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Christmas Presents For 5 Year Old Girls - Gift Ideas For That extra puny Girl In Your Life

Are you on the hunt for Christmas gifts already? What, it's too early to get your gifts...think again. It pays to shop now to take the stress out of the Christmas period. It also means things could be economy and easier to get. Christmas is a time notorious for running out of hot toys and consequently prices get inflated out of proportion for the must have toy or toys of the year. If you are finding for Christmas presents for 5 year old girls or girls colse to that age here are a few ideas to get you going.

Calico critters have been a popular toy for girls colse to 5 years of age for a few years now. You might have heard of them as Sylvanian families. Well they have been re-branded as Calico Critters. Don't ask me why this has been done but they still look as cute as ever and tend to melt the hearts of minute girls.

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Calico Critters are 6 inch toy figurines of a whole range of woodland animals. They approximately look like Beatrix Potter type characters - you know - Rabbits, Badgers, Door mice and discrete creatures like that.

They all have families, so there will be a father and mother Rabbit and discrete sibling bunnies of discrete ages. Girls love this house aspect of the toy because it gives them an outlet to express their nurturing side. And the toys are ever so cute.

You can also get all sorts of accessories to make the critters even more adorable. The townhouse or townhome (as they like to call it in Cloverleaf Corners) is staggering to be a popular distributor this year. It is a perfect home for one or more Calico critters families. And the details of the house are exquisite.

The V Reader bright E book system is a toy that girls learning to read will of course cherish. The V Reader is made by Vtech that specialize in educational toys. It makes reading and spelling and learning new words more bright and fun.

Basically you put in a cartridge and the story starts. A narrator tells the story and the bright screen changes as the story goes along. Under the animation, the words that are being used are displayed and each word is highlighted when it is spoken by the narrator.

Children can stop and have the word repeated. They can even highlight the word to get more information, like a definition on the word. There are also discrete word and spelling games that can be played with the V Reader. Girls love to read and this will be a constant companion as they make the skills to start reading allowable books.

Christmas Presents For 5 Year Old Girls - Gift Ideas For That extra puny Girl In Your Life

Christmas Gift Ideas for Mom From a Son - 2010 Christmas Presents on a Budget

As we get closer and closer to the Christmas shopping season it tends to be the case that millions of sons will look for and think about 2010 Christmas gift ideas for mom. Unfortunately, most guys are not very good at picking out gifts for any woman, no less their mother. With this being the case it might be a very good idea to create a Christmas present that is 100% personalized such as a t-shirt, sweater or mug. A customized piece of jewelry is always a good idea as well.

Most jewelry stores will allow customers to come up with a unique piece of jewelry for the women in their life. Maybe just the initials of your mother would be just what is needed to come up with a great Christmas present for 2010. Another great idea would be to get a customized t-shirt with one of mom's classic sayings. All of our mothers have sayings that they used when we were children and putting this on a t-shirt with her smiling face right beside it could be the best Christmas gift idea ever.

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One of the most important parts of the Christmas holiday is to actually spend time with your mother. Even if you get her something very small it will be the case that being there is very important to mom. You may not think it is a big deal but if you have moved away and grown up then coming home for the holidays could prove to be very influential in your mother's life. With that being the case it might be smart to go ahead and book your flight to head back home for the Christmas holidays. When you get to see her face when she opens that personalized gift it will be even that much more important.

Many Americans are cutting back greatly in 2010 as the overall economy has greatly struggled. With the unemployment rate over 9% and millions of Americans no longer have unemployment benefits it might be a smart decision to save a little bit of extra cash for a rainy day. Even though you are looking to save through the Christmas holiday shopping season there are still many options to buy mom a Christmas present on a budget. By simply buying a white t-shirt and putting a personalized message on it you could make your mother very happy on December 25th, 2010. Sometimes its the small things that mean the most.

Christmas Gift Ideas for Mom From a Son - 2010 Christmas Presents on a Budget