What to give a child for 12 years?
Choosing a birthday gift is always a difficult task, since you need to take into account the personal preferences of the birthday person during this period of life, and you need to give something that will be useful and remembered for a long time. You should try not to choose anything that the bestowed already has. If the hero of the occasion is also a child, then the task becomes more complicated - due to rapidly changing preferences and unstable nature. After reading this article, you will learn what to give a child for the 12th anniversary.
Age features
If an adult has a well-established hobby and certain interests, then they change several times in a child, because he goes through numerous transformations on the way from child to adult.
For each birthday of a minor, a gift is selected through the lens of not only his hobbies, but also his age.
If we talk about children 12 years old, then it must be noted that this age is already a transitional one. However, such a child cannot be called a full-fledged teenager, his childish character traits still prevail, but you need to give something that will serve more than one year.
Therein lies the difficulty - it seems that nowadays a slight bias towards toys seems to be preferable, but in six months or a year they will be abandoned. Hence the first rule: now, perhaps, you should not give gifts that are too brightly tied to childhood or adolescence. By giving a gift that a teenager would definitely be happy about, you can get a little ahead of time and cause bewilderment of the child.
If we talk about typical preferences, then it should be borne in mind that right now the child wants to show himself as an individual, an independent person. Since youthful maximalism has not yet had time to develop, it will not always be expressed in a desire to oppose itself to parents or to the rules of social behavior.
Now you just need something that could be described with the word "cool", because such a gift will definitely help to gain authority among peers. Hence the second rule: give something that can boast.
The third rule is so simple and obvious that it is not necessary to paint it on purpose: give what is really interesting for this particular child. Best of all, if he himself recently said that he would like something for himself, especially if his hobbies are not typical. Otherwise, you will have to give what is considered to be a generally accepted good version of a presentation in 12 years.
Kinds
At the age of 12, a child has long learned to speak confidently, and almost always he clearly expresses his wishes out loud, even if he is not asked about it. However, there are exceptions - when parents and other relatives do not know what to give.
Perhaps, the birthday boy simply has everything. In this situation, you need to choose a gift from those that are generally relevant for this age.
It is worth exploring a small list of such things to simplify the selection.
Gadgets
Now there are almost no adults left (except for some old people) who would not even have a mobile phone. If at an earlier age there could be concerns about the safety of the gadget in too small a child, now the birthday boy is already old enough to take responsibility for it.
The simplest, purely entertaining and relatively inexpensive option is the player.The phone is an excellent tool for communicating with an older child who now spends a lot of time without parents, and a smartphone will allow him to play games, not to mention going online. The tablet will be even more interesting gift, allowing not only fun, but also more fruitful to learn.
Sports
At the age of 12, children still have active games and movement, but they are already a little lazy to run, but they want speed. Since it is too early for a moped, donate rollers or a bicycle - the correct last option can serve the hero of the occasion until the end of the institute, and even longer.
For creativity
For 12 years, gifts of creative nature are presented quite rarely - by this age the child has already decided whether he needs creativity. If yes, then he already has everything he needs, if not, then he does not need to give such a thing. Perhaps there are only two options that have a chance at such a late age.
For boys, this is a guitar - even initially young people who are far from making music are beginning to understand that this is a great way to become the soul of the company and attract the attention of girls. The girls themselves may be interested in what had previously seemed to them boring, so embroidery kits that allow you to create useful beauty sometimes fall into place.
Developmental
The most popular educational gift for 12 year old - this Board games fairly high level of complexity, really able to give the child something new.
Detective stories are popular at this age, “Monopoly” or “Mafia” are also appropriate, but classical options (like chess) should be given only if the child really likes it, and even then - in the original gift design. 3D puzzles remain a common alternative, but their developmental effect at this age is already in serious doubt, as well as the degree of delight of the birthday man when receiving such a presentation.
Animal
Children often have a desire to take care of someone - at a very young age they want a brother or sister, and a little later - a pet. The advantage of such a gift right now lies in the fact that it will not put an extra burden on the parents, because at 12 years old the child is really able to take care of the animal on his own if he really wanted it. Yes, and possible allergies, if any, have long been identified. By giving a child a dog, you may provide him with the most faithful friend for many years to come.
Toys
Honestly, 12 years old is no longer the age to play toys, an absolute majority of children of this age will agree with this. The baby is still growing up, that is, every day this statement is becoming more and more true. However, in the presence of some special character traits, it is still permissible to donate toys.
If we are talking about a girl, then forget about the dolls, but a huge soft toy may be appropriate, but do not be modest in size. Ordinary toys are unlikely to please young men, so choose only radio-controlled ones, and even then, perhaps, not a car, but a real helicopter. It is no longer just as interesting as a toy, but as a miracle of technology.
Examples of specific gifts
The above examples seem to be quite obvious, but still, many who choose a gift come to the store and get lost. Not everyone knows which radio-controlled car would definitely have liked a 12-year-old. To avoid such situations, consider a few specific examples of what you can buy for a younger teenager.
Boy
The boy really does not suit any radio-controlled car.
If it is a BMW or a MINI Countryman, then it simply cannot remain indifferent. The meaning here is not only and not so much in the presence of the motor and radio control, as in the maximum similarity to the real “adult” original. In fact, before us is not a toy, but a functional reduced model, all the same miracle of technology that more adult men would have liked.If we talk about desktop entertainment, then attention should be paid to the game “Time Lords”, implemented as an unusual card strategy for fans of complex tricks and calculating moves.
Girl
The girl can also give a lot of all sorts of unusual gifts. What is worth only a set for coloring clutch "Factory of fantasies." Every girl probably has her own small handbag, which should be unique (ideally). You do not need to look for it, because you can take an ordinary clutch and paint it at your own discretion - then it will definitely not be like any other.
A completely different type of gift for creativity is the Magic Flower Scent soap - this is a set of soap making that allows you to try yourself in a new unusual role, and even create a unique gift for your friend. Young ladies love diaries, albums or postcards with their own hands, but doing this manually on ordinary paper is not very practical, so a Provence scrapbooking set will be a very suitable gift.
Gift Requirements
There are quite a few requirements for an ideal gift. Naturally, the most obvious thing is that it is as close as possible to what the hero of the occasion himself would like, although the option that you guess with what he didn’t even dream of is also very relevant.
If we talk about the specifics of the age of 12 years, then it is very important that the gift was in its own prestigious.
It is absolutely unacceptable to save here, unless an inexpensive thing has special practical value due to some of its features. Sometimes not even durability or reliability plays a more important role, but a brand is the presence of a company tag of a popular company that will make an ordinary teenager an idol in the circle of his peers.
However, do not forget about those requirements that are relevant always and everywhere, regardless of the age of the birthday and the type of gift. These requirements are:
- Security. At the age of 12, one must first of all ensure that the material from which the gift was made is not toxic. Do not forget about how you can apply a gift for other purposes - it should not pose the slightest threat to either the bestower or others.
- Quality. It is absolutely unacceptable to give a 12-year-old child low-quality goods. A gift that does not withstand prolonged use, will surely leave an unpleasant mark in the child’s soul - it is no longer so small as to easily forget it. Now imagine how you associate in the vulnerable mind of a teenager with a poor-quality gift.
- Certificates If you are giving a brand thing, do not be lazy to make sure that it is really the original, and not a fake. Otherwise, an accessory designed to make the owner the idol of others, can literally throw him from heaven, if the real origin of the thing is revealed. However, certificates must always be checked - just to ensure the quality and safety of the materials used.
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