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Topic: Help! Gift ideas for 9-year-old girls?
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| mad fingers | Posted – 5/3/2008 3:14:16 PM | show profile My sisters are turning 9 in about a week or so. Never had kids, so I haven't a clue what to get them. My dad tells me that they are into something called Webkins? (As described, sounds like the end of Western civilization to me.) Any suggestions that won't break the bank would be greatly appreciated. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/3/2008 4:02:07 PM | show profile I think lock-and-key diaries are great gifts for young girls. I still have my first, I think I got it when I was 8 or 9. |
| mad fingers | Posted – 5/4/2008 11:57:32 AM | show profile They are already on Webkinz overload. Went with (what else?) books. Thanks! |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/4/2008 2:23:31 PM | show profile I've got a 9 year old son, and asked him what the girls in his class have. Kooky pens.....they are cheap, like a few bucks each, and they are just these pens with silly faces and crazy hair. As of late, I've noticed that the girls collect them. Webkinz are pretty popular. Even the boys like those. And they run about $13 to $20 each. I don't know how much you want to spend, but pretty much every kid I deal with is in love with getting cards for Itunes. I got my boys the little Ipod shuffle ($45 each) , and for Christmas my sister gave them each $10 gift cards to buy music. I noticed on my jaunts to the school that the girls like the little beading kits where they can make their own necklaces and bracelets a lot of them come with instruction kits too. I got them for my teenage niece (15) and she absolutely loved it. And, at recess I noticed a lot of the girls are sitting in groups and knitting on rainy days with these kits that are made for kids. Hope that helps. Shopping for girls can be tough. |
| mad fingers | Posted – 5/4/2008 2:46:27 PM | show profile Well, it compounds the problem that they are in CA and I am in NC. Will have to mail tomorrow. Will probably shop some more in the a.m. for something "fun." |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/4/2008 3:19:03 PM | show profile that's another great thing about Itunes. You purchase tem online and can email them the card, which will go directly into their account. Instant satisfaction. |
| worldofnatasha | Posted – 5/4/2008 3:31:40 PM | show profile kooky pens when I was 9, I LOVED kooky pens, and especially loved to make my own -- I'd glue a strip of fake fur around the eraser for hair, then add googly eyes and pipe cleaner arms, sometimes little felt bow-ties (my pens were fancy-pants.) I think a great idea for kids is just a whole mess of art supplies -- not even a kit specifically geared towards making a specific project but just a big pack of glitter and stitch-witchery and puff paint and pom-poms and feathers and sequins and everything else they can use to make their own clothes for their stuffed animals or decorate their book covers or whatever. so much fun, plus cheaper than a ready-made kit, plus lets their imaginations run wild. |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/4/2008 8:56:33 PM | show profile I totally agree with you Natasha. Every year for the holidays, I give my two children art supplies of all kinds. This year, it was various sized canvasses, lots of paint and brushes, sketch paper and charcoal. They love it. Several times a week they just retreat to the dining room and have at it. And they love to make cards for family. It's really a valuable gift. Kids love to create. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 5/4/2008 11:39:29 PM | show profile | email poster Art supplies are good for all ages. My mother was an artist in her day, and while her hands are very unsteady these days she has put her love of the visual into some really avant garde scrapbooking. My sister got her a very fancy leather/parchment handmade scrapbook in Italy, expecting her to fill it with genteel pictures and memories, and was shocked to see what Mum did with it ;) This stuff is like some of the really bizarre stuff you see from top artists -- a lot of cutting and pasting and such going on. My siblings are bothered but I totally get it - she's like an avant garde Grandma Moses. I came across some booklets of paper samples and gave those to her and she's having a ball with them. |
| seeattleme | Posted – 5/5/2008 4:09:34 AM | show profile Yeah, I remember being really into calligraphy around that age. A calligraphy set --pens, how to books, etc--might be a great gift. |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 5/6/2008 5:56:01 PM | show profile Too late for your mailing deadline, but a couple great books for that age group--Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell and the All of a Kind Family series. |
