Nature Gifts for Kids: A Nature-Inspired Gift Guide

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For every holiday where it is tradition for us to give our children presents, I am looking for Nature Gifts for Kids because I want to inspire my kids to be outside enjoying the natural world. I haven’t been able to find a gift guide that includes nature-inspired gifts for kids, so I decided to do the research and put one together for myself.

I’m sharing the results of my research with you.

Whether your child is one who already loves nature or one who needs more inspiration to love the outside, these gifts are perfect. You will find something for every child on your list. I’m organizing by budget so you can find the perfect nature gifts for kids at a glance.

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Nature Gifts for Kids Under $10

Getting Kids outside is a great goal. Sunshine and fresh air are so important for physical and mental health! These gifts under $10 are perfect for encouraging your kids to go outside and see these things in real life.

Nature Coloring Book. Adorable “adult” coloring images are perfect for teens and tweens who love these slightly more complicated coloring pages.

Paint By Sticker Beautiful Bugs Book. This book is all about finding and placing stickers to watch an artistic bug image come to life.

Butterfly Nets for catching beautiful butterflies or bugs of all types.

Plastic Insects and other sets from Wild Republic keep kids engrossed in pretend play and help them learn about the various creatures they see.

Show your kids how to use a magnifying glass to get up close and personal with the tiny creatures in your backyard.

Put nature on your fridge with these cute wooden animal magnets.

Realistic bird stuffed animals like this one from Wild Republic are very cool.

Nature Gifts for Kids Under $20

You can always take regular learning outside, and that’s a great tool too. But sometimes it’s good get outside for the sake of nature. These gifts are a way to encourage bonding with the outdoors while learning about the natural world.

Nature-Inspired Sketch Book. By Marjolein Bastin. This gorgeous book includes many of Ms. Bastin’s nature sketches, followed by beautiful full-color art inspired by those sketches. Each of these is followed by a blank page for a student artist to fill with sketches of his or her own. Appropriate for high school or junior high students.

Outdoor Nature Scavenger Hunt Cards. This fun set will get your kids hunting for the treasures of nature.

A Grow and Glow Terrarium kit allows your child to design the layout of a terrarium, grown plants, and enjoy them on display.

The Ultimate Bugopedia. An encyclopedia of all the bugs your child might find outside, inside, or far, far away. Very cool book!

A field microscope perfect for close-up viewing of bugs, plants and anything else found in nature!

Kid Proof Binoculars are great for spotting birds and animals!

Observe ants for hours and see the amazing things they do when you get your kids this Ant Farm.

This beautiful wooden leaf jigsaw puzzle for small hands is a great way to connect your young child with the natural world while working on fine motor skills and thinking skills at the same time.

Build a birdhouse for your feathered friends.

Gifts Under $35

Buy this gorgeous Rocks and Fossils set for the rockhound in your family. It is a special treat to have labeled rocks to study and enjoy.

Kids will love saving their special nature finds using this really cook Leaf and Flower Press.

These sorting, balancing, and puzzling stones are perfect for preschoolers and fun for slightly older kids as well!

Nature-Inspired Gifts for Kids Under $50

Nature Bound Big Vacuum and Critter Habitat set. A fun way to catch bugs without harming them and then spend hours observing them before releasing them back into the wild. The habitat also works for frogs and other critters. It lights up for easy viewing!

Wooden Building Blocks. Fossilized items from nature are enclosed in see-through sections of each block. These are really beautiful. They also serve as a rainbow stacking toy for toddlers.

The LEGO Flower set is an incredible set inspired directly from nautre.

Nature Gifts for Kids Under $100

This Kid’s Bird Watching Subscription Kit is so cool. It will get your upper elementary, tweens and teens into bird-watching faster than you can blink. Be prepared.

Get these grown-up, high quality binoculars for your older child or teen.

Fun Activities to Get Kids Outside

Try one of these fabulous scavenger hunt ideas from Homemade Heather.

Make one of these 33 Nature Art Ideas for kids from Artful Parent.

Play a few of these Nature Games with ideas from Weird, Unsocialized Homeschooler.