instrument to spark your five-year-old interest in music and arts.
Music is always fun and can be both entertaining and calming. Making music can be even more fun, especially for children. Kids require experiences that will boost their confidence, their morale and help them feel accomplished and motivated for more.
Additionally, they love being able to make noise and get everyone’s attention. But at age five, they are mature enough to try and create fun tunes, songs, and music patterns all on their own.
This drum set can be used as a practice tool at home if they are attending music classes, and they also use it for some plain old fun and entertainment during playtime.
It also encourages independent play, helps vocal and auditory development and skills. All you have to do is cheer them on or do a little dance to their music every so often.
The drum set includes a number of compartments, connection ports, and accessories to get a mini musician’s whole experience.
There are options to help your child’s social, mental, emotional, and physical development. These toys will bring your child a wide range of fun and entertainment while feeding curious minds with educational experiences through organic play. The best part is these toys will keep your child away from the screen for as long as possible!
Next time you are looking for toys for your five-year-old not-so-little girl, be sure to pick a few from the list above.
