Unique Gifts for Tween Girls

If your older tweens are asking for a vanity, this super cool, highly-reviewed Makeup Vanity includes lights, a mirror and power outlets. This modern vanity is paired with lights and it is both practical and has the aesthetic style that your tweens will love. This vanity is designed with a big mirror, 10 lights surrounding the mirror, and you can change the color in three modes and adjust the brightness. Plus this vanity includes two sockets and two USB ports for electronic devices and phone charging. Note a chair is not included. This simple swivel chair is a great choice.

This adorable STMT Custom Candle Making Kit is a fun project for tweens and makes a great gift. Self-care has never looked or smelled so good with this all-in-one wax candle kit. Create and customize 2 fragrant candles that express your mood using soothing scents and gorgeous colors that will make you feel comfy and cared for. Use the color droppers to make pink and blue candles, or mix them up and make brilliant shades of purple! Personalize your candle tins with vibrantly patterned stickers and personal designs to enhance your décor. Mix & match styles or use the “Just Because” sticker to gift one to a friend! Experiment with scents including lavender, sweet orange, and rose for a one-of-a-kind scent that is uniquely you. Use the recipe card to write down your fragrance mix so that you can make your signature candle time and time again. New to candle making? Don’t stress! The easy-to-follow instruction booklet makes this teen craft accessible to everyone ages 8 years and up.

Even the sportiest of girls will love this Lululemon Crossbody Camera Bag. This lightweight cross-body delivers plenty of space without weighing you down. Two zippered compartments let you keep essentials organized and close-at-hand. Choose from several colorways!

One of my kids has this Kodak Mini Shot Retro 3 Digital Camera and Photo Printer. I love that you can take instant photos with the camera or print photos from your phone. The Kodak Mini Shot 3 Retro is a digital camera with a built-in photo printer, so you can print your images or cancel them after you have taken them. With this instant digital camera, you can also print 3x3" photos directly from the gallery of your mobile device via Bluetooth. Kodak Mini Shot 3 Retro is compatible with Apple iPhone, iPad & Android devices. Plus, the Kodak Mini Shot 3 Retro utilizes 4PASS technology, which allows you to print flawless photos in just a few seconds. As the photos are printed on layers of color and laminated, they are protected against fingerprints and water. Photos last over a 100 years!

If you are looking for a fun party game for your tweens, this You Can't Say Ummm is a great, highly-reviewed game. This is a noisy party game with one super, simple mission – you can’t say “umm”.Two teams race to get their pieces to the end of the board first. They’ll do it by describing as many strange sounding objects as they can, from the random cards they pick up. The only problem is: you can’t say “umm”. Every time you do, the bell will sound, adding to the pressure!As each team gets closer to the end, more and more sounds become off limit, making it a frantic dash to the finish line.

JBL is one of my favorite brands for high quality speaker. This JBL Go 4 is ultra-portable, dustproof and waterproof, making it perfect for on-the-go tweens. Don't let its little size fool you. The JBL Go 4 packs a serious musical punch. Your friends won't believe how much great JBL Pro Sound comes out of such a small speaker. Up to 7 hours of playtime plus 2 hours with Playtime Boost: Don't sweat the small stuff like charging your battery. JBL Go 4 gives you up to 7 hours of playtime on a single charge. Tap Playtime Boost to add up to 2 more hours to your battery life. The JBL Go 4's IP67 waterproof and dustproof rating ensures this portable speaker can handle almost any environment, from a poolside party to a seaside picnic. Choose from so many fun colorways!

This Klutz Make Your Own Mini Erasers, Kawaii Style is a cute kit. Make your kawaii dreams come true with magical, bakeable, and moldable eraser clay. Choose from up to 35 designs inspired by super cute kawaii culture with step-by-step instructions and size guides to make sure your eraser matches the photo. Once you bake the clay in an ordinary kitchen oven or toaster oven, it becomes a rubbery, slightly squishy eraser -- that really erases pencil marks! The kit includes a rainbow of clay, a custom clay-shaping tool, safety-tested metal eyes for the erasers, and a punch-out paper display to show off your creations.

This new Klutz Beadlings Kit is a unique craft kit for tweens. It's an itty-bitty beaded bonanza! With over 3,500 seed beads in 9 different colors, you can make 24 oh-so-small designs, including: watermelon, mushroom, lizard, flamingo, rainbow, and one seriously small strawberry. Did we mention the rubber chicken? This kit comes with everything you need to turn your beadlings into charm bracelets, key chains, and more!

This classic, Kendra Scott Elisa Necklace is still super popular with tween girls. It comes in so many colorways and is just simply classic!

This super affordable and highly-reviewed Bluboon Duffle Travel Bag is right on trend for your tweens. This adorable bag comes in so many super cute prints. The bag is water resistant and has a separate shoe compartment and a wet/dry pocket for dirty or wet clothes. This bag would be so adorable for sleepovers.

This fun, That Escalated Quickly Game from Exploding Kittens is a great game for tweens. To play That Escalated Quickly, read out a simple question (ex. I’m locked in a tiny room. What else is locked in here with me from cutest to scariest). Then everyone is assigned a secret number from one to ten. Next, each player answers the question, and the intensity of that answer is based on their secret number (ex. 1= a bunny, 10= a grizzly bear with chainsaw arms.) Finally, the person who read the question has to try and sort those answers into the correct order. If they get it right, everyone wins! This game is hilarious, energetic, and a great way to get to know your friends and family a little bit better.

This affordable and adorable, small paint by number kit would be a fun project for older tweens. This set includes a pre-printed, numbered 8 x 12 inch canvas, 3 brushes and paints. Choose from a variety of kits.

This Cloud Fragrance from Ariana Grande is super popular and it's a little big less expensive that most fragrances. Empowering and optimistic, the Ariana Grande Cloud Pink fragrance is inspired by a confidence that reveals both beauty and strength, no matter the storm. This fragrance has notes of pineapple, dragonfruit, vanilla orchid, coconut water, praline and more.

With thousands of amazing reviews, this 4M Deluxe Crystal Growing Steam Science Kit makes a great gift for your science-loving tweens. Create your own stunning crystal collection! Follow simple steps to grow over 10 crystals including a glow-in-the-dark crystal and 2 geode pairs. 4M steam powered kids science kits introduce them to science, technology, engineering, art and math.

This new game is a fun gift idea for tweens. The Traitor Tots party game is the hot potato card game of betrayal and sabotage! In this light strategy card game, players pass a Hot Potato, try to avoid its BOOM card, and get the most Chips to win. Take turns playing Action cards to steal Chips, switch teams, pass the Hot Potato, and more. Whenever someone plays a Nuke card, the player with the Hot Potato draws its bottom card. If they reveal the BOOM card, everyone on their team loses the round and anyone on the other team scores Chips. The player with the most Chips at the end of 3 rounds wins! The Traitor Tots game is a spudtacular, fast-paced game for kids and adults that livens up Family Game Night and get-togethers with best spuds.

My daughter got her first electronic craft cutter when she was just seven and I was shocked at how she just figure out how to do it very quickly. This Silhouette Portrait Electronic Cutting Machine is the smaller of the Silhouette craft cutters and it would make a great gift for older tweens. They will love creating their own vinyl decals, cards for friends or cool personalized t-shirts. There is a bit of a learning curve to it, but there are lots of great videos online to help your tweens get started! You can choose from a variety of machine bundles. If your tween would like to make vinyl decals, I highly recommend this starter pack from Oracal.

Escape rooms are all the rage and now your tweens can challenge with these highly-reviewed cool games from Thames and Kosmos. EXIT: The Game is a series of affordable escape room games for the home. Players must solve riddles and puzzles and crack codes to escape from an imaginary room or environment. But the clock is ticking! Can you escape? Each Exit game has a new theme and they are rated by difficulty on the front of each box.

The tweens are still loving these Ugg Ultra Mini Boots. These adorable boots will keep their feet warm and are super cozy. They look cute with a variety of outfits! You can find these in a variety of colors and in kids and adult sizing.

These highly-reviewed and affordable Pleated Sporty Skirts with shorts with pockets are super popular for tweens and teens. This skirt has shorts underneath for modesty and the shorts have a pocket to hold small things. Choose from a variety of great colors!

Klutz is known for high-quality book and crafting kits. I love that so much is included with each kit.

This Klutz Magical Baking Kit is a great gift idea for your creative bakers. Simply add a sprinkle of fairy dust and a dollop of imagination! This baking kit includes recipes, tools, and decorations to inspire kid chefs to make magic in the kitchen. Each recipe is designed for kids to make with a grown-up assistant’s help, and follows a magical theme. There are mermaid-themed pies, yeti donuts, an enchanted castle cake, magic pretzel wands and more!

Crafty tweens will enjoy this cool Klutz Mini Sushi Bar clay crafting kit. They will learn to make 16 cute sushi characters using clay and mixed media. Learn about the art of making sushi as you roll and sculpt adorable food with faces. Clay chefs will learn the difference between sushi rolls, onigiri (rice balls), sashimi, mochi, and other treats from Japan. Then, build out your sushi spread by packing a papercraft bento box, or a fancy dinner display. Complete the scene with mealtime extras, including an origami holder for your miniature chopsticks. Itadakimasu!

The Klutz Mini Grocery Store is another clay crafting kit that will keep your tweens busy. They will love making a super cute supermarket! Create more than 20 cute clay characters from every aisle of the grocery store: meat, produce, frozen food, and canned goods. Then make a papercraft shopping basket to tote them around. Crystal-clear instructions show what clay measurements you need and custom foam shapes make challenging projects easier! Sprinkled throughout are plenty of ideas to customize your grocery haul with cute food labels and packaging. Don’t forget your shopping list!

If you are going to buy one splurge clothing item for your tween, she will love these Lululemon Hottie Hot High Rise Shorts. These high quality shorts are great for sports, dance, cheer or just hanging around. My daughter has had the same ones for years and they have been washed over and over, while they still look brand new. These shorts come in a variety of fun colors, but basic black is my favorite.

Tweens and Teens are going crazy for these cool Sunset Projection Lamps as they were featured on Tik Tok. They can enjoy the mesmerizing blaze from the sun whenever they like with this cool lamp. They can create a cool atmosphere with 16 different color options, including a color changing and fading mode. It is made of a durable aluminum, includes a remote, and the lamp rotates 360 degrees.

Those long car rides to dance or soccer will never be the same with this super fun The Singing Machine Microphone, Carpool Karaoke edition. Sing like the Adeles and Bruno Mars of the world with a mobile karaoke experience like no other. Simply tune-in via FM radio and get ready to jam out! From road-trips to quick trips, sing along with Carpool Karaoke, The Mic for endless fun. The carpool Karaoke microphone comes with Bluetooth modules to play any music from your phone. The dynamic microphone allows you to belt out your favorite tunes with echo vocal effects. The FM tuner takes over your car audio. The carpool karaoke has a built in long lasting rechargeable battery, so the fun can last the whole car ride. You can also find the Singing Machine – Carpool Karaoke 2.0 at Walmart.

Boredom will no longer be a thing with this 52 DIY Crafts for Girls: Pretty Projects You Were Made to Create! book. Encourage the artist in your tween with these 52 DIY activities designed to help her believe in herself and convince her she can accomplish anything she sets her mind to. Each craft is illustrated by Michal Sparks with an easy-to-understand, hand-drawn DIY with a simple set of instructions. In addition, each DIY comes with a supply list, skill level projection, approximate cost, and estimated timeframe to complete the project. Nothing hard. Nothing complicated. Just easy and fun projects for your girl to enjoy by herself, with friends, or with you!

If your tween is into dance, cheer, gymnastics or if they just want to improve their flexibility, this cool Stunt Stand Stretching Strap makes a great gift idea.  This easy-to-use door strap stretcher will improve your leg flexibility, balance and range of motion to achieve results, FAST, and you will love the all-fabric door anchor that is non-scratching. It includes an instruction guide, on the package, that will show you how to effortlessly put the strap on your foot for maximum comfort! Your tween will also gain access to how-to-use videos on the STUNT STAND website and achieve the flexibility they have always wanted!

Beanies are hot for tweens and teens right now and this super cool Herschel Elmer Beanie is right on-trend for girls. It is made of ribbed knit and it has a cuff that can be adjusted to fit your tween or teen just right. Choose from several cool colors! You can also find this Herschel Elmer Beanie on Amazon.

The My Creative Camp’s Beginner’s Quilling Kit has all the paper quilling tools and supplies for beginners, age 8 and up, to start their quilling journey. In this craft box, you will find quilling designs and an instructions booklet to make your cool quilling crafts. The booklet will give you many quilling ideas and inspire you to create your own masterpieces. You can use the card making supplies to make birthday cards. The storage box makes it convenient to get organized and safely store your quilling strips and tools. You can also purchase sold separately, Quilling Paper Refills, in a variety of sizes and colors.

Tween artists will love this introduction to hand lettering and this is a great keep-busy activity. This affordable, new Hand Lettering and Modern Calligraphy for Kids is a fun and easy guidebook to learning lettering techniques. The book includes an introduction to lettering, tips and tools to get you started, several alphabets to master, tons of practice words, and so many fun projects and party ideas to put your new lettering skills on display!!

These Tombow Dual Brush Markers are great for tweens to help with lettering techniques. The water-based ink is blendable and the resilient nylon brush retains it’s point stroke after stroke. The brush tip works like a paintbrush to create fine, medium, or bold strokes and the fine tip gives consistent lines. Choose from several packs of different colorways.

We bought one of these Tiered Rolling Craft Carts for my daughter one year. Your tweens can store all of her craft supplies in this amazing cart. The side of the cart includes a peg board for organization. You can also freely add hooks to the pegboard for storage. Additionally, the rolling cart comes with two hanging baskets and four hooks, significantly enhancing storage space and catering to your DIY needs. You can even add to this gift idea by filling it with her favorite craft supplies like canvases, paints, fancy pens, etc. Choose from a few great colorways.

Personalizing a fun spiral journal with the STMT D.I.Y Journaling Set with be a hit with your tween! This journal fits the needs of any writer, creator or memory gatherer. Organize lists, thoughts, feelings or memories with this fun kit. This set comes with everything your tween needs to make it her own! With trendy patterned papers, fun chipboard frames and sparkling glitter tape, she’ll be able to uniquely decorate all 70 pages! The ideal gift for the avid scrapbooker or fill it with memories as a gift for a family member or friend.

Your kids will love this pocket-size, highly-reviewed cool game. Randomise is the ridiculously fun party game of drawing, acting and describing. How will you draw a sweaty crab snowboarding? Or act out a tough butterfly giving birth? Or describe an itchy teacher playing the guitar? Offering something for all ages and abilities, this family-friendly party game is certain to get everyone laughing.

Disney Books has come out with yet another Twisted Tale and your older tweens won’t be able to get enough of this series! In these popular books, we get to know some of the most popular Disney heroines but in a different way, since this is a what if story.

Your tweens will love learning about the exciting hobby of rock tumbling with National Geographic. This set includes all the accessories you’ll need to start polishing dazzling gems. Rock tumbling is tons of fun and a great way to start an extraordinary rock collection. Rock tumbling is a fun activity for children of all ages and promotes an interest in geology and science. Introduce your kid to science the fun way! Join National Geographic as we inspire future generations by showing them the wonders of the natural world. This high-quality tumbling machine has powerful motor that will last for years and comes with a 2-year warranty. It includes an automatic shutoff timer, a noise-reducing, leak-proof barrel and easy-to-follow rock tumbling instructions.

Finger Knitting Fun is a fun project for tween girls! Learning how to knit with your fingers is the best way to start crafting without cumbersome needles! All you need is some yarn and your hands to create modern and sophisticated knitted strands that you can use in any project around the house or everyday fashion. From jewelry and wearable accessories to wall art, gifts, and room decorations, Finger Knitting Fun includes illustrated, step-by-step instructions for 28 projects, which use yarn and other exciting materials such as paracord, leather, and more. She can grab that ball of yarn and easily turn it into a charming knitted piece with endless possibilities!

Older tweens will love transforming a simple sheet of paper into a runway-ready outfit with easy-to-follow instructions and illustrated diagrams from origami master Sok Song. With thirty unique origami models and fashion-forward folding papers, she’ll create one-of-a-kind gowns and sophisticated dresses for elegant occasions, as well as everyday items such as jeans, sweaters, and jackets-plus accessories to complete every look. Everything that is needed to create a custom origami wardrobe is included. Origami Chic is a fun project for older tween girls.

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.

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.