Teen Gift Ideas? We've Got You Covered. - TulsaKids Magazine

‘Tis the season, and adjacent the elves cognize that acquisition buying for a teen oregon tween tin beryllium a existent challenge. To connection immoderate assistance, we’ve done a small vacation reconnaissance. Read connected for our under-the-tree intel.

Tech

Oprah has jumped connected the virtual world bandwagon, including the Meta Quest 2 (formerly Oculus Quest 2) virtual world headset connected her database of favourite things for the 2nd twelvemonth successful a row. At $399.99, this isn’t an inexpensive acquisition – adjacent if it does travel with a escaped download of the fashionable Beat Saber game. However, if your teen is simply a gamer, and you’re disquieted astir the magnitude of clip they walk glued to a chair, galore virtual world games person a fittingness constituent and astir each necessitate movement. As a bonus, parents tin get the headsets for their ain virtual workouts! Add successful a section space with a download of Golden Gloves VR ($29.99). This virtual world boxing crippled is simply a existent workout, and it was developed close present successful Tulsa.

Useful and efficient, the Elago 3 successful 1 Charging Hub ($28.99) charges 3 Apple products – iPhone, iWatch and AirPods – astatine the aforesaid time.

KODAK Smile Classic Digital Instant Camera ($149.99) is the cleanable mode to get those retro selfies. Old-school plan meets modern tech successful this camera, which features Bluetooth connectivity and allows you to people retired photos oregon prevention them for later.

The 3Doodler Create+ 3D Printing Pen ($80) heats up and extrudes multi-colored integrative inserts, allowing you to gully successful 3D. The kit includes 15 antithetic colors and a guidebook.

Practical

Reusable h2o bottles are a utile acquisition for kids of each age. The Hydro Flask is 1 of the much fashionable brands. Dishwasher harmless and BPA-free, it’s a large mode to question with a beverage, portion maintaining its temperature. The 40-Ounce Wide Mouth Cap ($49.95) mentation holds plenty, and makes a large acquisition paired with a battalion of stickers for personalizing.

Novelty socks from brands similar Hotsox ($8), Sock It To Me ($10) and Blue Q ($13.99) are arsenic entertaining arsenic they are useful. With dozens of whimsical prints and quotes to take from, it’s casual to find the cleanable brace for everyone connected your list.

Gift cards are ever a invited show for cash-strapped teens. Available successful immoderate terms range, you tin spell circumstantial – Starbucks, McDonald’s, QuikTrip – oregon wide successful the signifier of a prepaid Visa acquisition card.

Games & Puzzles

It tin beryllium pugnacious competing against immoderate physics instrumentality for a teens’ attention, but the holidays are a cleanable clip to propulsion retired the past arsenal of tried and existent “old-fashioned fun.” Consider wrapping 1 of these no-battery-required options.

The Awkward Family Photos Movie Line Caption Game ($30)

Players usage memorable movie lines to caption awkward household photos. The favourite caption wins the round.

Wingspan ($45)

This committee crippled is beautifully made. Players are “bird lovers” who effort to bring the astir birds to their yard. Start disconnected with an enactment mat, vertebrate cards, bonus cards and nutrient tokens, past strategically usage them to triumph the astir points implicit 4 rounds.

Not Parent Approved ($25)

Like a family-friendly mentation of Cards Against Humanity, players respond to fill-in-the-blank questions with a (ridiculous) reply paper from their hand.

Tulsa Flag playing cards ($15) and Expo Pavilion jigsaw puzzles ($30)

These items, from locally owned Crazy Ideas, marque the cleanable vacation hostess gifts, arsenic good arsenic amusive nether the histrion for the full family. Available astatine Kiddlestix, Ida Red and different Tulsa locations.

Books

Life Skills 101 – Everything You Need But Won’t Learn successful School ($25)

This publication addresses societal media and mindfulness done infographics. Colorful and practical, it covers everything from time-management to budgeting and parent-child relationships.

Guinness World Records 2023 ($30)

This perennial household favourite is afloat of fascinating facts and entertaining tidbits that tin beryllium digested by each levels of readers successful manageable clip increments. The newer editions person been updated to beryllium much divers and inclusive successful their coverage.

The How-To Cookbook for Teens ($15)

This cookbook contains 100 elemental recipes successful an easy-to-follow format, utilizing readily disposable and affordable ingredients. For a somewhat older adolescent, effort The Ultimate College Cookbook ($20) with 60 recipes that tin beryllium prepared successful a dorm country oregon apartment.

Sports & Fitness

Keep ‘em moving done the holidays and beyond with these sports and fitness-related gifts. Fitness trackers proceed to beryllium fashionable and are disposable successful a wide scope of terms and sophistication. The Fitbit Charge 5 ($99.95) is h2o resistant up to 50 meters and includes a GPS. For a much affordable tracker, see the Amazfit Band 5 ($27.99), which includes a batch of the aforesaid basal services.

The GlowCity glow-in-the-dark basketball ($39.99) is the cleanable mode to widen outdoor crippled time, particularly with the shorter days of winter. Activated with a bounce, the lights automatically crook disconnected erstwhile not successful use, and the batteries are bully for up to 30 hours (extras are provided).

Fitness dice are a elemental mode to promote movement. Flex it Pink Fitness Dice ($3.99) marque a large stocking stuffer. Chronicle Books Fitness Dice ($19) are made for each acquisition levels. With 7 woody dice, you tin rotation implicit 45,000 imaginable bodyweight workout routines.

Silly

What are the holidays without a small spot of frivolous fun? The GummyGoods Nightlight ($40) is simply a squishy, overmuch larger, electrical mentation of its edible cousin. With a rechargeable artillery and a wide scope of colors, it’s a cute acquisition that’s besides useful.

For your euphony lover, a Pick-a-Palooza DIY Guitar Pick Punch ($23.95) looks overmuch similar a stapler and creates customized guitar picks from aged recognition cards, acquisition cards, edifice country cardinal cards, driver’s licenses oregon immoderate bladed portion of plastic.

Make your ain beverage with the Flavor Purveyor Bubble Tea Kit DIY Boba Tapioca Pearls ($34.99). The kit comes with everything you request to marque your ain bubble beverage successful minutes – conscionable adhd boiling water.

Julie Wenger Watson is simply a freelance writer who’s worked successful each aspects of euphony promotion. She’s besides Co-Director of “Live From Cain’s,” a nationalist vigor amusement pilot.