Best Christmas gifts and toys for 4

The VTech KidiZoom duo is the perfect first camera for a four-year-old. For a start, it’s built to withstand the inevitable bashes that may come its way and the chunky size makes it easy for little kids to grip securely. Despite its toy-like appearance, this camera means business and we were very impressed with the high quality 5-megapixel photos and videos it was capable of taking.

At first we were a little unsure of how easily our four-year-old testers would get the hang of the camera – there are a lot of different features to work out – but we really only had to point out a couple of buttons and they worked the rest out themselves. There were howls of laughter as our testers discovered the funny camera effects, with particular favourites including the funfair-esque wavy mirror effect and the “hedgehog on your head” filter (yes, really).

There’s a selection of easy-to-play games on the camera too, as well as a voice recorder and video. It’s simple to switch into selfie mode and the camera has a decent 128MB internal storage to save all their photos – of which, we can guarantee, there will be a lot. It also takes a 32GB micro SD card – which you can buy separately, and needs 4 AA batteries (included) to work.