Best Toys for 5-Year-Old Girls

One of the keys to the popularity of LEGO® sets is their ability to combine fun and learning in a subtle, unforced way. While playing with their building sets, your child is developing their physical dexterity, along with cognitive skills including spatial reasoning, problem-solving and resilience.

This is especially important around the age of 5, when kids are beginning to understand their likes and dislikes, and are most able to absorb new information. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of the best LEGO sets for 5-year-old girls, featuring everything from LEGO® Friends Heartlake City building sets to exciting dinosaur sets!

Heartlake City Bunny Hotel

Open a house for rabbits in the comfort of your own home with the LEGO® Friends Heartlake City Bunny Hotel (42679) set! Your 5-year-old will find lots to love here, with 2 bunnies, carrot-themed accessories and a hotel building featuring a sleeping area, outside seating area and pet door. It also comes with 2 minidoll LEGO® Friends characters, Leo and Paisley!

This 161-piece set is part of the LEGO Friends collection, which means there is plenty of scope for expansion. Budding builders can combine the set with others in the Heartlake City range, providing further opportunities for gaining confidence in expressing their creativity and developing their fine motor skills.

Heartlake City Convenience Store

This LEGO® Friends Heartlake City Convenience Store (42680) set offers a truly exciting building experience, allowing kids to oversee and maintain a thriving local store. The eye-catching colors are perfect for young kids, who will love the instantly recognizable convenience store setting as they start out on their construction journey.

The set includes minidolls of LEGO® Friends characters Autumn and Zac, along with a pet dog to keep them company. Curious children will love the little details – they can stock the shelves with a range of items including bread, milk, carrots and even popcorn. Additional features include a shopping cart, cash register and grocery box. There’s even a recycling point for environmentally-conscious kids!

LEGO® | Disney sets

Role play is a major part of what makes LEGO® sets so popular, and our range of LEGO®│Disney Princess builds is perfect for any kid with a vivid imagination and a love of fairy tales! From timeless classics in our LEGO® ǀ Disney Princess Mini Jasmine and Rapunzel (43303) set to the modern Frozen icons of the LEGO® ǀ Disney Princess Mini Anna and Elsa (43284) set, our collection features all of your favorite Disney characters.

Explore land and sea alongside Ariel and her faithful pals Flounder and Sebastian with the LEGO® ǀ Disney Princess Ariel's Magical Mini Palace (43285) set, an ideal choice for encouraging young storytellers. They can even push the boundaries of their creativity with the LEGO® ǀ Disney Princess Mini Belle & Tiana with Castle (43291) toy. The set pairs Beauty and the Beast’s Belle with Tiana from the Princess and the Frog, despite their first screen appearances taking place 18 years apart!

Moana’s Island Fun

Join the all-action Disney hero Moana on a beach adventure with the Moana's Island Fun (43260) set! This exciting building toy set features a waterfall slide hiding a secret entrance and Micro-dolls of Moana and her younger sister Simea, along with pig sidekick Pua.

This specially designed set is double-sided with lock and hinge features for increased functionality. This means the set can be locked together as a contained display piece, or opened out so that fans can get a sneak peek at the references and inside jokes held within. Creative minds can have even more fun combining the set with others from the Moana range as they come up with their own island activities and stories!

Axolotl Adventure Boat

Young explorers will love this Axolotl Adventure Boat (42681) set from the LEGO® Friends range, featuring a bright and bold color scheme that is sure to appeal to budding builders. The set contains 2 LEGO Friends, Leo and Alba, and 2 mini axolotl toys, along with an axolotl-themed Adventure Boat, giving plenty of opportunity for kids to go wherever their imagination takes them.

The LEGO Friends collection provides a great platform for kids to develop their storytelling skills, with a wide variety of sets that can be used in tandem to create a world of their own.

Rescue Vehicles

Encourage your kid to explore their imagination through play, with the LEGO® City Rescue Vehicles collection! These sets are perfect for young builders, providing just the right level of challenge and supporting their development in a fun and exciting way.

The Fire Rescue Helicopter (60411) set includes a firefighter minifigure and water and fire elements, while the helicopter itself has a projectile function for putting out the blaze! Kids can also expand their emergency response unit with the Fire Rescue Boat (60373) toy. The set features a cool firefighting jetpack and speedboat dinghy with attachable flames, for added realism.

There’s also the Emergency Ambulance (60451) set which is ideal for anyone with a passion for vehicles. Opening side panels and doors provide access to emergency medical equipment including a syringe, medical bag and stretcher. This immersive set includes 2 minifigures, a paramedic and a skateboarder (with added skate ramp), so kids can play out stories of rescue and recovery, or come up with their own narratives.

Holiday Adventure Camper Van

Perfect for kids with a passion for role play, the LEGO® City range toys opens up a world of creative possibilities with an emphasis on realism. With this Holiday Adventure Camper Van (60454) set, townsfolk can escape to the country in style, with a fully furnished living space including bunk beds, kitchen and bathroom.

The set has an opening side panel that provides access to the interior, where your child will find accessories including 2 mugs, a croissant, a guitar and even a baby bottle! It also comes with 2 minifigures, a baby figure and a campfire setting, so young builders can really immerse themselves in the story of a fun family vacation camping in the countryside.

Medium Creative Brick Box

Let your imagination really run wild with the Medium Creative Brick Box (10696) set from the LEGO® Classic collection! Inventive minds will love this set, which offers a blank canvas for budding storytellers to come up with their own original play concepts and narratives.

The set contains 790 bricks in a range of 33 colors, with a huge variety of windows, doors, baseplates and tires – so whatever a child can imagine, they’ll be able to make it a reality. Whether they want to recreate existing models or design unique builds of their own, the Creative Brick Box set has them covered!

Creative Dinosaurs

Teach your kid about prehistory and nature in a fun and exciting way with the Creative Dinosaurs (11041) construction toy set. This set contains 5 buildable dinosaurs that children will instantly recognize – Triceratops, Brontosaurus, Pterosaur and the fearsome T. rex with baby. Young builders can learn about these incredible creatures while developing their problem-solving skills and hand-eye coordination during the building process.

The set also contains a palm tree and a volcano to recreate a prehistoric setting, so creative minds can really immerse themselves in the era of the dinosaurs. Kids can even expand the environment further with other sets in the range, to create a true dino kingdom! And if that’s not exciting enough, the Creative Dinosaurs (11041) set offers kids free build ideas and build- and rebuild options.

Looking for more LEGO® sets?

This is just a small selection of toys from our extensive range suitable for 5-year-old girls. If you’re still looking for gift ideas, make sure to explore our recommended toys for girls – but remember that we design our building toys for all children!