Updated on: Sep 17, 2024
Looking for a unique gift for an 8-year-old girl? Here at Easy Event Planning, we make finding the perfect gift easy. We’ve gathered up a list of the 35 best gift ideas for 8 year old girl that won’t disappoint!
Crowd Favorite Best Gifts for 8 Year Old Girl
1. FujiFilm Mini Instant Camera
Give her a unique way to take pictures of her friends, pets, family, and more with a cute polaroid camera. All of her favorite moments can be turned into keepsakes at the click of a button. This camera comes in plenty of cute colors, so you can find the one perfect for her!
2. Unicorn Pool Floatie
A unicorn pool floatie is the perfect summer gift for an 8-year-old girl who’s into mythical creatures and rainbow colors. If you are planning a kids theme party and need ideas, you could go with a mythical theme to match this gift!
3. Hatch a Dragon
Every kid is obsessed with the How to Train Your Dragon, so a hatchable Toothless is a perfect gift. Once it is ready to hatch, she can shake the egg to help him along! Once he's born, she has a super cute toy!
4. Baketivity
This lovely cake pop kit from Baketivity is a super easy and kid-friendly cooking kit that has all the things she'll need to make scrumptious cake pops. The ingredients come pre-measured, and the instructions are super easy to follow. Parents - you don't have to do a thing (except for monitor the oven)!
5. Unicorn Bean Bag Cover
A unicorn bean bag cover is a fun gift that also the parents will love. It can fit all of the 8-year-old's stuffed animals and soft items, so it works as a whimsical piece of furniture as well as a useful tool for cleaning up!
6. Kano Harry Potter Wand
If you know the 8-year-old is obsessed with Harry Potter, this makes a magical gift. With the Kano Harry Potter Coding Kit, she can build her own wand and program it to do really cool tricks on a smart screen!
7. Ukulele
If you know she's into music, rather than buying her a bulky guitar that she can barely wrap her arms around, think about giving her a ukulele. It’s pretty much an adorable mini guitar that is much more portable and easier to play!
Best Educational Gifts for 8 Year Old Girl
8. Artie 3000
Artie 3000 is an adorable drawing robot that teaches kids how to code. She can translate the unique design that she created into "drag and drop" code on a computer or tablet. She can then watch Artie bring her design to life!
9. Gummy Candy Lab
This gummy candy lab set is so whimsical and fun and is a great gift for any 8 years old, even if they're not into science! The kit enables her to make delicious gummies that can be molded into unicorns, clouds, and rainbows!
10. Nancy B's Science Kit
With this awesome microscope and lab tool kit, she can analyze cells and organisms all day long. This kit includes a 400x microscope, plenty of lab tools, and a small activity journal for her to document her findings.
11. Food Science Chem Kit
This food science chem kit includes multiple scrumptious experiments that result in chocolate, jellies, candies, and more!
12. Smartlab Squishy Human Body
This squishy human body kit is an amazing gift for 8-year-olds who are into science. The kit includes a skeleton that is full of removable organs, bones, and muscles, as well as a book of photos!
13. Ooze Labs Bath Bombs
If you don't want to give an 8-year-old to be making candy all day, consider getting them a soap and bath bomb lab kit instead. The kit comes with 1o bubble experiments that result in fun and colorful bath bombs!
14. Crystal Growing Kit
This crystal growing kit from National Geographic will let her grow crystals in 8 different, shiny colors. The stand included in the kit has a built-in light and spaces for the crystals to sit, so her science experiment results in a fun night light. As a bonus, the set also includes rock and gemstone specimens along with a STEM learning guide.
Best Gifts for 8 Year Old Girl: Games
15. Last Defense Board Game
This has been know to be a kid favorite. In Last Defense, the players are townspeople. They have 20 minutes to work together to help save the world from various enemies like spider robots and space aliens. This game is also great for developing good teamwork skills as the players have to work together to save the world.
16. Throw Throw Burrito
Throw Throw Burrito is a super fun card game for the whole family. The name of the game is to find matching pairs of cards while trying to dodge squish burritos being thrown at you!
17. Jenga
Jenga is the classic family game where you take turns pulling out blocks and stacking them on top without toppling everything over. This is a great gift that has been known to be loved by kids!
18. Don't Step In It, Unicorn Edition
Don't worry; the poop isn't real. Don't Step in It is a super hilarious game that requires you to dodge fake unicorn poop. But here's the twist - you're blindfolded! The player to step in the least amount of fake poop is the winner!
19. Pictionary Air
Think Pictionary 2.0! Instead of using the typical pencil or whiteboard marker to draw out an image, Pictionary Air allows you to play with this cool Pictionary pen in the air. Once the free app is downloaded, whatever is being drawn in the air will show up on the smart TV, tablet, or phone!
Best Arts and Crafts Gifts for 8 Year Old Girl
20. Weaving Loom
Weaving is such a fun and unique skill to have, so start them off with an easy-to-use adjustable loom set. Once they learn how to do the basics, they can go off to make bags, scarves, and other colorful items.
21. Paint by Sticker Unicorns
This is a fun twist on painting by numbers. The paint by stickers book includes 10 whimsical images of mythical creatures like dragons and unicorns, which can be brought to life with stickers!
22. Crayola Light Up Tracing Pad
If she loves anything to do with art, consider gifting her a Crayola Light-up Tracing Pad. The tracing tablet comes with ten tracing sheets and blank sheets, colored pencils, and more, so they have all the materials to create incredible images. The tablet is also super thin and portable, so she can bring it with her wherever she goes!
23. Fashion Angels Fashion Design
If you know your 8-year-olds a bit of a fashionista, this makes for a perfect gift! The fashion design kit comes with premade sketch pages, stencils, and stickers, so she'll have everything she needs to design runway-ready clothing.
24. Pom Pom Projects
What 8-year-old doesn't love little fluffy things? Now, they can create their own fluffy friends with this super easy-to-use pom pom animal making kit and a fork from the kitchen.
25. Friendship Bracelet Kit
Friendship bracelets are always a go-to gift. This friendship bracelet-making kit comes with a variety of brightly colored strings, a helpful board to attach the string to, and easy directions to help her create some unique and beautiful jewelry. If you are trying to come up with birthday party ideas, having a bracelet-making station is a fun and engaging activity for young girls.
Best Hair and Beauty Gifts for 8 Year Old Girl
26. Go Glam Nail Kit
No need to pay crazy amounts of money to get 8-year-olds nails done at a salon. They can now have salon-quality nails and do it themselves! The Go Glam nail kit comes with specially formulated, water-based nail polishes and funky design stamps. The set also includes a finishing nail polish coat, so the designs last longer!
27. Fab Lab Glitter Tattoos
This incredible glitter tattoo kit comes with 28 unique stencils! While glitter is notoriously messy, it's also a fun gift that you know your 8-year-old will love. It is super easy to use, and the glitter tattoos last up to seven days!
28. Hair Chalk
Funky Hair Chalks are a great and fun way to brighten up her hair. They work especially well for children with lighter hair. Hair chalk stays on great but is easy to wash off with shampoo. You can even make the color last longer if you set it with a hair straightener.
29. Blinger Ultimate Set
This Blinger kit lets kids add glittery jewels to their hair easily in seconds. The set includes the tool and 225 colorful gems, so your 8-year-old will have endless fun decorating her and her friends' hair.
Best Gifts for 8 Year Old Girl: Books
30. Awesome Engineering Activities for Kids
This STEAM book is a great way to get an 8-year-old started off in engineering. The book comes with more than 50 buildable machine ideas that can be created with common household items!
31. Diary of a Wimpy Kid Set
The Diary of Wimpy Kid series is a kid classic. She can follow Greg on his funny experiences with family, school, friends, and crushes.
32. Physics Book
This physics book comes with 40 insanely cool experiments that are great for 8-year-olds interested in science. Not only does it come with directions, but it also provides explanations as to exactly why each experiment worked.
33. Harry Potter Illustrated Collection
Every kid has to read the Harry Potter series at least once. This set of illustrated books contains the first three books in the series. Because the books can be kind of dense, these include full-page illustrations to help her along.
34. The Ickabog
The author of Harry Potter recently came out with this dark but kid-friendly tale about a fantastical adventure. As a plus, the proceeds from the book go to helping vulnerable groups impacted by COVID, so you know your money is going to a good cause.
35. Why Book
This Why book answers 1111 crazy questions ranging from the deepest oceans to the human body. It is a great educational and interesting gift for the 8-year-old who always asks questions.
Best Gifts For 8 Year Old Girl: Conclusion
Finding the best kid gifts for an 8-year-old shouldn't be impossible. Asking about hobbies and activities she likes will help you get a better idea of what she's into. We hope this list of 35 best gift ideas for 8 year old girl has helped you get started in finding a gift she'll love!
Written by Wyeth Ward