The last scrap of cellotaped wrapping paper has barely been vacuumed out of the carpet following the holiday frenzy when we have to start thinking about gifts for the boys’ birthdays. Simon will be four on February 1 and Tristan will be six (!) on March 7.<\/p>\n
Care to share any inspiration (or horror stories) on your Christmas gift experiences this year?<\/p>\n
In our house, the big hits were Lego and Star Wars. My mom got the boys those light-up, colour-changing Light Sabers that go whoo-oo when you swing them around, and the boys absolutely love them. Tristan got a ridiculously complicated Naboo space ship Lego set, which is too complex for him to build by himself but has kept him and Beloved busy in the building and rebuilding. Simon got a whole bunch of preschooler-appropriate action figures<\/a> – more than a dozen, maybe as many as twenty when you factor in the Superhero set Granny gave him.<\/p>\n Outside of that, the classic game MouseTrap has been a hit. I figured I’d have to help them with the set up at least for a couple of months, but to my surprise and delight the boys were playing it by themselves within just a few days. Simon seems to like it the best, but he needs Tristan’s help to play. Altogether a fun choice.<\/p>\n I got a giant bucket of Tinker Toys from Costco, thinking about how much Tristan loves to build stuff with Lego, but I have to admit that they were a bit of a bust. We spent a while one afternoon building robots, but I remember Tinker Toys being more fun and easier to work with. Meh on the Tinker Toys.<\/p>\n The best reaction of the Christmas season was the look of astonished delight on Tristan’s face when they opened the table-top air hockey game from Granny. Simon gets a little frustrated with losing to his big brother rather constantly, but I’m sure with not much practice they’ll be evenly matched.<\/p>\n Another big hit was the Little Tykes Digital Camera<\/a>. (I only picked this one up because it was half price at Costco, and boy am I ever glad we got it!) It takes surprisingly good pictures that you can easily dump onto your computer. We haven’t actually printed any out yet, and probably won’t, but it’s fun for the boys just to take the pictures and see them on the laptop. So far, the winning photos seem to be Tristan’s series on the cat running away from him all over the house, and a lovely portrait of the toilet (thankfully empty) by Simon.<\/p>\n Those were a few highlights from our Christmas bounty. In general, Tristan seems to have a fondness for building toys and artsy stuff like drawing, while Simon favours board games and action figures. So — any recommendations for the birthdays coming up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last scrap of cellotaped wrapping paper has barely been vacuumed out of the carpet following the holiday frenzy when we have to start thinking about gifts for the boys’ birthdays. Simon will be four on February 1 and Tristan will be six (!) on March 7. Care to share any inspiration (or horror stories) … Continue reading “Gift ideas for 4 and 6 year old boys?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ah-me-boys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}