5 Christmas gift ideas for kids
Most often, Santa Claus brings cars for boys, dolls for girls or soft toys for both under the Christmas tree. Parents, keeping pace with the engine of technological progress, give children smartwatches for their own peace of mind. Another welcome gift for many children is a bicycle. Finally, no child will give up an electric car as a means of transportation.
Recommended ideas of gifts under the Christmas tree for older children are given in the article "5 ideas of New Year gifts for schoolchildren".
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Sets for creativity and needlework
All kids like to do something with their own hands. Special sets for creativity will help direct the inexhaustible supply of children's energy in the right direction.
The greatest demand is rightfully enjoyed by drawing kits: albums, coloring books, pencils, markers, crayons and paints, both individually and in bulk. In this category, we advise you to pay attention to the products of the brands Crayola and Melissa & Doug, which have proven themselves exclusively on the positive side.
Kids also really like modeling kits: plasticine "classics of the genre", plaster molds for young sculptors and polymer clay that solidifies in the oven. The most advanced clay modeling kits can be equipped with an electric potter's wheel. The plasticine category is dominated by the products of the company Plastelino.
Girls can be presented with sets for soap making, sewing, beading, decorating and creating jewelry as a gift. Taking into account the presence of small details in most of them, it is better not to buy such sets for very young children.
Recently, the demand for kits of a young chemist has increased significantly, which clearly demonstrate the course of chemical processes. To a greater extent, they are aimed at schoolchildren, but to understand some elementary things, some of the sets will also be suitable for younger children.
Finally, where without the good old mosaic, from which all sorts of pictures are laid out. She can easily captivate a child for a couple of hours. With the help of mosaics, it will be easier for the child to learn colours and shapes, and small details will contribute to the development of motor skills. It is only necessary to take into account that the elements of the game should be large enough so that the child does not try to swallow them.
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Constructors
The constructor is a win—win option for a gift to any child from young to old. Collecting details develops children's fine motor skills of hands, spatial thinking and gives free rein to the flight of imagination. The ball in this field is ruled by the Danish company LEGO, whose product range includes both themed sets for the youngest (Duplo series) and a wide range of boys' and girls' designers.
In sets for small children there is always a place for animals, all kinds of buildings and transport. Their distinctive features are large parts that are difficult to swallow, and simple designs. Complementing one set with another, the child is free to invent and build new locations daily and hourly — all elements of the designers of the same family are interchangeable.
Older children (at the age of 5 years) will like the classic lines of LEGO designers more. The real expanse here is for boys: models of all kinds of equipment and motorized LEGO Technic cars, the City transport series, architectural and superhero sets are just a small fraction of what the modern designer market offers for kids. A selection of five interesting offers for boys can be found in the article "Boy's joy: the 5 best LEGO constructors for boys".
For girls, the choice is more modest, but also very wide: the Friends dollhouse, Disney princesses and fabulous Elves creatures are available in all kinds of variations. In order to reduce the torment of choice to nothing, we bring to your attention a selection of "Maiden happiness: TOP 5 best LEGO constructors for girls".
A high—quality and more affordable alternative to Danish LEGO are prefabricated models with Chinese pedigree — constructors, Brick Ausini and Sluban. All other offers are collected in the full catalog of designers, where you can search for the most suitable solution for the required parameters.
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Car tracks and railways
Toy cars are a weakness of all boys, regardless of age. And if they are moving on a race track, the attractiveness of such toys in the eyes of the kids increases a hundredfold.
The lion's share of car tracks are built in various configurations with alternating turns, straight and winding sections of the route. Cars race along the track, overcoming obstacles on bridges, difficult turns and even twisted spirals of roller coasters. From a practical point of view, such a pastime has a positive effect on the reaction speed and observation of kids, and also contributes to the development of a flight of fancy.
Among themselves, the car tracks differ in their design (ring, eight, stunt track, multi-level track) and the type of car drive (manual, inertial, electric motor, trigger). The permanent leader in this category of children's toys is the products of the American brand Hot Wheels.
The kids experience even more delight when they get to know the models of railways. What can I say, many dads are not averse to playing with them — top models of children's hardware are real mini-cities with developed travel links, an abundance of buildings and structures, crossings, viaducts and large train stations.
Rolling stock on children's railways is very diverse. It is often represented by one or two electric locomotives and freight or passenger cars (in different numbers). Special chic — steam locomotives that "puff" with real smoke. Well, for younger children, railways are produced in the form of heroes of their favorite cartoons. For example, Thomas's steam locomotive or the merry steam locomotives from Chaggington.
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Scooters
It's good to explore the world on your own two feet, and riding on park paths or on the territory of the house on something wheeled is even better. A suitable contender for the role of the first transport of the baby for independent rides is a scooter. Not only do trips on it bring genuine joy to the children, in addition they go to the child exclusively for the future, having a positive impact on the development of movement coordination skills and orientation in the surrounding space.
It is still difficult for children of the younger age group to keep their balance, pushing off the ground with their foot in parallel to give acceleration. This problem is completely solved by a special caste of scooters, called kickboards. Often they have one rear wheel and a pair of wheels in front, and the kickboard steering wheel, unlike the classics, does not need to be turned, but tilted in the direction of the turn. Such models are preferable because they are more stable and easy to learn for kids. In addition, some of the kind of kickboards are equipped with a removable seat and a parent handle (in case the child is tired of steering the scooter).
Children's scooter models stand out against the background of teenage and adult peers with frame sizes, bright colours and the presence of additional "buns", whether it is a basket on the steering wheel or, for example, glowing while the wheel is moving. Preference when choosing a scooter should be given to models with height-adjustable handles, so that the "two-wheeled horse" grows with the child.
The market of this type of children's transport is saturated with offers for every taste and colour. The best quality among a huge variety of scooters is considered to be the products of the brands Globber (France), Micro (Switzerland), Razor (USA) and Trolo (an Italian brand with production facilities in China).
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Radio-controlled toys
The variety of modern radio-controlled toys is very large. Here you have cars, and aircraft, and watercraft, and even robots, along with animals, whose movements can be controlled remotely from a remote control.
Acquaintance with the squad of radio-controlled toys usually begins with cars. All existing models of cars in miniature are conditionally divided into two large subcategories: for indoor rides and trips on the street. So, adherents of speed will like highway cars, and fans of mixing mud with wheels — monstrous SUVs and a further round of their development in the face of so-called crawlers.
The differences between radio-controlled cars also lie in the type of drive. The vast majority of it is electric, but solutions armed with an internal combustion engine are often found. Premium segment cars with internal combustion engines can be equipped with multi-stage gearboxes and use miniature brake pads for braking. However, the price tag for such toys will be sky-high.
Perhaps the largest number of offers are presented in the category of drones. This includes both miniature copters, which even a child can handle, and serious aircraft for video production and air travel. Introducing love to the sky from a young age, it is better for younger children to buy radio-controlled models of airplanes and helicopters for a gift. Some of their kind are ready to compete in terms of speed characteristics with real "iron birds".
Finally, I would like to note that it is not necessary to buy a ready-made solution. Today, special constructors are presented on the shelves of stores, from which you can assemble a radio-controlled toy yourself. Joint assembly strengthens family ties and is a great reason to spend time with your child together.
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