LEGO Sets for 5-Year-Old Girls: 25 Picks

Of all the cats in Gabby's Dollhouse, Kitty Fairy is the one with a garden, and this set lets a fan build her garden house from LEGO bricks.

If Kitty Fairy is her favorite, the build makes a calm project for the time between episodes. Once it's up, the fairy's garden becomes the setting for adventures the show never got around to.

Gabby and Pandy Paws ride along in this Gabby's Dollhouse coaster set for a young fan.

She can send them down the coaster, then seat them at the tea table afterward. Because she knows their voices from the show, she can act out new episodes on her floor.

Playing doctor and loving animals come together in a vet clinic she builds, with animal patients waiting when it's done.

She can check each one in, decide who has a sore paw and who just came for a visit, and send everyone home. It works for one player too, since she gets to voice the vet, the worried owner and the patient.

Unicorns, cake and a car all fit into one set here, which makes it an easy pick when you can't decide which of her interests to shop for.

Once the car is built, the first job is obvious: load up the cake and drive it to a party on the far side of the room.

Axolotl fans can set out on the water with this LEGO Friends adventure boat.

The build has one clear goal for a five-year-old, a single boat to finish, and the voyages start once the last piece clicks on, maybe with a rescue run across the rug.

This LEGO Friends bunny hotel gives a bunny-mad kindergartner Leo and Paisley as hosts for its rabbit guests.

She builds the hotel first, then picks who greets arrivals and who looks after the guests. Later, her stuffed animals might start booking rooms of their own.

This Heartlake City convenience store gives a 5-year-old who loves playing shop a counter to run.

Autumn and Zac come in the box, so she can stock shelves, push the cart and ring up a customer.

A girl who loves playing shop can build this Heartlake City ice cream truck and run her own treat stand.

Paisley and Elsa D come in the box, so she can pick who scoops and who waits in line.

Built around the Grannies episode, this set includes Bluey and Bingo, ready to play the pretend game from the show.

If she already does a shaky granny voice around the house, she can build the scene and hand that voice to the sisters. Without that episode in her head, a broader Bluey set is the better fit.

Right after pickup, a kindergartner who copies her favorite cartoon's games at home can snap that show's house together brick by brick.

Bricks are her go-to toy, and here they become the setting for episodes she can recite word for word. The finished home keeps a spot open for the next episode she makes up.

Split the bricks in this dinosaur box with a friend, and each kid can build a prehistoric beast from half the pile.

There's no one right model, so nobody gets stuck with the wrong pieces, and the dinosaurs come apart for round two. Afterward they can trade beasts and give each one a name and a roar.

Making faces out of dinner usually gets a kid told to stop, but with these bricks, playing with food is finally allowed.

The pieces build silly food characters, and she can serve one to you on a real plate and wait to see whether you pretend to take a bite.

This LEGO Classic set of 340 see-through bricks suits a 5-year-old who likes to invent.

Eye and mouth pieces turn clear bricks into ghosts or mermaids. Hanging bricks let her display each build in her room.

Before a family flight, building this passenger jet lets her play out the trip at home.

She can call the boarding announcement and run takeoff and landing on the living room floor as many times as she likes. With no trip planned, it still works for any young plane spotter.

Both sides of the chase come in the box: a police officer with a motorcycle and a crook to catch.

She can run the whole pursuit solo, switching voices between the two, or hand the crook to a friend and see who gets away. Grab it if her games tend to come with a siren.

This 61-piece LEGO City loader hands a girl who stares at every roadside crew a machine of her own to put together.

A kindergartner wants a short build she finishes alone, then a vehicle for the dirt-moving games she invents.

Two Race Driver minifigures arrive with these LEGO City go-karts, ready for a speed-loving kindergartner.

She prefers races to dollhouses, so she builds the karts herself and starts the contest right away. A taped line across the kitchen floor then marks the finish for every rematch.

This police car set gives a kindergartner who loves a good chase a patrol car to build herself.

The 94 pieces make a short project, and the Policeman minifigure then drives it down the hallway after runaway toys.

Jurassic World is the right theme for a five-year-old who wants fierce predators, not just ponies, in her LEGO town.

Its 171 pieces make a manageable build, and Owen Grady and Kayla Watts then star in stories of her own.

This 115-piece truck set lets a 5-year-old dinosaur fan build a hauler for a young T. rex.

Dr. Sarah Harding and Ian Malcolm come along, so she decides who drives and who keeps watch on the rug.

On the living room rug, a young builder who stages robot showdowns puts Jay at the controls of a mech.

With 107 pieces, the assembly is short, and a ninja hero joins her pretend battles soon after. Her finished robot stays parked on the rug, ready for the next round.

The Spinjitzu temple gives a young LEGO builder four minifigures, Kai, Lloyd, Nya and Zane, to cast in her own stories.

Her bricks seldom stay a static model, because she wants somewhere for her heroes to square off. Each minifigure then stands ready for whichever rematch she calls next.