Have I got it right for DD's Christmas?

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Her Xmas list is looking like this (she's 3):

Crayola art set
Doodle tablet (crayola again- had to get it shipped from America!)
Little Tikes house (toy, not an actual mini house)
4 x duplo sets
Peppa pig wooden house (thank you other MNer!)
Peppa pig classroom
Peppa pig figures set
Doc Mcstuffins doll
Doc Mcstuffins baby
Doc mcstuffins Lamb doctor set
Doc mcstuffins toy vet house (house playset)
2 x soft toys (reindeer and Everest from paw patrol)
Pillow and blanket (Peppa pig)
All the paw patrol figures and vehicles (7)
Masha and the bear house & figures
Paw patrol HQ toy

DH thought that was perfect but now I'm thinking how long will it take to open and will it make it seem a bit 'thank you, next' iyswim?

It is tough at this age because they like everything, so is really easy to think of things you think they'll love. However I do think that is too much... there are over 20 presents there.

I'm not sure what you mean by Little Tykes - toy, not an actual mini house is that like an outdoor playhouse? If so that's a huge present and if not then you've got 4 little houses and a Paw Patrol HQ which are all basically the same.

I think I would pick one "big" toy as a main present, e.g. the peppa pig house or playhouse and then get 5-8 smaller things, such as the cuddly toys, a duplo set, art set ans figurines.

Presumably you have family or friends who would like to get her something, so perhaps they could get her a few of the other things but I definitely wouldnt get 4 different small houses.

That’s way too much for a three year old and you start the whole idea of Xmas as being about a huge pile of gifts that get opened in a frenzy.
What do you do next year and the year after- just piles and piles of stuff and expectation

Sorry this post has made me really sad
Just because you can afford it doesn’t mean you should buy it

@bikinibottommuffintop that sounds absolutely perfect. What a lovely set of gifts

Blimey that is a lot of presents! I’m giving DD (2.5) my old Sylvanian Family set, that’s it! (Obviously she will also get gifts from GPs).

I would just think with that many gifts, she won’t have time to enjoy them all properly, it will be a bit too overwhelming.

Agree with others that it is way too much.

3 year olds get easily overwhelmed and I think less really is more.

Save a few presents for rainy days in January if you have already bought all these gifts!

Way, WAY too much and all pretty naff TV character presents.

That's THREE toy houses and a classroom. Why?! Go with the Peppa pig wooden house and return the little tykes one and the Masha one. Does the expensive Peppa Pig house not come with characters and furniture already?

My 2 year old is getting a stocking with little bits like those fruit "sweets", a bath toy, a flashing light up ball, a small teddy, a dress for her doll etc. Then a nice collectors' edition type Christmassy book, new hat and gloves, some character pyjamas and a wooden farm with plastic animals. Other family will buy her other things but she'll open them when she's given them (in front of the purchaser) so she's not overwhelmed on Christmas day and so they can enjoy her reaction. I don't want to start a tradition of a pile of presents because it's just not sustainable and imo it's not what Christmas is about.

That is way OTT, as pp said, mostly naff TV character merchandise. The advertisers saw you coming.

Didn't realise Duplo, Crayola and Little Tikes were tv programmes

It sounds like too much. WIll she play with it all or will some be discarded straight after it's opened and never used?

I've just looked up the Peppa Pig wooden house - £100! I'd just get that, the figures to go with it, one duplo set plus some books.

It seems like too much to me, and a lot of plastic that will ultimately end up in landfill.

My dd is tiny and still won't full understand Christmas this year (will be 20 months). I will probably wrap up some lovely toy and book hand me downs we get from friends and I've got her a pots and pans and play food set. Add that to the tonnes she'll get from family members and she will have more than plenty.

I recon about half your list would still be lots.
Maybe you could get some of it secondhand to help reduce pollution.

Mine are older now and I've always got them one large present, (large Duplo/Lego/bike/tech or hobby gear now they're older), about 5 or 6 smaller ones, then a stocking with books, a few small toys, bath stuff, sweets, pens etc.

I thays way too much OP, you'll be opening it forever and a three year-old will really only want to play with the first thing they open and probably won't want to bother with the rest for ages. Guaranteed some of that pile will never be played with.

Does she get presents from others? If not then it's not so bad. But you've got quite a few things which are basically dolls houses - do you have room for them all?? And 4 duplo sets for 1 child sounds excessive, get 1 or 2.

We have always overdone Xmas with lots of presents for ds which world last the whole year. We rarely bought toys outside of Xmas and birthdays were small gift only and party.

Everyone does it differently from excess to one gift only. There is no right or wrong. To me your gift list is generous but not overly excessive.

It's masses

I've 3 kids - each of them at 3 (well from 18 months to probably now 9/12/15) would open something and then want to play with it straight away, for a good while

One Duplo set. Wrap the things that go together together. Hold some back. It's still tons and tons, in a way that will sap the joy not bring more. Honest. And I am not a one gift only type of mumsnetter.

I'd pick 4 things from that list!

So maybe the Peppa Pig house and some figures from Santa
Duplo and art set from you
Maybe the pillow and blanket too
A few small bits in her stocking

Sounds perfect OP. I'm sure she'll love it all.

I think it's too much. But then again I have a small house and buy according to that rather than what they want.

That's a lot. I'd give one on Christmas Eve, one on Boxing Day, one on NYE and one on NYDay and the rest on Christmas day or she'll be overwhelmed.

Bloody hell that's a huge amount. I have a 2 and 4 yr old. They will get a stocking each. A book each, a puzzle each. They have loads of wooden toys but I think they are both keen for a remote control car. That'll be about it.