33 Christmas Gifts for 6-Year-Old Girls

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A kindergartner who claims every gap between the chairs as her own den can plan this one from the floor up.

She sets up pretend games in hidden corners, and here she chooses where every wall stands.

Covered with old sheets from home, which the kit leaves out, her finished den holds every stuffed animal she owns.

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Should the girl on your list mark every lunchbox and folder as hers, Fashion Angels stickers hand her plenty to claim them.

Her taste changes week to week, and peel-and-press art lets her restyle a folder without paint, markers or cleanup.

The leftover designs wait in her desk drawer for the next plain cover.

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A girl who plays doctor to every stuffed animal she owns can bring her bedside routine to Hasbro Operation.

Her checkups on teddy bears call for gentle fingers, and this patient asks for the same light touch each round.

The board can wait beside her toy stethoscope until a visiting friend asks for a turn as surgeon.

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A girl who makes a homemade card for every family birthday can give her next design a sprayed Crayola finish.

She has outgrown coloring books, and a spray of marker ink lets her frame each greeting her own way.

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Melissa & Doug turns a bedroom corner into a salon for a girl who redoes her dolls' ponytails before every game.

Copying a stylist is her favorite game, and these props let her lead it; batteries are not included.

The set waits on her dresser between customers.

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A girl who flips over garden stones to see what scurries out needs a Hape jar of her own for each discovery.

She wants to follow every wiggle of a pill bug, and this keeps it out of her cupped hands.

Her list of every critter she names ends up pinned beside her bedroom door.

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At a sleepover, a girl who loves Minecraft can unroll her sleeping bag with Dennis the Wolf tucked under her arm.

A plush companion still goes wherever she goes, and this character belongs to the game world she adores.

The pillow fort she builds around Dennis becomes the night's hideout.

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A KidKraft desk and chair give a six-year-old practicing her letters a homework spot.

Her school folder now brings home worksheets, and here she can sit down to finish them.

Over winter break, she can print her thank-you notes there, letter by letter.

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Any six-year-old who swings a wrapping-paper tube like a knight's blade can trade it for Franklin Sports Nerf swords.

Her pretend battles need someone to face, and these play blades let a friend join the bout on even terms.

The sofa-cushion castle she builds becomes the arena for every rematch.

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With a stack of picture books spread across her bedroom floor, a girl who loves copying her favorite characters can trace them.

She wants each character to look true to the page, and light beneath the paper reveals every line to follow.

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Each press of the bunny stamper sets a fresh picture down wherever a six-year-old girl decides it belongs on the page.

She likes arranging her own scenes, and choosing each spot herself matches how she plays with everything else.

Its finished spreads stay bound together, so she can flip back through every picture she placed.

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Midway through a coloring book, a six-year-old who fills every page edge to edge can uncap Crayola Broad Line markers.

Solid shading is how she likes her art, and a set of her own keeps up with every sweeping stroke.

Her finished pages end up stapled together as a homemade storybook on her nightstand.

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Play-Doh in a whole spread of shades turns the kitchen table into a sculpting studio for a six-year-old with big ideas.

Her pretend games need props of her own making, and blending tints lets her invent shades no crayon box offers.

Its range of colors leaves room for a visiting friend to sculpt beside her.

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PlayMonster's Fashion Plates set hands a six-year-old who restyles her dolls every morning a way to design the clothes herself.

Her pretend play centers on swapping wardrobes, and putting them on paper lets her invent combinations no doll arrives wearing.

The kit sits on her desk with a growing pile of her own outfit pages beside it.

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Spot It! gives a six-year-old who finds every hidden cat in picture books a race she can win.

She shuffles the deck at the kitchen table and calls each match before her uncle can point.

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The Slamwich card game fits the kid who shouts snap at matching socks while you fold laundry.

Between loads she deals a round on the couch and slaps the pile first when the right card lands.

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On Christmas afternoon, a girl who loves cracking a problem on her own can curl up with the Learning Resources pixel puzzle.

She enjoys spotting where each color belongs, and every finished row shows whether her eye was right.

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This HABA magnifier turns a fallen log into a close-up show for a girl who sketches every critter she spots.

Her drawings call for real detail, like the ridges on a snail shell, and now she can see them clearly.

Crouched by the log, she can hold it over a caterpillar and copy each stripe onto her page.

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MathLink Builders link up into a giraffe for a six-year-old who invents animals, then pull apart when she wants a dragon.

Imaginary creatures fill her stories, and building them by hand turns each idea into a figure she can hold.

Her herd of invented beasts ends up parading across the bookshelf.

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Choose this megalodon egg for a six-year-old on your list who loves sea monsters and always peeks at wrapped boxes.

Deep-water giants fill her picture books, and here the predator stays out of sight until hatching time comes.

The shark then stands guard on her shelf beside those books between games.

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Keroppi brings a soft new face to the Sanrio crowd of a six-year-old who knows each character by name.

She arranges her character erasers into little scenes, and something huggable gives that cast a member to squeeze.

Her lineup ends up along the windowsill, with the newcomer set in the middle.

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Stuck between another sweet stuffed animal and something sillier, choose Fuggler Fart Face for a six-year-old who giggles at gross jokes.

Bathroom humor sends her into fits, and a creature named for a rude noise puts that laugh in her arms.

Her grossest new friend ends up at the front of her doll lineup, glaring at the princesses.

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Your list may hold a Wicked fan who replays favorite moments around the living room; this Glinda doll becomes her costar.

Dolls run most of her pretend games, so the heroine she quotes all day now has a figure she can hold.

Her finished performance leaves the character propped on her bookshelf until the next one.

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The Calico Critters Ice Cream Van gives a six-year-old collector a treat truck for her animal families.

Her pretend towns always need a shopkeeper, so her figures take turns selling scoops.

After dinner, she can park the van beside her other sets as the stop every figure visits.

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Theo Klein's Braun set turns a kitchen chair into a stylist's station for a youngster who braids every doll she owns.

She studies how grown-ups get ready each morning, and this play gear lets her copy each step.

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Whoever reads to a six-year-old each night can give her a projector that spreads the pages of a tale across her wall.

She studies every illustration in her books, and images stretched that wide give her fresh details to point out.

Her crayon copy of a favorite scene ends up taped beside her pillow.

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Snuggled into a beanbag by her bookcase, a six-year-old who laughs through every Shrek film can lean against this plush pillow.

Those movies are her go-to giggles, and this squashy star puts the hero she cheers for in her arms.

Her stuffed-animal shelf gains a new character standing guard at the end of the row.

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Out on the driveway on Saturday, a six-year-old who counts everything aloud can tally her hops on a Flybar pogo stick.

Counting is her favorite game right now, and every spring off the ground gives her a fresh number to call out.

Her highest tally gets chalked on the concrete by the garage door.