Gifts for Girls Under $20

Friendship bracelets are a fun and easy way to show someone how much you care. The practice of giving woven bracelets dates back to times in history when these twined gifts were worn and given to symbolize friendship and peace.

Like the carefully constructed bracelets of old, the Alex Toys Friends 4 Ever Bracelet Making Kit is a way to give a special handmade gift to show a friend how much their camaraderie means.

These are a hot trending item that both boys and girls like to wear. But with this kit, instead of taking months to create a bracelet, it can now be done in a matter of minutes. These bracelets are made from embroidery floss, and to add more flair, beads can be added to the bracelets.

By choosing from a rainbow of colored floss (22 colors come with this kit), kids can create bracelets for all of their friends. The looms to create the bracelets come in a selection of square or circle, and by following the patterns color coordinated on the looms, kids can make a variety of differently colored bracelets.

Since there are four looms included in the kits, kids can get together with their friends and spend fun hours creating together! The Alex Toys Friends 4 Ever Bracelet Making Kit comes with the floss, the looms, enough floss to make 22 bracelets, special beads and the needle for the beads.

Kids also get a choice from 8 patterns to follow, but as the girls advance with bracelet making skill, many create their own patterns of bracelet colors and designs. Bracelet making isn't just for younger kids to enjoy either.

Teenagers love the hobby of making friendship bracelets and they love using the Alex Friend 2 Friend Friendship Bracelet Kit to make that jewelry. This kit lets teens create bands or bracelets - including ones where the beads are threaded on the upper and lower edges of the floss.

This kit has two different kinds of looms for easy use and comes with 10 colors. By purchasing either the Alex Toys Friends 4 Ever Bracelet Making Kit or the Alex Friend 2 Friend Friendship Bracelet Kit, you'll be giving your child a great gift that will give many hours of creative fun as they make the bracelets.

Using the wheel included in the kit, teens can quickly design a pattern that they'll love wearing or giving to their friends. Despite the fact that these are hot trending gift ideas, the kits both remain budget friendly at a price tag of under $20.

Jewelry making is a hot trend today and young girls to tweens all the way to teens enjoy being creative and expressing their individuality with kits like the Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Studio.

Girls can design their own jewelry, make some to give away or make it the fun project at a sleepover party. What's so cool about this set is that kids don't just string colorful beads into necklaces or bracelets, they actually get to spin the colors onto the beads themselves. It's a great way for kids to express their creativity and inner artist.

The modeling dough is easy for girls of all ages to use and by utilizing the bead spinner, kids can create a colorful mixture of texture and design onto their beads. The kit comes with different colors featuring snappy names like Razzmatazz.

Once girls select the colors, they make them into the shapes they want the beads to be in, create holes for the cords or earring posts and leave them to dry. Once the beads are dry, glaze is applied and a unique piece of jewelry has been created!

The Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Studio isn't just for necklaces or bracelets, either. Users can create earrings and charms, too. The materials are included in the kit and they allow girls to make more than 160 of their own unique beads.

Also included are charms for bracelets, gems that can be used to stick on the beads, necklace cords, cutters to make the beads into the preferred shapes, posts for earrings and the special Peacock dryer rack.

Kids enjoy coming up with the different color combinations they can create out of their own imagination so that no two pieces are ever completely alike. Even if they mix the razzmatazz color with the tropical rainforest more than once, because of the way they'll spin the bead, the colors will vary in the design.

The kit is easy to use. All girls have to do is add the modeling clay to the spinner to create their pieces of jewelry. One of the many great things about this kit is that refills of the clay are available, making this a gift that will keep kids creating for months to come.

Even though this kit is recommended for kids aged six and up, with supervision, younger girls enjoy using the jewelry making kit, too. It's important for parents to allow kids to have toys and kits that help to build their self confidence in themselves.

Knowing they can create something of beauty with the Crayola Model Magic Jewelry Studio gives girls a feeling of pride and a sense of accomplishment. At under $20, it's a perfect gift to give someone if you're watching your budget this year!

Scents create memories of places, people or events and can bring you back when you experience that scent once again. Our memories hold on to scents. Creating perfume is a scientific activity that's done in a lab, but now kids can make their own memorable scents because of the Wild Science Perfect Perfume Laboratory.

Whether your child is a budding scientist or not, he or she will enjoy working in this laboratory as they have fun and experiment with scents. Working with aromatic projects helps kids learn about mixing blends to create their own special perfumes.

It's a kit that lets kids experiment and explore how various scents blended together can make appealing aromas. The materials used in the kit are tested for durability and use only the best supplies to ensure safety.

Shatterproof bottles hold the chemicals and make it easy for them to be used multiple times for many experiments. The learning involved in the perfume making process makes it easy for kids to draw conclusions and hypothesize as they come up with unique results.

For kids who have a school science project in the future, this kit can help them learn how to study the process of how certain chemicals can be broken down and used to create a product.

In the Wild Science Perfect Perfume Laboratory, kids will learn by using the kit's laboratory cards, which are the base perfumes. These are used so that your child can make her own special aroma by following the steps.

Some of the steps included in making the perfume are measuring out the correct amount of chemicals (too much and the scent is overpowering, too little and the scent fades too quickly) and carefully mixing blends.

In the laboratory, girls will also get to filter chemicals to make scents, use the crystals to make the perfumes and use the gel potpourri, too. While the kit does make a great gift for girls that's under $20, many parents use it to expose their children to a fun scientific process.

The learning techniques taught in the kit are the perfect accessory for kids 10 and older to learn additional scientific methods. The education involved in the kit is also a great science supplement for parents who homeschool their children.

The Wild Science Perfect Perfume Laboratory has a mixing jar for creating the scents and 5 vials for holding the finished projects. Kids get filters, tweezers and labels for naming their creations.

You can find the perfect gift under $20 no matter what the occasion if you're looking for something that girls will like. The world of fashion and beauty has always appealed to girls of all ages and it always will.

It's relaxing and joyful to take something without adornment and turn it around to create a thing of breathtaking beauty. The Project Runway Make Up Artist Studio Box Set is the gift that appeals to a variety of girls.

The set is especially appealing to girls who enjoy exploring with makeup and have expressed an interest in having a future career in design or as a makeup artist. You can give the gift that girls will keep on enjoying throughout the year when you give them this box set.

Girls often get tired of being one of the crowd and they want to pick a color palette for their makeup that will let their inner self shine forth. By learning how colors interact together and using this set to create makeup blends on the sketchpad sheets, she can also use this to help her with her own makeup design.

The Project Runway Make Up Artist Studio Box Set is a creative toy that where kids can create makeup designs that are like ones worn by the famous faces gracing runways all over the world today.

The palette in the set is a palette that any future makeup artist would be thrilled to have as she dreams of doing the makeup or designing makeup color schemes for others. The set comes with 4 make up applicators, a variety of pencils in different colors, a guide with design suggestions and tips and a selection of sketchpad sheets.

What's fun about giving this as a gift is that it gives users a craft that helps them be creative while learning about color mixes and shapes like contour and shading to bring out the most beauty that's present in every face.

It teaches how makeup should enhance rather than overpower and how that makeup can be used to highlight the best features on a face. By learning tips such as shading, future makeup artists learn how to apply makeup like pros.

Kids will often take an interest in hobbies that give a hint into what they'd like to do when they get older. The Project Runway Make Up Artist Studio Box Set is a great gift for anyone who's interested in any kind of makeup fashion - whether it's working as a movie makeup artist, a makeup artist for photography studios or planning a future in creating cosmetics. But it's also the perfect gift for any girl who simply loves makeup.

Who doesn't enjoy the spa treatment that lets them be a princess for a day? Now there's a fun and relaxing spa treatment kids can have at home just for feet with the Faber Castell Pretty Pedicure Salon that's a huge hit as a gift for girls, since it costs less than $20.

It's a perfect gift choice (not only for the girls in your life, but also for her to give to her friends as a gift). It's a great antidote for those overcast winter days to make her feel bright and cheery and pampered.

A top choice featured gift for girls from 9-12, this salon set will help her learn more about foot care while coating her toes with cute designs. The salon kit is visually appealing with the little red and white heart theme.

She can put her foot into the pedicure pool that inflates and get the royal treatment while she chats with her friends on the phone. When she's done soaking up the luxury and her feet feel deliciously soft and pampered, she can dry them on a fluffy towel and slip her feet into the heart designed spa slippers.

Once her feet are comfortably dry, she can take it to the next step with the other accessories that come with the salon. The toe separator in the Faber Castell Pretty Pedicure Salon keeps toes from pushing against one another as she uses the nail buffer and file to shine and perfect them into tip top shape.

It's also a great accessory to have when it's time to bring out the three bottles of nail polish that are included in the salon. The nail polish colors in the salon are two colors in the pink family and French white so that she can give herself a French manicure just like her mom has!

Once the nail polish is dry, girls can top the color off with their own design. Using the nail art and rhinestones with jazzy glitter, she can add some extra pizzazz to her pedicure. There's enough nail polish in the salon for girls to be able to have fun when their friends come over. They can show their friends how they created their cute toe polish designs.

This is a great gift to spend some mother and daughter time together in fun, sweet bonding with girl talk and pampering. The Faber Castell Pretty Pedicure Salon is age appropriate and has been tested to ensure that ingredients are safe for your child's skin. Once the spa treatment time is over, the spa accessories are easily contained in the included spa tote.

Why is it that kids love Fashion Headbands, a creative kit where they can make their own hair wear so much? They love them because they see headbands as more than just a way of holding hair back and they also love it when they can choose their own colors and styles.

Headbands are fashion accessories and the more stylish these headbands are, the better girls like them. It doesn't matter what season of the year it is, having stylish accessories in the hair is the way to go.

With this kit, which makes a perfect gift for girls that's under $20, kids get to explore what they like in hair accessories and they can make something that's completely unique as opposed to what's mass marketed for millions of kids.

They can use their favorite colors and punch those colors up by adding variations to the headbands. The kit comes with headbands that kids can make in their own style by using the included craft items.

The headbands are already covered in satin, so all she has to do is decorate them. The items she can use for the decorating are colorful beads in different sizes and shapes, feathers, rosettes and a butterfly.

The kit includes both wide and slender ribbon with various designs on the ribbons. Kids can glue a ribbon on the headband, add a bead in the center to create a bow - or they can glue a rosette on the headband and add some of the rhinestones for a glittering hair accessory.

Fashion Headbands comes with enough material for kids to create at least 10 different headbands so she can have fun with her friends and the craft glue makes it suitable for kids as young as 5.

It makes a great birthday gift or gift to use as a party art project. Doing craft projects teaches kids both hand and eye skills and strategic thinking. Kids need to be creative and they need to develop social skills at an early age.

One of the best ways to forge social skills is to get girls in the same peer group involved in doing a project together. By engaging in a project, kids learn to work together and talk and they share laughter while they create.

Using crafts is not only a good time for a rainy day project, but it's also a great way for siblings to spend time together in an activity not centered around the television. Fashion Headbands is a craft that brings smiles and fun, friends and family together.

Barbie has a long history of enchanting girls, and the Barbie Princess Charm School Princess Blair Transforming Doll keeps her dreaming. Part of the popularity of this hot toy is because of the movie featuring the doll that was released earlier this year.

The popularity can also be found in the fact that every little girl still dreams of the fairy tale of being a princess. Everyone loves a princess story - those characters that take us into a magical land where everything is sweet and kind but a single evil doer, who always loses out in the end.

In a sweet rags to riches story, the main character in the movie is Blair Willows, the long lost princess selected through a lottery to attend Princess Charm School on a scholarship. Girls loved the kindness of the girl who didn't know she was a princess and rooted for her to overcome and take her rightful place as the princess she was born to become.

The sweet and lively personality of the character has been transformed into the doll. This Barbie rocks fashion with her style. Girls can make the Barbie's outfit switch into three different ones: the outfit she has to wear as part of her school uniform, the dress that's used for social functions and the beautiful one that's reserved for her princess gown.

The Barbie Princess Charm School Princess Blair Transforming Doll polishes up the three outfits with heels in her trademark pink color, the short fluffy skirt decorated with glittering rhinestones and her one of a kind necklace shaped like a heart. Having the three outfits lets this princess be prepared for whatever she'll face in a day!

When the doll first arrives in the box, the princess is already beautifully attired in her princess gown but to make a quick change to get ready for school is a breeze because of the uniform top that goes onto the doll with just a simple snap.

There's a crank on the back of the princess that causes the gown to become knee length to turn into the outfit that's ready for whatever social event is going on. When it's time for Blair to return to being the princess we all know she is, the touch of a button lengthens the gown into its former grand state.

Wearing the tiara that lit up just for her in the movie, Barbie Princess Charm School Princess Blair Transforming Doll will spur your child's imagination as she gets to recreate scenes that give Blair her well deserved happily ever after!

At under $20 for a Barbie item, this is going to be a hot item for parents to get their daughters this Christmas, or for a birthday or any occasion. It's hard to find such great gifts at this price, so snap it up while you can!

The Monster High characters are a highly popular group of girls that know how to show up in any event - whether school or hanging with friends - dressed in clothes that show off hot, trend setting fashion style.

The Monster High Full Size Sketch Portfolio lets kids have fun with the popular characters by designing cool clothes and accessories for them to wear. The ghoulish and cool monsters can wear whatever you design with the portfolio.

Kids can play and have fun and hone their art skills too - and nothing is too ghoulish for these characters to wear! Girls don't have to be the best with drawing ability to be able to have fun with this toy.

The portfolio gift (which is a steal at under $10) lets kids design and create outfits that are freakishly hip and trendy for this high school group. It comes with 40 pages, so kids can design without worrying about outlines, since the pages allow them to sketch by tracing - making it perfect too for younger kids who want one.

The Monster High Full Size Sketch Portfolio has five stencils that contain 190 different creations girls can make for the Monster High characters. Kids can design something dark and dreary for Frankie Stein who loves her black plaid outfit or they can give a little more color to the white outfit Abbey Bominable coolly loves to wear.

Once kids are done with the fearful designing of the outfits, they can add the stickers that take the designs from fashion fabulous to A-list spotlight ready. This portfolio is also educational while being fun.

Since the stencils are made to be used multiple times, the fun of sketching and design lasts for hundreds of different scenes! Inside the portfolio are lessons that teach kids about how colors work well with other colors and the portfolio also includes some sample fabrics kids can use in the designs.

Having the portfolio is like having their very own design studio that girls can easily take along with them wherever they go. Having a Monster High Full Size Sketch Portfolio doesn't just teach kids about design and color and how different fabrics can shape an outfit.

It's a fun way for them to spend time dressing up the characters they love. The portfolio comes with a sketchpad, stencil cards so that kids can create more than fashion outfits (including the accessories) - and it's portable enough to have fun on the go.

Journals that can be secured are a way for girls to pour out their thoughts onto paper without fear that someone can accidentally (or deliberately if there are younger siblings) read the heartfelt entries.

From griping about school to giggling about boys, having the peace of a secure journal gives girls the freedom to express what they think about that and more. There's no better way to make sure that private thoughts stay private with the Password Journal 2011 edition - a perfect gift under $10 for girls.

What makes the journal stand out from any other journal is that it has a security feature many journals don't have. Using technology to bring tighter security, access to the journal is gained through voice activation.

For double security, the journal has a hidden compartment that takes a second password to be able to open it. Want to know if someone has been sneaking around trying to read your personal thoughts?

The journal has an alert that will tell you when someone has tried to get into your journal. The Password Journal 2011 edition is an electronic toy which has a microphone for recording the voice recognition password and it also has a pen and a special light.

The pen writes with invisible ink so that no matter where the user is, she can write whatever she wants - secrets, bits of songs she's creating (if she's a songwriter), or poetry - and no matter where she's at or who's watching, they won't be able to see what's written. The special light can reveal what was written. The journal is pastel purple in color, has a scroll design on the front and comes with cute stickers to personalize the book.

Another great electronic journal - this one made by Discover - is the Keep Safe Diary. This is an electronic diary as well and younger and older girls love it. Girls can store their secret crushes, their hopes and dreams for the future - and their beloved treasures, too.

Inside the diary is a compartment with a door that opens up to store everything from a friendship bracelet to the petals of a flower received from a first love. This diary comes with diary paper and a pink gel pen.

Using the included stickers, girls can personalize the front of the diary with their names or whatever else they'd like to put on the front. The Keep Safe Diary keeps intruders out of the diary through the use of the musical password. Whichever journal you choose, your girl is sure to be thrilled with the gift.