Clueless...

[caddyman]

I doubt anyone here will have a clue, but I’ll ask anyway:

What do discerning little girls like for presents on their third birthday in this day and age?

This is not the sort of thing that a bachelor knows automatically.

Edited to add: With one honourable exception, you're a rotten lot. You know that, don't you?

Comments

[pax-draconis.livejournal.com]

A Ferrari.

They don't develop the taste required to desire an Aston until puberty in my experience.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I think you've just proven my last sentence...

[kneeshooter]

speechless

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

....

Re: speechless

[kneeshooter]

You think she'll already have one?

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Depending on how much you want to spend.

Firstly - check with their mum - she will have far more of an idea which kiddie-craze they're into.

Good bets are

Bratz: a range of teenage dolls with far too big heads and feet that come off.

Tweenies: TV tie in

Probably just getting out of the Tellietubbie range, but it's possible. If thats the case, there are Tellietubbie and Tweenie DVDs available.

I got my niece a wooden stool from Oxfam with letters and numbers carved into the top of it when she was that age(1 - 10 and A-Z before you're wondering) - she loved it and my sister was very approving.

Other successful presents have been brightly coloured hooded tops from Camden (there's a great kiddies clothes shop there, which has Che Guevara and Sid Vicious tee-shirts for the under-5s.)

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

You're a star.

[crazedgiggles.livejournal.com]

Oh, stay away from the Bratz, please! You don't need to teach kids that young to dress scantily and act like brats, as the name implies.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Now see, I'd never heard of bratz. They do sound odd.

[romney.livejournal.com]

A little brother?

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

She's already bullying got one of those...

[ephraim.livejournal.com]

Emulsion.

Imagine her angelic little face all lit up as she dips the cat in emulsion, paints the television with it and dyes all mummy's clothing.

[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm not letting you near Livvie ever again!

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

Drum. Xylophone. One of those bright plastic Fisher Price trumpets where the wee musician blows and bubbles flood out accompanying the tinny sounds of dying batteries...

It's not a present if it doesn't punish the parents.

[caffeine-fairy.livejournal.com]

Anything which makes a really, really loud noise.

Failing that, makeup. You can get kiddie makeup kits and when I was 3 I loved them.

[spasmsproject.livejournal.com]

Crayons, washable magic markers, storybooks, dress-up costumes, blocks, Lego, maybe some bubble stuff...

[kt-peasant.livejournal.com]

My three-at-the-weekend-year-old is getting his own sword, shield and armour, as I'm sick of him nicking mine. And I understand Princesses rescue themselves these days, so the young lady in your dilemma might be requiring some of the same.

[ellistar.livejournal.com]

go to early learning, they deliver and recommend by age

go for loud, permanent ink or paint, and/or high sugar and tartrazine content, all three can result in high volume, high colour noisy vomit!

again punish the parents they had them!

[littleonions.livejournal.com]

My own dear offspring got her first sword at around three (wooden)and also a plastic set with armour and shield(loved em to bits)
Or perhaps a book token?

[sea-strands.livejournal.com]

Disney Princess stuff!
I'd suggest Poppy Cat but it's a little too young for her.
Or of course, a cuddly littlie :)

[binidj.livejournal.com]

Try this book.

[captainweasel.livejournal.com]

Snakes. apparently they're the 'in thing'.

I'd say the Early LEarning centre - get a Big pot of magnetic letters to write things on fridges with. Or just anything brightly coloured that makes a noise.

or perhaps a Book?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/185602525X/qid=1117322423/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_27_1/026-7250127-8700441
a delightful tale of an obsessive scatological mole on a quest for revenge

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1405210931/qid=1117322480/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/026-7250127-8700441