Daughter's Friend Moving Away--ideas for Going Away Gesture?

A collage of photos of them together from over the years. My daughters have done this for friends that have moved. (and just for fun birthday presents).
Stationery is fun-I still have letters from a friend when I moved to a different town 50 years ago.
A phone card is a little dated in this world of cell phones with free long distance.
Maybe just take her out for one last night on the town? Or a mom/daughter lunch? Since they are moving-mom might be frantic-maybe bring lunch over for them or the mom might appreciate a mid day break.
If they have cell phones or Facebook then they will keep in touch better than you ever imagined.

Hmmm....maybe a memory box filled with pictures and small items that remind them of the fun things they did together. Or a scrapbook with the first couple of pages completed with pics of them together. They can then fill in the rest of the pages throughout the years of their friendship. And definitely a friendship bracelet. ;-)

a homemade photo frame with their photo in it.
i doubt they will use stationary, but it would be great if they did.

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This answer might be a little dated... I know with cell phones and such long distance isn't as bad as it once was. When I was a kid a friend moved away and we gave her a phone card to call once and a while. I love the idea of the pre-addressed envelopes and stationary. Maybe she will write with the novelty of the stationary!

SO kind of you to think of your daughter keeping in touch w/her friend!

I think the stationery idea is good - my 9YO DD's love receiving letters and writing them (even to friends who live less than 5 miles away!).
Other ideas: scrapbook or photo album - maybe with a photo of your DD and her friend in the front with a nice note.

I like your idea of stationary. I think our children are losing their ability to manually write things these days. In fact, I've heard some schools are doing away with teaching cursive, which is absurd.

Anyway, I was going to suggest stationary, with the envelopes like you said, and perhaps a card set with different occasions on them so she could send? You might also get her a cute diary or journal.

Losing any friend is hard, super close or just close. I hope you find just the perfect thing for your daughter's friend. Very sweet gesture.

Yes, I think the stationary w/pre addressed, stamped envelopes is great.
-a phone card so she can all you
-a framed picture of your daughter and her friend
-a small heart charm on a bracelet (silver) that breaks in half and says best friends (my friend and I did tha when she moved away 25 years ago and we are still friends, stay in touch, email, call and visit each other.. So lucky!)
If she's already left, you can mail this to her.
-a diary

I think that stationary is a great idea as well as something with a photo of the two of them. You might consider getting 2 frames that match so the girls can each keep one in their rooms!

i love the stationary, and maybe a fun pen with the name of your city or someting memorable like that. I think if you pre address and stamp some postcards it might get the girls started and then they'll take off from there, great writing practice.

In third grade my daughter's best friend moved to Wimberly. At first we would have her for a week in summer and my daughter would go there for spring break or a week during the holidays. Now they're older (8th grade) and we still do that but they also have cell phones and Facebook now so they keep in touch much better than I ever thought they would. If nothing else, they could email and send digital photos back and forth. It's so much easier now than when I was a kid, back then when a kid moved you never saw them again!