The Ultimate Gift Guide for Creatives
This season, we’re celebrating gifts that blend beauty with purpose. From art-forward, open-ended picks to everyday essentials, each item has been chosen for its quality, design, and ability to inspire a little more creativity in everyday life. Here are 4 guides for creatives of all ages.
Creative Toddlers
Open-ended gifts that invite exploration rather than outcomes, encourage curiosity, sensory play, and the first sparks of making.
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Creative Kids
For the makers, the experimenters, the ones who turn cardboard into cities and paint into stories. These gifts are designed to grow with them—open-ended, inspiring, and perfect for creative kids who love to dive in.
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Creative Teens & Adults
Ideas for budding designers or seasoned artists. They’re elevated, design-forward, genuinely good materials and objects.
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Beyond Stocking Stuffers
Thoughtful little gifts that spark creativity: perfect for Hanukkah, Christmas stocking stuffers, or a simple “thinking of you.”
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Even MORE Fun & Creative Finds
If you’re looking to go even deeper into the world of making, I’ve gathered a few more favorites that spark curiosity and creativity at any age.
For hands-on art sessions, explore thoughtful kits like the mindful crafts meditative marbling kit, klimt's garden cardboard flower kit, extraordinary things to cut out and collage, or this watercolor paint travel set.
If textile arts are more your thing, try a needlepoint kit by unwind studio, kiriki press, or this one by loop x heather taylor home. You could also try your hand at crochet with a woobles beginner crochet kit, at cross stitch with a cotton clara kit, or weaving with a nostalgic potholder loom kit.
For those who love to draw (or want to start), there are inspiring guides such as drawing as therapy, 15-minute art: drawing, how to draw animals for the artistically anxious, or The Getty’s drawing nature: 100 prompts. For kids, try how to draw so many things for kids or draw here: an activity book.
For art lovers who appreciate the stories behind color and creativity, The Secret Lives of Color and How Art Can Change Your Life make beautiful additions to any shelf.
If games are more your style, lean into artful play with drawing from memory, six second scribbles, ready, set, draw by herve tullet, or the family play deck.
