Shopping for gifts for 9-year-old girls can be a lot of fun because there are so many different kinds of gifts that they love! Is she creative and interested in crafting and making things? Is she a big reader who flies through books? Does she love soft, cozy clothes and blankets or enjoy coding? There are gift ideas for 9-year-old girls who love all of that and more!
So whether she loves curling up with a good book, taking pictures around the neighborhood, or zooming to the park on a scooter, you’re sure to find a present for her here!
50 Cute Gift Ideas for 9-Year-Old Girls
Awesome gifts for 9-year-old girls who love reading, crafting, exploring, and more!
Mermaid blankets are always fun! She can warm her legs with this one while she’s watching TV or curled up reading. It comes in a variety of colors and is long enough to cover up to her arms, keeping her nice and warm. The blanket also comes with a small sequined keychain she can attach to her backpack as a bonus present for 9-year-old girls! She’ll love having her own camera to take pictures of big events in her life! This one takes high-resolution photos and can record video as well. It has stickers she can add to her pictures, plus burst shooting and 4 filters. She’ll learn about daring women across history with this inspirational book! This compilation of biographies shares women who risked their lives and had amazing adventures. She can read about Annie Edson Taylor, who plummeted over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Helen Gibson, the first professional stuntwoman, plus many more. She can create masterpieces, then attach them to tiles with magnets on the back so she can hang her artwork on a fridge or other magnetic surface. She could even paint tiles to give away to family and friends as presents. She’ll love reading about the adventures of Nancy Drew, and even though the stories are from her grandma’s generation (or older!) they still captivate readers today. She can come along with Nancy and her friends as they solve crimes and break gender barriers together. This unicorn robe is perfect for lounging around on lazy weekends, or for throwing on over her jammies to watch TV, or for putting on after bathtime. The plush robe is comfy and warm, and she’ll love the fun unicorn hood with a horn and mane. It’s a cute, comfortable gift for 9-year-old girls. She’ll learn the science of concocting soaps and bath bombs…and be able to relax in a bathtub and use her creations at the end! This kit has her mix the wax, coloring, fragrance, and glitter for each soap, then pour it into one of 4 molds to make the soap. For bath bombs, she’ll mix citric acid, baking soda, Epsom salt, and a few other ingredients and pour them into one of 5 molds to make fun, fizzy bath bombs. This kit will help her build 10 different moving machines using LEGO bricks! It has 80 pages of instructions, along with 33 LEGO pieces, 6 plastic balls, string, paper ramps, and other items. She’ll have a great time building these machines and then watching the balls make their way through each mechanism at the end, making this an awesome toy for 9-year-old girls. She can make 7 fun crafts from this kit, including a bracelet, a headband, a stuffie, and more! She’ll learn basic sewing stitches, and she may be inspired to come up with her own projects after trying these. The instruction booklet will walk her through each project, and she can make as many of those items as she wants after she tries them the first time. This marble run is fun to watch, but she gets the added benefit of building the run in the first place! She’ll exercise her engineering and other STEM skills to put this run together. Once she does, she can watch the marble work its way through the maze to the end! If she’s dyeing (get it?) to get in on the cool trend of colored hair, but you don’t want the permanency of actually dyeing her hair, hair chalk is a great option! She can experiment with different colors of chalk, and it washes out easily afterward, making this a great present for 9-year-old girls and mom too! This mini-garden is a great way for her to exercise her green thumb! The garden can be illuminated with an LED light at night, and the kit includes an instruction booklet, light-up lid, soil, sand, seeds, a little bunny, and tiny mushroom miniatures for decoration. She’ll love watching the seeds sprout while the bunny adds a touch of magic to the scene. She’ll love this bracelet-making kit that comes with a variety of charms, beads, and other items needed to make bracelets. She can make them for herself, or gift them to her friends as presents – either way, she’ll have a great time fashioning jewelry! She’ll love wearing these fun socks with skirts or shorts! This set of knee socks has several different pairs, including owls, pandas, cats, and bears on the knees of the socks. She’ll love pairing them with her favorite outfits or wearing them when she’s lounging around the house! This fleece quilt is easy to make, using a series of knots to keep the pieces together. She’ll love working on the quilt, and she’ll have the pride of watching a project she’s making with her own hands come together into a beautiful quilt at the end! This art case comes with 64 crayons, 20 colored pencils, washable markers, and colored pencils. It’s easily portable and a great kit for kids who love to draw or color. It’s also a good option for kids who are headed on a road trip or plane ride. It will keep all her supplies organized and in their places, ready to be used. She’ll love this adorable purse! It features two ears on top, plus embroidered closed eyes and a tiny, girly bow in the corner. It’s made of PU leather, which is easy to clean and very durable. It’s a great size to hold a coin purse, lip gloss, or other small items. This string art kit makes 4 different art projects, and she can use the patterns already designed, or she can make her own. The designs that come with the kit include a rainbow, a unicorn, flowers, and the letters L-O-V-E. Since the kit uses pushpins instead of nails that need hammering, it’s great for those who haven’t ever created string art before. Yes, making slime is a STEM activity! She’ll learn about the chemical reactions between different liquids and items when she combines them together…and she’ll have some gorgeous unicorn slime when she’s finished! The kit includes glue, unicorn beads, ink, slime containers, and much more. This light-up pad makes it easy for her to trace pictures and leads to hours of fun! The set includes a graphite pencil, colored pencils, tracing sheets, and blank sheets. It also includes more than 100 traceable images for her to draw and color in. She can create all sorts of stuff with items in this craft supply library! It includes pipe cleaners, wooden shapes, beads, pom poms, googly eyes, and much more. She can let her imagination run wild and make creatures, people, animals, and anything else she can dream up with these supplies. This cookbook makes a great gift for a 9-year-old girl, and she can learn the basics of cooking with it! It includes 150 recipes with cooking tips, color photos, choose-your-own adventure recipes, and recipes like peanut butter & jelly muffins that kids are sure to love. She can grow red, blue, and clear crystals with this kit and even make them grow! To begin a crystal garden, she’ll mix up the ingredients and watch them work to form a crystal that gets bigger each day. When they’re fully grown, she can display them on a light-up display. This is a fun game to play with your daughter and a group of friends! Divide into two teams, and ask questions to try and guess the animal on your opponent’s game card. Not only is this a fun guessing game, everyone will come away learning new facts about animals as well! Nine is about the age that girls love keeping secret diaries, with their thoughts and musings written inside. This diary has a lock and key to keep her secrets safe. It comes with a mermaid tail gel pen, stickers, a bracelet, and a drawstring bag to keep everything in. Nim’s Island is an exciting adventure book about a girl living on an island with her dad. When something goes terribly wrong, she has to rely on herself and her own skills to survive. It’s an exciting story about an admirable and resourceful girl and it makes a perfect gift for 9-year-old girls! She can make beautiful flower crowns and bracelets with this kit! It comes with leaf garlands, flowers, berry branches, ribbons, glitter glue, and instructions to make the flower crowns. The garlands, flowers, and branches have wires that bend easily so she can twist them into the crowns and then decorate them. There should be enough supplies in this kit for 4 crowns and 4 bracelets, so she can make some for friends as well. She can put together this Hogwarts tower and recreate scenes from the book and movie with LEGOs. This set features locations including the Defense Against The Dark Arts classroom, Dumbledore’s office, and part of the ballroom. It also includes minifigs of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, and other characters from the books. This is a fun game to play with the whole family! UNO is a great game because even younger siblings who might not know their numbers can recognize the shapes and colors and play the game. It makes a great stocking stuffer at Christmas or an inexpensive birthday present from a sibling or friend. This scooter is lightweight and folds up easily so parents can carry it around if they need to. It also lights up with over 100 LED lights along the stem, deck, and wheels. The handlebar is adjustable so it will grow with her, and it has rear brakes. Scooters make great toys for 9-year-old girls and the lights increase the cool factor with this one! There’s a reason this cube has been a popular gift for several generations! The concept is simple – get all the colors on each side of the cube to match – but the execution is challenging. She’ll have a great time trying to figure out this puzzle. These adorable octopus plushies come in a variety of colors – two for each octopus. He’s reversible, with two separate expressions, one on each side. Push the octopus through to the other side, and his color and expression changes! This beginner compound microscope has an LED light, mirror illumination, and a built-in color filter wheel. It has 120x, 240x, 300x, 480x, 600x, and 1200x magnifications. It also comes with a 52-piece accessory kit and a hard-sided plastic case. If you need gifts for a 9-year-old girl who has everything, scrunchies are a great option! Yep, they’re back in style, and she’ll love having some just like older girls do. This 18-pack features floral and solid prints and has scrunchies in almost every shade. She can watch her favorite shows, read or listen to books, play games, and so much more with this Fire HD 10 tablet. She’ll also get a 1-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ with over 20,000 apps, games, books, videos, and more. She can create her very own hardcover book with this kit! She simply needs to write and illustrate her own book, then send it in to the address in the kit and she’ll receive back a beautiful keepsake book featuring her artwork and story. The kit comes with markers and writing materials, along with professional typesetting and binding. This exciting series is perfect to start with 9-year-olds! The books are a mix of adventure and the right amount of snark for older elementary schoolers to appreciate. She’ll also learn a lot about Greek mythology without even realizing it. Kids ask a whole lot of questions, and this book attempts to answer at least a fraction of them! It includes over 1,111 answers to questions like what’s on the inside of a turtle’s shell and why doesn’t the Earth just float off into space. From the silly to the serious, this book is chock full of information! This star projector will fill her room with stars at night! It’s a great way to add some light to her room if she doesn’t like the dark when she falls asleep. You can also remove a layer, and the light turns into a desk lamp. She can write secret messages to her friends, and they can reveal the messages using this lab kit! She’ll learn the science behind invisible ink and learn a variety of ways to send invisible notes to people. The kit comes with UV ink pens, UV lights, red filters, red markers, wax crayons, spray bottles, code wheels, and more! These headphones with cat ears on the top will let her listen to music and look cute doing it! LED lights mean the ears light up in several colors, and the headphones fold up to store. The headphones are wireless and connect via Bluetooth. They also have an audio cable, so she can keep listening even if the batteries run out. She can keep her necklaces, bracelets, or other trinkets in this sweet ballerina jewelry box! The classic design of this jewelry box features a ballerina on springs who pops up when the box is opened. The music box plays “The Waltz of the Flowers” from The Nutcracker. It also comes with a ballerina bracelet and necklace. The box is made of pine fiberboard rather than cardboard, so it holds up well and she’ll have it for years to come. Crochet is a fun craft for 9-year-olds to try! Because she only has one needle to worry about, it’s easier to manage than knitting and other yarn crafts. This kit will get her started on beginner projects. It comes with 2 crochet hooks, a plastic needle, and 7 yarns in different colors. She’ll have enough supplies to make a coaster, a handbag, a placemat, or a belt. She’ll be thrilled with a necklace that seems made just for her! This gold necklace features her name written in script. She can wear it for special occasions, but it’s casual enough to be worn every day as well. If she loves exploring outside – either hiking or just venturing around the backyard and local park – she’ll put these binoculars to good use! They come in a variety of colors, and each features rubber around the eyes for comfort, plus a good grip so they won’t drop the binocs. They’re easy for kids to adjust so she can spot wildlife, birds, and more! They’re also shock-proof so they should stand up to being bumped or dropped. She’ll get a fun introduction to electronics with this kit that features more than 175 projects and over 55 color-coded circuit parts. She’ll make real working circuits and devices. She can also connect the circuits to a smartphone and watch them react. This is a great little bag for organizing after-school activities or hobbies. She can toss her dance shoes and clothes, small musical instrument and music, art supplies, or other items in here to keep everything for her activity in one place. She’ll also love it for the reversible sequins in watery, mermaid colors. A snuggly, fluffy bean bag cover makes her room a great place to hang out and relax! This cover does double-duty, both as a bean bag cover and as a spot to store her favorite stuffed animals. Yep, the bean bag “stuffing” is actually her stuffed animals or other soft materials! She can take her animals out when she wants to use them, then store them in this chair. She can make colorful bracelets for herself and her besties with this friendship bracelet maker! She’ll have bracelets in just minutes, and she can change the thickness, style, colors, and more in each bracelet she makes. Not only will she have some fun bracelets for herself when she’s done, but she can also give them away to her friends as well. She’ll learn the basics of coding on a kid’s level with this programmable robot! Along with the physical robot, she’ll have access to a virtual Dash robot that she can program online as well. She can also program the physical robot using a smartphone or tablet, and have him move about the room and do other activities.Mermaid Tail Blanket
WOWGO Kids Digital Camera
Women Who Dared Book
Magnetic Mini Tile Art
Nancy Drew Starter Set
Unicorn Hooded Bathrobe
Soap & Bath Bomb Making Kit
LEGO Chain Reactions Activity Kit
Learn to Sew Kit
ThinkFun Gravity Maze Marble Run
Hair Chalk Set
Light-Up Terrarium Kit for Kids
Bracelet Making Kit
Girls Cartoon Animal Knee Socks
Melissa & Doug No-Sew Fleece Quilt
Crayola Inspiration Art Case
Cat Crossbody Purse
String Art Craft Mega Activity Set
Unicorn Slime Kit
Crayola Light Up Tracing Pad
Kid Made Modern Crafts Supply Library
The Big, Fun Kids Cookbook
Crystal Growing Kit
Guess in 10 Animal Planet
Life Is A Doodle Diary
Nim’s Island
Make Your Own Flower Crowns
LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Clock Tower
UNO Family Card Game
LED Light Up Scooter
Rubik's 3X3 Cube
Reversible Octopus Plushie
Beginner Microscope
18 Pack Of Scrunchies
Fire HD 10 Kids Tablet
Storybook Kit
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Boxed Set
National Geographic Kids Why?
Star Projector Night Light
Secret Message Lab
Cat Ear Headphones
Musical Ballerina Jewelry Box
Easy-To-Do Crochet Kit
Personalized Name Necklace
Binoculars for Kids
Snap Circuits Exploration Kit
Mermaid Sequin Drawstring Bag
Fluffy Bean Bag Chair Cover
Friendship Bracelet Maker
Dash Coding Robot