If you are having a tough time trying to get your 7-year-old child off the iPad or TV to reduce screen time and include some physical activity and mental stimulation, we have just the toys that will help you out.
At the age of seven, girls are completely into role-play games, creating and crafting, and playing with friends. Toys that will appeal to them are bags, cosmetics, barbies, dolls, painting, and jewelry making. They also enjoy board games, puzzles, and fun stationery for drawing and coloring.
Stimulation and physical activity are essential for this age. By now, kids are typically in grades one-two. This means they spend a lot of time learning, studying, and having rigid, structured routines. They need toys to immerse them in unstructured, open-ended with addition to fun physical activity.
What do seven-year-olds need for play?
They require play that will not force them to act a certain way or do specific things. They need to be free and feel like they are in control. This is where pretend-play and crafting activities are important. They can create their own scenarios, do what they consider fun, and be expressive through crafting activities.
They need toys and other playing items that will allow them to release the pressure of being what is needed and rather just being who they really are as innocent, fun, loving, curious, crazy kids.
Take a look at this list of toys for seven-year-old girls:
Toys Under $25
Barbie Daisy Doll
Most girls typically don’t grow out of the barbie stage until age ten. Barbies are toys that feed into a girl’s complete fashion interest. From clothing, hair, makeup to accessories, they love the whole package.
We love this specific barbie because it doesn’t put unrealistic body image expectations into a young girl’s mind. The set includes a curvy girl barbie to portray what healthy and bodies look like and remove from the expectation that girls should be skinny or they aren’t beautiful.
The girls will love this purple travel-themed barbie set. They can peek into their imaginations on travel, everyday life of barbie adventures and help barbie pack, dress, and embark on her journeys.
The set includes various accessories such as an acoustic guitar, a neck pillow, headphones, a water bottle, a toothbrush, sunglasses, a camera, a cell phone, and so much more. The highlight is the purple suitcase she gets to put everything in and the kitten, which is her traveling companion. There are also stickers to use as decoration, expanding the imagination even further.
This exciting, adventurous travel barbie set will keep your child busy for hours, and they will love showing it to their friends on playdates.
Rainbow Magic Scratch Paper
Art activities are always a hit with seven-year-olds. They love bringing out their artistic side and creating beautiful pictures to show their friends, caregivers and stick on the wall at home.
Here is a neat and tidy painting alternative to showcase their artwork using just one stylus. You never have to worry about mess or having an excess of products.
It can be a fun family activity, creative teaching activity, outdoor craft activity, and used during travel in the car or airplane.
It is a simple technique of scratching to inspire your child’s mind and creativity. There are no lines, no rules, no color requirements. They simply have to draw or write as they wish and create wonderful masterpieces to be proud of.
Your seven-year-old will enjoy this over regular painting on paper because it is something unique and allows for a much larger scope of imagination.
Soap Making Kit
Girls love cosmetics, and they love creating things. This soap-making kit offers them both in one. Besides, it’s always super fun to do homemade experiments and then enjoy it later (if it works!).
The kit includes 6 soap-based blocks, 2 fragrances (green apple and lemon), 4 liquid colors, glitter, 3 dinosaur molds, a beaker, 4 pop sticks, a working tray, a trimming tool, and a comprehensive instruction guide.
This is a great activity to help the child connect and spend time with a caregiver who can assist them in reading and understanding the instructions. If your child is not the biggest fan of dinosaurs, you can use any shape molds that you have at home.
It is an educational science experiment activity without the pressure of achieving perfection. It digs into the child’s creative side and allows them to manage the steps, colors, shapes, and speed timeframe.
The kids will be able to make their own soap and have a blast with it during shower and bath time.
UNO Cards
Family game time is always fun. It helps the growing child who is more interested in playing with friends connect with adults at home. However, they can obviously play UNO with friends as well.
UNO cards are fun for any age, but especially for seven-year-olds because many other cards or board games might be too adulty for them. UNO allows them to be and feel included and experience healthy connection, competition, and social skills.
It is a fun and exciting game that helps improves kids counting skills and understanding fair play and healthy communication. It comes in a compact, sturdy storage tin, ensuring none of the cards get lost and making it easy to take along during travel.
Walkie-Talkies
The ultimate kids toy that most children at age seven will absolutely love. There is something about being able to press a button and talk to your friend over a weird speakerphone. The experience of having cell phones cannot even come close.
With mobiles these days, you might think your child won’t care for a walkie-talkie, but are they going to randomly call you from the other side of the house saying “testing, testing”? Even if they do, that excitement is nowhere near the same as doing it with a walkie-talkie.
This set includes two pink walkie-talkies with long-range to handle up to 3 miles in an open field and 0.5-1 mile range in a residential area.
The walkie-talkies are equipped with 22 channels, reinforced by 99 CTCSS sub-codes to minimize the likelihood of other people being able to communicate with your children using the same frequency.
A voice activation transmission is performed without pressing the PTT button when the VOX function is activated. Your child can talk to friends without pressing the PTT button.
An LCD backlight display makes it easier to know what you are doing and what everything is set on.
Durability is essential for kids’ toys because they run around, drop things are not as careful as adults in taking care of their belongings. The walkie-talkies can handle the pressure of 1.2m drop.
There is a belt clip to ensure your kids will not leave their toys anywhere, a built-in flashlight for playing at night, and a key lock function.
It creates the perfect adventure for your little girls to let their imaginations run wild and improve their communication skills while experiencing fun and excitement.
Jewelry Making Kit
Seven-year-old girls love to wear jewelry because they are such little ladies and love to be just like mommy. However, what could be more fun than making their own jewelry and then wearing it?
Jewelry crafts have been a hit for kids for years. It sparks their creativity and artsy side. It allows them to experiment with colors, patterns, and a variety of creations that will stimulate their mental and physical development.
It is a fantastic motor skills activity for this age and improves concentration, confidence, and independence.
The kit includes 520 beads, 8 bracelets, 4 headbands, 1 instruction card, and 1 instruction card.
The items are made of durable and high-quality materials. It is odorless and has a non-toxic painting.
100 Piece Glitter Jigsaw Puzzle
Kids who enjoy puzzles and seven-year-olds will love this sparkling 100-piece puzzle, featuring a majestic white horse with a pink mane surrounded by flowers, butterflies, and a rainbow.
Puzzles help with concentration, fine motor skills, resilience, and logical thinking. Additionally, it can boost imagination and creativity. It will keep your child engaged for a long time and improve social skills and interaction when building it with others.
Toys Under $50
Pretend-Play Purse Set
Here we come back to the pretend-play where your seven-year-old girly enjoys imitating mommy and acting like a little lady.
This purse set has all the things that adults use when leaving home and use when shopping. The purse and wallet look realistic, like actual adult products instead of toys. This makes the girls, especially at the age of seven, feel more confident and excited about having something like mommy does.
It is a complete set including a stylishly designed purse, a matching wallet, cell phone, lipstick, face powder, 4 keys on a key ring, car key, ID card, play money, and 3 credit cards. All the accessories can be stored inside the bag, and she can take them with her on outings to match mommy.
Role-play can boost your child’s interest and confidence in real-life skills and enhances their imagination.
Karaoke Microphone
If your child loves music and singing, this karaoke machine will keep them, their friends, and you (the caregiver) busy and engaged for hours.
There is an 8-hour playtime. It includes a USB charger, has high volume quality sound, and 4 voice effects. It is pre-loaded with 30 hit songs and can connect via Bluetooth to play any songs from apps like Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube.
Using the Karaoke Microphone will enhance kids’ auditory and vocal development. Additionally, they will have a fun time and might even inspire your future Grammy Winner!
Washable Makeup Set
You will find most girls playing and experimenting with mom’s cosmetics at age seven because they love to play dress up. However, adult makeup contains harsh ingredients, and so do the products needed to remove it.
Investing in this washable makeup set for your young girl, whose skin is still fresh, smooth, and unaffected by hormones, can keep it that way. It is made specifically for children formulated with safety in mind.
It is realistic because the makeup can be applied, but it is mild and non-irritating. Plain water will easily wash it off, and if there’s any residue, a little bit of the kid’s safe, regular soap will get it right off.
The makeup kit contains everything your girly needs, such as application brushes, lipstick, eyeshadows, and a unicorn zipper case to keep everything contained inside. Additionally, there are accessories like a brush, a nail file, and many more fun items to keep them entertained.
They can do role-play with friends, with caregivers, or even alone when they play dress-up. It will push them to be creative, think out of the box, experiment with colors and facial features, and boost their confidence in their capabilities.
Unicorn Pencil Case
As your child develops the ability to be more creative with drawing, coloring, and writing, especially as they learn and mature within school, they tend to love being artistic even more. This is even more evident when they have unique, fun, and exciting stationery.
Here is a beautiful unicorn set with a variety of markers, crayons, and pens to give them different options and techniques of being creative. Each type is stored in a different zip, and the entire pack is contained in a compact, tidy, and portable metallic trim and shiny finish unicorn case.
There is a range of 48 magical scented markers and 28 scented unicorn stickers. The kids will be delighted in the delectable fruit-scented markers and pens, with their interest growing at all times.
Give them this case, completely separate from their school stationery, with some papers and coloring books, and watch them go wild with imagination and creativity.
They will be engaged for hours producing several masterpieces, and they might even practice their writing and spelling without any pressure!
Toys Under $100
Unicorn Twin Doll Stroller with Twin Care Center
While every seven-year-old loves playing with dolls and can never have enough of them, they are always seeking new ways to play with them. While there are many strollers available on the markets for dolls, they can get monotonous and too “babyish” for slightly bigger kids.
For a seven-year-old girl, this set of a twin stroller and double bunk bed for their dolls could be the ideal role-play addition for playing mommy-mommy with her dolls. It is also wonderful if kids are playing together as they don’t have to wait for turns for their dolls to use the stroller or bed/cot.
It is a multifunctional and multipurpose baby doll set. It folds easily for storage, includes a shopping basket, retractable canopy, and front swivel wheels. It has a realistic look and feel to it, giving your young mommy a boost in morale.
The twin doll play center is great all-in-one care set to sleep, eat, and play. It has a built-in high chair for two twin bunk beds, hangers, and 2 storage baskets. There are additional bonus storage compartments on the side.
It is the perfect multifunctional doll pretend-play set for your young mommy or big little sister.
The dolls are not included but don’t worry; we have you covered with that too! (Check next on the list)
Lifelike Reborn Baby Dolls
Little girls play with baby dolls even before they turn one. They get more into it during toddlerhood and love having a little baby that they can mother, just like mommy does. As they get a little older, they seek more from that kind of play. They require more stimulation and a little bit of a challenge, along with realism for pretend-play, what they enjoy most.
This lifelike realistic baby doll will allow them to experience everything they would want by having a doll because, for seven-year-old, it would be like having a real baby to take care of.
It is a full-body vinyl doll with wrinkled skin and rotatable arms like a real baby. It has a hand-painted face, lips, fingernails, and toenails. The doll is 17 inches and comes with a birth certificate with space to add a name of choice.
The doll fits in preemie and newborn baby clothes, so you can let your daughter go shopping for real baby clothes and enjoy the full experience of parenting!
The doll does come with a few accessories like some clothing, a headband, and a magnetic pacifier. There are a couple of options of different kinds of dolls to choose from, and some of them even have a full head of hair.
Light Up Dance Mat
This is a fantastic way to get your seven-year-old girls to fit in some physical activity into their day. Kids enjoy dancing, and having something that’s going to make dancing into a game will definitely appeal to them even more. It is a non-slip surface for use with or without shoes.
There are different levels to the game, so your child will never get bored, and adults can make use of it too.
Your child can make up their own rules in free dance mode called flash dance. The lights flow to your footsteps while you dance.
At the dance game level, you dance to the cues of the blinking arrows by following the beats of the built-in rhythms.
The memory game level calls for a bigger challenge to see if your child can remember the light patterns.
The music game level allows you to connect your favorite track via an aux cable of Bluetooth and dance your way through all difficulty levels.
This mat provides a series of fun and unlimited entertainment. It will help your child stay active, getting mental, emotional, and physical stimulation, and improve the development in those areas.
The mat folds up easily and is compact for convenient storage.
Genius Starter STEM Toy Kit
The kit includes an Osmo base for your iPad, tangram pieces, numbers tiles, words tiles, and stackable storage. The Osmo is compatible with 8 iPads and requires a 2021 reflector for iPad, sold separately.
There are 5 game apps: numbers, tangram, words, newton, and masterpiece. The iPad is not included. However, many homes have at least one iPad anyway.
The current generation of kids does not want to do anything other than having screen time, watching YouTube, and playing games. They can do that for hours. Getting with the “times” and learning the new uses of technology are beneficial since they are the now and the future. However, when kids spend hours and hours without any proper stimulation or educational interaction, it can cause more harm than good.
With this genius starter kit, your kids can follow along with the apps while also using the actual physical items to learn and play. They will love exploring STEM topics while fostering a love of engineering, art, math, and reading with 5 ways to learn through play.
It provides fun and educational screen time, so the kids feel like they are not being deprived of using the iPad. However, they are actually getting to learn freely, independently, and without expectations.
Your kids can gain an array of skills such as visual problem-solving skills, puzzles, math, addition, counting, multiplication, subtraction, geography, marine biology, freehand drawing. They will also gain listening skills, reading, learn physics, and improve spelling and vocabulary.
Osmo sees and reacts to every real-life move geared towards children and a love of learning.
Toys Above $100
Dreamhouse Dollhouse
Girls never get tired of having a dollhouse to decorate and play with. Especially if it is functional enough and has a variety of furniture and accessories for a seven-year-old to stay engaged, it is something they can play with independently, and their friends will love to join in and play together.
An interesting part of a dollhouse for a seven-year-old girl could be actually helping to build it and put it together. It will make them feel confident, and setting up the small pieces of furniture and many, many tiny accessories will keep them busy for a really long time.
The package everything needed to assemble and set up the house. It is a sturdy wooden beauty that can last for years to come and be handed down to the next generation. There are even tiny slippers, books for the bookshelf, and plants for décor around the house.
It is the ideal dream house that all little girls wish to have. It allows them to think big, see a future, and spread their imagination wild.
The package also includes 11 LED lights and a 5-piece transparent organic dust cover. Additionally, there is a miniature refrigerator, bathtub, toilet, the city of the sky music movement, and 1 set black AAA battery box. (Batteries not included).
300 Piece STEM Learning Construction Set
Here is an open-ended construction toy made with high-quality material. It has ergonomically shaped bars for kids to handle and manage with. It allows exploration with magnetism regarding its attractive and repulsive properties.
Seven-year-olds will enjoy having fun using the pieces to construct various 3D structures. It allows your kids to build rigid cubical structures, increasing design possibilities.
The set contains 140 plastic bars, with strong attractions, 90 nickel-coated iron balls, and 70 tripods (interlocking pieces) for 90-degree connections. The bars and tripods come in an assortment of vibrant rainbow colors.
This construction set fits into the STEM learning curriculum and comes with a 32-page illustrated instruction booklet.
It induces creativity and helps to develop a sense of proportion in kids. It is a fun way to create simple ways to learn the basics of geometry, physics, and architecture. In addition, it can enhance hand-eye coordination and entertainingly improve problem-solving skills.
Take the leap and invest in some of these incredible toys and play items for your seven-year-olds who will be intrigued with the entertainment, fun, education, and stimulation it provides them.
It will keep them away from screen time for as long as possible and improve the overall development.