Christmas Gift Ideas for Teens & Tweens – Things They Want

Christmas Gift Ideas for Teens & Tweens – A Festive Gift Guide | AD

Buying gifts for anyone can be challenging but buying gifts for teens and tweens might be the most difficult. It’s so hard to know what teens these days find cool (probably not the word “cool”!) and what they would like for Christmas. I have a tween myself and have spoken to a few teens too to figure out what kind of gifts would make great gifts for teens and tweens this year. In this guide you’ll find gift ideas teen girls, and some unisex items too, and for different budgets. Read on for my collection of Christmas gift ideas for teens and tweens.

Suspension Micro Scooter Front & Rear Suspension with Large Wheels

Let’s start with a big Christmas gift for teens, but one that will last long into adulthood. This is the Micro Suspension Scooter which is perfect if you’re looking to buy a scooter for a teen or a tween. It’s also suitable for adults.

This scooter is amazing! The large wheels and the dual suspension offer such a smooth ride. Other features include a foldable design, a kickstand, a long deck with a large footplate, and an adjustable handlebar with a generous height. It’s a sturdy high-quality scooter with a robust aluminium frame – a great scooter choice for tweens, teens, and adults.

YumeTwins Monthly Kawaii Subscription Box 

YumeTwins is Japan’s number 1 Kawaii Subscription box. A subscription or a one-off box would make a fun gift for a teen who loves all things cute! Each monthly box lets the recipient explore festive kawaii culture with adorable Japanese goodies such as plushies, home goods and more.

Each box contains 5-7 carefully selected, seasonal and limited edition items from Japanese brands. The goodies are packaged up for you and shipped from Tokyo to your doorstep so that you can enjoy your kawaii surprises wherever you are!

So Chill Mini Fridge

The So Chill Mini Fridge makes a great gift for teens! It’s ideal for keeping drinks perfectly chilled in a teen’s room or for road trips and hangouts with friends. It can also be used for storing beauty products. It’s perfect for anyone who likes to keep their essentials close at hand and chilled to perfection whether they’re a gamer, beauty queen, or a student.

The adorable fridge is available in two colour choices (black or teal) and comes with a sheet full of fun stickers to add a personalised touch to the mini fridge. It has a sleek moving handle, a vision window, a removable shelf and a removable door pocket. The mini fridge comes with a USB power cable to use at home or in the car.

The So Chill Mini Fridge is available from Amazon.co.uk here.

Voxblock Screen-free Audiobook Player + Audiobooks for Teens

Voxblock is a screen-free audiobook player with tangible audiobooks. It was designed in Scotland by parents Rebecca and Tom for their own young children, but it is also a great choice for teenagers and tweens.

The player is completely screen-free and WiFi free too which means teens can enjoy listening to audiobooks without getting distracted by any screens.

There are lots of great audiobooks for the teen age group available from Voxblock. You can browse the books by age group on the website to find audiobooks that the teen you’re buying for will love. The collection includes everything from classic books to current popular bestsellers, to interesting non-fiction books on different topics and even meditations for teens – teens will love building their own library of Voxblock audiobooks to enjoy.  

There are VoxBlock gift packs available that make the perfect starter sets with a Voxblock Player, 1-3 audiobooks (depending on the pack), charging cable and case. Then the audiobook collection can be expanded with further audiobooks from as little as £5.99. Shop from voxblock.co.uk or via Amazon.co.uk.

Stabilo Pens & Highlighters

All teens and tweens that I know all love stationery so why not treat them to a few packs of new, good quality pens to enjoy? Here, you can see some great options from Stabilo:

• STABILO Swing Cool Pastel – pack of 8, gorgeous pastel coloured highlighters with a wedged tip for drawing broad lines, highlighting and underlining.
• STABILO Pen 68 brush – pack of 8 colours, ideal for brush lettering. Great all-rounder pens that can be used to create a variety of lines, with a flexible brush tip to regulate line thickness.
• STABILO Trio DECO – pack of 8 colours, 8 metallic colours with an XL tip perfect for colouring large areas. Can be used on paper, cardboard, wood and many other absorbent surfaces.

Stabilo has an amazing range of pens for all your teen’s colouring, drawing, lettering and highlighting needs.

Studio Creator Video Maker Kit White Edition

Next up, the perfect gift for aspiring influencers and young content creators. The Studio Creator Video Maker Kit White Edition is a great tool that will help teens and tweens create professional-looking digital content – whether this is dance videos, cooking content, beauty tutorials, music videos to share with friends and fans, or any other creative video outlets.

This video maker kit includes everything you need to create videos for TikTok, YouTube and Instagram: a 1m x1.5m green screen, a height-adjustable tripod with a hands-free phone holder, a multi-coloured LED ring light with 12 fun colours, and a USB cable to power the light wherever you are (can be plugged into a USB wall socket, a computer, or a power bank for example).

The Studio Creator Video Maker Kit White Edition is available to buy from Amazon.co.uk here.

Warmies Marshmallow Sloth Heatable Soft Toy

This Warmies Marshmallow Sloth is without doubt the cutest thing on this gift list! Warmies are a range of heatable, soft and cuddly buddies. There are lots of adorable characters to choose from. Teens and tweens are not too old for a cuddly companion and the fact that you can heat your Warmies up in the microwave makes them even more useful.

They are the perfect blend of warmth, comfort and cuteness – an ideal cosy gift for a teen or tween. Pick their favourite animal or a character that you think they’ll love – there are lots of amazing designs to choose from.

Mayraki Hair Glowing Travel Kit 5-in-1

For teens who love to try new hair care products and/or love staying over at friend’s houses, this Mayraki Hair Glowing Travel Kit 5-in-1 would make a lovely gift. This travel set features five of the brand’s bestselling vegan haircare formulas as handy travel-friendly minis – perfect for trying new products or for using your favourites when travelling or visiting friends. My tween loves Mayraki products, especially the Essential Oil Nutritive Treatment which detangles her long hair in seconds, leaving it so smooth, soft and easy to brush.

Style 4 Ever Craft Sets

Canal Toy’s brand Style 4 Ever offers an exciting range of products with the latest trends for girls. The products are fun sets that let tweens and teens explore their creativity. Let’s look at a few items from this range below.

• Style 4 Ever Diamond Art Lamp

This is a lovely craft set that lets kids create their own battery-operated, colour-changing diamond art lamp. The Style 4 Ever Diamond Art Lamp set comes with an LED light base with colour-changing lights, two PVC characters to decorate with gems, 1500+ gems to use to decorate the two different designs, a Diamante pen, a Diamante plate, and wax.

The set provides hours of fun whilst applying the gems to the PVC characters – a unicorn and a butterfly. Then the lamp becomes a nice decorative and practical item to display in your room. The light has many settings – choose a colour to remain static or opt for a mode that keeps changing the colours.

The Style 4 Ever Diamond Art Lamp is available to purchase from Amazon.co.uk here, from Argos, from Very and other good toy shops. The lamp runs on 3AA batteries (not included).

• Style 4 Ever Diamond Art LED Case

Next up, the Style 4 Ever Diamond Art LED Case which artsy tweens and teens will love! It’s a light-up 3 in 1 Diamond Art LED Case that is sure to provide many hours of entertainment.

You can use the battery-powered light-up drawing board to draw or trace using the included six colourful pens or decorate the artwork with Diamante diamonds – there are over 3500 diamonds included in the set. You can decorate pictures in landscape or portrait format. You get both plain paper and poster paper with the set.

The set also includes diamond art stickers that you can add gems to, then use to decorate items such as notebooks and reusable water bottles. Perhaps best of all, everything has a place in the stylish case including storage pots for all the diamonds.

The Style 4 Ever Diamond Art LED Case is available to purchase from Amazon.co.uk here, from Argos, from Hobbycraft, from Very and other good toy shops. Batteries are not included.

• Style 4 Ever Unicorn DIY Lava Lamp

The Style 4 Ever Unicorn DIY Lava Lamp is another set that lets kids create their very own battery-operated lamp at home.

The set comes with everything you need to make a lava lamp (except for the 3 x AAA batteries). Add beads, colours, decorations, glitter, confetti and dioramas to the unicorn shape along with water, then seal the bottle. You also get stickers to use to decorate the outside of the lamp.

Turn on the light to activate and watch the water swirl and the amazing effects created by the colour-changing lights.

The Style 4 Ever Unicorn DIY Lava Lamp is available to purchase from Amazon.co.uk here, from Argos, from Hobbycraft, from Very and other good toy shops. Batteries are not included.

Personalised Blanket from My-Picture.co.uk

A personalised blanket makes a cosy gift for all ages. Choose a photo that means something special to the teen you are buying for to make a unique blanket. Or if the teen is a young artist, you could print one of their creations onto the blanket too.

The personalised blankets from My-Picture.co.uk are available in three different sizes. They are super-soft and luxurious, made from polar fleece with an extra layer of plush. A great way to get wrapped up in memories! We went for a Northern Light photo which is special to our family. (Yes, there is a deer on the wall – that’s my daughter’s mural wallpaper!)

Conclusion – Christmas gift ideas for teens and tweens

I hope you have enjoyed this collection of Christmas gift ideas for teens and tweens and that you have found some fun ideas for gifts to buy for people in your family. Merry Christmas!

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