I support the introduction of girls to a variety of toys. Not only are the dolls and princess costumes. But since we all like to please our children from time to time and get something you really want, sometimes pink and glam is the way forward.

When I was a kid, I loved playing with my football, but I loved my whole template fashion designer. Contains templates pants, skirts, shoes and shirts, and spent hours matching tops, funds and accessories and color them with colored pencils, reams of paper through the process.

Fashion designer toys have indeed come a long way from Charlie's Angels-esque templates in the 70s. If you know of a preteen girl who loves clothes and accessories (or for that matter, children are as much, how are you Michael Kors had to start somewhere!) Can be a gift that encourages them to use their minds designing them, not just wear them. From video games in real handy game design, here are some cool gift ideas to help boost the creativity of their junior Fashionista:

Harumika (Harumika.com) comes from Japanese toy company Bandai (which Power Rangers). Harumika motto is "Style of Your Imagination" and its design sets certainly provide material enough to give children plenty of space to display their creative force. You can start with a simple starter set or move right to a joint parade. Regardless what sets you choose, the kits include everything needed to create miniature clothes: from modes of dress and stylus tools, fabrics, accessories, lace, tapes, sheets and stickers rhinestone fashion. Designers can visit the website for design tips Harumika and display their own creations.

You've seen the show, now you do it yourself: Project Runway has created his own line of fashion design kits. For about $ 70, you can give your child's mother All design kits: the Ultimate Ultimate Challenge Design Project Runway Kit (available at Amazon.com) includes over 600 pieces including a dress, hundreds drawing sheets, cloth, pins, stickers, markers, sequins, beads – everything you need to create small-scale versions of the costumes that he / she dreams. The also have smaller teams, including a set of dress and figure drawing set that helps children learn to draw designs.

Style Six (StyleSix.com) allows children to be creative with your own wardrobe through his silkscreen, airbrush, felt, paper and embellishment kits. Recommended for ages 8 and up, Six style allows designers to make their own unique mark on shirts, jeans and clothing without doing much more of a mess. His Gem Decorator package allows designers to add rhinestones and studs to your clothes to create their own designs. Six Style promote its products as simple and easy to use.

FashionPlaytes.com is an online community where girls can place fashion designs in clothing and buy their own designs. The site is free to use. Girls can design as many items as they want, but you only pay for what you buy. The online design software enables the designer to select clothing and place ornaments on the shirts, sweatshirts, clothing and other wherever they want. Fashion Playter was designed for girls 6 to 12 and offers certificates gift that can be purchased online. The company also says the site is running in a secure environment for protecting privacy.

Savvy Style is a video game that allows players to become the owner of a boutique high-end fashion. In Style Savvy, players get to open your own shop and take part in all aspects of management of an enterprise financial management, helping customers, generating an inventory of over 10,000 styles available, including the marketing of their products by creating ads and brochures. Kids can even compete with friends or play online and compete in fashion contests. The game comes from Nintendo and is rated "E" for all.

So happy holidays and happy designing!

Erin Boudreau is a blogger and founder of G is 4 Girl (http://www.gis4girl.com), an online store selling positive clothes and other products for girls.

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