23 Gifts and Toys for 5-Year-Old Girls

Mealtime brings this furReal highland cow to life: once she feeds it, it responds and then follows along after her.

Every stuffed animal she owns gets tucked in and wheeled around in her doll stroller, and this one reacts to all that care.

At the table while dinner cooks, a five-year-old who acts out her favorite cartoon can perch this character doll beside her plate.

Retelling scenes fills her play, and a familiar face in her hand gives those reruns a star to voice.

After kindergarten, a five-year-old who dreams up castles can press MAGNA-TILES Classic pieces together into walls on the playroom rug.

Her stories change halfway through, and the magnetic pieces pull apart easily, so a gate becomes a turret without help. The finished castle stands on the rug, home to whichever toy she crowns queen.

The VTech KidiZoom Smartwatch DX4 sits on a kindergartner's wrist so she can check the time just like her mom.

Copying grown-ups fills her play, so on a grocery run she taps through its screens and calls out the hour.

Lights, music and a stream of bubbles all come out of this Little Kids Moana wand at once, which gives a fan of the movie a good reason to head out to the yard.

Bubble solution comes in the box, so the wand is ready the day it is unwrapped. At dusk the lights stand out most, so the back steps become her launch pad.

The Princess in Black suits a kindergarten girl hooked on princesses, as a story for reading together.

A grown-up reads it aloud on the sofa while she turns the pages. Later she can look back through it on her own.

You may not be ready for a real hamster yet.

This Pets Alive Hamstermania toy fills the gap as an electronic pet that makes sounds when she plays with it, and it comes with its own hamster ball. She names it and sets up a corner of her dresser for it, and nobody has a cage to clean.

Unicorns gallop through every picture a kindergartner draws, and this Barbie takes that creature off the paper and into her hands.

Sketches stay flat, but a doll she dresses and poses gives her horned favorite a voice and a plot. The figure waits on her windowsill between quests, ready for whatever adventure she dreams up next.

The Barbie Care Clinic gives a five-year-old pretend doctor a hospital playset for her dolls' checkups.

Playing doctor is her favorite game right now, so every doll in the house can line up as a patient. Her teddy bear with a scraped knee gets admitted too, chart and all.

A fort set makes sense for a girl who already drapes blankets over the couch to make secret hideaways.

Now she can plan bigger shelters of her own, choosing where each wall and doorway goes. When a cousin sleeps over, she can tape a sign by the entrance and demand a password.

Jumbo cards printed with baby animals make this PlayMonster matching game easy for small hands to turn over.

Memory is one of the few games where a young player can beat a grown-up fair and square, so her wins are the real thing. Laid out face down, the cards cover a good stretch of floor.

Mermaids and fish fill every picture a kindergartner draws, so a game set on an undersea reef brings that ocean to the table.

Labeled for ages 3 to 8, it lets her move her own piece rather than watch from a grown-up's lap. Every win she claims gets announced to the whole family.

Wearable crafts make sense for a girl who already raids the dress-up box to plan her own outfits.

Now she can design the accessory as well, picking how each band looks before she puts it on. Before her dance recital, she can choose a favorite headband to wear on stage.

Her name goes on every scrap of paper she can find, along with rows of doodles, so a Crayola travel board that wipes clean gives her a page that never runs out.

She can practice the same tricky letter over and over, erasing between tries. Packed into a tote, it comes along for the wait at the doctor's office.

Play-Doh modeling dough gives a five-year-old who sculpts pets and pretend snacks her own supply to shape.

Because dough squashes back into a ball, she can rework a lumpy rabbit until it looks right. At the kitchen table on a rainy afternoon, her dough zoo grows animal by animal.

Micro's Maxi kick scooter fits a five-year-old who races her shadow up and down the driveway every evening.

Going fast is what every game of hers turns into at five, and a ride powered by her legs keeps pace. The chalk finish line she draws by the garage gets crossed again and again.

Curious kindergartners can ride the city bus in Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña.

She reads it with a grandparent, pointing out the people on each page. Afterward, they talk about the neighbors they see on their own walks.