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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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.