Gifts to Encourage Creativity and Adventure in Kids

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Looking for gifts that will encourage the traits you want to grow in your kids, like creativity, adventure, and ingenuity? These are some of my kids’ favorite projects, handicrafts, and hobbies. The items listed below are either exact items we have used and loved, or very similar if I couldn’t find the exact link. Enjoy!

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Pictured above:

• Young, Wild and Freedman Homemade Dough Kits
• Super Sand art
• Gem Making Kit
• Canvases with wild animal prints
• fleece blanket making kit
• Wise Owl Hammock
• Swiss army knife (obviously use discretion to see when your child is ready for this)
• our favorite play-doh tools
• favorite kids cookbook
• pottery wheel
• karaoke microphone
• walkie-talkies
• paracord
• roller blades
• bracelet making kit
• loom
• sticky mosaics
• 10 Girls Who… book series

 

 

 

 

• Cajon
• Dangerous Book for boys
• Plus Plus blocks
• Five Crowns
• Ticket to Ride
• Dominion
• hatchet (use disrection — my mostly-responsible son got this for his thirteenth birthday:)
• CRKT knife (same)
• whittling kit and book
• entrepreneurship books
• tent
• wise owl hammock
• walkie talkies
• adventure back pack
• quality first guitar
• carabeaners
• paracord
• wood burning kit
• 10 Boys Who…book series
• Eureka Crate projects by Kiwi Co– we love these! My son is 11 and very engineering-driven, so he’s able to do the Eureka Crates, but the crates for younger years (Tinker, Kiwi) are excellent as well.

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