Inexpensive presents for DD to give to friends

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Dd wants to give presents to 4 school friends. ( aged 12). Well they're friends at the minute but who knows next week?
She has already received and opened a gift set from one of the friends which I think will have cost about £10.

I don't intend to spend anything like that x 4. I think it's a lot. Maybe I'm mean!

Anyway does anyone have suggestions for presents for about £5 but which may look more expensive?!
Or do you think I should be paying out the same value as she receives?

I would let DD choose the things. Maybe take her out to look and give her a limit of 7 pounds per child. That's about normal at age 12 OP.

We went to Boots and did the 3 for 2 thing as most 12 yr old girls seem to like makeup and experimenting-or even just get some nice lipsalves (cute ones in primark or H&M shaped like penguins etc!)

Francis I buy my 12 year old's gifts for her....but then she doesn't get a lot of pocket money. I suppose a lot depends on that. If she had a job now that would be different but not many 12 year olds work.

Primark have lots in at the moment - they've got some stationery/accessory type stuff that is nice (knock off Zoella!), slipper socks/fun socks, some nice water bottles and bedroomy type bits in the home section.

My dd used to do a little gift bag for her friends with a few small things all wrapped individually. A bit like a small version of a Christmas stocking really. She would always put in a chocolate orange and then stuff like lip salve, nail varnish, pens, notebook, bath bomb etc. She would buy packs of stuff from places like Primark or pound shop to separate. The bags always looked quite impressive - more impressive than the actual cost anyway.

I gave my teenage dd £30 to get her friends gifts. I left how she spent it up to her. One friend got a £10 gift (best friend) and others got cheaper make up gifts.

Some great ideas.

Will combine a couple of suggestions. Will go with her to Primark or possibly Home Bargains and give her £30 to decide herself how to split it between her friends.
Thanks all.

Last year dd gave £1 Superdrug Flutterby bath bombs apart from a couple of good friends where she gave a present costing around £5

This year she is making hot chocolate cones with candy canes & marshmallows. Cello cones £2 from Amazon pack of 10 candy canes from Poundland & tnnof Cadbury hot choc & mini marshmallows from home bargains.

On thread 19 or 20 someone posted that there were some good/cheap things in Hollister and free delivery - maybe worth a look?

Sorry - in the Christmas bargains threads that is

How about going to somewhere like Tiger and buying nice but cheap picture frames then adding a photograph of the group of friends?

Or a nice notebook and pen each? Lots of places have lovely notebooks for not too £££ (Tiger, Muji, The Works etc).

I bought these for my teen daughters stockings. They were £1 each in Superdrug last week, and they had about four shelves full. The bottles are quite big (200ml each), and it looks really pretty. I've got them in my desk drawer, and every time I open it, the loveliest smell comes wafting out. No idea why they're so cheap, as the shower creme is sold on its own for £3.99.

Superdrug have lots of good offers on at the moment

Claire's seem to have good reductions at the moment. Think it was buy 3 get 3 free in store at the weekend.

I had the same last year when my daughter was 13 and wanted to buy for 5 friends, I didn't want to spend too much.
We went to the pound shop and bought mason jars with slogans on them for £1 (obviously ha)
Then we bought packs of sweets from there too (bubblegum rolls & candycanes) and we split them between the jars.
Then from primark we bought multipacks of Xmas socks which we split between the jars too which were super cheap, and she also put in a primark gold eyeshadow which was £1 in each and then a pack of the primark nails which they all love at £1 too.
She put everything in the mason jars, sprinkled confetti in there too and tied the pack of nails to the outside with ribbon and a couple of mini baubles for decoration. They looked brilliant, all her friends loved them and I think they only worked out at about £4 each.

A lush bathbomb each or boots have bubble bath in the shape of the snowman for a fiver plus in their 3 for 2 deal that are nice

We got lip balm gift sets for £2 each, from tesco, plus a £1 jar of sweets each, that she tied in pretty ribbon and we split a 4 pack of earrings between them. So a total of £4 each and they looked lovely and were appreciated.

She has received a bath bomb, a pretty box, and a body shop gift set.