If you are invited to a birthday party, you should try to make sure that the hero of the occasion is satisfied. Be prepared for the fact that if the birthday man is only 5-6 years old, he will not even think to hide his disappointment if it comes to that. This somewhat complicates the task of choosing a good gift, but in the presence of imagination and minimal initial knowledge, the task no longer seems so difficult.
What should be considered when choosing?
From about the age of five, parents gradually begin to prepare their children for school, so they are increasingly paying attention to various toys and games with developing overtones. A guest at a birthday party can and even should help them. It should be borne in mind that By this time, the baby already has certain hobbies, and although you may be interested in the birthday boy with something newwhere there is a higher probability of hitting the target if you decide to donate something to which interest has already been shown repeatedly.
For example, Board games are considered a good gift at this age: they involve the whole family in the process. Another great option is a variety of products for active pastime, unless the baby is one of those rare children who are completely calm and do not particularly like movement.
Finally, ordinary toys remain the eternal value, just remember that at this age the sexual interests are already very different, so we give the boys a strictly boyish, and the girls a girlish, without any dubious options.
Given all the above criteria, it would be nice to also know what other guests are planning to donate. It is desirable that the gifts are not only not repeated, but were diverse, because only board games, albeit interesting, will certainly cause the question of where the toys are, and the toys themselves will not provide either intellectual or physical development.
There is also a so-called stop-list of gifts - those things that would be a mistake to give. Here we assign the following options:
- clothes and shoes are too casual for a holiday, unless you are giving an elegant dress to a real little princess who is crazy about them;
- simplified imitations - no beach balls, if promised (or ordered) was a football;
- hygiene items - except for special cosmetics for a girl who loves to spin in front of the mirror for hours;
- school supplies - even in school it will not make the child happy, but now it’s just too early to donate;
- what you like as a child - do not put others in their place, each has its own interests, especially since the times have changed a lot.
Useful gifts
You can guess the gift of a toy without this article, so we will immediately move on to things that are both interesting and useful. If you want your child to develop mentally, perfected logic and abstract thinking, develop perseverance and patience - give developing gifts, especially since they can be for every taste and budget.
A prime example is all kinds of puzzles, mosaics and designers for every taste. The best choice is made by the fact that today the diversity of the range allows you to fully comply with the tastes of the child - the plot may imply knights or princesses, heroes of favorite fairy tales, animals, equipment, in short, everything that a six-year-old child can interest. True, it is better to make sure in advance that a similar concept of hanging out is interesting to the child.
We have already talked about board games - they are good because they allow the family to come together, develop communication skills and even just learn to lose with dignity.
Depending on the rules of the game, the developmental effect can be different - even primitive "hodilki" contribute to the acceleration of the account in the mind, and even more complex patterns are sometimes even taught to set goals and come up with strategies to achieve them.
Among the toys we select sets that mimic the activity of some adult profession - the same doctor or mechanic, magician or hairdresser. Thanks to this baby not only develops fantasy, but also begins to understand how society interacts and how money is earned. In the future, this will help him understand what he would like to do in life, and the medical kit is also good at dispelling the fear of doctors.
The book does not yet provide the maximum developmental effect, but now you need to start teaching the kid to literature. He probably does not know how to read yet, so parents will have to voice the text, but if the publication is with vivid pictures, the child will also like it. Interested, the birthday man would be more willing to try to learn to read.
Replace all the above gifts could be one tablet, but with such a gift should be careful. The gadget allows for different uses, but not all of them are useful, and some even openly harmful. Since at this age the baby doesn’t exactly have a sense of proportion, parental restrictions on the use of the gift can be a cause for offense.
Presents for creative children
Creativity itself has many positive aspects - it increases the same perseverance, develops imagination and even simply improves mood and helps to maintain self-esteem at the proper level. In the future, such a childish passion can develop to the level of professionalism, and then the grown-up child can become very rich and famous, so another question is whether such a gift would not be more useful than the general educational gifts from the previous section.
At the age of 5, the middle child is still open to any kind of art - he has a lot of free time, and adults usually only contribute to an active search for themselves. Some children even have certain preferences in terms of the type of creativity, but in general, in 5-6 years old, not professional, but children's products still give. Potential artist You can give albums, paints and brushes, the same easel. Musician You might be interested in a children's guitar or a simple synthesizer with a built-in tutorial. If interest does not disappear, in the future you can think about getting the hobby to a new level.
You can, of course, not approach the task so literally, but donate simple clay, because modeling is also creativity. Various kits for origami or weaving can also find a review in a baby shower.
What to pick up active children?
Adults keep fit in order to be healthy and look good, but children without exception do it all without any additional stimulus - they just like this way of life. In fact, this is not only a pleasant, but also a very useful way to spend time, because health really strengthens, and coherence of movements is also honed.
One of the most predictable gifts for a child is, of course, a bicycle. Many children already at this age dream of such a gift, so it's time to make the dream come true, because the sense of balance in life does not hurt, and this transport can be used at any age. A good solution may be other means of transportation - scooter, roller skate or.
Keep in mind that the gift should be available for use immediately, so if the holiday falls in the winter, it is wiser to donate sledges or skates, or skis as an option.
Most types of balls also come to court. Most preferable for boy soccer ball, as well as any other football items like set the shape of your favorite football player. Girls love football less, so they will do either beautiful beach ball large size or lightweight volleyball equipment. Don't hurry with basketball balls - they are too heavy for a preschooler and even able to knock him down.
Many parents today consider it necessary to organize a small playground right at home, if the neighbors do not mind. Houses can be installed and wall bars with primitive horizontal bars like rukhodov, and swing, and trampoline for jumping. If you have a suburban site, you can take the whole playground to the street - so the child will breathe fresh air for a walk, not competing with other children for their favorite swings, and always being supervised.
Some mobile games or equipment can also be useful for them - speech, for example, about badminton or even twister. The latter, contrary to the opinion of its solely entertaining essence, trains the stretch very well.
Unusual ideas
All of the above ideas are quite trivial - most parents probably must have scrolled through all these options at least once. By itself, a child in 5-6 years old is hardly chasing after truly original options, but in some families children have everything in such a broad sense that you can run into the birthday boy’s indifference, even handing him something that any other child would have happy.
Contrary to popular belief, interesting and cool gifts can be inexpensive - you just need to turn on the fantasy and think about what could be interesting for the child. In fact, it is not always necessary to give material things - sometimes bright emotions and the atmosphere of a real holiday are remembered much better than another machine.
Some parents focus on organizing the celebration - they hire special animators who entertain the birthday man and his friends, spending, so to speak, a matinee for the elect.
If the child is in principle not spoiled by various shows, you can try to go from this side. The kid loves animals, so you need to lead him in zoo, even if you have to go to another city. Theoretically, a good solution may be trip to the circus or water park. Sometimes a good solution is even trip to a special children's cafe - in the end, there they are trying to make sure that children want to return there again and again, so the kid should like it.
When choosing a non-material gift, you need to understand that for the absolute majority of children, birthday is associated with gifts in the form of beautiful boxes with something valuable. For this reason, an intangible gift is good in the case when there are also material ones and there are enough of them, otherwise it’s not a fact that the hero of the occasion will appreciate what is happening - he doesn’t understand the whole value of money, for him even the large amount spent on a holiday is nothing. if the result can not be held in your hands.
A rather unusual gift for a child of this age is a pet. Such a gift is not so often handed out, if only because it requires a certain care and good treatment, and the new owner is not always able to provide all this for a living creature, and then care falls on the shoulders of parents. The child himself will most likely be happy with the cute animal, but adults may not appreciate such a gift. However, if the baby has long requested, and a certain responsibility (at least with respect to the same toys) is observed, it is possible, having received the approval of the parents, to give such a gift. He is good at raising responsibility for others and a sense of duty.
A dog or a cat is the most common variant of a living gift, but not the fact that it is a birthday, because such a pet often becomes a full-fledged family member and is equally important for everyone. The advantage of this choice will be that the animal will become a friend for the child for many years. However, they often give smaller animals - rabbits and guinea pigs, hamsters and rats, in the presence of an appropriate hobby - an aquarium with fish.
There is another option with parrots and other pichugs, but they are usually quite noisy and can interfere with the normal sleep of the child, so it is worth considering whether there is a separate place for them in the apartment.
What can you do with your own hands?
The souvenir products are usually made with their own hands; in their 5 years, the birthday boy is not yet able to fully appreciate it, but in 10-15 years this kind of creativity can move the grown-up child to the depths of the soul. As with material gifts, this solution is just addition to the main presentations it should not completely replace them, otherwise the hero of the occasion will simply not understand you.
The easiest solution is creating a photo collage in the form of a wall newspaper - it can be done both with the old method of application and with the help of modern computers.
With the presence of normal techniques and video processing skills, you can even go ahead and edit a small film about the life of the hero of the occasion - in the future these shots will become unique and invaluable.
Clothes and shoes are usually included in the stop-list of gifts for kids, but you can make such a gift unique. To do this, you need to find out what the child is interested in and just put the image of your favorite character on the gift - today this service is available in any city. True, you should first make sure that you are not devoid of taste, and the gift will not provoke other children to jokes and caustic comments about the carrier of the donated things.
In some cases, you can even get by with a hand-made craftwork, but be prepared that the child will be interested in toys more.
About what to give a child 5-6 years old, see the following video.
