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Gift Guides for Boys & Girls 5 and Under

Gift Guides for Boys & Girls 5 and Under

The 2020 Christmas Gift Guide this year is more important than ever. Featuring multicultural and inclusive toys, interactive and imaginative toys to play with at home and outside activities to keep everyone sane.

In our family we follow the “4 gifts” rule. Something they NEED, something to READ, something they WANT and something to WEAR.

We do this for a couples reasons. Ultimately so they don’t think of Christmas as just a time of exorbitant amounts of unnecessary gifts, to keep gifts more intentional and to help budgeting for gift giving to others.

As followers of Jesus, we celebrate Christmas as the birth of our Lord and Savior. We give gifts just as the three Kings (or three Wise Men) gave gifts to Jesus. (Matthew 2:11)

We also remember that Jesus shows His great love for us by giving us the free gift of Salvation and so giving thoughtful gifts to those important to us, shows our love for them. (Romans 5:15)

All of the gifts I have chosen are either intentional for our gift giving purposes (need, read, want and wear) or are thoughtful and different.

I especially love finding small businesses to support on Etsy and blessing small shops with our purchases for truly unique and personalized items. So here’s our 2020 Gift Guides for Boys & Girls 5 and Under.


Little Girl’s Gift Guide (2-5)

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