The Best Gifts for 12-Year-Olds

For your budding green thumb, this comprehensive gardening kit is all he or she will need to fall deeply in love with horticulture this growing season. Including a trowel, shovel, hand rake, garden shears, watering can, kneeling pad, six nursery pots, and more, all you'll need to add are seeds and soil.

Wheatgrass grows fast and is actually good when eaten by your pets, making it one of the best house-started plants on which your child to learn. KiwiCo's kit includes a pot which your child decorates, a journal for observations, and everything else your child will need to bring forth life. Bonus: It's also reusable.

Flour Shop cakes are second to none in terms of creativity. Now, with this kit, your tween can make those famous rainbow-colored push pops at home. The kit yields 12 pops and comes with food coloring, cake mix, frosting, gels, and sprinkles, plus pop molds.

Nail salons are open in many places. That doesn't mean you want to send your tween to one for a manicure. Enter the Poppy. It's a universal polish bottle handle that makes painting your own nails easier, faster, and mistake-proof. Pop it on top of any polish for a secure grip and steady strokes.

This sterling silver necklace, with 100+ mls of 24k gold, spells out 10 characters. And each letter ranges from 4 to 6mm in size. It's cool, sweet, and timeless.

Tweens love all this personalized. This lovely square 18 X 18 inch pillow can be customized with names and color schemes. You can choose from cotton canvas or linen, or opt for a bigger size. The alternative down insert is included.

Speaking of all things custom, take the classic Vans. This style has weather-resistant uppers, warm textile linings, a heat retention layer between sockliner and outsole to keep feet warm and dry, and vulcanized lug outsoles for traction. Kids pick their shoes, colors, and patterns, and wear something totally unique to them.