36 Of The Best Gifts For Creative Kids

I have found the cutest, most fun toy that is easy to send creativity with kids anywhere, the TekFun NanoDoodle™!

Available in three style options: green dino, blue dino, or pink unicorn; these doodle boards are perfect for clipping onto a backpack, lunchbox, or bag.

The best part is that kids can doodle with anything, including the attached stylus or even their fingernail. With the push of the dinosaur‘s mouth, the doodle board instantly clears itself so there are no erase marks or wiping needed!

I LOVE tangrams and most kids do too! Geared for ages 3-8, this colorful set is loads of fun. Kids can grab a card and work to replicate it with the included tangrams.

The wooden pattern blocks come in trapezoids, parallelograms, triangles, rhombuses, squares and hexagons as well as a variety of colors to aid in learning.

With 130 pieces of wooden blocks and 24 designs to choose, this set features plenty of shapes for kids to recreate a fun tangram design or use their imagination to build their own. Plus, moms love how the storage bag makes keeping up with all these pieces easy!

I love finding ways to encourage our youngest to be creative but I don't always love the mess that comes with it. That's where Scentco’s Water Magic mess-free color books come in!

These books come in a variety of themes and are a perfect activity to keep the kids busy, especially in the car.

These reusable activity pages fill with vibrant color when wet and erase when dry, and they come with scented markers. When you need a break, just give your child one of these and watch how happy they are!

These books are adorable! Surprise your creative little one with a personalized storybook. My daughter was so surprised when her name was personalized in her book.

Wonderbly has so many great options to choose from, like nursery rhymes, search and find, princess stories, superhero stories, and so on.

This is truly a gift for any age!

There's no way I could offer up a gift guide of creative gifts and NOT include the classic gift of LEGO! All five of our older kids have played with LEGOs and these simple bricks have delivered so many hours of fun over the years.

Because this set also features the wonderful world of Minecraft, I know my kids will love this new set. Since we limit screen time to a short window on Saturdays, now they'll be able to enjoy Minecraft every day of the week!

Another really fun building toy option is Pix Brix!

Pix Brix is the revolutionary pixel art brick that allows artists (ages 6+) to create 2D and 3D pixel art builds with a patented 1-piece design. The Pix Brix pieces are reusable and compatible with other brick brands and sets.

With special characters, famous art puzzles like Bob Ross, and bulk sets, the creations are endless! Pix Brix even offers Photo Pixelator where you can turn your own photo into a personalized pixel art puzzle for the perfect gift!

My kids are obsessed with Workman's Paint By Sticker lineup and you'll quickly see why. This vibrant, mess-free activity book from the bestselling Paint by Sticker sticker-activity series features 10 rainforest animal images (including a sloth, jaguar, and more!) for your kids to complete.

The stickers are the 'paint' that help kids create a beautiful masterpiece. It's a great activity that provides hours of fun, away from screens.

The stickers are designed to be easy for small hands to maneuver, and no paint means no splatter, drips, or messy clean-up. All you have to do is 1) find the sticker, 2) peel the sticker, and 3) place the sticker on the corresponding numbered space. Voilà! Watch your favorite rain forest animals come to life!

Being creative doesn't just mean arts and crafts. My kids love to put a blanket on the top of a trampoline to make a fort. They also like to make up games to play.

One fun example is they take little plastic balls, put them on the trampoline, and jump to try not to touch any of the balls.

This 7ft No-Gap Round Indoor Trampoline is the perfect and safe place for kids to burn some energy and be creative in ways to actively play.

Celebrate energy and creativity in a positive way by giving your kids a fun, safe outlet with this Cobra Strike game from Starlux Games.

Get ready to strike your opponent's targets while protecting your own.  This game is easy to set up, fun to learn – and challenging to master!

It's a great game for imaginative play: Design your own game modes: player-vs-player (like karate kid point fighting), solo style (spy ninjas), in teams (sparring battles); play in a competition ring (sumo wrestling), on an obstacle course, as a backyard game; and more!

Kids love getting creative with their imaginations and this fun airplane toys set from Bees and Me makes it extra fun and easy.

Perfect for small hands, this 4-piece plane set makes it easy to fuel your child's imagination. Sturdy and boldly colored, kids especially love how the propellor moves too.

My kids are obsessed with slime! So this 'create your own slime' factory is a fun gift that I know they'll love.

As a mom, I like that it's fairly mess free. Simply add water and spin the mixture together with the lid to create the slime. (No bowls and spoons from my kitchen needed!)

This kit even comes with glitter, figurines, and confetti so the kids can customize their slime creations too.

For more slime fun, check out the Slime’Licious Slime Station. This set contains everything needed to make 16 scented mini slimes, just add the water!

The kids love how this slime making workstation makes it so fun and easy to mix up their own custom food-inspired mini slimes and mom (aka - ME) appreciates how it's without the mess!

My girls love all things that sparkle and glitter. So having a magnetic construction building set that features some glam is right up their alley!

This fun set allows kids to build 3D structures using magnets and sturdy plastic panels. It's a fantastic way to boost their spatial awareness, logical thinking, and fine motor skills. Play time, learning, and creating = all in one!

While my girls are obsessed with the glitter set above, my boys are much bigger fans of the GeoMag GLOW sets!

We love how this fun building set features glow in the dark magnetic rods so they can build any time, day or night.

As a mom who loves a clean house, I also appreciate the included practical storage boxes as they help to keep the rods and spheres in neatly.

I'm truly obsessed with all the magnetic toys these days. Each one adds a different element of play and Connectix has hit it out of the park.

Designed to encourage hours of limitless creativity, fun and learning through hands on playtime, this Pastel Creative Pack features a variety of shapes in 8 beautiful pastel colors.

This open-ended magnetic building toy set allows children to create bigger castles and rockets, towers, coin drops, bridges and mandalas, explore patterns and shapes, create color sorting boxes, and so much more. The sky is the limit and this is one of those toys that will be enjoyed for years to come.

My goddaughter is obsessed with Cocomelon and I love the fact that this boombox will also help encourage creativity (without a screen!)

The microphone actually works and there's even music built in so kids can sing their favorite Cocomelon tunes. -- I know even my older kids will be goofing around with this microphone.

Active play is another great way for kids to be creative. My daughter and son both have creative ways to play with this Simplay3 Active Rocking Rider.

What I love most is that my 5-year-old daughter and my 1.5-year-old son can play with this toy. They both sit comfortably on the rocker. With the easy grip handles, foot runner rests, and a high seat back, it's easy for my kids to play on, outside or inside. The bumper stops allow kids to rock, but not too far for safe active play.

All of my kids have joined in the stuffie loving craze and these critters offer a creative spin on an original concept.

The Original TeeTurtle Reversible Octopus Plushies are the award-winning, #1 best seller as seen on TikTok!

These stuffies allow you to show your mood without saying a word as they are reversible octopus plushies that feature a different emotion on each side. Choose from a variety of designs and colors including fun options like ice cream cone and gingerbread. Over 44,000 5-star reviews!

My kids have had the eggmazing decorator for Easter time so I know this Gift Box Ornament Decorator will also be a hit!

We all love how easy it is to create truly amazing designs, mess free. Pop the blank ornament on the decorator, use the included markers, and get busy creating. The spinning effect delivers awesome results every single time.

M&J Games are unique because they make YOU the game piece — seriously, how creative is that!?

With this game, players have a chance to showcase their awesome personalities. The best part is that each round will feel different based on your opponents, so you’re never playing the same game twice.

M&J Games focus on inclusion for all players and these activities are designed to be accessible and amusing, so no task is out of reach or too strategic. To win this unique, life-sized board game, be the first player to reach the finish line by landing on, or passing, tile #24.

Creative and artistic kids tend to be movers so I'm a huge fan of the Stomp Rocket gift. My kids have had a Stomp Rocket for several years already and it still gets used every summer. They love creating different games and challenges to play with each other as well as friends.

This great version has a stomp and catch twist, adding even more fun to a classic. It's easy to launch, fun to catch, and 100% kid-powered! The set includes four rockets, a net for catching them, and a launch pad and stand, adding heightened excitement to this STEM-oriented game.

All of our five older kids have loved dig kits. I love how they come in a variety of themes as we've found rocks, little animals, dino kits, and more. With one kiddo still very much a dinosaur fan, this T-Rex dig kit is perfect.

I have found it hard for my creative kids to sit still for long periods of time. So I love finding gifts that will allow them to get up and moving. Gel Blasters lineup allows just that.

They get to create the rules of the game, set up obstacles, and play for hours at a time!

The Surge uses water-based Gellets®. Rechargeable, mess-free, non-toxic, and safe for kids!

• Semi- and Fully-Automatic blaster modes
• Comes with 10,000 Gellets®
• Gellets® disintegrate upon impact and evaporate in the backyard, meaning no tedious cleanup!
• Get up to 4 hours of play on a single charge via USB-C

Another great Gel Blaster option that's smaller than the XL is the SURGE. Still offering all the great features of play as the XL but in an easier to carry blaster design!

One thing that makes me love the Gel Blaster brand is the fact that it's safe for the kids to play with.

First off, the no mess, no clean-up Gellets burst on impact and evaporate in no time. So that means we don't have to walk around the yard for cleanup.

Secondly, they provide just enough sting to make it exciting (especially for those tweens and teens)! It feels like getting hit with a rubber band—a quick, minor sting. You probably won't even notice because you'll be too busy laughing.

Just in case you don't want the kids aiming at each other, or only have one player, check out this really cool smart target.

The Portal provides the best of both worlds—a mobile app experience that challenges your skills, and the heart-pounding excitement of real world play.

Unstable Unicorns is a fun little game with all new, gorgeous artwork that will delight even the littlest of gamers.

It's the perfect way to excite kids about the magical world of unicorns, this strategy game lets you have fun and get competitive with friends and family! Take turns collecting Unicorns and using Magic and then the first person to collect 7 Unicorns wins the game!

Unstable Unicorns won the 2019 People's Choice Award for Toy of the Year, was one of Kickstarter's top 100 most-backed projects of all time, and has sold over a million copies worldwide.

My kids are obsessed with scratch art!

Use the scratcher to scratch away the black matte surface of the paper, revealing the background, so fun plus allows for amazing creative artwork, signs, and more!

Have you heard of the Buddha Board? When it comes to having creative kids, you may already realize you go through a LOT of art supplies. This Christmas is the best time to introduce something new = Mini Buddha Board. A paint with water, reusable canvas!

This 5-inch square, portable Buddha Board actually folds into its own small easel stand so it fits well into backpacks. It's designed with a little trough for water and comes with a small paint brush.

The best part is that after the water dries, the canvas is blank so you can start all over!

I'm a huge Disney fan and this Thomas Kinkade Disney Dreams Collection Puzzle Set features 4 different 500-piece puzzles with gorgeous images straight out of your beloved Disney films.

Puzzles are fun for all ages and also beneficial cognitively too. That's why they will always be a great gift that will never go out of style.

Creative kids tend to learn by sight and hands on exploring. I've found my creative children do really well learning to read by using tools like this flash card pack.

There's three fun games to play that help kids learn sounds and words more quickly. And the marker pen allows kids to write on the cards (and then erases easily) which also helps bolster learning.

Geared for ages 3-9, I'm obsessed with these cards!

A fun activity all of my kids have enjoyed over the years is rock painting. So when I found this kit, which contains everything you need to make your rock-tastic creations; I knew it was a winner.

Inside, you'll find: the rocks, glitter glue, googly eyes, gems, and waterproof paint. It's a fun activity that can be enjoyed all year round, but now you won't have to go hunting in the winter for rocks! (We've tried in Minnesota and it doesn't work as the ones we find are frozen in the ground! So this kit makes it simple, and affordable for me.)

My teen recently decided she wanted to learn how to crochet. While she first thought should could just buy the yarn and tools and figure it out, we quickly realized a kit would offer a better learning curve. And so we found this adorable penguin kit.

Their step-by-step video tutorial accompanies Pierre and is easy to follow; plus, a pre-started crochet piece comes included along with other beginner-friendly supplies!

Playing board games is a great way for creative kids to use their brain power.

'Meet MahJong' is a tile-based strategy game played all around the world. Players will learn the history and basic rules of both Chinese MahJong as well as the American variation.

It's the perfect four player game for anyone who wants a challenging and fun board game night.

I appreciate how 'Meet MahJong' is designed with new players in mind, so it's easy to learn and play, allowing everyone to build confidence and strategy with each play-through.

Growing up, I didn't realize that science could be paired with creativity and fun. Well, this kit just proves it!

You'll be able to watch as crystals start to grow in just minutes from the branches of the included evergreen, cherry, bonsai, and dragon blood trees -- like magic! The 6 trees will be fully covered in crystals in as little as 6 hours.

Seriously, this sounds so cool!

I remember spending hours creating pictures with my Lite-Brite as a kid and it brings me so much joy knowing such a classic toy is still around. I kinda want to get one for myself again!