Buying toys for 5 year olds | Gifts for five year olds

So your baby is about to turn 5! Wow time flew! That means going to school next year or just started their first year of school. What an exciting time in your child's life.

So many things to consider in getting them a present.

Who's their favourite character?

What's their favourite TV show?

Are they interested in science?

Are they interested in playing music?

Do you need to encourage them to be active?

Are they active?

Your five year old is beginning to decide what they like and don't like and willing to untacfully tell it.

1. Stomp Rocket Jr. Glow kit

This game is an active interactive game. The more energy used the higher the rocket goes.

The launching mechanism is purely 5 year old power, jumping on a an air bag, launching the glowing rocket in to the air.

Jumping on the bag at night after the rockets have been exposed to the light they will glow and streak through the air, leaving a luminated trial behind it.

Entertainment for the whole family. See I am sure Dad can jump and make it go higher, but why would he do that? Because its so much fun.

Amazon customers rated at 4.5 stars

No batteries or fuel required.

Music is a great way to keep the kids enjoying their favourite movie, while keeping them active and encouraging excercise through fun, dancing away the afternoon. Singing along to Alvin and the Chipmunks!

Amazon customers rate it at 4.5 stars

No Batteries or Fuel Required 

Although giving the kids a good healthy lunch

For best energy levels and concentration

Every now and again we buy a toy that our child will love, that will encourage them to talk, be theatrical and to test out some of your own phrases back at you with a cute voice or 10 different types of voices.

Encouraging your children with this gift.

As well as entertaining them and watching them blossom

Amazon parents rate it at 3.5 stars but I bet the kids loved it too much!

Requires a 9 V battery it is included!

This awesome, self contained imagination wonderland, with real LUNAR LAVA and METEOR MUD to create around 90 little aliens, that don't require baking, heat or much adult supervision.

This is an exciting way to fire up the imagination from the very first glance at the case that is a space ship with all the things to make the aliens inside!

Its great for girls or guys

Amazon customers rate it at 4.5 stars

No cooking required

Introduce your kids to the miracle of the nature, catapillars in to a beautiful butterfly!

While it is completely amazing to watch and have the kids come running in to see have the Butterflies have hatched.

It can also be a great way to introduce your five year old to the responsibilities, birth, life and death (well release).

It comes with 6 - 10 catapillar larve, only available to USA or Alaskan residents.

Amazon customers rate it at 4.5 stars

This takes time, and patience. 

No batteries required

Why does my child ask "why"? It's the best way to learn and its quite flattering they are looking to you for answers and stimulus to help their brain continue to develop and learn!

Help them out with some of the leading brands and games on the market!

Give them science experienments to show them how things work!

Give them quizzes to have them answer and learn about the world around them.

A great educational toy that will continue growing the fun times, as your five year old will require supervision to put this together, it's a great for family togetherness time. While teaching your child about colours and volcanoes.

There are science experiments to run of different types.

Test theories, enjoy watching the little face of your five year old's face light up as the reaction takes place making a volcanic like reaction.

Customers have rated this at 4 stars

Wooden flash cards, to help aid your five year olds education, more specifically in the reading and 'riting, of the three r's.

The wooden flash cards are great it makes it durable and the kids can lay them out on the floor and find the "cat" word or picture and bring it back to you, while you are doing anything.

Ask them to recognise individual letters by spelling either phonetically or alphabetically.

Be part of the exciting process to teach your child read! A life long skill they will thank you for later on!

RATED 5 STARS!

This game teaches children how to contect up circuits some of the circuits create a an alarm,  a doorbell.

Good way to show your child how the light switches from its place on the wall manages to turn on the light in the middle of the room. Answering at least one of the million "why" question that the you gorgeous child asks every hour.

It's something they can do by themselves, or with supervision to answer the other million questions it might raise!

A chance for your little munchkin to design some of their own unique creations or follow patterns.

 A small child's power tool, 120 coloured bolts, and manual screwdrivers.

It's a little noisy, but kids love that, and you can teach them safety of power tools before they are 16 and not listening!

A toy they can use on their own for hours of fun.

Rated at 4.5 stars

Requires 3 double a batteries (not included)

This toy has a life of 5 years, you buy it for your five year and five years later your ten year old is still enjoying it! It is excellent value for money!

Quizzes that go through all the core school subjects - Maths, Language, Science, and social science. Fun and games are also included, it uses a card system that you put in the hand held console. There is a feature to compete against a friend or a parent!

More cards are available for purchase to expand the initial 35 double sided cards.

Rated at 4.5 stars

Uses 3 AA batteries that are already installed