Ideas for Best Gifts for a Nine Year Old Girl

Updated on September 25, 2008
M.C. asks from Lutz, FL
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I typically do very poorly when buying gifts for my niece. She will be 9 this October and want to get something she will like. She has a little Nintendo DS and she likes art (drawing mostly). I don't want to spend crazy money but would like to get something *fun* for a 9 year old. Any suggestions?

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C.F.

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If she enjoys art, you could run to an art supply store or Michael's and buy her some professional art supplies. I enjoy art myself, and had a blast trying out new mediums as a child. My mother gave me all kinds of neat (and usually inexpensive) things to experiment with.

I would recommend a sketch pad or sketch book (an artist can never have too many), a portfolio to keep finished drawings in, a set of shading pencils (they make numbered pencils in various shadings from very light through the standard number 2 all the way up to a deep charcoal color (9 or 10), and you can often buy them in sets, a rubber gum eraser(brownish or gray in color; great for pencil art, as it truly removes the pencil, unlike the erasers kids have for school), a set of watercolor pencils (look like color pencils, but can be painted on to make a picture look like watercolor, or a set of oil pastels (look a bit like chalk, feel smooth and kind of oily, great for learning color and blending).

Not to say you should buy all of the above, but you can mix and match a sketch pad with oil pastels or shading pencils, or watercolor pencils with a set of paintbrushes.

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J.C.

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all of my grand children at that age really enjoyed the LEAP FROG LEARNING PROGRAMS. the programs grow with them all the way thru school, and i have a freshman and a junior and we still buy programs to help them out with school.
good luck GMAJ J.

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H.S.

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A basket full of different artsy-craftsy things would be great. Or you could get her a gift certificate to one of those pottery places where you pick out what you like and paint it and glaze it. Michaels and Joannes fabric would be a great place to look for all things artsy.
Good luck!
H.

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C.C.

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Art supplies are always good for a kid that enjoys art or ask if there are any books that she's into. At that age I was reading the Bunnicula series, books by Richard Peck and John Bellairs, Caddie Woodlawn...I could keep going.

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K.T.

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Does she like to wear beaded necklaces. If so buy her some beads and accessories to make her own jewlery. There are kits available at Walmart so you get the age appropriate kit.

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