Leapster Explorer Camera or Other Camera for a 6 Year Old

Get a real camera, not a kids one. My girls desperately wanted cameras for their fourth birthday, so I got the Fisher Prices ones. Pieces of junk - the resolution was awful. Returned those and got Vtech ones. Resolution was even worse. Returned those... tried two other kids brands. Truly, they're all awful if you want to print out the pictures.

So I ended up getting Sony Cybershots on clearance at Amazon (about $45 each) and they've been great. My kids use them all the time and they've held up just fine.

My kids have vtech cameras, and the picture quality is very bad. I just bought my son the Leap Pad, it has a camera built into it. He loves his Leap Pad!! The pictures are much better! It is also a video camera.

You might be surprised to hear it, but stay away from the "kiddie cameras."

After some deliberation, I bought my younger son a "real," inexpensive digital camera for his 7th birthday. I got him an Insiginia brand 8MP digital cameral from Best Buy for $30 (on sale) and a 2 year protection plan for $20. That protection plan covers EVERYTHING...drops, scratches, breaks, pouring juice on it...whatever. But I've never had to use it. He takes pretty decent care of it, but it's still been dropped MANY times. We use rechargable batteries in it.

Grandma got him an 8GB flash card for the memory and he can literally take THOUSANDS of pictures before it's full.

With the kiddie camera, they're cheap, the batteries die FAST, the pictures are awful, the memory is non-existent, and it simply won't stand the test of time.

T's camera also does video. Some of the videos he and his brother have done are HILARIOUS.

So that's my advice. Look for a "real" digital camera on sale.

Good luck to you!