Birthday gift ideas for 9 year old daughter?

Question

I am looking for help re: a gift for her birthday in April. She has a scooter, a nintendo and heaps of clothes. She is into anything arty, creating, is NOT a barbie girl. We are going away secretly to the mountains but what else can we get her that is a good idea. She is growing out of the younger kids toys and moving into other things but what I am not entirely sure.. any ideas? I was thinking a bike or rollerblades but I was saving the bike till slightly less wet weather and to get both older kids bikes together so it was fair and more fun for them both.

Answer 1

Check out the hobby lobby, if not one near you maybe online. They have a lot of great crafting stuff that kids can make.

Answer 2

a painting kit to take with her on the trip. she could paint a pic of the mountains.

Answer 3

1. Smash the Nintendo. That would be a good gift.

2. Replace it with a nice collection of BOOKS.

Answer 4

BOOKS!

Kate DiCamillo:

   Because of Winn-Dixie

   The Tale of Desperaux

Albert Payson Terhune:

   Lad:  A Dog

Wilson Rawls:

   Where the Red Fern Grows

Rudyard Kipling:

   Just So Stories

   The Jungle Book

Fred Gibson:

   Old Yeller

Marjory K. Rawlings:

   The Yearling

George Selden:

   The Cricket in Times Square

Roald Dahl:

   Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

   James and the Giant Peach

Pamela Lyndon Travers:

   Mary Poppins

   Mary Poppins Comes Back

   Mary Poppins Opens the Door

   Mary Poppins in the Park

James M. Barrie:

   Peter Pan

Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson:

  Peter and the Shadow Thieves

   Peter and the Starcatchers

   Peter and the Secret of Rundoon

Norton Juster:

   The Phantom Tollbooth

Lewis Carroll:

   Alice in Wonderland

Hugh Lofting:

   The Story of Dr. Doolittle

   The Voyages of Dr. Doolittle

Pene DuBois:

   Twenty-One Balloons

Kathryn Lindskoog and Ranelda Mack Hunsicker, eds.:

   Faerie Gold:  Treasures from the Lands of Enchantment

Cornelia Funke:

   Dragon Rider

   Ingraine the Brave

   Inkheart

   Inkspell

   The Thief Lord

Brandon Mull:

   Fablehaven

   Rise of the Evening Star

Katherine Peterson:

   Bridge to Terabithia

Carol Kendall:

   The Firelings

   The Gammage Cup (One of my favorites when I was young)

   The Whisper of Glocken

Eoin Colfer:

   Artemis Fowl

   The Arctic Incident

   The Opal Deception

   The Lost Colony

   The Artemis Fowl Files:  A Companion Book

   The Graphic Novel

Andre Norton:

   The Witch World

   The Web of the Witch World

   Three against the Witch World

   Year of the Unicorn

   Warlock of the Witch World

   Dragon Scale Silver

   Dream Smith

   The Toads of Grimmerale

   Spider Silk

   Sword of Unbelief

   Sarsthor's Bane

Ursula K. LeGuin:

   Earthsea

   A Wizard of Earthsea

   The Tombs of Atuan

   The Farthest Shore

   Tehanu

   Tales from Earthsea

   The Other Wind

   Voices

Madeleine L'Engle:

   A Wrinkle in Time

   A Wind in the Door

   A Swiftly Tilting Planet

   Many Waters

   An Acceptable Time

Howard Pyle:

   Story of King Arthur and His Knights - There are several collections of stories about King Arthur.

Roger Lancelyn Green:

   The Adventures of Robin Hood

   King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

John Bunyan:

   Dangerous Journey ( A beautifully illustrated edition of A Pilgrim's Progress)

C. S. Lewis:

   The 7 volume Chronicles of Narnia is a tale of good against evil with very definite Christian influences. Lewis was an atheist who because of his friendship with Tolkien became a Christian. This strongly affected his writing.

The seven books are as follows:

  The Magician's Nephew

   The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

   The Horse and His Boy

   Prince Caspian

   The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

   The Silver Chair

   The Last Battle

J. R. R. Tolkien:

   The Hobbit

Jonathon Swift:

   Gulliver's Travels

Daniel Defoe:

   Robinson Crusoe

Johann Wyss:

   Swiss Family Robinson

Robert Louis Stevenson:

   Treasure Island

Jules Verne:

   Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

   Around the World in Eighty Days

Laura Ingalls Wilder:

   Little House on the Prairie

  Little House in the Big Woods

   Farmer Boy - This is the story Laura wrote about her husband, Almanzo's childhood in Malone, New York.

Johanna Spyri:

   Heidi

Frances Hodgson Burnett:

   The Secret Garden

Lucy Maud Montgomery:

   Anne of Green Gables

Answer 5

Buy her a little trampoline i loved that when i was a kid.

Answer 6

my kids LOVE their MP3s!!!!

I had gotten them an IPOD SHUFFLE....no pix or videos on it..but you can get a much better player at a much BETTER price at BEST BUY!!! with videos, pix, the whole 9 yards and they LOVE it!

My kiddies are 8 and 10

Answer 7

Check out www.MicroDwarf.com. I sent them pictures of myself and my daughter and they made customized figurines made to look like us! Good luck!

Answer 8

Give it to her for her Birthday

A big girl bike or mountain bike

That will be a great gift for her birthday

Answer 9

Bible

Answer 10

my daughter got a trampoline for her 9th birthday.  she loves it.  She also is into webkinz & Hanna Montana stuff.  We love the kits at Hobby Lobby that have instructions to make stuff like rock candy

Answer 11

Buy a beading kit, or maybe buy her some paints, a canvas, etc. maybe you could buy a best buy gift card, this is when kids start getting "in" to DSs and stuff. Or she can get a new game for her nintendo.