20 Best Toys for 11-Year-Old Girls 2024

Young Harry Potter fans can make magic on computers, smartphones, and tablet screens with the help of Kano Harry Potter Build a Wand Coding Kit. Winner of the 2018 TIME magazine Best Invention Award, and the 2019 Toy of the Year award, this kit lets children build a coding wand that makes “magic” by waving, twisting, or twirling the wand. The kit runs on Bluetooth technology and is compatible with Windows 10, Mac OS 10.10, Android 5+, iPad iOS 12, and Amazon Fire 8 and 10 HD operating systems. It also works with the brand’s dedicated Kano OS 4.2 or newer.

This kit comes in magical-looking packaging so that it feels like a Hogwarts kind of big deal. . It comes with an easy-to-read instruction manual tailored to guide kids through the process of setting up the wand while teaching them what each part of the included PCB does. Kids can then sync the wand to a computer, update the firmware, and start coding. Coding is as simple as dragging and dropping the pieces of the language around to cast spells.

It’s easy for children to get the hang of how the whole thing works. This toy is guaranteed to keep children “spell-bound” as they learn to code by solving the more than 70 progressively difficult challenges set in in familiar places like Diagon Alley, Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and more. Kids will learn about loops, variables, and logic through executing fun actions like levitating, casting spells, or making broomsticks magically appear.

Kids can make whatever creature they imagine once they’ve learned the coding basics from this toy. If you’re looking for a STEM toy that is so much fun to play with, this product is an excellent choice.

The ukulele is a member of the lute family of instruments that is easier to learn than other stringed musical instruments like the mandolin or the guitar, making it the preferred string instrument for kids due to its smaller size that poses less tension on the wrist.

For your 11-year old keen on learning a stringed instrument, we recommend the Everjoys’ Soprano Ukulele Beginner Pack for its fine craftsmanship, durability, and accurately placed frets. Although most ukulele music is written for a soprano, concert, or tenor-size uke, this 21-inch instrument is the suitable size for an 11-year-old beginner before moving on to the baritone size.

The Everjoys Soprano is a budget ukulele that doesn’t require tuning after every song due to the precise placement of the 12 nickel-silver frets and nylon strings. The body and neck are built with basswood and solid wood, and blackwood for the fingerboard and bridge. The strings stay in place making them easier to strum and control.

We also like that the device is lightweight and transport-friendly with the durable carry bag that comes in the kit. What you get in the Everjoys Soprano Ukulele set includes a 21″ soprano ukulele, a handy digital tuner, two spare picks, a spare string, a microfiber polishing cloth, a strap, a carry bag, a printed box, a message card, and a How-To-Play songbook.

It’s no secret that girls are more likely to believe in themselves when they have strong female role models. Girls are inspired to aim for greater heights in their careers and life’s pursuits when they are inspired by the successes of women who have thrived in their respective careers. Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World is an invaluable source of inspiration for 11-year-old girls who have just begun to discover the threshold of womanhood.

The book comes in a colorfully illustrated format depicting the achievements and biographies of female pioneers in a style that keeps the reader riveted. “Women in science” is a broad universe cutting across math, chemistry, agriculture, astronomy, physics, and more for girls to explore. The book also has info-graphic sections that showcase scientific implements, a glossary, and even statistics about women in STEM.

Each of the pioneers is featured in a two-page spread illustrated with colorful graphics about their areas of exploits. The brevity of the biographies coupled with the visual stimulations ensures this book is never boring to read. We guarantee your child will be inspired by the mind-blowing discoveries made by the women in this book. What girl wouldn’t be excited to learn that the DNA double helix was discovered by a woman named Rosalind Franklin?

The 4M Crystal Growing Science Experimental Kit is a DIY STEM toy selected by the University of Cambridge at the University of Cambridge Science Festival. The kit has every material needed to grow beautiful crystals from start to finish. You can grow up to 7 unique crystals and show them off in the display cases that come in the kit. For the best results, it is important to follow the included instruction manual to the letter.

This toy presents a fun activity that can bring families together while kids learn about science, geology, and scientific principle they can see and touch. Your child will learn how to mix the provided seed powders to create sparkling crystals of various colors, including light blue, pink, purple, red, or clear. They will watch as the crystals form and grow in their display domes.

You get 3 bags of crystal compounds that can make up to 4 small crystals. You also get seven display domes, stirring supplies, and instructions for each experiment.

The finished crystals can be used as lovely room decorations in their display glasses, but they are too fragile to make jewelry with. Kids can place their creations on a shelf, tabletop, or window sill. At the end of the day, it’s the experience of creating the crystals that matters most.

Sarah Bradshaw: Your Diary Illustrated and Activities is an interactive journal for girls that sets itself apart with its lock and keys feature. Journaling induces kids to process their feelings. It inspires them to think about the words they’re using and to order their thoughts before putting them in writing. This can help build eloquence and coherent speech.

This lockable diary is not just a book with blank pages for kids to document their daily lives. The full-color illustrated pages help kids tell their story, and that of the world around them, complete with writing prompts, questions, and affirmations. It also has activity pages with doodles to engage kids in fun educational activities. The pink hardcover design is as pretty as it is durable.

This journal’s writing prompts to encourage children to think deeper than they would have with blank diaries, and there’s no limit to what they can write about and when they must write it. This book is a timely product that can help young people cut screen time and limit the use of technology for everything.

The collection of 300 riddles and puzzles in this book is meant to help raise smart kids by encouraging them to flex their mental muscles and use their imagination. he riddles are mental games that help children link ideas, make associations, and be creative. Solving puzzles is also known to be a mood-boosting activity. The riddles are split into 3 levels: difficult, fiendish, and evil, which is the hardest, but you won’t get to it until you’re quite far in the book.

Difficult Riddles For Smart Kids lacks colorful graphics or any illustrations at all, but we suspect your 11-year-old won’t care much about that. While this book comes in an admittedly boring layout, the 300 challenges in the book promote lateral thinking. The answers section is tucked away at the end of the book, forcing the reader to try and solve the riddles themselves before checking out the answers.

This karaoke system is at home in the hands of a child or an adult. The machine can wirelessly stream music from Bluetooth-enabled devices. It also has an aux-in function that lets you connect the system to smart devices, including Android phones and tablets as well as iPhones and iPads.

There is a disc player at the top of the machine with an easy lift-to-open lid, and a 2-digit LED display that lets you follow song tracks. The machine can be plugged into your TV (with RCA cables) so you can read song lyrics on the screen (with CDG). The Singing Machine karaoke system comes with a dedicated Singing Machine app, giving you access to thousands of karaoke tunes.

The inbuilt auto-voice control lets you adjust the volume to make your voice more distinct from the music. Kids will love the 54 LED disco lights that flash around the speaker and volume knob. The lights can also be adjusted to suit your mood or the mood of the party.

Although the machine comes with 1 karaoke microphone, it has a dual microphone jack and dual-mic holders so family and friends can have fun singing duets.  Additionally, it comes in an optional USB-enabled version.

It’s understandable if you don’t feel like handing over your work computer for your children to do their schoolwork and play games, but it’s prudent to prepare children for a future where personal computers are an indispensable study, work, and productivity tool. If you’re looking for a suitable laptop for an 11-year-old girl, we recommend this trendy Acer convertible laptop. The Acer Chromebook Spin 11 is an 11.6-inch convertible laptop that comes with a keyboard and HD touchscreen features.

This is a Chromebook, which means it runs the Chrome OS and is also compatible with Android apps, giving you access to thousands of apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines, and more. The downside of Chromebooks is that some of its best features can’t run without an internet connection. But as far as we’re concerned, this is the best Chromebook for kids we’ve seen.

Unlike pretty gadgets that easily falls apart, this laptop is as durable as it is eye-catching. Acer says this device is MIL-SPEC 810G compliant, making it an ideal device for younger users. The system should continue to work just fine after drops, knocks, coffee, and water spills. It also has built-in virus protection that updates automatically.

Chromebooks are not known for packing large memories but you get 4GB DDR4 and 32GB eMMC together with 100GB of Google Drive space. The 10-hour battery life is commendable, considering that this is a budget laptop.

The LEGO Hidden Side Newbury Haunted High School Building Kit blends a LEGO building toy with an interactive augmented reality (AR). This model- with 1,474 Pieces- is the largest and priciest of the LEGO Hidden Side series. This LEGO kit is an innovative shift from the typical stationary LEGO sets which, at the most, have a wheelbase or can shoot projectiles that kids have come to know and love.

LEGO sets are fun to build, but they also teach children valuable life lessons like persistence, perseverance, and problem-solving skills. Building kits with this much complexity and such an elaborate design helps kids improve their motor skills and imagination.

The 1,474 pieces will pose an age-appropriate challenge to an 11-year-old. As her work on the mansion-style high school progresses, she will begin to see a transformation as the building takes on a haunted house appearance complete with claws, teeth, and eyes that pop out at the flip of a switch to form a monster’s face.

It’s a lot of fun to build this set, but the fun doesn’t end after the work is done. The fun continues when you turn on your phone. The LEGO Hidden Side series comes with a dedicated app with Android and iOS compatibility that incorporates AR games with the sets. As the “Hidden Side” implies, the kit has many secrets for the players to unravel, some of which can only be found via the app.

The kit itself does not require a smartphone or tablet to build the house. You can play the game app in one of two modes: Ghost Hunting and Ghost Haunting modes. The latter you can play without buying the building kit. This kit also comes with mini-figures of characters from the Hidden Side game, including an adorable ghost dog known as Spencer.

The Fashion Angels Make-up & Hair Design Sketch Portfolio is a great gift for pre-teen girls who are just starting to be interested in makeup. This book can also be useful for adults to create a personal design portfolio. What we have here is a coloring book that gives kids a hands-on training on facial makeovers before they move on to the real deal.

If your little girl wants to be a makeup, hairstyle, and nail design pro, this is a great gift even if she has no plans of becoming a YouTube celebrity or a famous beauty blogger. The book comes spiral-bound with 40 formatted drawing pages and stencils, allowing kids to practice makeovers with the cute models in the book.

The kit also comes with decorative stickers and 4 plastic stencils sheets with over 100 shapes. There’s also a storage pouch on the book’s back cover for the stencils and accessories. Use the stencils to trace make-up looks, hairstyles, and nail designs on the preformatted model sketch pages. The Fashion Angels Make-up & Hair Design Sketch Portfolio is an excellent toy for young girls to draw inspiration or tweak existing makeup styles for real-world applications.

This soap making kit comes with every material needed to melt and mold up to 10 soaps in various shapes and colors. We wouldn’t recommend this kit for younger children to use without adult supervision, but an 11-year-old should have the fine motor skills to make soaps with this kit with less risk of burns from the hot plastic equipment and melted soap.

We recommend this kit because it teaches children valuable skills that can grow with them. The Klutz Make Your Own Soap Craft & Science Kit simplifies the soap making process. It also comes with soap-based science experiments that kids can safely do in the kitchen. What you will need to have on hand is a cutting board, knife, rubbing alcohol, a spatula or chopstick, a long-handled spoon, and a microwave-safe glass.

The kit comes with 20 blocks of clear soap base, soap mold with 6 shapes, coconut papaya scent, cosmetic-grade glitter, 20 color tablets, soap stickers, ribbon, purple gift box, gift tag, and plastic fish. A 36-page step-by-step full-color guide also comes in the kit to guide users through the entire process with tips and tricks here and there. Kids can use this kit to create up to 10 soaps of various designs, including a Galaxy Star, Emoji Cat, Peace Sign, Sprinkle Suds, Fishy Fun, and Cupcake.

This product is a set of interlocking plastic cogs and toothed rings in different shapes and sizes which was originally developed in the 1960s as a drafting tool. Today, though, the Spirograph is an imaginative art set for aspiring artists to draw an endless variation of incredibly intricate and beautiful patterns.

This set is an updated and re-engineered version of the original. The kit contains more than 45 high-quality art pieces neatly compartmentalized in a durable storage case with a built-in work surface. This portable case with retractable closure makes it super-easy to make beautiful arts on the go.

The Spirograph gears in this kit are precision engineered with 3 design pens that come with a reusable spiro-putty to hold the pens in place while you draw, so there are no unwanted holes in your artwork. Kids can also use this set with standard markers, pencils, and pens with a point size of 1 mm or smaller.

You can use the Spirograph Original Deluxe Art Set with standard sheets of paper, although the kit comes with 20 sheets of design paper together with a 14-page design guide book included. This is an open-ended art set that will never cease to spark the imagination of aspiring artists.

This handheld electronic game by Moose Racing is a simple and yet mind-stretching toy. The concept seems easy, but the excitement is heightened by the realization that the game is not as easy as it seems. It’s a color matching game that requires the player to flip the cubes to find a color that matches the lights. There’s a volume control to adjust the sound when the child wants to play and the family wants a bit of quiet, and the device runs on 2 AA batteries.

The game is played by flipping and sliding the side blocks into place to match the color of the front cubes with flashing indicator lights. Kids often fall back to portable gaming consoles when they are bored, and this one is an innovative toy that is hard to put down. This toy will help your child build better concentration, finger muscles, creativity, and gross motor skills.

The console’s ergonomic design provides a comfortable grip both for young and grownup players. The game can be played in 4 different modes: speed mode to beat the clock, level mode to build your playing skill, memory mode to train your memory, and the multiplayer mode to enjoy with friends and family.

String art, also known as pin art or thread art, are colorful threads woven between points to form patterns or shapes of objects. Arts and crafts have enormous benefits for children including improved hand-eye coordination, creativity, dexterity, innovation, confidence, social skills, and more. Children can show off or give away their finished work to relatives and friends

The Craft-tastic – String Art Kit makes it fun and easy to make impressive string art projects. The kit comes in 3 styles to choose from: Personalized Wall Collage Craft, Frozen Yeti String Art Craft- and this Owl String Art Craft Edition. Each kit includes 3 different 8.5″ sturdy foam canvases, 3 templates, 60 yards of thread, and 170 pins, so you won’t need to purchase anything else.

Each kit provides the supplies and canvasses to make 3 large string arts: in the case of the owl edition, a starburst, the word “Yay!”, and an adorable owl. or just hang them up as room décor.

The kit comes with easy-to-follow directions to thread the design patterns on 3 sturdy foam canvasses. For the best results, it’s important to follow the detailed guide. You can follow the patterns or just design yours.

The Crayola Light-Up Tracing Pad is an ultra-thin electronic toy tablet that encourages the artistic skills of children by letting them trace and color detailed scenes. The pad lights up nicely, detailing the paper underneath the screen for your little girl to trace. Children can make fantastic tracings with this toy, which encourages them to practice more and boost their confidence.

Users have the option of combining the included sheets to create unique arts. You can also download additional tracing templates online to keep the creative juices flowing for a long time. The package includes every art tool your child will need to create impressive art, whether from scratch on a blank sheet or from one of the many traceable sheets that come with the device.

Every girl enjoys experimenting with drawing. Kids often start with coloring pens and storybooks and then graduate to drawing on the computer as they get older. Crayola’s Light-Up Tracing Pad is the right toy for that stage when children move on to drawing on electronic screens. If encouraged, drawing is one of children’s favorite pastime that can grow with them. The pad has 5 colors for you to choose from including this pink color.

The bulk of glamour does not have to stop with fashion apparel and jewelry. The Purple Ladybug Decorate Your Own Water Bottle lets girls personalize their water bottle with glam and cute rhinestone glitter gem stickers. The package comes with a high-quality water bottle and seven sheets of rhinestone stickers with hundreds of gems. Every girl is guaranteed to love the chance to have a personalized water bottle they made with their own hands.

Since we’re talking about a water bottle, safety is important. The Purple Ladybug Decorate Your Own Water Bottle is made from durable BPA-free plastic. The bottle has a flip lid that makes it easy for children to open and close, and a wide mouth that makes drinking and cleaning the inside of the bottle a breeze. The bottle also comes with a carabiner for easy accessibility.

These headphones sport a fashionable cat-inspired design that every girl will love to wear. A big win for the iClever Boostcare Kids Headphone is the volume cap. You won’t even hear the music your child is listening to: the headphone comes with an adjustable 85/94 dB Volume Limiting Technology that protects your child’s hearing. This is a big win because moreso than adults, children’s ears are sensitive to loud sounds.

The iClever Boostcare Kids Headphone is designed to be child-friendly, with a retractable headband that fits various head sizes between 3 and 12-years-old. The cords are tangle-free and the arms can be twisted and turned whichever way you want without breaking.

This headphone also comes with a built-in microphone that makes hands-free phone calls possible. The remarkable quality of this headphone is surprising considering the low price. It is made with non-toxic ABS impact-resistant material that ensures the phones survive rough handling.  Made with memory foam, the cans are soft and comfortable on the ears.

But aesthetics is not all that this product has going for it. This iClever Boostcare Kids Headphone is an upgraded version with universal compatibility to all smart devices including iPhones, iPad, and Android via a 3.5mm headphone jack—but no Bluetooth, sorry. This headphone produces decent audio quality that isn’t harmful to young ears.

Got an adventurous kid? What better gift for her than a normal pair of binoculars? The Dreamingbox Compact Shock Proof Binoculars are just the right gift to encourage a child’s curiosity, whether at home, in the backyard, hiking trips, fishing, theater, or birdwatching trips.

We recommend this product for its lightweight and shock-absorbing features. It has a soft rubber coating around the eyepieces to help protect children from hurting their eyes.

Durability is important when choosing a suitable pair of binoculars for children, and the product has to be sturdy enough to withstand frequent drops. This product is built with non-slip scratch-resistant waterproof materials and patented easy-grip design for children. It also has a rubber coating around the lens that cushions them during drops and falls.

Although these ergonomic binoculars lag in focus and precision, they deliver adjustable high-quality pictures and an amazing view that should amaze your little one.

The Toyk RC Flying Toy Ball is a cute little remote-controlled drone with advanced sensors on its sides and bottom. It’s a lovely toy that can offer plenty of fun indoors or outdoors, although you’d best keep the remote on hand when flying this little orb. This flying toy ball can soar up to 300ft in the air, complete with colorful flashing LED light that makes it fun and easy to track when it’s dark.

Charging the Toyk RC Flying Toy Ball takes about 20 minutes. Once charged, turn on the switch at the bottom of the ball and hold it vertically in your palms for 3 to 5 seconds. It’s important to delay letting go of the ball as soon as the power is turned on. Lift the ball to the height you want it to fly, and then let it hover. You can use the remote to control the speed and stop the flight.

The ball is made with ABS plastic, so it can take plenty of beatings from running into walls, tree branches, and suchlike. All the same, the power automatically turns off on hard collisions or hard impacts on the ground. This flying ball runs on an internal battery instead of AA or AAA batteries. You will know when the battery is dying on this little drone orb because it begins to lose lift.

The widely popular Razor Scooter is easily the preferred choice when it comes to big kid scooters. Made with aircraft-grade aluminum construction, this scooter is as sturdy as it looks. This is a 2-wheel scooter with a patented rear fender brake and urethane wheels. It can support weights of up to 143 lbs. which means that coupled with the adjustable handlebar, the average 11-year-old can enjoy the scooter for years.

The adjustable handlebar also means that tweens can pass on this scooter to their younger ones or share with siblings of different heights.

For a foldable scooter, weight is important. Yes, this scooter’s folding system is impressive, but what good is it if the scooter is too heavy to carry? The Razor Scooter weighs a decent 61 lbs. The light weight complements the Razor Scooter’s patented folding system that also makes storage easy.

Granted, there are plenty of scooter brands vying for our attention but the Razor stands out for older kids due to its premium quality and affordable budget price. Kids get to choose from 6 colors. Just be sure to pair the scooter with reliable riding gear.