Cheap Gifts for My Teenage Girlfriend

Head to the supermarket to gather affordable ingredients to bake desserts to satisfy your girl's sweet tooth. Prepare a batch of chocolate chip or sugar cookies. Add a romantic touch by pressing heart-shaped cookie cutters in the dough and frost them with red or pink icing. Additionally, bake a dozen vanilla or chocolate cupcakes and ice a letter on each one to spell out a sweet message to her, such as "I Love You." Place the cookies or cupcakes in a tin or cake box, wrap in cellophane and secure with a decorative ribbon. Surprise her by hand-delivering the desserts to her door.

A long day of studying and homework will tire out a teenage girl. Encourage her to rest by preparing a basket full of items that will enable her to have some much needed pampering. Head to a discount store to find inexpensive products for her to complete a do-it-yourself pedicure. Line the basket with tissue paper. Place bottles of colored nail polish, a nail clipper, foot scrub and a toe separator inside. Or, put items inside for her to make a calming bedtime bath. Include scented bubble bath, soaps, lotion and a washcloth. Complete the basket by wrapping it in cellophane and tying a ribbon on top.

Give your girlfriend something she can adorn herself with made especially by you. Gather supplies from a craft store to make charming items she can flaunt in her hair. Hot-glue rhinestone appliques to clips to make a set of elegant hair clips. You can also superglue a decorative brooch to the side of a wide headband for another accessory. Additionally, slide a set of bobby pins onto a piece of paper and paint them in colorful nail polish and let dry. The pins will come in handy when she wants to sweep up her hair in a bun. Place the items in gift boxes to give to her.

Create a gift for your girlfriend that will give her everything she needs to express herself through the written word. Type a series of thought-provoking questions, such as "What would you do if you won a million dollars?" on a sheet of paper. Cut the questions into slips of paper and fold them in half. Place the slips in an empty canning jar. Tie a ribbon around the sides of the jar and glue rhinestones to the jar's lid. Wrap a decorative journal, matching pen and pack of stickers in gift wrap to accompany the jar. Each day she can pull out a slip from the jar to write a new journal entry.