So something that she can play with without it being active would be huge.
But also something where she can make it do things to build stories around and bring other toys into.
They have loads of transformers, hotwheels, playsets and Lego. She loves vector but can't talk clearly enough but he is her little friend.
Any ideas? Please don't respond if you are going to suggest 'go outside' etc, it's not helpful.
I chose this, because I like robots as well, we already have Lego, she loved playing with duplo and with help could manage to build a smaller 5+ lego set.
It is not cheap, but you can build several things out of it (I remember a Jhonny 5 style robot, a buldozer/tank(?), a guitar and animatronic cat.
The programming interface is simmilar to Scratch Jr, and she can manage it fairly well (mostly playing with the sampler set included with some of the builds, i.e. when robot-cat is supposed to sing :-)
The builds itself are fairly complicated so you'd be doing most of those.
Super simple and doesn’t have the distractions associated with iPads, etc. My son’s school used it for mapping unit... each team of kids drew a pirate treasure map for the bot to follow.
My parents bought a few sphero bots for my kids when they were young... they are a little too abstract for most kids until about 2nd grade. Now (age 8), he loves the Sphero Ollie.
Check out Lego First Lego League for when they are a little older.