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How can I foster my three-year-old daughter’s interest in dinosaurs?

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BabyEl · 02/04/2025 06:15

My daughter has an interest in dinosaurs. It’s not all consuming like Iger love of frozen and princess dresses, but she likes dinosaurs and gets excited by them.

She knows all the names of the major ones in English and as she’s bilingual also in her second language (which is more than I know)

we have taken her to museums and stuff, but I would like to get her some toys. She has a lot of toys and the dinosaur toys generally look like cheap plastic tat.

So I’m looking for something which might get her a little bit more interested in dinosaurs and that she could play with, but that doesn’t turn her off by being nasty and cheap.

bit of a strange request, I know, but any ideas welcome

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CurlewKate · 03/04/2025 07:19

She’s 3. She won’t think a model dinosaur is “nasty and cheap” unless you tell her it is.

This reminds me of my nephew as a toddler. He had a bag of Early Learning Centre dinosaurs and a few cheaper ones. The ELC had their names on their undersides so he asked his uncle to read them for him. Then, proudly, informed us that he had a stegasaurus, a triceratops and a Made-in-China.

RandomWordsThrownTogether · 03/04/2025 07:59

Oh for TV shows I would add Dinosaur Train - my daughter loves it but you will never get the theme song out of your head lol.

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