Best Gifts for 8 Year Old Girls (That They'll Love) - Imagination Soup (2024)

Looking for the best gifts for your 8 year old girl? From dolls to STEM kits to books and plushies, here are tons of fun gift ideas for your 8-year-old girls to give at Christmas, birthday, or any occasion!

How do I know? I love giving gifts and my kids circle all the magazines and make long lists — so that I can pick exactly what they want. (And share it with you!)

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Mini Shake Shop (KLUTZ)
Make adorable and colorful drinks for your shake shop with the air-dry clay provided, a book of directions, and accessories, including cups, straws, sprinkles, and more. This was a hit with my daughter’s babysitting charges this summer.

Dragon Kindom of Wrenlyby Jordan Quinn
FANTASY
When Cinder’s father crashes, it’s clear that he’s sick from the dreaded “cold curse”so Cinder must ask the king for help. Cinder flies to the castle of the human king and meets a reddragonnamed Ruskin, the pet of the human king. Cinder, Ruskin, and Groth travel to the fairies in order to get the ingredients to cure the curse. But the witch-dragon is NOT pleased with their success.A fast-paced and excellent story with a hook that will keep you reading the series!

Mouse Town 30+ Kids Crafts Made From Recycled and Everyday Materialswritten by Jodi Levine & Margaret McCartney
If your kids are like my youngest and like tiny things and upcycling, they will love this darling book about making a mouse town with a fun story about two mice friends!Build your own mouse town with a mouse house out of a milk crate and accessories like a bed, a dresser, and toys. Read how to build buildings for the town, like a bakery and library, and add lots of itty bitty things like fruit and toy food.All the craft projects list the materials needed and are well written, making them easy to follow with photographic directions, plus adorable cardboard mice photos.

Deduckto
Kids love this parent-approved strategy game where you’ll use deduction to put together the clues (animal, disguise, and location) to figure out your secret suspect!

Squishmallows Mushroom
My kids both love these BEST out of all other plush toys because they’re so soft and squishy.

Barbie Cutie Reveal Doll
With purple hair and a poodle costume, this Barbie is filled with fun surprises like a headband, shoes, comb, and mini-poodle.

LEGO Friends Heartlake City Community Center
Build this colorful community center to use with the included 6 mini-dolls and accessories like a sewing machine, gaming accessories, and gardening accessories. This will provide hours of building and playing!

KLUTZ Gemstone & Dig Kit
Use the chisel and hammer to find 12 birthstones and 18 more rocks. This kit includes a 32-page book of information and ideas!

Fashion Angels Sticker Book
Your kids will love the 40 sheets of unique and strong adhesive stickers.

Almanac 2025 National Geographic Kids
The National Geographic Almanac is a must-own resource for families. Practice your nonfiction reading comprehension skills as you learn about animals, space, science, history, geography, and much more. Each page is designed to entertain and educate with stunning layouts and eye-popping photographs.

Banangrams Countaloupe
Rolle the dice, count the seeds, and discard the slices in your deck using probability and strategy.

Mythics: Marina and the Krakenwritten by Lauren Magaziner, illustrated by Mirelle Ortega
What an exciting start to what is sure to be a smash-hit series of adventure, girl power, andmythical creatures!When Marina doesn’t get matched with a familiar like the other kids, she and four other 10-year-old girls discover their familiars aren’t everyday animals but mythical creatures and together, they’re destined to save Terrafamiliar.

Crazy Aaron’s Thinking Putty Dolphin Dance
The best thing about this cool, glittery, stretchable, sculptable putty is it’s fun for ALL AGES! Not only do little kids enjoy playing with it for fine motor skills and creativity, but big kids use it for focus and sensory exploration.

Reading Journal for Kids
With 90 pages of appealing, easy-to-use activities and diary entries, children get to record and evaluate the books they are reading…and create a treasured memory keepsake.

Kawaii Mini Erasers
My daughter loves making these erasers as gifts. This kit gives you 35 designs with step-by-step directions to make adorable erasers in rainbow colors of clay.

Crayola Paper Flower Science Kit
Make 12 wicking flowers then customize your bouquet with this STEM craft kit.

Check the Oven
If you’re looking for a game gift for an 8 year old girl, try this hilarious game of bluffing where kids develop confidence and solid math skills! Players use strategy, humor, and logic to accumulate cards adding to 12.

Barbie Color Reveal
Give a Barbie doll surprise, then submerge the doll in water and watch what happens — long paste-colored streaks will appear in the doll’s hair in a surprise color. Four extra surprises include a rain jacket, vinyl hat or headband, rain boots, and a brush.

A Million Dogs: Fabulous Canines to Colorby Lulu Mayo
Adorable, cute, lovable dogs fill these pages. Which will you color in first? Lulu May’s coloring books are enthusiastically endorsed by kids!If you like the Lulu Mayo drawings, also try herBears,Owls,Cats,Sloths, andUnicornscoloring books.(Herdrawing booksare also fantastic, both my girls love them!)

LEGO Gel Pen & Minifigure

Karaoke Microphone
Would your 8 year old girl love this? Kids can pair with Bluetooth and sing along to songs from any app.

Plasma Ball
Learn about electricity, matter, and energy! A great toy gift for eight year old girls.

KLUTZ Pet Adoption
Eight year old girls will get to make and bake 15 cute clay animals using the step-by-step instructions in a 32-page book! You’ll find directions for animals like puppies, kitties, birds, and guinea pigs.

Lite Brite Oval
Make light-up designs on this redesigned retro toy shaped in an oval!

P.I. Butterfly Gone Guppy Case #1by Karen Kilpatrick, illustrated by German Blanco
MYSTERY GRAPHIC NOVEL
Fabulous, funny, and entertaining! P.I Butterfly is a girl who loves butterflies andmysteries. When she discovers that the family guppy is missing from the fish bowl, she’s determined to discover what happened. But who did it? Was it her sister? Her mother? Her cat? She searches for clues and interviews suspects.She puts together the evidence, follows the trail of clues, and tries to get a confession–and with hard work and persistence, solves the case!Not only is this a delightful story, but it’s also filled with problem-solving, critical thinking, and deductive reasoning.

Sloth Journal
A locking journal that will inspire your 8 year old girls to write!

LEGO Creator 3 in 1 T Rex
Make three different dinosaurs — a pterodactyl, a triceratops, and a t.rex with the LEGO blocks in this kit!

Anarchy Pancakes
If you’ve played Spot It, the visual matching game, then you’re almost ready for ANARCHY Pancakes, Anarchy emphasized. Because in this wild game of chaos, there are no turns! Players match and grab at will — as quickly as they can. Fun and funny.

Hedgehog Plush
I love giving the gifts of toy plushies. Don’t you? My kids have so many but they love them all.

A Game of Cat & Mouth
Speedy and fun! Flick the tiny paw with a ball and try to get it to hit spots on the cat’s face like the hose or teeth.

Stomp Rocket
It’s a classic for a reason!

Unicorn Academyby Julie Sykes
Well-written and charming, this unicorn book series is sure to entrance many young readers.In this story, Sophia arrives at Unicorn Academy and is paired with the lovely Rainbow. But, she feels guilty for making a new friend and leaving her best pony, Clover, back at home. On top of that, the unicorns’ magic is wonky because the lake is being poisoned. When someone accuses Sophia of doing the poisoning, she and her new friends investigate to find the true culprit.

Mermaid Potions
Mix up mermaid options with the included supplies and put them in potion bottles or necklaces.

Educational Insights Circuit Explorer Space Station STEM Toy
Explore electricity & circuits! Build a Deluxe Base Station with towers, a planetarium with color-changing dome light, a communication station with a rotating radar dish, and more. Also includes astronaut and robot figures for pretend play and stickers for customization.

Plus Plus Horse
Interlocking cubes fit together to make a horse. Kids love these clever toy puzzles!

Stand Up Swing
Improve balance and core strength while having fun!

Shifting Stones
We love this fun engaging strategy game thatwill developyour visual/spatial skills and long-term planning.

Kristy’s Great Idea Babysitter’s Club#1 by Ann M. Martin, illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
We’re lovingthese updated Babysitter’s Club graphic novels by the uber-talented Raina Telegemeier who wrote the highly-acclaimedSmileandSister. I recommend starting with book one since the stories are told in a specific order with details from previous stories. These are funny and fun to read, maybe even more than once.BOX SET HERE.

Diamond Painting Light
Make your own night light with diamond painting gems.

American Girl Truly Me Doll
The Truly Me 18″ dolls come in different hair, eye, and skin colors. They also include a journal for your writing!

LEGO Friends Forest Camper Van and Sailboat
Get your LEGO Friends mini-dolls outside in nature with 3 dolls, a raccoon toy, a detailed camper van, a sailboat, and more!

Quick Knit Loom
Your child gets to make two knit hats using the provided loom and chunky yarn!

Color Your Own Water Bottle
Get creative coloring and decorating this water bottle! This is a great activity that keeps kids hydrated and imaginative!

Mantis
We love this beautifully illustrated card game! It’s a great family game for ages seven and up where players match and steal sets of cards. Even my teenager loves this game

Barbie Dreamcamper Vehicle Playset
Over 60 camping accessories come with this camper playset that has a kitchen, dining area, sleeping area, bathroom, pool, slide, fire pit, pool, and more.

BrainBolt Memory Game
A light-up memory game from Educational Insights that will challenge you to remember the light sequence and see how long you can remember it correctly! (For one or two players.)

Tiny Ceramics Studio
Use the materials provided (including a pottery wheel) to sculpt, paint, and glaze projects from the 24-page book of ideas.

Kindle Paperwhite Kids
Perfect for growing readers, this Kindle Kids Edition offers a black and white glare-free display. It includes a one year subscription to Amazon Kids+ with many popular book series, including Harry Potter!

Jada Jones Rock Star by Kelly Starling Lyons, illustrated by Vanessa Brantley Newton
Jada starts the school year hoping to find new friends, hopefully, ones that love rocks like she does. She misses her best friend but feels excited when her class studies geology. Unfortunately, one bossy girl in Jada’s group project makes fun of Jada’s interest in rocks. This isa well-written STEM story that shows the challenges of getting along with others and staying true to yourself.Plus, you’ll like that the main character (of color) is a big science nerd!

Colorful Kids Origami Kit
Use beautifully colored, pattern-filled origami folding paper to create amazing and eye-catching designs, like a rocketship, creatures, or origami flowers!

Klutz Mini Bake Shop
Create and decorate your own mini clay cakes, cookies, and pies. Helpful, step-by-step directions in a full-color 48-page book plus all the materials you’ll need.

Watercolor Dreams
Learn how to use watercolors and then paint the 20 darling designs any way you wish! Paint, palette, and brush included.

The Magical Reality of Nadiaby Bassem Youssef and Catherine R. Daly, illustrated by Douglas Holgate
MAGICAL REALISM
Funny, entertaining, and filled with important themes of friendship, growing up, and racism, this is one of my new favorite books!Nadia unexpectedly discovers an ancient Egyptian teacher (Titi) trapped in her hippo amulet. He comes out onto a paper and TALKS! Tita helps Nadia with problems she faces at school like the new kid who is rude and prejudice about her Egyptian culture and troubles with her friends who are working together on a school project. Totally wonderful, heartfelt, and relatable.

Perplexus Rebel
My daughter says, “I love it. It’s a really good time passer.” Figure out how to get the marble through this challenging 3Dmaze.

KLUTZ Sew Squishy Cubes
Use the 24 page book to follow the directions to make 3 squishy felt creations: a unicorn, a phoenix, and a yeti with felt pieces precut with holes for extra-simple sewing.

Fashion Angels Fashion Design Sketch Portfolio with Stencils
My kids LOVE these! 40 sketch sheets with pre-printed models’ silhouettes to make fashion drawing easy for beginners or for anyone who wants to improve their drawing techniques. Use the removable stencils with over 50+ clothing and accessory shapes to help create different outfits and styles.

Cat Ninjaby Matthew Cody, illustrated by Yehudi Mercado
GRAPHIC NOVEL/ SUPERHERO
By day Claude is Leon’s pet, but by night, he’s Cat Ninja, Metro City’s protector! His nemesis is Leon’s sister’s evil hamster, Master Hamster.Learn the Cat Ninja’s origin story then follow his perilous, exciting, and humorous adventures!

Give this Book a Cover: Spark Your Imagination with Over 100 Activitiesby Jared Lerner and You
Drawing and writing prompts will give kids fun activities to complete on their own. They’ll get to finish a comic panel story, write a story about a cactus, learn to draw in steps, and much more. Engaging, perfect for summer.

Roller Coaster Challenge Logic & Building Game
We LOVE this cool STEM skills game that makes you think while creating something awesome — a roller coaster. Full reviewhere.

Whatever Afterby Sarah Mlynowski
Once upon a time, a regular girl and her brother accidentally went into a fairy tale. And messed it all up. (Whoops.) We love all the books in this series.

Barbie Dreamplane
The pink plane seats a pilot and 2 passengers with lots of fun details like TV screens on the seat backs (and working overhead compartments), a snack cart, 2 trays, a puppy and more!

Colors of the World Markers
These 24 new Crayola colors that represent people from around the world are essential for homes and classrooms.

Harry Potter Create by Sticker: Hogsmeade
Use thestickersto complete the Hogsmeade-related mosaics starting with a Marauder’s Map and ending with a landscape of Hogsmeade Village. Cute cartoon illustrations and a brief narration take you on an adventurous experience. Harry Potter fans who like to puzzle together mosaics will enjoy these memorablestickerscenes. Also in the series:Create by Sticker: Hogwarts.

Smencils
Kids love these scented pencils!

Pusheen Dinosaur Cat
Anyone else have a Pusheen-obsessed child? Mine loves all things Pusheen. Check out this cute, soft, and huggable pusheenosaurus!

Ooze Labs Chemistry Station Science Experiment Kit
This educational chemistry set is perfect for children who love doing their own experiments and want to create something colorful, slimy, or fizzy in their very own lab!

TOMOLOO Hoverboard with LED Lights
This self-balancing electric scooter is a HOT gift right now! This highly-rated model offers 5 LED lights with Bluetooth music and unique tires.

LEGO Friends Olivia’s Mission Vehicle
Build a cool truck for rescue missions and you’ll get a rooftop control center, secret compartment, computer, 5 mini-dolls, and more!

Erasable Markers
Draw or write with these fun colorful pens. Erase any lines you don’t like!

Barbie Dream House
My kids played and played with their Barbie Dream Houses — so I feel nostalgic in recommending this new model. It has a slide into a pool, a working elevator, lights, and sounds — plus more!

Sleeping Queens
SO MUCH FUN! We play this weekly and have for years. It’s my daughter’s favorite game of ALL TIME. The goal is to be the first player with queens that add up to 50 points. Steal queens, put opponents queens back to sleep, and fight dragons. A must-own game for kids!

Craft-Tastic Yarn Tree
Wrap colorful yarn around the tree and put itinyour room. Storenecklaces, bracelets and earrings on the branches.

Lottie Pandora’s Doll
7.5 inches tall, Lottie has moveable arms, bendable knees and can stand on her own two feet (a useful skills for all girls big and small). She’s apositive, healthy role model; she doesn’t wear makeup, jewelry, heels or suggestive clothing, she’s the girl next door; cute, fun and adventurous.

Tear Up This Book! by Keri Smith
Your 8 year old girl will be thrilled to get this very popular American Girl gift bookfor fun, creativity, and crafts. My kids love this book.

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