Best gifts for 5 year old girls 2020: from slime sets to doll’s houses

5 YEAR OLD girls like lots of things: sports and science, dolls and dress-ups, books and building, crafts and cooking.

When it comes to finding the best gifts for 5 year old girls, look for things that are creative, inspiring and can be used for entertaining daily play sessions.

Super practical gifts, work too: a funky water bottle they can take to school makes a great gift.

Even better? A Design Your Own Colour In water bottle, so they can put their individual stamp on the most-used item in their backpacks.

If you’re looking for a standout toy that will give the 5 year old girl in your life hours of endless fun, the LOL Chalet is a real show-stopper – and the kind of toy they’ll run to first thing in the morning, and when they come home from school each day.

Not only is it filled with surprises to unbox, from characters to furniture, but it’s got amazing interactive features like a chimney that snows (and, it’s even made of wood).

A gorgeous book will also work a treat – and be treasured for years to come – as will a slime kit. Parents will hate it, but you’ll be auntie/uncle/godparent of the year, trust us.

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2. Best gifts for 5 year old girls: Wireless Karaoke Microphone

As any parent with a 5 year old girl will tell you, playdates and playground sessions often involve preparing for a performance of some kind.

Which is why this portable, 4-in-1 wireless microphone is such a great gift: it’s a microphone, loudspeaker, recorder and Bluetooth microphone in one.

It even lights up.

‘This is AMAZING!! It’s so cool! You don’t need any other devices.

‘It has speaker on the microphone. Easily turned our house into a karaoke room. SO COOL’, writes a happy customer.

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3. Best gifts for 5 year old girls: LOL Chalet

The surprise element of LOL dolls has made them a real favourite with children, and this doll’s house/chalet taps into that, as well as being a playhouse that will provide hours and hours of fun.

The interactive chalet has loads of cool features (and includes a Winter Disco family): it’s three stories’ tall with six rooms, and includes a light-up skating rink you can freeze water on, a working ski lift and snowing chimney, a slide and a hot tub.

Plus, it’s made from wood.

Fans have described it as a ‘brilliant doll house’, ‘a good play set’, ‘it comes with a lot of things’ and ‘expensive but well done’.

4. Best gifts for 5 year old girls: Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World 

Giving the 5 year old girl in your life a book that inspires is always welcome.

And this best-seller about female scientists in history should do just that – as we now know, one way to encourage more women into the scientific fields is by showing them brilliant role models who have paved the way before.

This autobiographical-style book has a page of writing and an illustration per scientist, and includes the likes of Katherine Johnson, Jane Goodall and Marie Curie.

It can be easily digested in bite-size pieces for parents reading to their kids.

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5. Best gifts for 5 year old girls: Colour Your Own Water Bottles

This water bottle set includes 10 permanent markers, a sticker sheet with 300 glitter gem stickers, a bonus pencil case to colour in and a carabiner – plus it’ll be a super-useful everyday item for kids to bring to school with them.

‘5 year old daughter loves this Christmas present.

‘No leakage: Which was my main concern.

‘Great quality: Very durable’, writes a satisfied reviewer.

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