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Christmas Gift Ideas

posted 1 year ago by ChristIsLord on scored.co (+0 / -0 / )

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What are you all getting for your kiddos? Toys seems to get worse and worse every year so I have a hard time finding anything decent these days.

I have boys and girls 5 and under. They absolutely love and I can recommend toys like: magnet tiles (like the Magna/Picasso brands), Duplo Legos, animal figures (like the Schleich brand), the Melissa and Doug food toys (right now the ice cream set is the favorite of those; https://www.melissaanddoug.com/products/scoop-serve-ice-cream-counter), and anything to do with art/coloring/stickers or whatever sort of craft. Now the dumb Duplo likes to shove non-Whites as the figures so avoid that if you can, otherwise my kids love to build with them. Also, I wouldn't get younger kids animal figures like deer or moose with antlers because they will bend them off. I know there's cheaper brands but from my experience anything cheaper than Schleich and they're cheap, ugly trash. Mega Blocks are fun too for them but our set seems to have stopped connecting (they're older hand me downs), is that something that happens often?

Do you all have any recommendations for toys/brands for young children? Or ones to stay away from specifically? Children's book recommendations would be appreciated too! Feel free to use this thread for recommending gifts for other age groups as well.

throwawayjacks on scored.co

1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / )

I am big into anything that encourages imaginary play, so pop up play tents and stuff like that are really nice. Ikea has a great selection of toys that are either fabric or wooden for a pretty good price to facilitate that. You can never go wrong with a box of printer paper and coloring stuff either. Our parents would always have that as one of the family staple gifts, and it was always a hit (6 kids 7 years apart). We also had pvc piping cut in different lengths with L and three way joints to make forts and other things. If your wife knows how to sew get some king and queen flat sheets at Goodwill and sew channels on the edges to feed the pvc threw to make your own custom forts. My grandma also got some beautiful dresses from Goodwill for our dressup box, so that is always a good place to look for interesting clothes. Things like this were way more memorable to us than any of the other toys our parents got us, and it's easy on the wallet as well.

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