Posting this in the Simple Living community a well, but thought I might a different perspective and additional input here.
Christmas is coming and I have a two year old and a five year old. My wife and I are pretty stumped about what to get our kids for Christmas. The two year old is easy; he doesn’t care, will be thrilled with a ball, and just happy to be included.
The five year old is very down to earth and grateful for anything, but he already has everything he needs because up to now we’ve tried to be smart about buying him things that will last and give him good enjoyment mileage. He has plenty of Legos, an assortment of figurines (farm animals, fantasy creatures, little play houses, action figures, cars.), plenty of outside balls and whatnot. He also doesn’t need consumable stuff (has plenty of candy from Halloween, crayons, coloring books, crafty supplies)
He doesn’t need more stuff, but we still want Christmas morning to feel special and exciting and we want him to have a good “Santa came!!!” experience. I like the idea of giving experiences like tickets to Disney on Ice or a voucher to an ice cream shop, but that just doesn’t have the same effect for a five year old, cause he can’t hold it and it’s really just a promise for the future.
Any advice or suggestions would be really appreciated!
Thank you all and much love from me to you!
Buy him a book series you read to him. It’s a great way to instill a love of reading and bonds you together.
If you don’t want the books hanging around you can teach him about donating or selling them so others can enjoy.
Oh this reminds me I was thinking he’d like the Magic Treehouse series. I’ve heard good things about those books
My son loved those books and they are a great way to talk about history.
“You know something like this really did happen.”
He eventually tired of them because they are very formulaic but not for 20 or so :)
We picked up a ton of used copies but they also have them at libraries. There is a story line arc but it’s pretty thin; you can read them out of order if you can use your imagination to gloss over those parts.