By the time a little girl is tearing into her pink gift-wrapped presents in front of a birthday cake with two candles, she has already made great strides away from babyhood. She’s gone from toddling awkwardly around and landing hard on her diapered bottom every few steps, to walking and running with confidence. She may even have left the diapers behind in favor of a potty—or she soon will. Her vocabulary has progressed from a few short words to around 50 words or more and she may even be using two and three-word sentences. In the coming months, she will be much better able to communicate her wants and needs, but there may be some temper tantrums on the way to getting there as she experiences a lag between what she feels and what she can clearly express out loud.

Best of all, she has gone from playing with toys by shaking, banging, and chewing on them, to using her toys to imitate adult behavior and engage in imaginative play. The best gift for a 2-year-old girl is the kind of toy and other items that let her express herself and explore the world around her through imaginative play.

According to experts on early childhood development, the best activities for 2-year-olds are those that are layered with interaction with others, language-building activities such as reading, and plenty of open-ended, unstructured imaginative play. The best gift for a 2-year-old girl will be those gifts that allow her to explore the world around her in a safe way—by acting out her imaginative games with toys that let her pretend to be whatever she wants to be at that moment. She may want to be a mommy like her own, and rock and sing to a baby doll, or pretend to go off to work with her purse and phone. She may want to be like her favorite doctor and examine a sick baby doll. She may want to express herself like an artist by drawing, doodling, sculpting with clay, or building with blocks.

The best gift for a 2-year-old girl lets her be anything she wants to be in her rapidly expanding mind and show it to the world through play.

The Hitop Kid’s Sprinkler Pad is the best gift for a 2-year-old girl for summer fun in her own backyard. The round, 60-inch pad features a pretty cartoon mermaid playing the harp and surrounded by fun flowing jellyfish. Jets of water flow up and around a child on the playmat and mat itself becomes a shallow wading pool for splashing and playing.

The Hitop Kid’s Sprinkler Pad comes in a decorative box that’s gift-wrap ready. The foldable mat is easy to setup. Simply place it on a flat surface that’s free of rocks or sharp sticks. Use the included waterproof washer ring and pipe inlet connector with your own water hose and turn on the water. The rim of the sprinkler pad fills with water and then the jets begin spraying upward. The height of the spray is easily adjusted by increasing or decreasing the water pressure in your hose.

Children will have fun safely splashing and playing in several inches of shallow water inside the pad while the sprinkling jets of water spray around them. Children can also enjoy running and jumping through the spray.

The Hitop Kid’s Sprinkler Pad is the best gift for a 2-year-old for summer splashing fun to cool off on a hot day right in the backyard. It’s made of BPA-free PVC plastic and is safe and non-toxic. It has double-edge sealing to prevent leaking.

Any little girl will love splashing around with the pretty mermaid with purple hair on this fun splash pad. It’s fun to play in the splash pad alone, with siblings, friends, or with parents who also want to cool off on a hot day right in the backyard!

Key Features
  • Splash pad and baby pool
  • Includes a 60 inch pad
  • Control the water height in the sprinkler by the water pressure
  • Decorative pad with mermaid and fun marine animals
Specifications
  • Brand: Yes
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: 1 and up
  • Memory: 4
  • Operating System: Hitop
  • Ports: No
Pros
  • Easy to setup with a simple hose connection. The rim fills and then the sprinkler begins
  • Some connections with a waterhose may leak
  • Great addition to any child's backyard
  • Comes in a cute, deorative box that's perfect for gift-giving
Cons
  • Very slippery so supervision is required
  • Can tear if placed on rocks or sticks
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HiTop Kid's Sprinkler splash Pad

Nothing mesmerizes a toddler like a swirl of beautiful stars moving across the ceiling in a darkened room. The Homcasito Star Projector is the best gift for a 2-year-old girl to lull her into sweet dreams with colorful swirling stars and moons.

This nightlight star projector comes in pink, blue, white, yellow, or black. It has a remote control and a timer setting with preset options for 1, 3, and 5 hours. More time can be added to any setting in five-minute increments. There are 8 lighting modes so you can find just the right combination to mesmerize your 2-year-old. Choose from red, blue, green, and white LED lighting, any two-color combination, or the stunning multi-color light show. Lighting modes include 360-degree rotation, a breathing effect, spinning, or still. Beautiful stars and a moon will glow peacefully across your child’s ceiling and around the room as she falls asleep. The brightness level is also adjustable so you can find the perfect setting for your little princess.

The Homcasito Star Projector works with the included USB cable, or use an AA battery so you can take the night light with you to comfort your toddler during travel or camping. Set the convenient timer for the amount of time it typically takes for your child to be lulled into sleep by the magical swirling stars, or use the included remote control to turn off the lights once she is asleep. They can also be left on throughout the night to ease your toddler back into sleep if she wakes up during the night.

The Homcasito Star Projector is the perfect addition to any toddler’s room. It’s the best gift for a 2-year-old to make her bedtime routine something to look forward to so everyone gets a better night’s sleep!

Key Features
  • Beautiful star-projecting LED nightlight
  • Includes timing function, remote control, 8 light modes and adjustable brightness
  • 360 degree rotation of stars and moon to mesmerize a child
  • Choose from 1, 3, 5 hour preset timers and add time with 5 minute increments
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: 1 and up
  • Memory: 2
  • Operating System: Homcasito
  • Ports: Yes
Pros
  • Choose from 8 gorgeous color settings including single color, multicolor, white, blue, red, or green
  • Includes USB cable
  • Modes include still, breathing, rotating, spinning
Cons
  • Should be kept out of your 2-year-old's reach-the star effects come from a thin film that can wrinkle if played with
  • Makes a little noise when rotating
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Homcasito Star Projector Night Light

The LCD Writing Tablet for Kids may be the best gift for a 2-year-old girl who loves to draw, doodle, or scribble. This fun writing tablet saves on paper, crayons, and markers with a simple, easy-to-use drawing pad to use over and over again for endless pictures and doodles without wasting paper. It also saves on the mess that crayons, markers, and paper make and there is no risk of a child drawing on walls and furniture.

The LCD Writing Tablet for Kids features a dark screen with colorful LCD lighting beneath and pressure-sensitive technology to create colorful glowing lines. The thoughtfully designed screen is eye-friendly and glare-free. The stylus pen creates colorful lines on the pad. The thickness of the lines depends on the amount of pressure a child applies with the stylus pen.

The kid-friendly design of the LCD Writing Tablet for Kids is also parent-approved. It’s slim and lightweight, making it easy to transport. An attached stylus pen eliminates the risk of misplacement. The durable plastic case has gently rounded edges with no sharp corners. A simple erase button completely clears the screen much faster and more completely than magnetic drawing boards. Best of all, a locking feature can save the content on the board so your child can keep her favorite artwork to show off to parents or to display at home before locking for erasing to create something new.

The LCD Writing Tablet for Kids is the best gift for a 2-year-old girl who is a budding artist. It’s also ideal for practicing letters and numbers with an easy-erasing function. Try bringing it along for on-the-go artwork in the car seat or for entertainment during travel.

Key Features
  • Child drawing pad with LCD screen technology in eye-friendly brightness level
  • Pressure sensitive tablet with attached writing stylus
  • Simple erase button with no sliding erase bar needed
  • Includes lock key to save content
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: 2-12
  • Memory: 2
  • Operating System: TOQI
  • Ports: Yes
Pros
  • Creates bright and colorful drawings
  • Durable plastic, ultra-slim case with kid-friendly rounded edge design
  • Saves paper, crayons, and mess with attached stylus to prevent loss
  • Perfect entertainment for car seat or air travel
Cons
  • Lighting is not as bright as pictured
  • Colors cannot be selected
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LCD Writing Tablet for Kids

At 2-years-old, a child is absorbing language at an astonishing rate. It’s the ideal time to read to a child. “A Collection of Stories for 2-Year-Olds” may be the best gift for a 2-year-old girl to help her absorb new vocabulary, capture her imagination, and send her off to sleep with sweet dreams.

This storybook is a beautifully bound hardcover book decorated with a giant number 2 on the cover. The number contains delightful illustrations from the stories and rhymes inside the book.

The big, beautiful blue book is a collection of both classic and new stories, as well as many favorite childhood nursery rhymes. Toddlers love the rhyme and cadence of the most popular, beloved nursery rhymes, which can be read aloud or sung. These are the familiar classics that have set children on the path to a love of language that lasts a lifetime. The beautifully illustrated pages are filled with fun favorites such as “The Three Little Pigs,” and “Goldilocks and the Three Bears.” It also has sweet new stories such as “Muddypaws’ New Friends” that 2-year-old love.
 The stories in this lovely book are beautifully illustrated with fun, colorful artwork depicting every beloved character from the three little pigs to Little Miss Muffet. 2-year-olds love to look at the pictures and point out familiar objects to name.

This book may be the best gift for a 2-year-old girl for her birthday, Christmas, or any occasion. It can also be the beginning of a beautiful collection. Parragon Books also offers “A Collection of Stories” books for 3, 4, and 5 year-olds so a child can drift off to sweet dreams about her favorite characters for years to come.

Key Features
  • Beautifully bound hardcover book of stories and nursery rhymes
  • Perfectly balanced for a 2-year-old attention span
  • Includes classic stories like The Three Little Pigs and Goldilocks, as well as new stories
  • Bright, fun illustrations to capture a toddler's attention
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: 2 year olds
  • Memory: 1
  • Operating System: Parragon Books
  • Ports: No
Pros
  • Contains colorful illustrations to spark a child's imagination
  • Fun, classic nursery rhymes that children love
  • Stories are perfectly timed for a 2-year-old's attention span at bedtime
  • Includes 17 titles
Cons
  • Only 3 complete stories, the rest are short nursery rhymes
  • Book has a strong odor upon opening that may take a few days to dissipate
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A Collection of Stories for 2-Year-Olds

Little girls love to carry a purse just like mom. The best gift for a 2-year-old girl who wants her own purse is the My Beary First Purse gift set. This is an adorable gift set for a little girl. It comes in beautiful gift-ready packaging including a cute box featuring a grosgrain ribbon bow and velcro closure.

The My Beary First Purse gift set includes a sweet pink purse that’s perfectly sized for a toddler. The purse is made of soft pink faux leather with pretty flower appliques and a plush double handle. Inside are all the accessories a little girl needs to be like mom, with a play lipstick in “Beary Red” shade, colorful plastic keys, a mirror, a blue wallet with an appliqued flower detailing, a debit card, notepad, and toy smartphone. Best of all, this set comes with a matching storybook!

The My Beary First Purse Gift Set comes with a beautiful hardcover storybook titled, “My Beary First Purse.” The story features a sweet bear named Beary Bloom’s day with her very first purse. She uses all of the items inside the purse throughout her day. The story features attention-grabbing rhyming verses that are perfect for a 2-year-old. The sweet illustrations show Beary Bloom using the very same pink purse from the gift set and the same fun accessories. Any little girl will love having the same purse and accessories as the bear in the story and can even hold up each item from the purse as the storybook bear uses them.

This is the best gift for a 2-year-old girl who enjoys having a purse to carry just like mom—and it’s magically the same purse that Beary Bloom has in the beautiful storybook!

Key Features
  • Play purse gift set with phone, keys, wallet, notepad, debit card, lipstick and mirror
  • Pink purse is soft, faux-leather with flower appliques and plush handle
  • Gift set comes in a beautiful gift box and includes a hardcover storybook featuring a bear with the same purse and accessories
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: 1-4
  • Memory: 9
  • Operating System: Tickle & Main
  • Ports: No
Pros
  • Packaged in a gift-ready box with velcro closure and ribbon
  • Included storybook has adorable illustrations of a bear using the purse and a story in rhyming verse
  • All items are toxin-free
  • Perfect purse for a 2-year-old girl to take on the go with fun accessories to play with in the car
Cons
  • Toy phone only features a phone screen sticker and does not light up or make sounds
  • Lipstick tube has no lid and doesn't roll up or down
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My Beary First Purse

Kids love to imitate adult behavior. The best gift for a 2-year-old to inspire her to imitate the doctor in her life is the Pretend Play Medical Set with Baby Doll from the Dolls to Play company. This set features an adorable, life-like, 12-inch baby doll made with soft-touch vinyl. She comes dressed in one of 2 adorable outfits and has detailed fingers, toes, and ears—all ready for her medical examination!

The Pretend Play Medical Set with Baby Doll gives a little girl all the pretend medical tools she needs to be a make-believe doctor. It includes a medicine bottle, reflex hammer, otoscope, thermometer, and a toy shot syringe. Best of all, the set includes a realistic stethoscope with a button to make coughing sounds so a child can pretend she is examining a sick patient with a bad cold. Then she can prescribe medicine and give the baby her shots!

One of the ways that 2-year olds play is to imitate the behavior of the adults in their lives. This fun baby doll and medical set can inspire a child to pretend to be a doctor. Experimenting with this kind of play has many positive benefits for a child. The baby doll will also bring out a little girl’s nurturing side. She will get to practice important fine motor skills by dressing and undressing the doll and performing make-believe medical examinations. The doll features a small hole in her mouth so the toy thermometer or medicine syringe will remain in place while a child cares for her patient.

This may be the best gift for a 2-year old to inspire a lifelong love of medical practice—or just for hours of fun!

Key Features
  • Baby doll with medical kit for doctor play
  • Includes a 12 inch baby doll, talking stethoscope, medicine bottle, thermometer, shot needle, and reflex hammer
  • Stethoscope makes realistic coughing noises
  • Doll is soft vinyl with cute outfit and headband with bow
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: 2 and up
  • Memory: 8
  • Operating System: Dolls to Play
  • Ports: Yes, in stethoscope only
Pros
  • Tools are chunky and little finger-friendly
  • Doll has small hole in her mouth to hold thermomenter or medicine syringe
  • Fun for imaginative games
  • Children can learn body parts naming and nurturing skills
Cons
  • Stethoscope does not make heart-beat sound
  • Doll may have different outfit than what is pictured
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Pretend Play Medical Baby Doll Doctor Kit

The best gift for a 2-year-old girl to get her playing and dancing to her own music is the M Sanmersen Piano Mat Musical Keyboard Playmat. This soft, brightly-colored play mat has a row of fun piano keys that make musical notes when a toddler steps on them or presses them with her hands. The sounds are crisp and clear, with a volume control button for parents to keep the noise at an acceptable level.

The M Sanmerson Piano Mat Musical Keyboard Playmat is soft and safe, with colorful non-toxic fabric that’s lightly padded for your toddler to dance, jump, skip, and crawl across to make fun musical tunes. Kids will enjoy dancing and singing along, enhancing verbal and gross motor skills, as well as providing a good outlet for energetic activities toddlers love. By stepping on the keys a child plays each crisp, clear, musical note so she can make up her own tunes. Stepping on the animal picture produces that animal’s sound. Animals include a cat, dog, goose, bird, cow, sheep, horse, and chicken. The sound effects are realistic, from the cat’s cute meow to the sound of a running horse. Just press the brightly labeled “Switch” key to turn the piano note keys into keys that play fun, pre-recorded musical melodies so your child can enjoy hearing entire tunes. Then press the switch key again to change the mat back to individual musical notes.

Music plays when the on-off switch is pressed and lights flash in time to the music. The mat runs on AA batteries and automatically shuts off to save power after 2 minutes of inactivity.

This may be the best gift for a 2-year old girl to get her moving, dancing, singing, and playing. And parents too!

Key Features
  • Multifunctional piano mat with musical notes and animal sounds
  • Foldable mat has flashing lights and adjustable volume
  • Includes 8 keys with piano function and 8 farm sounds
  • Children activate the sounds by stepping on the keys or pressing with hands
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: Yes
  • CPU: 2 and up
  • Memory: 1
  • Operating System: M Sanmersen
  • Ports: Yes
Pros
  • Folds for easy transport
  • Encourages movement, activity, and gross motor skills
  • Includes volume control
  • Encourages musical exploration
Cons
  • Children under age three should be supervised
  • Mat may be slippery on a hard floor- best if used on carpet
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M Sanmersen Piano Mat Musical Keyboard Playmat

The best gift for a 2-year-old girl who loves mermaids is the Nelibu My First Doll Purse. This is an adorable pink, plush child’s purse with a velcro flip-over flap closure that’s easy for tiny fingers to open and close. The purse comes with two soft purple handles and a pretty mermaid with a sequined tail detailed onto the side of the purse. It features many fun textures for small hands to explore, with soft, fluffy plush fabric and puffy mermaid detailing with sequined scales on her pretty pink tail.

The purse comes with a new best friend for a 2-year-old—an adorable plush mermaid with brown hair, a sweet smile, and a pink sequinned tail and pink bikini top. This cuddly little mermaid has a sweet smile, friendly face, and a soft cuddly body. The doll fits neatly inside the purse with her head peeking out of the top so your little girl has a friend with her everywhere she goes. The purse is roomy enough for her to bring along some of her other favorite toys as well.

Most 2-year-olds love to play in two major ways—by imitating adult behaviors and by using their imaginations for fun fantasy games. The Nelibu My First Doll Purse inspires a child to do both. Any little girl will love carrying around a purse just like mom, only inside her purse is a beautiful mermaid friend with a sparkly tail to inspire fun, creative play as she makes up games with her new best friend.

The Nelibu My First Doll Purse is safe and non-toxic. It is constructed of high-quality materials with a soft, comforting texture that a toddler will love.

This may be the best gift for a 2-year-old girl with an imagination!

Key Features
  • Soft, plush pink purse with mermaid doll
  • Purse is soft and fuzzy with simple touch-and-close velcro clasp and soft purple handles
  • Purse has mermaid detailing on the side
  • Included plush mermaid doll with sweet face, sequined tail, and pink bikini top
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: 2 and Up
  • Memory: 2
  • Operating System: Neliblu
  • Ports: No
Pros
  • 2-year-olds will love taking their mermaid friend along with them in the matching purse
  • Inspires important imaginative play in toddlers
  • Sized perfectly for preschool age children
Cons
  • Purse and doll are smaller than they appear in the pictures
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Neliblu My First Doll Purse

Little girls love comfy, pretty pajamas. Carter’s Simple Joys Toddler Girl’s 6-Piece Pajama Set is the best gift for a 2-year-old girl who loves fun, pretty pajamas. This is a mix and match set of pajamas in pretty colors and fun prints. Each set includes three tops and three bottoms. Two tops have short sleeves for summer wear, and one top has long sleeves for chilly weather. Two bottoms are pajama pants, and one is a pair of pajama shorts. All of the sets are mixable and matchable for fun.

These cute girl’s pajamas are 100 percent cotton. To meet safety standards, children’s pajamas must either contain flame-retardant chemicals or else be snug-fitting to resist flames. This set of Carter’s Simple Joys Pajamas fit snugly to meet safety standards without adding controversial chemicals. The 100 percent cotton fabric makes the pajamas comfortable, soft, and breathable for greater comfort at bedtime. And when your child sleeps better—you sleep better.

Bedtime will be easier and more fun when your 2-year old can look forward to getting into her adorable pajamas in the evening for cuddles and a story. Especially if she can mix and match and choose her own top and bottoms. All bottoms feature soft, comfortable elasticized waistbands and ribbed cuffs. The tops and bottoms feature fun colors and patterns such as monkies and moons, fluffy sheep, and polka-dot PJs that spell out, “Let’s Stay Up Late.”

Carter’s Simple Joys Toddler Girl’s 6-Piece Pajama Set has a wide size-range with sizes from 6-months old to size 8, making them the best gift for a 2-year-old girl of any size.

Key Features
  • 100 percent cotton pajamas in a six piece set with many color and print choices
  • 6-piece set of color-coordinating pajama tops and bottoms
  • Includes two short-sleeved tops, 1 long-sleeved top, and 2 pajama pants, and 1 pair of pajama shorts
  • Soft, stretchy, snug fitting design for fire safety
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: Sized for 6 months to 8 years
  • Memory: 6
  • Operating System: Carters
  • Ports: No
Pros
  • Comes in adorable colors and patterns with sweet animal friends
  • Comfortable elastic waistbands and ribbed cuffs
  • Mix and match sets
  • Avoids flame-resistance chemicals by using a snug-fit design
Cons
  • Sizes run small so size up 1 size
  • Some of the tops include glitter which a little girl may love, but glitter may shed
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Carters Simple Joys Toddler Girl's 6-Piece Pajama Set

The Suerico Cute Toddler Backpack Plush Doll Toy is the best gift for a 2-year-old girl who likes to bring her special things everywhere she goes. This cute, colorful, child-friendly backpack can fit her favorite toys, special blanket, snacks, or extra clothes and diapers. She will feel like a big girl with a backpack of her very own. Best of all, this backpack comes with a new best friend to keep her company wherever she goes!

The Suerico Cute Toddler Backpack is a lightweight, durable canvas backpack in bright, kid-friendly colors with fanciful polka-dots. It features a top zippered closure and adjustable shoulder straps so it can fit any sized child. She can also carry the backpack by the loop-style top handle if she doesn’t want to wear it on her back. It has pink nylon lining that’s easy to wipe clean. The adorable plush doll attaches to the front of the backpack with velcro so even tiny fingers can easily detach it to play with or for cuddling when she needs a soft, comforting friend. The plush doll has a sweet face, polka-dotted outfit to match the backpack, and fluffy brown thread curls.
This cute backpack comes with bonus gifts, including a toddler bracelet and two butterfly hair stickers that a little girl will love.

The Suerico Cute Toddler Backpack with Plush Doll is the best gift for a 2-year-old girl who needs a backpack for daycare or a summer camp program. It’s great as an over-night bag when she has a sleepover at grandma’s house. It can also carry her lunch for a picnic or her beach towel and sunscreen for a trip to the pool or beach. It’s a perfect travel companion for road trips to carry her travel toys, crayons, coloring books, and more—all with her adorable plush doll along for the ride!

Key Features
  • Adorable polka-dot child's backpack
  • Includes attached/ removable plush doll toy
  • Comes with two fun mermaid bracelets and two butterfly hair clips
  • Comes with bonus gifts of toddler bracelet and butterfly hair stickers
Specifications
  • Brand: No
  • Storage: No
  • CPU: 1 to 5
  • Memory: 1
  • Operating System: Suerico
  • Ports: No
Pros
  • Perfectly sized for small children between 1 and 5 years old
  • Fun backpack companion so she can carry snacks, drinks, toys, spare clothes, etc.
  • Doll is attached with velcro so it can be removed and played with
Cons
  • Shoulder straps are not padded
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Suerico Cute Toddler Backpack Plush Doll Toy

How to Choose the Best Gifts for 2-Year-Old Girls

A 2-year-old girl has already developed some serious ideas about what she likes, what she wants to eat, what she wants to play with, and what she really—vocally—dislikes. At 2-years old, a child is beginning to leave babyhood behind. But that doesn’t mean that she won’t call it back at a moment’s notice if the mood strikes and she wants some babying for a while. The best gift for a 2-year-old girl is a toy or other item that allows her to explore new ideas and act them out through play. They might be gifts that let her imitate adult behavior or those that encourage her to develop both gross and fine motor skills. And of course, it should be something that she sees only as a fun toy, something pretty or interesting to wear, or something that personalizes her space so she can begin to express herself in ways that don’t involve tantrums!

Give Her the Gift of Self-Expression

The best gift for a 2-year-old girl might be a toy or other item that lets her express herself. After all, language and communication is still a challenge for a 2-year-old. Gifts that allow her to express her feelings through drawing or creating are always a good choice. While sometimes it can be a challenge to find gifts for a 2-year-old to express themselves through artwork that doesn’t involve the potential for a big mess, there are many innovative new items that make 2-year-old creativity less messy and easier to manage. These make great gifts that a toddler will love and a parent will very much appreciate as well!

Gifts to enhance her self-expression may also be something special to wear or something to make her bedroom more of a space of her own that says something about who she is and what she likes.

Gifts to Help her Grow

While a 2-year-old girl may be growing like a weed (or a beautiful flower) on the outside, she is also growing inside, under the surface. New connections are quickly developing between her brain and her limbs and she’s rapidly acquiring important new skills. Some of the best gifts for a 2-year-old are those things that help to enhance these new skills. This could be something that gets her up, moving, playing, dancing, or jumping—either indoors or outside in the backyard. It could also be something that encourages fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination such as puzzles, toy tools and utensils to manipulate, or a doll to dress and undress.

Some of the best toys for a 2-year-old girl are those that enhance her fine motor skills and encourage critical thinking, while at the same time it must be something engaging and fun, so for her, the skills-building is simply experienced as a good time with lots of fun play.

Gifts to Let Her Imagination Soar

The best gift for a 2-year old girl is something that sparks her imagination and encourages her to spend time in fun, imaginative, unstructured play. For a 2-year old, this could be something that she can use to pretend to be an adult, like a purse just like mommy’s filled with child-friendly play accessories, or a backpack like an older sibling wears, or even a toy doctor’s kit so she can pretend to be a doctor caring for a sick patient. She may want to use tools just like her dad does, or pretend to cook like mom—or the other way around!

The best gift for a 2-year-old girl should send her off on flights of fanciful play and offer her the ability to imagine that she’s a doctor today, a princess tomorrow, and a mermaid next week!

Resources— KidsHealth, Parents, HealthyChildren