30 Gifts for 10-Year-Old Girls to Remind Them They’re Awesome

Just because she’s a big girl now doesn’t mean she doesn’t need a snuggle-buddy stuffed animal! We love this one because not only is it adorable, but just pop it in the microwave and it heats up and releases an amazing lavender smell.

Perfect for cold days, cuddling up at night, or soothing aches, pains, and cramps.

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She’ll love bringing a salon mani home any time she wants. This set comes with everything she’ll need for a fabulous manicure, including five different patterns — from butterflies to stars — to stamp onto her nail quickly and easily. The set includes a nail stamper, five pattern pods, two polishes, a top coat, and more!

You could buy her flowers, but why not get her this forever bouquet? This fun craft is made of air-dry clay, for a crafty activity that culminates with a beautiful keepsake she’ll treasure.

The instruction book gives tips and tricks for how to make the perfect bouquet of clay flowers, but feel free to get creative for something uniquely her own!

It’s the Lego set that keeps on giving, with everything your 10-year-old will need to make a tiger, a red panda, and a koi fish. All the builds in the set come with their own corresponding accessories, so she’ll have fun building (and rebuilding) again and again.

Problem: The classic card game “Old Maid” is fun, but super-duper sexist (why are we vilifying the unmarried old lady?!). Solution: Bold Made! The mechanics of the game are mostly the same, except instead of avoiding the “old maid,” players try to get the “bold made” card while collecting matches of feminist visionaries.

Who among us doesn’t have a fond memory of pulling out a tray of brownies that would be mediocre, except that we made them all by ourselves in this cool little oven? It’s time for the next generation of kids to get that same feeling.

This Toy of the Year award winner will challenge your 10-year-old girl with a series of increasingly difficult puzzles. Build a tower in such a way that the marble will travel from the start to the designated end-point. Encourages STEM skills, critical thinking, and decreased use of your child whining, “I’m booored.”

Perfect for solo play or parties, Bop It! encourages active listening and quick reflexes as you follow a series of commands (“Bop it!” “Twist it!” “Pull it!“) to try to beat your opponent or your own high score. But be careful: Commands come faster and faster as the game moves along!

Children should always be able to talk to their friends and family… unless they’re playing this fast-paced pantomime game that's like kid-friendly charades. Put four cards into the action timer and act it out. Once they guess, grab your card quickly before it disappears into the timer! The team with the most points at the end wins.

Your 10-year-old girl deserves charms as charming as they are. This lovely minimalist pendant is engraved on both sides in two different styles and comes with a 16-inch chain in either gold or rose gold. We think this is a great group gift for sisters, cousins, friends, flower girls, or any other special group.

They may be getting older and more mature, but no one is too old for slime. (It’s just so satisfying!) This set comes with everything your child will need, from glue and activator to mixing pots and holographic glitters, to make shimmering, metallic, ooey-gooey goodness.

This book of “would you rather” games is specifically designed for kids and includes silly but thought-provoking questions like, “Would you rather never play video games again or never eat candy again?” or “Would you rather get in trouble with your teacher or accidentally fart in class?” (It’s for kids — obviously, there are fart questions.)

Perfect for the future physicist who wants to learn more about fluid dynamics, hydraulics, and pneumatics and oscillation … or the 10-year-old girl who has no idea what that means, but would have fun learning! The manual will guide them through 96 pages of cool experiments for hours of fun.

Your 10-year-old girl will have a blast expressing their creativity (and enhancing their wardrobe) with this set. Perfect for making gifts or just blinging up their own wrists, the kit comes with supplies to create up to 10 bracelets, which they’ll enjoy wearing just as much as they enjoy making.

Shake the grid to mix up the lettered cubes. Once the letters are uncovered, it’s a race to see which player will be able to spot connected letters that could form words. But just when you’re starting to feel smart, only words other players don’t see count!

This set has everything your child needs to put together a unique art project. Drape the star-shaped balloon in string coated with special glue. Once it’s dry, pop the balloon and incorporate the twinkling lights: Your 10-year-old girl now has a pretty new decoration piece for her room, and probably had a great time making it!

Sometimes it feels like 10-year-old girls are speaking their own language. Don’t get frustrated: Lean into it with this neat decoder ring! They and their friends (or siblings, or even you) will be able to create their own secret codes, only to be deciphered with this classic childhood tool.

There are lots of girl detectives out there, but none of them are quite like the OG: Nancy Drew, the Mistress of the Magnifying Glass, the Countess of Clues. This rerelease of the first four books have beautiful, retro-style covers and is perfect for the 10-year-old girl who is keen to crack the case!

Ever notice how most of the great artists you hear about are always men? This book assures your 10-year-old girl that it’s not for lack of talent (or effort). This book highlights 50 female artists — their lives, work, and contributions to the art world.

It used to be that all your kiddo needed was a handful of crayons to execute their artistic vision. But they're bolder and more ambitious in their vision now. This handsome wooden set comes with oil pastels, watercolor powder, color pencils, watercolor paint, brushes, pencils, paper, canvas, a palette, and crayons … because crayons are still cool.