what is your 5/6 year old ds getting for Xmas?

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Apologies if this one's already been done, but with a week to go I need a few more presents for my DS who is 5.5. He is my middle child and hard to buy for as he doesn't really play with toys. Just wanted some inspiration really!

DS 5 is getting:

Large transformer
2 medium transformers
2 small transformers
2 lego books
Lego movie robot
Toothbrush
Construct bots set

Feels like I've gone a bit overboard!

Finding it hard to imagine a child that doesn't play with toys. I just can't imagine it.

It doesn't mean they don't play, though - they could be running around madly playing imaginitive games or making up ball games etc - it's just that they don't use toys in that play.

See what you mean NowBringUsSomeFuzzpiggyPudding
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Yep DS' play is very physical and tends to involve other children as far as possible, usually chasing and running. The only thing he really plays with is toy cars. He really struggles to occupy himself alone and tends to fall back on screens/reading/drawing/writing. He's not into sports or music either.

miffybun73 my DS loves games - board games, card games, computer games, puzzles. He'll spend ages doing things like dot to dot puzzles or mazes, and now that he can read he will also spend hours doing that. He is also very physical so when not doing any of the above he tends to be bouncing off the walls indoors or playing hide and seek with his sister, or we're at the park etc.

He never has played with toys much in the expected sense - as a toddler he loved racing or lining up cars and building train tracks but didn't make up imaginative games to go with them. Interestingly he will now play imaginatively sometimes - perhaps he's learned how from friends at school and DD, who has no interest in puzzles etc. but is constantly playing with All The Things

My DS is 5. He was going to be getting a scooter (mini micro type of thing), but there were some behaviour issues a couple of weeks ago so the trip to the shop to choose it together got cancelled. Good behaviour over Christmas will mean we go together to buy one in the sales though. In the school hols we can do lots of positive reinforcement so we'll basically make sure that he does get it, and he'll feel much more like he deserved it.

From us, he's getting some good quality garden tools (Joseph Bentley) and from paternal GPs we put some books and bath toys on an amazon list. My mum will have bought half of Boden probably.

I've got him one or two little bits of tat from Tiger for the stocking and it will also have a bit of chocolate and an easy-peel orange in it. In our house, stockings aren't the big appliqued felt things, they're either a ski sock of daddy's or one of my slouchy slippers. (clean, obvs!!)

DH and I have gone massively minimal this year and will be applying a one in one out policy for all "stuff" in the house. DS has in previous years been so taken with the first couple of presents he's unwrapped that he didn't want to unwrap any others in case the first ones were put away or something. (don't really know where he got that idea because we aren't very tidy!!)

Same here Giant - I bought loads of Happyland but all DS wanted to do was to set up the town and all of the cars in a line on the road! Then he'd get bored and want to put it all away (or just leave it in the middle of the floor and do something else, more often). I tried to instigate all sorts of games with the postman visiting all of the houses or a robber stealing the ice cream cart and getting chased by a policeman but although he found that hysterically funny he wouldn't attempt anything like that himself.

Imaginative play was pretty much all I ever did as a child, so it's strange to me that he doesn't do it. He's much more of a "doer", he has an idea and will immediately set about doing it or finding out about it, he doesn't waste time doing any boring thinking or wondering about the best way to do something.

DD was 5 last month. She is getting.

Year of ballet lessons
2ds and 8 games
6 Disney dvds
Doc mcstuffins medical centre
Doc mcstuffins operation game
Doc mcstuffins dress up outfit
Doc mcstuffins friends(lamby, chilly, stuffy, squeakers etc)
Doc mcstuffins scooter with matching helmet and elbow pads
Double pram for dolls
Double cot for dolls
Twin dolls
Doll on bike
14 inch toddler doll
Elsa and Ana doll
Elsa dress
Frozen dinner set
Dress up chest
Dress up shoes
Strechkins
Flying fairy
Cash register
Shop stall
Disney Princess arm chair
Tea set
10 new books
Easel
All kinds of paints, chalks, crayons and felt tips.
Paper
Jewelery making kit
Snow globe making kit
Playdoh
Cookie cutters (for playdoh)
Clothes
Shoes
New fur coat
Purfume
Bath stuff
Hair Accesories
Chocolate

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few things but that's what I can think of.

Ds2 is 5.2. He's getting a Lego fire engine from his big brother, and from us he's getting what he asked for in his letter to Santa - an Octonauts Octo-mech suit and a onesie.
His stocking has a couple of silly games, some bubbles and a jar of pickled eggs