30 Christmas Gifts for 3-Year-Old Girls

When the girl you have in mind tapes scribbles to every cupboard, this Hape easel gives her an upright board.

A three-year-old wants each creation seen right away, so a stand-up spot to scribble keeps her work on display. Its magnetic board holds a crayon cat at eye level for whoever walks past the playroom.

Back from the supermarket, a little girl who handed the cashier every item can take the cashier's side with this Hape register.

The job she watched from the cart turns into hers, with stuffed animals waiting in line to shop. She can hand her brother a paper receipt she scribbled herself.

If the girl you're shopping for copies how grown-ups hold an infant, a La Newborn doll lets her do the holding herself.

She already replays the care she sees at home, and now has someone to give it to. In the waiting room at a checkup, she can sit it on her lap and whisper it won't take long.

Bluey hides face down in this memory game, waiting for a preschool girl who shouts out the show's cast during every episode.

She knows each cartoon face on sight, so every flip lets her call out a favorite from the show. The pile of matches she wins stacks up on the living room rug for Mom to count.

K'NEX Budding Builders parts turn into a tower for a preschool girl who loves putting things together and taking them apart.

She copies what bigger kids build, and each tower she knocks down becomes the start of the next.

A curious girl who points out every tiny difference in her picture books can now hunt for them among toy apples.

She loves saying what matches and what doesn't, so making her own piles lets her set the rules. The neat rows she lays out on the kitchen table stay put until a parent names what each row shares.

On the back porch, a girl who loves running lentils through her fingers can dig in with scoops of her own.

She copies grown-ups at the counter, so tools of her own let her ladle and fill just like them. She can pack each cup of an egg carton, then tip the lentils back into the tub.

At a living room dance party, a girl who sings along to every song can strum a toy ukulele of her own.

She joins in whenever grown-ups put music on, and now that habit comes with an instrument she holds herself. Between dances, she can pluck a tune for her teddy and announce its name to the room.

VTech Little CEO pretend office play suits a three-year-old who pulls up a chair whenever a parent sits down to work.

She mimics every call and errand grown-ups handle, so a desk of her own turns that copying into her workday.

Twistables crayons from Crayola put each color choice in the grip of a preschooler who makes artwork for everyone she loves.

She wants a say in every detail now, and her own set lets her choose a purple sky. The pack waits beside her stocking on Christmas morning, ready for the scribbled notes she hands each relative.

In the bath each evening, a preschooler who covers every scrap of paper with scribbles gets the tub walls as her page.

She wants to draw on everything within reach, and here that urge has a spot where grown-ups say yes. The crayons wait in a cup by the faucet for tomorrow's mural.

This Play-Doh set turns dough into Peppa Pig scoops for a preschooler who knows every episode by heart.

She loves serving make-believe customers, so each order at her toy counter is something she forms by hand. Her lopsided cone ends up on a saucer, served to Grandpa with a proud grin.

A girl who tucks every small cup into a bigger one has a new version of that game in these Lovevery baskets.

Right now she checks what fits where, so each size slipping into the next gives that habit a toy. The largest one ends the day on her bedroom shelf with the rest hidden within it.

A pint-sized shopkeeper who hauls cereal boxes from the pantry to sell to the family needs a Battat checkout of her own.

She imitates each grown-up job she sees, and the cashier is the one she studies longest on errands. The register waits on the coffee table while stuffed animals line up with the cereal boxes they want.

After lunch at daycare, a three-year-old who likes having her own things can lay out a nap mat that is hers alone.

She wants her own cup and chair now, so a resting place that belongs to her keeps that streak going. Her favorite stuffed bunny ends up on the corner she saves for it.

Gabby's Dollhouse figures make sense for a preschooler who already greets Gabby and her friends by name whenever the show starts.

The cast she knows from TV now sits in her hands, so she picks who talks and who leads. At a playdate, she can hand a friend a character to voice and invent a brand-new episode together.

A preschooler who tucks dish towels around her dolls can give that same care to a GUND monkey of her own.

She mothers anything she can hug right now, so a cuddly friend becomes another baby to feed, dress and rock. At a tea party on the rug, she can seat it in the place of honor and pour its cup.

Puppies on the sidewalk stop a three-year-old in her tracks, since she wants to stroke and fuss over each of them.

This vet set gives that urge a toy dog of her own to groom, feed and look after. Her freshly groomed patient then waits on her shelf for its next checkup.

Forest animals match a preschool girl who points out every squirrel and bird she spots on neighborhood walks.

The wildlife she sees outside now lives on her shelf, so she decides who shares a den with whom. She can hide them behind a sofa cushion and lead a grandparent on a hunt to find them all.

During a Bluey episode on the couch, a three-year-old who imitates the grannies can roll Janet's car along the cushions.

She replays favorite lines once the credits end, so a character she knows by voice keeps the story going. The little vehicle ends up parked by the TV, its driver waiting for the next round of pretend.

The ponies in this box arrive as a whole gang of pals for a preschooler who gallops through her make-believe.

In a group, she picks a leader to trot ahead and strands another for the rest to rescue. The rescued pal ends up at the front of the line, nose to nose with its leader.

Beside a parent jotting the grocery list, a three-year-old girl can press letters on this Chuckle & Roar Pop it! keyboard.

She wants a turn at every grown-up chore, so keys under her own fingers give her a list to make too. Its keys sit ready for the next word she wants to show off.

When a preschooler begs to join every grown-up card night, this Hasbro Gaming mammoth game hands her a round of her own.

She wants her own seat beside the bigger kids, and a frozen showdown lets her wait for her move like everyone else. The box waits beside the deck of cards until everyone pulls up a chair.

A three-year-old girl who calls Skye her favorite pup can steer that character's own helicopter through the games she invents.

She replays every episode after it ends, so a vehicle from her favorite show carries those stories into her make-believe. Between adventures, the aircraft parks on the arm of the couch, waiting for the next call.

Down the long hallway after breakfast, a preschool girl with places to be can steer her own car between rooms.

She wants to drive wherever grown-ups go, and a seat with a wheel puts her in charge of the route.