Great Gift Ideas for Tween Girls

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Shopping doesn’t have to be a daunting task. If you need a gift for a tween girl, then check out our list of cool things tweens will love. We have picked out some really fun things, in all price ranges. From brand new crafts to try to things they can explore, there is something for every pre-teen on your list.

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1. LittleBits Rule Your Room Invention Kit – Domain Defender

The LittleBits Rule Your Room Kit comes with instructions and parts for 8 inventions such as a Burglar Buzzer, Domain Defender, Top Secret Safe and inspiration for thousands more! Your tween boys will love developing engineering and problem-solving skills by creating interactive inventions. Little Bits has lots of other great kits like the Smart Home Kit, Coding Kit, Giszmos and Gadgets Kit and More.

2. Adventures in Lettering Book and Brush & Line Double Ended Markers, Set of 24

Tween artists will love this introduction to hand lettering! Taught by the popular and skilled hand-lettering artist Dawn Nicole Warnaar, Adventures in Lettering combines creative self-expression and beautiful designs for an exploration of various lettering exercises. This hand-lettering workbook features hand-lettering lessons for beginners, from playing with style and brush calligraphy basics to illustrated hand-lettered designs and lettering styles. Once you’ve mastered the basic techniques, apply them to additional crafts and projects. Pair this great book with these Brush & Line Double Ended Markers. Each brush and line marker has a brush tip on one side and a fine point on the other making this marker set a fantastic choice for the serious adult coloring artist. Color in the most detailed coloring illustrations with the 0.7mm fine tip. You’ll find the brush tip is a fantastic tool for creating spectacular coloring textures that will make your coloring projects stand out among the rest.

3. HP Sprocket Mini Printer

With the HP Sprocket Photo Printer, your tween girl can conveniently print photos from her smartphone or tablet—and from virtually anywhere. Make time with friends more memorable with instantly shareable 2 x 3-inch snapshots or stickers of every fun-filled moment. Pocket-size printer: About the size of a smartphone, this Bluetooth printer goes anywhere. It easily fits into a bag or backpack, and it’s so light you’ll barely notice it’s there. The rechargeable battery prints up to 30 sheets of photo paper per charge, and recharges in just 60 to 80 minutes. Prints with personality: She can show off her creativity with filters, frames, stickers, text, emojis, and more. The HP Sprocket App lets you customize your photos before you print them.

4. Harry Potter Illustrated Hardcover Books

You tween will love reading their favorite Harry Potter books over and over and these beautifully-illustrated versions make great gifts. These books will make their favorite Harry Potter movies come alive, right on the pages and you will love that your tweens are reading!

5. Watch Ya’ Mouth Game

Watch Ya’ Mouth is the AUTHENTIC, Hilarious, Mouthguard Party Game and your tweens will get a kick out of this game. In this laughter-inducing, competitive card-based game, teams of players, hampered by cheek retractors, attempt to read and interpret/speak out phrases and…. Hilarity ensues! Good for Ages 8+, with virtually unlimited players (when played using our “Alternate” rule set), Watch Ya’ Mouth is a must for any gathering, party, game night, or family night. Our mouthpieces are FDA and CE certified, our cards are thick and durable, and our community is second to none.

6. Soccerwave Jr. Soccer Rebounder and Trainer

Your tween can practice her soccer without the help of others with the Soccerwave Jr. She can practice different soccer techniques like trapping, heading, volleying, ground ball and pass accuracy with this cool soccer training tool. The most unique part of the Soccerwave Jr. is its graduated varying curvature at the top edge of the front (curved) net. This unique feature causes the ball to be returned in different trajectories and forces the player to adjust his or her position to deal with theses unpredictable returns. The Soccerwave Jr. separates into two parts for ease of transport.

7. Dog Crew Socks

These cute crew dog socks are a great gift idea for tween girls. They are practical, cute and affordable. This set of socks includes 4 different fun pairs of socks.

8. Cardiff Skates by Cardiff Skate Company

Your tweens will love these cool snap-in cruiser Cardiff Skates by Cardiff Skate Company. My daughter has a pair and she absolutely loves them. These are not inline skates… Not roller skates… They’re Cardiff Skates. They are recreational skates that are built to be smooth, quiet and quick-like inline skates which are stable and easy to stop and stand. Most tennis shoes snap right in to the skates. There are youth sizes or adult sizes and each type of skate fits a variety of sizes.

9. Washi Tape Crafts Book

Older tweens will love this grown up Washi Tape Crafts Book. It is packed full of amazing projects and ideas, this book has everything you need to transform everyday items with washi tape. It includes 10 super adorable rolls of washi tape to get your tweens started! This book will grown with them as some of the projects are easier and some are more complicated. It includes techniques like precision cutting, wrapping, and weaving; making bows, rosettes, and other shapes; writing on washi tape—and stamping on it, too! Plus, how to weather-proof designs to make them permanent.

10. Creatibles DIY Erasers Kit

My daughter bought the Creatibles DIY Erasers kit with her own money and she had so much fun making these. I was shocked at how well the kit worked. The easy make and bake eraser kit where you can shape your very own eraser. You build it, bake it and erase with it. Make all sorts of amazing eraser creations with this Do It Yourself kit. Creatibles comes with 12 pliable clay colors that can be mixed for an endless amount of hues. Create any kind of cool shapes, characters or whatever you want your eraser to be. Follow the baking instructions and you’ll have an amazing eraser all your own. And it comes in a nifty reusable case. It’s fun to make and fun to erase.

11. Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 Instant Film Camera

I adore this super cool Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 Instant Film Camera and it makes a great gift. Think of this camera as a modern day polaroid camera. How fun it is to take a picture and instant photos pop out. You will love the features of this camera, plus it has a light, slim body and comes fun colors like pink, blue, yellow, white and black. You will also love these fun accessories for your Instax Mini 8 camera that you can gift, along with the camera itself.

12. iScream Pillows

You tweens will go crazy over these larger than life iScream Pillows. There’s always room for one more fun, bright, comfy, crazy pillow – especially when it’s as fun as this yummy treat of a pillow! This full-color, soft poly/spandex blend pillow features a photoreal print on both sides and is super comfortable and squishy since it’s filled with microbeads that move with you. The perfect combination of fun, design and comfort! They come in all sorts of fun prints like donuts, cakes, a gumball machine, popcorn, a cookie and more.

13. Ravensburger Mickey and Minnie: Eiffel Tower – 3D Puzzle

This Ravensburger Mickey and Minnie: Eiffel Tower – 3D Puzzle is just adorable and so much fun to put together. Your tween will love constructing a famous landmark with this new Easy Click Technology in interlocking puzzle pieces. With uniquely curved, hinged and flat pieces, you can create stunning 3D replicas of well-known structures around the world. It’s different to any other 3D puzzling experience. Sturdy when completed, easy-clean surface, no delaminating, no peeling and best of all – no glue required. Your older tweens will have so much fun piecing this together.

14. HUE Animation Studio complete stop motion animation kit with camera, software and book

HUE Animation Studio complete stop motion animation kit contains everything that you need to create your own stop motion animation videos. For use at home or for school projects, it’s a creative and educational pastime that can be enjoyed by the whole family. This perfect gift for kids encourages creativity and imagination. Whether you’re making a LEGO brickfilm with lasers and explosions; filming a claymation movie or watching a flower bloom using Time-lapse photography, you can bring anything to life in minutes with the easy-to-use software.

15. Conair Foot Spa and PUEEN 3D Nail Art Sticker Collection Set

Tweens that love to spa will love this fun Conair Foot Spa and PUEEN 3D Nail Art Sticker Collection Set. A luxurious spa experience awaits your tween with Conair’s relaxing foot bath. Step into the vibrating, soothing foot spa. Easy toe-touch control allows you to activate all the features. Afterwards, they can paint their toes and finish with a cute decal to give your tween that fresh from the salon look.

16. Klutz Grow Your Own Crystal Jewelry and Klutz Mini Pom Pom Pets

I have bought many Klutz craft kits for my daughter and I have never been disappointed The Klutz Grow Your Own Crystal Jewelry and Klutz Mini Pom Pom Pets are from their newest collection and your tweens will love doing these projects. All of the supplies needed along with the instruction book are included and these kits are perfect for raining or snowy days.

17. A Smart Girl’s Guide: Friendship Troubles : Dealing with fights, being left out & the whole popularity thing, American Girl

What tween girl hasn’t had friendship troubles and this newly-revised book by American Girl helps to navigate through friendship issues. This book discusses backstabbing, triangles and other tough friendship problems. While this may seem like a very practical gift, American Girl seems to somehow make light of difficult situations.

18. Lego Friends Heartlake Puppy Daycare

Animal lovers will adore this cute Lego Friends Heartlake Puppy Daycare set. All the dogs of Heart lake City love coming to play at Andrea and Mia’s Puppy Daycare. Run around the agility course with them in the garden-it’s like a playground for pups! Head inside to give Luna the Husky and Toffee the Pug a good wash in the bath and a pamper session. Then they can have some food and rest on their special beds while you take a new booking on the computer.

19. Sewing School: 21 Sewing Projects Kids Will Love to Make

I love that there is a super simple book for tweens to learn a little bit about sewing. This book includes lots of easy, hand-sewing projects for your girls to try, even if your family is not a sewing family. This book boasts that very little parent supervision is needed, which is great because most tweens are so independent. Sewing School: 21 Sewing Projects Kids Will Love to Make includes patterns and instructions for 21 projects such as a doll blanket, pillow, drawstring bag and more. Once hand-sewing is mastered, your girls can try Sewing School 2: Lessons in Machine Sewing; 20 Projects Kids Will Love to Make, which is a beginning machine sewing book. This highly-reviewed book includes 20 different machine sewing projects.

20. Nerf Rebelle Star Shot Targeting Set

Your tweens will love having their own Nerf Rebelle Star Shot Targeting Set, just like their brothers. They can compete with friends and test their skills in a bow-blasting competition with the Star Shot targeting set! Just Load up the crossbow blaster with the suction darts and pinpoint your mark with the targeting light. When you’ve lined up your precision shot, pull the trigger to fire! With two different dart colors – one for you, one for your opponent – it’s easy to see who had the best skills with each crossbow shot.

21. Elenco Snap Circuits Lights Physics Kit

If your tween loves science, they will enjoy this super cool Elenco Snap Circuits Lights Physics Kit. My kids have had the opportunity to use the award-winning Snap Circuits kits at school and they are so neat. This highly-reviewed kit will allow your tween to build 175 projects and they can even integrate their ipod or MP3 to control the lights.

22. Faber Castel Gel Sticks – 12 ct. and Faber Castel Eco Pencils 12 Metallic Colored Pencils Arts & Crafts

These Faber Castel art supplies aren’t your average Crayola products. They are cool, innovative supplies for your budding tween artist. I love these Eco Pencils 12 Metallic Colored Pencils . These are high quality and will add pretty metallic colors to all of their projects. If you have never seen Gel Sticks before, these ones are geared towards young artists. They are semi-solid paint sticks that roll up and down. You can rub them straight onto our project or you can dab a bit of water on a brush and use the gel stick that way.

23. International Arrivals Metallic Appeel Peelable Crayons and Design by Me: Treats

Design by Me: Treats is an older girl book for coloring projects. American Girl has a few of these, but the one above is newly-released this year. My daughter has one of the Design by Me books at home and she has enjoyed every project. There are fun fold-out posters, metallic and flocked pages and more. We also love these Metallic Appeel Peelable Crayons . They are similar to crayons, but you peel away the paper to sharpen them. They are long like a pencil or pen and have really lasted in our house!

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