We’ve also got gift guides for teen (and tween) girls and boys, and the meticulously curated Strategist Toy Store, filled with all our greatest hits.Know what the cards mean as you draw them: We also aimed to cover both the latest trends and classic crowd-pleasers and organized them by price - so if you already have a budget in mind, you can use the table of contents to jump ahead, or read all the way through to get the full picture of what 11-year-olds are into these days.Īnd if you’ve got kids of different ages to shop for, don’t miss our other age-specific gift guides, including for 1-year-olds, 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 4-year-olds, 5-year-olds, 6-year-olds, 7-year-olds, 8-year-olds, 9-year-olds, and 10-year-olds. To help, we asked Cohen, Goldstein, and more than a dozen other experts, parents, and actual 11-year-olds about the best gift ideas for kids that age, from books to toys to tech.

If you’re thinking that this confluence of changes can make finding a gift for an 11-year-old tricky, you’re not wrong. “They’re not as excited to spend time at home with family and are really looking to blossom out into the world.” It’s also the age when kids start to become more independent, according to Cohen. “Puberty is beginning, so they’re facing physiological issues that are hormonal that can also affect their emotional states,” she says. Alyson Cohen, a Manhattan-based social worker and psychotherapist specializing in adolescents, young adults, and millennials, adds that such environmental changes, coupled with the physical changes kids start to experience at this age, can make 11-year-olds quite fickle.

“Their social scene is changing and they’re starting to think more about their social identity and who they are as a more mature person,” explains Lisa Goldstein, a librarian with the Brooklyn Public Library. At age 11, kids are typically entering sixth grade, which a lot of times means starting at a new middle school.

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