What are you getting your 1 year old girls - who have an older brother

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Any help muchly appreciated.

She obviously has all the standard 1yr old toys from my ds.

I think i'm probably looking at buying more for when she is 18m/2 as she might actually start playing with things properly then.

She had her first doll for her birthday but any other ideas really welcome.

Thanks

I am in the same predicament - was thinking maybe a happy land cottage as she doesn't have anything girly as such (I am not opposed to girls playing with pink fairy things like many are - I always loved them) also a copy of Mary Poppins but that is for later obviously. Not planning on spending too much my DD is 14 months loves playing DS's cars!

icapturethecastle - it's impossible isn't it?

i'm also thinking maybe a kitchen as i'm sure my ds will love it as well and he can learn to share!!! and i suppose dd can put things in and out of the oven!!!

any other advice anyone???

Bump!!! Is it worth starting a thread asking what do your 18 month old girls play with??

Ideas ( although ds has these already!)

Kitchen John Lewis one fab. Toy kettle toaster

Their own ride on eg wheelybug bug wooden trike.

Push along pram. Nice red wooden one on amazon.

My dd loves wooden wonder blocks..can't link on phone try amazon. Stacking cups wooden blocks.

More ideas please!!

Dd got a pram and and a doll last year (she turned 1 aroiund christmas) and some duplo to add to our vast quantities! MIL got her the duplo zoo set as she thought dd might enjoy playing with the animals.

I think it is difficult to think of things for a second child full stop as you have so much but then when it is a girl after a boy I keep worrying that I am gender stereotyping by filling in the gaps with more girly bits for dd!

My mum actually got them one of those cardboard fold out wendy houses which dd loved, she and ds coloured it all in and had a great time. It is a little battered now but still going strong so I think they are worth it.

I do find that dd plays with certain more traditionally "girly" toys better than ds and she has grown up with duplo and cars. He races around with a doll in the pushchair, she takes it for a walk, puts it to bed and gives it a bf but she has also liked being given her own tractors and cars that ds can't say "but that's mine!" about.

I have similar problems. My DD aged 2.2 plays mostly with her older brothers stuff. But she does play with:

Wheely bug (mostly to stand on to do naughty stuff!)
Dolls/blankets
Pram
Trampoline
Etcha-sketch
Duplo
Girly jigsaws

Sadly she has a lovely wooden kitchen filled with lovely bits and pieces but doesn't play with that. Makes the occasional cup of tea but that's it

At a friend's house she got majorly excited when they brought out a box of sparkly shoes and tiara's from the elc but I can't bring myself to buy that.

Sorry, forgot to add Fisher Price, Little People Discovery House. Both kids like to play with that together!

dd is one the week before xmas. (older brother)

For birthday she is a doll and a wee wooden pram to push now that she is walking.

Then for christmas she is getting

fisher price little people
and
megablocks both from the loft .

GPs are getting her a smart trike

and we have got her a pink wooden sit on car.

umming and aahing over a kitchen, but may wait till see one in sales and put it away as she will be - on principle - more interested in destroyin her brothers toys on sight instead and tearing wrapping paper

Oh same problem here - DD is 1.3yrs now with 2 older brothers (3.7yrs and 5.5yrs) so i doubt there's a single 1yr old xmas toy gift that we haven't got in this house!!! I am desperately hoping that we won't get the pink equivalent of what we already have (e.g pink megabloks etc). I have jotted the following down for my DD as suggestions for relatives:

a "nice" hairbrush, maybe with her name on the back
Happyland stuff such as the Fairyboot.Toadstool although we already have the castles, post office and fairground!
a new aquamat as ours is grotty.
Grobags
dollies

I think we will get her the pink scooter though as DS2 is still using his blue one (which is also quite worn out!) and she will be requiring one well before her 2nd birthday.

Will be watching this thread with interest!

A wooden kitchen - she and DS still play with it 3 years later.

Friends bought her a doll - which had never occurred to me and she literally jumped up and down and squealed with excitement - 'twas very sweet!

Dolls pushchair if you don't have one? DD was 2 before she got one of those, which again is still played with almost every day.

Wheelybug also v. good.

My problem is I have two boys and that makes it even harder as all the 'boy' toys we could possibly ever need (and a dolly, kitchen etc for good measure/balance etc..) are currently lying in our playroom! At least if you have one of each there are likely to be some aspects that your sons may not have covered! (She says, without actually coming up with any useful examples!)

Thanks everyone for all your help. I'm glad i'm not the only one in this position. We tried to get away with giving her nothing for her birthday but her big bro kept on asking what she was getting from us so that's been scuppered as well :)

Keep the ideas coming