2024 Gift Giving Guide for Children, Teens, & Adults
With the holiday season fast approaching, finding thoughtful gifts that support mental well-being can make a world of difference for your loved ones. At Bloom Child Therapists, we’ve curated a list of gift-giving ideas tailored to children, teens, parents, and caregivers.
Our selections are designed to bring joy, comfort, and a sense of connection, fostering mental health during this festive time. Let’s explore these heartwarming and supportive gift options that show you truly care.
Mental Health Gift Ideas for Children Under 12
Rory’s Story Cubes
Amazon Description: “Combine items, characters, places and animals to create and share unique tales in this game of limitless imagination and infinite stories!”
Kid’s Gardening Set
Product Description: “Elevate your child’s outdoor adventures with our all-inclusive garden kit for kids! This kids tools set has everything you need to start your first garden. Our kids outdoor toys set includes 2 garden tools and 1 watering can, 3 different kinds of seeds, strawberry seeds, tomato seeds, and sunflower seeds, 3 soil pods, 3 plant markers, and 3 peat pots, all in a cute ladybug suitcase box.
Teach your little ones about patience and how to care for something with this garden kids toy set!”
Sensory Survival Kit
Product Description: “This handy canvas pouch holds tools and activities sensory-seeking kids crave. Inside you’ll find teacher and kid favorites for hand strengthening, fine motor coordination, stress reduction, fidgeting, sensory integration and stretching.
Toss the pouch in a backpack, and kids can grab tools as needed to help them write, listen, do schoolwork and self regulate.”
Mental Health Gift Ideas for Teens
Shower Affirmation Set
Product Description: “Your shower is already a place to rejuvenate, cleanse, and restore. Now it can also be a safe space to find joy, optimism, and love with this set of affirmation cards.
Each deck includes 20 waterproof cards with sayings that inspire confidence and well-being.”
Teens Mental Health Coloring Book
Amazon Description: “This coloring book is designed to promote emotional well-being, mindfulness, and relaxation through engaging activities. It’s a valuable resource for teens to express themselves, practice self-care, and enhance their mental health, ultimately fostering a sense of calm and resilience in today’s challenging world.”
Poetry Tiles Emotions & Feelings Kit
Product Description: “Explore a huge range of feelings from happiness and love to lethargy and anxiety with 412 themed word tiles. Great for introspecting and working out feelings. See the word list in the pictures.
Contains 124 tiles with commonly used words so you can connect your ideas.”
Mental Health Gift Ideas for Parents & Caregivers
Hand Massaging Gnome Stones
Product Description: “These cheerful creatures are standing by to help relax even the tightest of muscles. The gnomes’ hats are uniquely shaped to access even the smallest of pressure points in the hands. Heat or cool stones for a spaworthy at-home treatment.”
Hug In A Box
Product Description: “Wrap them in comfort and bring a touch of serenity with our Hygge Gift Box! Featuring a cozy blanket and stylish mug, it’s the perfect gift for any occasion.
Whether you’re sending hugs and love to a friend going through tough times or spreading positive get-well vibes to a loved one, our encouragement gift basket and cheer-up care package will show them just how much you care.”
Self Care Gift Box
Amazon Description: “Pamper the special woman in your life with a self care package that includes premium items designed to provide relaxation and rejuvenation, making it a wonderful self care gift for women.”
Mental Health Stocking Stuffers
4 Key Fidget Stick Keychain
Product Description: “Now you can get your click fix with 4 keys in a row! Attach it to your bag, keep it on your desk, take it anywhere you go. Experience the crisp and thoccy sound and feel of mechanical keyboard switches any time you want. Our key-chains come with your choice of clicky or tactile keyboard key switches and XDA key-caps.”
Llama Worry Doll
Product Description: “We just love these teeny, tiny handcrafted dolls, and the simple ritual of telling them your worries each night so they will go away by the morning.”
Therapy Dough
Product Description: “Blending pure essential oils and vegetable pigments to create a calming, fragrant, tactile experience. Available in several uplifting scents.”
Bonus Gift Ideas
Quality Time Holiday Calendar
Keri Says: “Similar to an advent calendar, with the help of your child(ren) come up with as many connecting/bonding activities you and your child(ren) can do together, draw them on pieces of paper and pick one each day during your holiday season and spend some quality bonding time together.”
“Minute To Win It” Games
Kaitlyn Says: “Have a ‘minute to win it’ Holiday Game for each night of December. The entire family plays each night to see if they can each complete the task before the minute is up! Click here for some ideas”