Sometimes tweens can be difficult to buy for. They are changing so quickly, both physically and mentally. You are sure to find something the boys and girls in your life will love with this creative list of subscription boxes for tweens.

Subscription boxes are fun because they can be tailored to fit your child’s personality and interests. They are a gift that continues throughout the year with monthly packages in the mail. What kid doesn’t love receiving mail??

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Kids Cooking Subscription Box

Kids cooking subscription boxes are fun for the whole family! Let your tweens explore the culinary world with recipes and ingredients delivered right to your door. No shopping or last minute runs to the store for you. These make the perfect subscription boxes for tweens.

Culture Cakes Kit arrives at your door with the experience of a new country every month; featuring worldly snacks, exotic ingredients and the recipe to make a dozen cultural cupcakes! Each box lets you taste the country, discover new favorite snacks, and create fun flavors in a cupcake! 

Whisk Takers, provides step by step recipes and pre-measured ingredients delivered right to your door & remove the trial and error from baking. Whisk Takers will teach your tween how to bake from scratch and correctly combine ingredients, all while boosting confidence as they bake one delicious dessert after another!

Mix Box makes baking “from scratch”, homemade desserts and baked goods possible for your tweens to bake independently! The easy, step by step instructions (in combination with pre-measured ingredients) makes for a perfect dessert every time you bake with Mix Box.

Check out 14 Fun Pumpkin Recipes for Kids and 10 Easy Apple Recipes for Kids for more great ideas to get your tweens in the kitchen.

Girly Subscription Boxes

Do you have a girly girl in your life? Even the toughest tomboys will enjoy these girly subscription boxes. From pampering to crafts to Biblical encouragements, these subscription boxes for tweens are sure to please the sweet and feisty girls you love.

BOTI (Beauty on the Inside) box is the perfect gift for tween girls ages 8-12.

• Positive theme, quotes and/or art with every box to empower, support and promote her inner beauty
  
• Unique and original, professionally curated and hard to find gifts for girls 8-12, she’ll be watching the mailbox in anticipation!
  
• Beautiful jewelry, accessories, and fun girly stuff.
  
• Bath and beauty products like lotions, balms and bath bombs to calm, relax and treat herself and promote healthy living.
  
• The perfect gift for young girls age 8-12, a fun way to discover new products and instill good values at the same time!

Chic and Unique encourage your tween to express her unique self with monthly subscription “Fun Pack” full of stylish products for tweens and teens. From socks to stationery, pencil cases to patches, we put the “YOU” in Unique™. Each month you will receive a cute themed “Fun Pack” filled with 8-10 useful and awesome items such as pencil cases, stickers, socks, washi tape, key chains, and lots more. The perfect girly subscription box!

How about a fun, faith-filled box of Christian encouragement for your tween girl? When you join Godly Girlz Box you will receive bi-monthly (ships every two months) deliveries of items ranging from Christian t-shirts & other Christian items, jewelry, fashion accessories, delicious treats, and other exciting surprises.

Marygold Crafts is the perfect subscription box for creative tween girls that want to do high quality, pretty projects that they can wear to school, hang in their room, or gift to their BFFs. Boxes are affordable but also loaded with all the supplies you’ll need.

Are you looking for gifts to encourage and inspire your kids in their faith? Click the image above for great ideas!

Book Subscription Boxes for Kids

We are book lovers in my family. From fact books like Nat Geo to imaginary chapter books to historical fiction, we love them all. The best thing about these book subscription boxes for kids is that they are tailored to your child.

Whether your child enjoys reading a lazy Saturday away or curling up with you in the evenings to read together, these make wonderful subscription boxes for tweens.

Keep in mind that all of these book subscription boxes for kids have age groups that you sign up for so even if the photo shows books below your tween’s reading level, you will have the option to choose level 8-11 or whichever one suits your child best.

Kids Reveal Book Box is an incredible value as well as a good cause. A great subscription box for tweens that delivers hand-selected, age-appropriate children’s books directly to your door for as little as $16.67/mo. (including shipping). For every new order, we donate a book to a child in need!

Beginning at $8.33 a month, Kids Bookcase Club is an inexpensive book subscription box sure to excite your tween with a monthly shipment of handpicked books perfect for their age group. Each of the BCCKids cases comes with 3 handpicked children’s books chosen to inspire creativity and instill a love of reading at a young age.

Reading Bug Box is a wonderful subscription box for tweens as it is personalized to every child’s age, interests and reading level by the expert staff of an independent Children’s Bookstore. Encourage a finicky reader, inspire an avid reader, or promote parent-child read-aloud bonding, and let the book selections in your Reading Bug Box grow as your child grows.

Owl Post Books and Subscription Box is imagination delivered monthly! 3 NEW books and a Surprise! Ages 0-3, 4-7, 8-11 & YA. Free Shipping. Another great idea of a subscription box for tweens (and the whole family).

For more book ideas that are not subscriptions, Aryn the Libraryan has a wonderful selection of lists and ideas for various age groups.

Looking for Christmas Books for your Preschooler? Check out “The Best Christmas Books for Preschoolers” by Follow their Sunshine

Monthly Science Projects Delivered

Another great idea for subscription boxes for tweens is monthly science projects delivered to your house. My mother-in-law gifted my boys a monthly STEM activity last year and they loved it. They looked forward to them every month!

If you have a budding scientist on your hands then check out these science subscription boxes for tweens (and the whole family).

Let’s make science fun one month at a time! A subscription to Spangler Science Club is a guarantee that we’re working together to prepare your young scientist for a future STEM-based career. Choose from one of three levels of hands-on science kits and subscribe to amazing science delivered every month!

Club Scikidz Labs is a perfect subscription box for you science loving tween. Every month you receive an engaging and fun science kit with a career-related science theme. Topics include: Veterinary Medicine, Robotics, Climate Change, Oceans and more. Enjoy our exclusive lab notebook, along with micro- experiments, quotes and riddles, and scientists who inspire. An 18 page activity guide is included in each box.

Genius Boxes are geared toward 8-12 year olds and make the perfect subscription box for the science-loving tweens in your life. Our goal: Empower the change-makers & problem-solvers of tomorrow, today. Explore a new STEM topic with 3+ hands-on activities delivered each month. All the materials are included to foster curiosity and a passion for science, technology, engineering, and math in a fun and engaging way.

Subscription Boxes for Tweens Make the Perfect Gift

As you can see, subscription boxes for tweens make the perfect gift because they come in so many varieties and they give the special boy or girl in your life something to look forward to every month.

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