As girls approach the tweens, their interests expand beyond dolls and dress-up. Nine-year-old girls love activities that spark their creativity, curiosity, and fun. At this age, they enjoy making things, learning new skills, and exploring their imaginations.
We’ve carefully curated this list of the most engaging, educational, and entertaining gift ideas for 9-year-old girls. All of these gifts encourage creativity, active play, and discovery – things she’ll love. We have options for every budget and interest.
1) Glow in the Dark Wooden Craft Kit – Illuminate Her Artistic Side
What 9-year-old doesn’t love things that glow in the dark? With this craft kit, she can create 10 wood projects that glow, including a picture frame, jewellery box, and more. It sparks her creativity, while the glow effect makes playtime after dark even more fun. Once constructed, she can decorate the wood pieces with bright nail polish, glitter, and paint (sold separately) for even more creative possibilities.
2) Make Your Flower Bouquet Craft Kit
This 132-piece felt craft kit allows her to craft her own 7 fabric flower bouquets over and over again. It comes with vibrant buttons, pretty ribbons, Styrofoam, and an adorable flower pot vase so she can proudly display her arrangements. Young crafters will enjoy choosing buttons and ribbon colours to design endless flower bouquet combinations to gift or decorate their room. It’s hours and hours of creative play and fun.
3) Show Stopping Gem Art Painting Kit
Spark her artistic side with this mesmerizing gem art kit. It comes with everything she needs to create 5 dazzling gem paintings using sparkly diamond-like drills. Following numbered diagrams, she simply matches the drill colours and applies them to the sticky canvas one by one. As she fills in shapes, amazing images emerge before her eyes. With 5 images to complete, this craft kit delivers hours of artistic fun plus a stunning masterpiece for her room when she’s done.
4) Trendy DIY Room Decor Craft Kit
Tweens love personalizing their space as they develop their style, and this craft kit makes it easy. It includes enough craft supplies for 15 trendy DIY room decor projects like photo frames, mirrors, jewellery holders, boxes, and more. The included idea book provides step-by-step instructions for each project so she can create custom accessories perfect for her room. She’ll have so much fun crafting and customizing while learning new DIY skills.
5) String Art Craft Kit
String art looks impressive, but it’s surprisingly simple to make. This craft kit is perfect for 9-year-olds – it includes everything she needs to make 3 string art pieces herself. The kit features an adorable unicorn, a cute cat, and pretty flower designs. It also comes with pre-cut string, 3 canvas boards, a hammer, and nails. She’ll love learning this new craft and showing off the beautiful string art she made herself to decorate her room.
6) National Geographic Science Magic Kit
This kit features 50 unique science experiments that seem like magic – but it’s real science! Experiments involve chemistry, physics, biology, and more. She’ll mix potions, build mazes, make metals float, weird slime, and more. It’s the perfect way to get girls interested in science with flashy experiments that seem like magic. The illustrations and photos make the experiments easy to understand and perform independently so she can wow everyone with her mad science skills!
7) National Geographic Gross Science Kit
While you may find it gross, 9-year-old girls think these disgusting science experiments are awesome! This kit allows girls to complete 45 gross-themed science activities like making squishy eyeballs, and slimy worms. Experiments teach science concepts like chemistry, anatomy, biology, and more – but in a gross way she’ll love. Prepare to be grossed out as she creates guts, gore, and grime while secretly learning important science skills!
8) Outdoor Rocket Launcher
Nice weather means playing outside! This rocket launcher takes playground fun to another level. She simply loads the launcher with one of the foam rockets, takes aim, pulls back the rubber band, and launches them sky-high! The rockets soar up to 100 feet before gently floating back to the ground. The launcher teaches STEM principles like trajectory, force, and distance. She’ll have a blast launching rockets over and over while enjoying the sunshine and fresh air.
9) Zuru Robotic Black Widow Spider
This robotic black widow spider is creepy crawly fun! It uses infrared sensors to detect and mimic hand movements. As kids move their hands, the spider crawls forward, backwards, right, and left. An internal gyro system keeps it balanced as it creeps along the floor just like a real spider. Adjustable speed settings allow it to creep slowly or scurry quickly. She’ll love making this life-like spider crawl, turn, and creep across floors, tables, and more, all with the wave of a hand!
10) Glow in the Dark Rock Painting Art Kit
Rock painting is a hugely popular craft, and this kit takes it to a luminous new level. It includes 12 smooth rocks, 6 paints, and 3 paint brushes – everything needed to create awesome glow-in-the-dark masterpieces. She can let her creativity shine by hand painting unique designs on each rock during daylight. Then, at night, she can showcase her artwork illuminated with a beautiful glow. With 12 rocks to customize, this kit offers hours of artistic fun and magical results.
11) Kids Gardening Tool Set
Your 9-year-old can discover the magic of growing with her gardening tools. The set includes a trowel, rake, transplanting shovel, and cultivator – all sized perfectly for kids. The ergonomic handles provide control while the sharp, steel edges dig efficiently into the soil. She’ll be excited to have real tools (just like Mom’s!) to plant seeds or bulbs, dig holes, rake the soil, pull weeds, and more. Nurturing plants boosts confidence, plus they learn responsibility – let her green thumb bloom!
12) Bug Catching Outdoor Explorer Kit
For girls with a wild spirit who love creatures and nature, this explorer set fuels their curiosity. It comes with all the gear needed for observing backyard bugs, including a bug catcher, bug habitat with a magnifying lid, insect identification chart, and butterfly net – plus a compass, flashlight, magnifying glass, and whistle for outdoor exploring. She’ll sharpen her investigative skills by finding crawling insects like rolly pollies, worms, and ants and then examining them up close. The habitat protects captives until she releases them unharmed.
13) Sparkle Birthday Bracelets
These sparkly bracelets make the birthday girl feel special and let her share the celebration! The set includes one happy birthday teal bracelet for the birthday girl plus 7 additional matching bracelets. She can share them with her birthday party guests so everyone has a coordinating birthday bling! The elastic bracelets stretch to fit most wrist sizes and feature a metal plaque that reads “Happy Birthday” in colourful, sparkly lettering. Perfect for birthday parties, girls just love making matching jewellery with friends!
14) Gesture Control Stunt Car
This futuristic stunt car drives by just pointing and gesturing – no controller required! The onboard sensors detect hand motions to steer left, right, forward, and backwards and even perform stunts like 360-degree spins, flips, and more. The rechargeable lithium battery provides up to 9 minutes of continuous play or stunting per 20-minute charge. The compact car folds up for easy storage and portability – perfect for raceways at sleepovers or anytime fun. Girls will love controlling the car like magic with simple gestures!
15) Botany Science Kit
Budding botanists will dig this science kit – it includes everything needed to perform 15 unique botany experiments! She’ll grow colourful crystals, create mystical gardens, and plant food from seeds while acting as a real scientist. Activity cards provide step-by-step instructions to grow and document her experiments. Plus, she’ll love caring for her chia pet. As experiments sprout to life, girls are thrilled while secretly developing early STEM skills, meaning growing young scientists in the making!
16) Adorable Rescue Puppy
Snuggle up at night with this precious rescue puppy! Part of the popular Pets Alive series, this cuddly plush pup was designed by toy creator Zuru to resemble a real English bulldog puppy. The 13″ pup features floppy ears, a wrinkly face, and a soft furry belly – so realistic girls feel like heroic pet rescuers. The adoption carrier and certificate add to the rescue play. Girls fall in love with this squishy stuffed pup and take it everywhere for nurturing hugs and fun imaginary play.
Wrapping up!
We hope our roundup gives you tons of fantastic gift ideas that will thrill any 9-year-old girl. From glow-in-the-dark crafts to slime-making kits, our picks allow girls to explore their interests, get creative, learn new skills, and just have fun! These educational and entertaining gifts will make birthday dreams come true!
