While toy gifts have their time and place, experience gifts can be more memorable than broken and forgotten toys. Create memories instead of clutter. Here is your guide to over 100 Experience Gift Ideas for Kids that are not toys.
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100+ Experience Gift Ideas for Kids
- Go on an ice cream road trip.
- Gift tickets to a whale or dolphin watching boat ride.
- Gift a membership to a museum.
- Gift a membership to a zoo.
- Gift a membership to an amusement park.
- Visit an indoor play place.
- Buy a gift certificate to a kid-friendly spa.
- Go on a day trip.
- Plan a camping trip.
- Spend the day at 2 or more playgrounds.
- Give a personalized coupon book.
- Sign up for an extracurricular program.
- Have a “Yes Day!”
- Plan a family board game night.
- Volunteer together.
- Gift a membership to a local performing arts theater.
- Buy a gift certificate to a local movie theater.
- Gift a membership to an aquarium.
- Give tickets to a sporting event.
- Learn a new skill at an afterschool activity.
- Sign up for swim lessons.
- Register for a new sport.
- Get a membership to a community pool.
- Find a new recipe and make it together.
- Dine at a new restaurant.
- Gift a membership to a water park.
- Play tourist in your own town.
- Set sail on a family boat ride.
- Register for summer camp.
- Sign up for a kid’s magazine subscription.
- Gift a summer beach badge.
- Go on a hot air balloon ride.
- Spend overnight at a local hotel with a pool.
- Go skiing or snowboarding.
- Go ice skating.
- Go to a roller skating rink.
- Throw an epic party at one of these birthday party places.
- Spend the day at a splash park.
- Spend the day on the farm.
- Go horseback riding.
- Buy a musical instrument.
- Rent paddleboats.
- Sign up for a kid’s cooking class.
- Sign up for a kid’s art class.
- Go fishing.
- Spend the day at a “new to you” park.
- Go on a mini golf outing.
- Go on a train ride.
- Take a horse-drawn carriage ride.
- Go indoor rock climbing.
- Go on a boat tour.
- Go indoor sky diving.
- Go white water rafting.
- Watch a movie at a drive-in movie theater.
- Go zip lining or to an obstacle course adventure.
- Gift tickets to a Broadway show.
- Gift a subscription to an educational app.
- Gift tickets to the circus.
- Subscribe to a monthly subscription box for kids.
- Plan a RV trip.
- Go on a local beach vacation down the shore.
- Stay overnight at a hotel with a waterpark.
- Go bowling.
- Tour a factory.
- Get a pet.
- Have a backyard campout.
- Gift a national parks pass.
- Go on a hike.
- Gift music lessons.
- Gift pampering at a kid’s spa.
- Gift a video streaming service.
- Register for the scouts.
- Gift tickets to a festival, fair or carnival.
- Give a gift card to a bookstore.
- Gift a full room makeover.
- Sign up for a kid’s photography class.
- Gift a pottery painting class.
- Give a kid’s gardening kit.
- Go on a weekend getaway.
- Gift a staycation.
- Gift gear for their favorite sports team.
- Go to a mommy & me class.
- Give trampoline jump passes.
- Go to a petting zoo.
- Give passes to a planetarium.
- Go snowshoeing.
- Sign up for a kid’s podcast subscription.
- Sign up for a class at a nature center.
- Sign up for a kid’s sewing class.
- Buy a gift certificate for a mani/pedi.
- Go out for dessert.
- Go snowtubing.
- Go cross-country skiing.
- Give tickets to a kid-friendly concert.
- Gift a personalized apron and chef hat.
- Sign up for a STEM class.
- Gift passes to Crayola Experience.
- Give wall decals to decorate their room.
- Give a donation to a charity of their choice.
- Sign up for a foreign language class.
- Gift a personalized ornament.
- Gift adventure gear (a backpack, binoculars, hiking boots, sunglasses, a camera).
- Go on a road trip.
- Go to a family-friendly resort or hotel.
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