Teenagers are known for their angst, their moods, and their ability to make mountains out of molehills. They are also known for their compassion, their strong emotions, and their deep love for emotive music, movies, and hobbies. Like everyone else, teenagers can be the banes of your existence while simultaneously being the reason you get up in the mornings. Not every moment with your teenager is negative. It’s a learning curve to raise one, but it’s made better when you can gift them with love, support, acceptance, and a laugh or two. So, take a look at this list of gifts for teenagers, and pick perfection for your teen.
Thumbs Up Cellphone Holder
Teens give this phone holder two thumbs up! Don’t worry, it doesn’t come with a lifetime supply of groan-worthy dad jokes. It does, however, hold their phone in place so they can watch, charge, or lazily swipe on any surface.
Brain Teaser Memory Game
Get your teens thinking with a brain teaser that’s challenging even for adults to crack! It’s a fun memory game, perfect as a single player or in multiples. Remember the light sequences, repeat them back, and try not to forget!
Bluetooth Beanie Hat
Beanie Bluetooth? So cool for your tech-savvy teens! The Bluetooth buds are hidden on either side of the beanie hat. Wearers control connectivity with the press of a side button.
Crystal Set for Teenagers
When you’re a teenager, emotions are running high and crazy, all the time. Inspire and encourage your kiddo to realize, accept, and let go of those feelings through the help of healing crystals. They’ll learn all about the different kinds of crystals and what each one symbolizes in emotional terms.
DIY Macrame Set
Macrame can be a fun DIY way for teens to get creative and crafty. They will use colorful threads and intricate patterns to design both useful and decorative artworks. It’s a mindful activity that relieves tension and soothes stressed nerves.
Shape-Shifting Fidget Cube
It’s important to work your mind, especially from a young age because it becomes a habit. The cube is a colorful shapeshifter, folding and spinning through intricate designs to engage your teen’s mind. It’s magnetic! We love the Elements patterns!
Instant Hot Cocoa Kit
If your teen loves to cozy on the couch with a good movie, snag a box of hot cocoa cubes that transform a mug of hot milk into hot chocolate. There are three kinds: classic cocoa, white chocolate, and peppermints.
Personalized Gamer Pint Glasses
When your teen turns intense gamer, gift them with a glass that’s as cool as they are. This introduces your modern gamer to retro graphics with a design that puts them in the game. They become an 8-bit character customization! Make it extra special by giving them three persona abilities.
Custom Night Light
Now teens can doze into dreams by the customized glow of their personalized night light. Get a phrase, name, or something important written in script, then set it alight for your kiddo’s nightstand. Each light can be unique and special.
Touch Control Lamp + Charger
It’s a bedside lamp that doubles as an everything-in-one. The base operates by touch, and it includes two USB ports for charging of smart phones, tablets, and other smart devices.
Bandana
Soft and triple-washed for the wear-and-tear of a favorite shirt, teens will love accessorizing with a bandana that can wrap, wear, tuck, or tie. Check out the message on the hem: Trust Yourself. It’s a subtle dose of everyday inspiration.
Sustainable pick
Compostable Apple Watch Band
Have you ever heard of Flaxstic? It’s an intriguing and biodegradable material used to make eco-friendly, practical items, like this Apple Watch band. It’s flexible, durable, and available in several colors. Plus, it breaks down naturally back to the soil when the wearer is done using it. Win-win for Earth!
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Hydro Flask
The Hydro Flask is exactly what the name suggests… a water bottle but better. The opening is a wide mouth, and this one can hold 32 ounces of liquid. It’s insulated to keep their water chilled for hours. Eco-friendly too!
LED Hover Ball
Hover balls are the brand-new ways that your teens can play ball in the house. Not something you’d typically allow, but these are made from firm-enough foam to protect your furniture. The balls glide (or hover) on cushions of air
Miniature Greenhouse
There’s something soothing about being decorative and creative with a miniature greenhouse you create and craft yourself. This is one you can do with your teen. Help them make a dollhouse-style greenhouse for their own little make-believe town and country.
Online Experiences
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Sometimes the best gift is an experience, even from the comforts of home. Gift your teen with an adventure or a class where they can learn and grow from something exciting and new, like astrology readings, cooking classes, and play-from-home murder mysteries or escape rooms. It could be family fun!
Night Bedside Caddy
For the sleepy teen that wants to stay in bed all day, there’s a bedside caddy – adjustable and saves on space that would typically be taken up by drinks, tech gadgets, and books or magazines. It attaches to most bed frames and features a cup holder, USB chargers, and organizers
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Wall Charger
Wally is an adorable, practical, compact wall charger. He’s eco-friendly and saves space in your teen’s bedroom with dual USB ports for the charge of their most important tech stuff
Game of Jenga
Jenga: a classic stacking game that teens will recognize as something they’ve played in their childhood. It’s family-friendly and lots of fun! Pull a brick, stack a brick, and try not to be the one to make the tower collapse.
Sustainable pick
Bamboo Sateen Sleep Kit
Travel-friendly and so comfy, it’s a sleep kit that your kiddo can take with them wherever they go. Made from sustainably harvested bamboo, the kit includes a silky pillowcase, eye mask, and an eye pillow with soothing wheat and lavender
Portable Mini Fridge
Sometimes teens need their own miniature fridge for all-night homework (or gaming) sessions in their bedroom. This one will hold 15 soda cans, is portable, and cools to 20 degrees
Sustainable pick
Woodless Artist Color Pencil Set
Eco-friendly for zero waste, Artist Pencils are pure color and have zero wood. It’s a set of 24 in a wide range of pigments, each with a full barrel of kaolin color with a box for easy tote and storage
Custom Neon Signs
When your youngster needs a little light, there’s the coolness of a custom neon sign. Get their initials, names, or even cool sayings and phrases in fancy, colorful light-up script!
Personalized Icons
This is a play on a classic game known as Connect Four. The difference is that the colors and icons are personalized to better suit the personality of the players. Paw prints, numbers, letters, and other fun symbols can be placed in the 42 spaces across the handcrafted wooden board.
UDog Game
It’s a combo card and board game that is all about strategic moves to win! Players use marbles, playing cards, and die to race around the board ahead of their opponents. Akin to the game of Sorry but more classic
Laser Tag Game Set with Vests
This is fun and fitness in one. Put on a tagger vest, charge up, and fire “lasers” at opponents to win the game. Play in the backyard, around the house, or anywhere that you can run, dodge, hide, and blast
Pocket DJ Mixer
Give teens the power to make soundtracks to their daily lives with a mixer that they can take anywhere. Connect the mixer to a smartphone and jam out in the style of professional DJs. It’s an instant amp for tunes!
LED Ring Desk Lamp
If your teen is an influencer-to-be or simply loves taking amazing pictures or awesome selfies, they need this ring light desk lamp. It glows in over 100 customizable colors, and it’s remote-controlled for ease of one personalized glow to another.
Build Your Own Bluetooth & Radio Set
Tech-savviness knows no bounds with a Bluetooth and radio that your kiddo can build themselves. Assemble the AUX cables, learn all about wireless connectivity to other Bluetooth devices, and play
Bear Hooded Blanket
Adorable, warm, and travel-friendly, especially during camping trips, this blanket is hooded with cute bear ears. It’s like wearing your favorite teddy bear. Plush, spacious, and something teens will love
Long Distance Touch Bracelet
Touch bracelets are sweet and sentimental ways for besties and families to say “hey, I am thinking of you.” Touch one and the other reacts, wherever they are, with a light glow and small vibration. It’s a reminder of love.
Gaming System
Gaming is made easier and more convenient with a single console. Sure, some of the games aren’t the latest and newest, but most of them are classics that multiple players can play at once. There are 5 4G controllers and over 62000 games to choose from. Easily hooks to televisions!
Instax Camera with Film
Teens are all about selfies and capturing those special, goofy moments with friends and loved ones. Comes with a cute miniature camera and two packs of film for instant development.
Sustainable pick
Upcycled Hammock Chair
For the teen that simply wants to relax on the weekends, this hammock chair is an eco-friendly, sit-anywhere seat with a gentle sway. Suspend it from a support beam or tree, then rock while you read, meditate, or just enjoy.
Kick Scooty
It’s a speedy kick-powered scooter with big wheels, disc brakes, and a folding system that takes less than 5 seconds to master. It features a smooth glide and is portable!