Hi, was wondering if anyone can help with present ideas for my 3 year old girl.
She absolutely loves 'role play' type stuff for example her current favourite thing to do is 'pack bags' and take her stuffed toys on holiday or to nursery etc etc. Her toys are very rarely used for their actual purpose eg she'll pack magnatiles and the ice cream toys from her ice cream parlour into the bag but pretend they are something else very specific eg. suncream or clothes 😂! I don't want to spend loads on toys that she will glance at and not be fussed. Eg. she used to love dolls so last year we bought her a dolls house and sylvanian families set both of which are basically now untouched ornaments in her room.
She likes arts and crafts, baking, reading etc so that side of things is sorted with a trip to Hobbycraft and The Works.
But toys wise what to get? I did a big cull recently so she doesn't actually have that much anymore but then I feel like maybe that's why she's only playing very specific things at the moment and I need to broaden her imagination?
When I ask her she says something random like makeup (because she watches me do mine). She loves Trolls and Disney princess stuff so was thinking toys related to that but last year she was obsessed with Frozen yet barely played with the Elsa doll we got her! It feels like anything we've ever bought her that we think she'd love she's ended up not being fussed. She loves us to read to her endlessly yet when we got her a Yoto she again wasn't that interested.
She has all the usual 'big' things like scooter, balance bike etc.
Any ideas? Feel like I need some outside inspiration.