And please share your own best ideas in the comments below. (We also have guides to gifts for tweens and teens.) Since kids vary widely in their personalities, interests, and development, we advise that you take these age recommendations with a grain of salt. If you’re looking for more gift ideas for kids, check out our guides to the best gifts for 1-year-olds, 2-year-olds, 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds, 6-year-olds, 7-year-olds, 8-year-olds, 9-year-olds, and 10-year-olds, as well as wonderful stocking stuffers for kids. We included toy suggestions from Singh and other educators below members of our staff added the kind of memory-making gifts that have gone over best with the 3-year-olds in their lives. And many kids at this age are ready for speedier, sleeker movement toys-like scooters and trikes-that reward their growing physical confidence. Toys and costumes that allow for role-playing and board games that encourage group interaction nurture 3-year-olds’ developing social skills. So open-ended playthings that inspire storytelling and creative engagement are better than one-trick ponies. Three-year-olds are ready for toys that foster lots of imaginative play, Singh said. “Often the idea of receiving a gift is what’s exciting for them, not necessarily what the gift is,” said Heather Singh, who until recently was the director of educational programs at the Thinkery, a children’s museum in Austin, Texas. But that doesn’t negate the thrill of a good surprise. Lots of them will have more opinions, interests, and language to express their excitement than they had in the past. Many kids are more likely to know what they want. Linking everything I can below if you want to recreate some trash truck and rainbow magic for your littles ones birthday.When kids reach the age of 3, the gift-giving game changes. Basically Otis had a blast (after first having a melt down when everyone went inside his bouncy house!! TODDLER FEELINGS!) and I am so glad we got to celebrate with some of his friends before our move. They kindly send along the bags with a few goodies inside. For entertrainment, I set up our bouncy house and it was a big hit! Another special treat for all the kids was gift bags provided by Waste Management to each of Otis’ buddies that came to the party. So I put two together and put a linen + natural fibered runners down the middle to pull it together. My friend had some pallets and I knew they would make the perfect kids tables. We ordered pizza which is always a hit with everyone. I set up grab bag snacks: chips, goldfish, and veggie sticks for the kids along with some juice boxes and adult beverages. I also ordered some cupcakes so we could save the cake for our family birthday singing for him at night and cupcakes are just easier than chopping and handing out cake. The cake was another easy project that I outsourced to my local supermarket! I bought a small trash truck toy on amazon and brought it to the grocery store bakery and showed them an inspirational picture of the truck dumping sprinkles onto the cake. This saved me alot of time but still gave the party a really fun DIY element. I sent these files to a local printer to have them print and make the sign and garland. They sold a template for a cut out photobooth sign so I bought that and the artwork to create garland to hang up. Otis LOVES that show and kept calling it, “Funny Trash Truck.” So I asked him if he wanted Funny Trash Truck to come to his birthday and of course he said yes. I actually found a shop on Etsy that sold Trash Truck show artwork. If you don’t have a balloon pump, and are planning to make a balloon arch, stop what you are doing and BUY THIS NOW. You know I love a balloon arch and Blake is Dad of the year and created them all for me. They had alot of primary rainbow paper goods and some killer rainbow balloon arches so I started there. MeriMeri always has great party goods and mix and match well together. So instead of take on all the DIY I outsourced. I didn’t have much time on my hands with a newborn this year so I knew no matter what we planned it needed to be simple to execute. It was easy to combine 2 of Otis’ favorite things: Trash Trucks and Rainbows. Nothing wrong in spoiling our little ones. Of course Blake said, “DONT GO OVERBOARD” but you know… I always get a little carried away. We had a small get together with some of Otis’ good friends outside in our backyard. I blame the cross country move madness!!! This party was our last hurrah before we moved out of the house! So wild.
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