Gift Ideas 2 Year Old

When trying to think of a gift idea for a 2 year old it is a good idea to think of the interests of the parents because this will help you to ascertain what the child would be curious about and what they would want to play with. Young kids always seem to be wanting to do what they see their parents doing. For example  a child with artistic parents would probably want to stomp around in paint all day so some kind of art supplies would probably be best for them such as crayons, paints, an easel or even a coloring book (just make sure you get non-toxic stuff and make it washable too).

For a child that has parents that enjoy cooking how about a play set of foods and plastic pans so that the child can pretend to be Jamie Oliver for a day until they can cook in a real kitchen. Or perhaps they’re parents are more into hosting dinner parties, so maybe for little 2 yr old girls a gift of a play tea set or dinner setting would be appropriate. For those children who have designer parents or their parents are builders they might enjoy some building blocks (just make sure they are big enough so as not to be choked on). A bucket and spade for building sand castles at the beach is another idea.

Many young children also enjoy puzzles and games which are available for those with a young developing mind. You can also get baby computers and software or PC accessories so they can pretend to use a real computer, if you want to introduce the baby to the computer world at an early age.

Hopefully this has helped and make sure to make the wrapping pretty and colorful too, this will actually help the child like the gift more, just don’t be disheartened if the child ends up playing with the boxes and wrapping paper more than the present.

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There's 2 Comments So Far

  • Laura
    August 19th, 2009 at 1:08 pm

    Thanks for the ideas, I got my friend’s daughter the little tea set you mentioned and apparently she plays with it everyday :)

  • TellMeAGift
    August 19th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

    Glad to have helped.

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