Activities and Interests
The five-year old's activities and interests revolve around home and school. She is content to play with her toys at home and her friends at school. A dance lesson once a week or an introduction to a sport isn't too much, but don't start a heavy extracurricular schedule this year.
Fives still love imaginative play. Girls love to play house, tend to their baby dolls, and recreate their home and school life in play. Five-year-old boys enjoy this also, if they aren't teased out of it.
Don't invest in expensive or complicated toys this year. Fives still love their little-kid toys, along with the following:
- Materials for cutting, coloring, and gluing
- Play-doh
- Simple construction toys
- Dress-up clothes
- Simple board and card games with counting, sorting, classifying, or pattern, letter, and word recognition
- Dolls and doll accessories
- Stuffed animals and puppets
- Pretend play toys for cooking and tea parties
- Little-kid sports equipment such as balls, golf clubs, t-ball sets, and basketball goals
- Rhythm band instruments and little-kid keyboards and guitars
- Ride-on toys and play vehicles
- Swing set or outdoor gym set
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Child Development - The Five-Year Old
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