Christmas Gift Guide
Meaningful Christmas gifts the kids will actually play with and you can feel good about buying.
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Our Most Loved Christmas Activity
Constructible Gingerbread House
Build it. Decorate it. Play with it all December.
It's become one of our most-loved Christmas traditions, giving children a festive activity they can enjoy long after the presents have been opened.
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Create a Christmas tradition your family will look forward to every year. Build, decorate and play with a reusable gingerbread house that encourages creativity, fine motor skills and magical holiday memories—without the mess of baking.
Why families love it
🎄 A Christmas activity you'll use year after year.
🍬 Decorate and rebuild again and again.
✋ Encourages creativity and fine motor skills.
❤️ Creates meaningful family traditions and festive memories.
🌿 Reusable, durable and made for imaginative play.
Make Christmas magic easy with a ready-to-go potion kit filled with fizz, shimmer and festive ingredients for bubbling, screen-free play.
✔ Three festive fizz baubles for bubbling potion experiments
✔ Includes a gold potion bowl and Christmas-themed spoon
✔ Easy, hands-on activity that's ready to play
✔ Encourages creativity, imagination and screen-free play
✔ Includes a special Santa Christmas Magic postcard to begin the adventure
A magical addition to potion play and sensory activities! Fill the present with fizz and water and watch the potion bubble and erupt through the bow for extra excitement.
✔️ Perfect for potion play and sensory fun
✔️ Reusable for year-after-year play
✔️ Designed for messy, hands-on learning
✔️ Designed by Liz and made in Australia
Ideal for home play, classrooms and early learning settings.
Get into the Christmas spirit though play.
✔️ Perfect for fizz, water or sensory bases
✔️ Made in Australia.
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Stocking Fillers
These mini traffic cones are perfect for construction play and counting.
✔️Set includes 10 mini traffic cones.
✔️ Designed by Liz and made in Australia.
Clever Bugs Potion Powder spark imaginative play while fostering creativity and emotional regulation. Safe, fun, and activated with just water – perfect for kids!
✔️Magic potions.
✔️Mindful kids activity.
✔️Activated with water only.
🙋♀️ Made by Liz
🍃 Non-toxic
Inspire curiosity about Australian wildlife through hands-on sensory play.
Did you know?
Galahs are known for their playful personalities and strong social bonds, making them one of Australia’s most loved native birds.
Why kids love it:
Open-ended sensory play
Nature-inspired exploration
Perfect for loose parts, fizz & sensory bases
Encourages fine motor development
Beautiful translucent lucite cylinders designed for open-ended play, sensory invitations and small world adventures. Also known as the Kingdom Coins by My Little Creator, these versatile loose parts can become treasure, currency, magical tokens or anything your child's imagination dreams up.
✔ Premium translucent lucite
✔ Perfect for light play
✔ Supports counting, sorting and early maths skills
✔ Includes 7 lucite cylinders
✔ Recommended for ages 18 months+
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Gifts Under $10
Clever Bugs Potion Powder spark imaginative play while fostering creativity and emotional regulation. Safe, fun, and activated with just water – perfect for kids!
✔️Magic potions.
✔️Mindful kids activity.
✔️Activated with water only.
🙋♀️ Made by Liz
🍃 Non-toxic
These rocks have a surprise inside! These are crack your own geodes, a fun activity to smash open a rock to find treasure inside. Use a hammer to smash open your geode, the pieces can be displayed or even added to your sensory play.
🍃Connect kids with nature
One of Australia's most familiar backyard birds, known for its beautiful warbling song.
Our Australian Animal Figurines are great to include in your play.
The Magpie is hand painted.
The Australian Magpie, whilst having similar colourings to the European Magpie is in fact unrelated. There are a number of magpie species in Australia.
Our replica is of the northern species which has less white on its back than the southern species.
These birds are remarkably intelligent and have the capacity to recognise friendly human faces. And unfriendly ones!
Small world play helps to nurture your child’s imagination and provides them with opportunities to explore new materials, build language skills, practice their social skills and act out real life scenarios.
Size: 4.5cm (approximately)
Recommended for ages 3+. Other items featured are not included.
Parental supervision is required as small items may cause choking hazard.
Make messy play pies! Perfect for in the kids kitchen or even making Halloween pumpkin pies!
✔️Messy play ready
✔️ Designed by Liz and made in Australia.
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Gifts Under $20
Small gifts that still deliver big play value.
A playful way to explore sustainability, sorting and sensory learning.
Perfect for:
♻️ Recycling sorting activities
Fine motor play
Colour matching & sorting
Potion play & sensory setups
Sustainability discussions
Early learning & family day care
Take a journey into space! Use the chunky push, pull and slide mechanisms to blast a rocket into the sky, repair the International Space Station and discover just how astronauts go to sleep.
With small bite-size facts on every page and things to spot too, Astronaut is a fun introduction for little ones to finding out what being an astronaut is all about.
Author: Christiane Engel
Our unique potion mushrooms are designed to be filled with fizz and water to create a mindful play experience. Also perfect for setting the scene for fairy garden play.
✔️ Perfect for fizz, water or sensory bases
✔️ Designed by Liz and made in Australia.
Hold them up to the light and watch the magic happen. Ten rainbow blocks that stack, sort and shine — simple enough to hold their attention for hours.
✓ Ten vibrant blocks, one of each colour
✓ Perfect for light play, sensory trays and colour exploration
✓ Freeze them in ice, set them in jelly, or use on a light table
✓ Open-ended play
✓ Easy to pack away, easy to bring anywhere
Gifts Under $50
Perfect for grandparents or Kris Kringle gifts.
Stop coming home with pockets full of rocks
Turn every walk into an adventure.
The Children's Forager Pocket gives kids a special place to collect leaves, feathers, flowers, shells and nature treasures while exploring the outdoors.
✔ Encourages outdoor play
✔ Keeps nature treasures organised
✔ Perfect for nature walks, bush kinder, forest school and backyard adventures
✔ No more rocks in Mum's washing machine
What’s to love:
🌸 Encourages creativity and imaginative play
🍃 Promotes connection with nature
👑 Australian made by Little Play Folk
🪶 Helps children notice the little things
🐚 Reusable for endless new expeditions and designs
One less Elf idea to think of! This ready-made potion activity brings Christmas magic to life while giving your child a hands-on, screen-free experience filled with fizz, shimmer and imagination.
✔ Doubles as an easy, ready-to-go Elf on the Shelf activity
✔ Includes a magical letter from the elf to start the adventure
✔ Just add water for bubbling, fizzy Christmas magic
✔ Encourages imaginative, sensory and screen-free play
✔ Beautifully boxed and ready for a magical December surprise
✔️Add light to your play sustainably with this rechargeable, waterproof sphere
✔️Choose from 7 bottom switch accessible lighting effects and up to 20 app-controlled lighting options
✔️Stick Anywhere: Magnetically attaches to metal surfaces or utilizes the included adhesive metal badge anywhere
✔️Long-Lasting Companion: The 700mAh built-in battery supports up to 40 hours of use on white light low mode.
Gifts Under $100
Create a Christmas tradition your family will look forward to every year. Build, decorate and play with a reusable gingerbread house that encourages creativity, fine motor skills and magical holiday memories—without the mess of baking.
Why families love it
🎄 A Christmas activity you'll use year after year.
🍬 Decorate and rebuild again and again.
✋ Encourages creativity and fine motor skills.
❤️ Creates meaningful family traditions and festive memories.
🌿 Reusable, durable and made for imaginative play.
The multifunctional, durable, and modern designs are not only easy to stack and store but also offer endless playtime & mealtime possibilities. With over 20 different ways to use one set, from snack time to sensory play, it’s got you covered.
This six piece set includes a plate that cleverly doubles as a lid, a convenient tray (bowl), and four dividers.
100% FOOD SAFE SILICONE
INDEPENDENTLY CERTIFIED FDA APPROVED
SPACE SAVING DESIGN
MULTIFUNCTIONAL
Designed for little builders, our Eco Construction Large Mini Bricks make it easy for children to build, stack and create their own construction adventures.
Their larger size is perfect for small hands, encouraging imaginative play, problem-solving and early STEM learning while children design roads, towers, buildings and busy construction sites. Pair them with construction vehicles, sensory bases and loose parts to create engaging, screen-free play experiences that children will return to again and again.
Make Christmas magic easy with a ready-to-go potion kit filled with fizz, shimmer and festive ingredients for bubbling, screen-free play.
✔ Three festive fizz baubles for bubbling potion experiments
✔ Includes a gold potion bowl and Christmas-themed spoon
✔ Easy, hands-on activity that's ready to play
✔ Encourages creativity, imagination and screen-free play
✔ Includes a special Santa Christmas Magic postcard to begin the adventure
Say hello to a whole new level of colourful play! My Little Creator's Lucite Stacking Rainbow features 7 dazzling, translucent arches in bold, vibrant hues—designed to inspire open-ended creativity and endless stacking adventures.
Lucite Rainbow Stacking 7 pcs : 20cm x 10cm
Recommended Age: 18 months +
Connect kids with nature with our Nature Hunt Play Mat! This double-sided, silicone mat is designed for interactive outdoor play. One side features a nature scavenger hunt grid where kids can find items matching textures like bumpy or soft. The other side includes a 10-frame for pattern making and counting, as well as a blank face outline for kids to create nature-inspired faces—perfect for teaching about emotions.
✔️ Double sided
✔️ A3
✔️ Can be used with washable markers
🦘 Designed in Australia by Liz
🍃Connect kids with nature
Bring the beach home with an easy, ready-to-play sensory kit filled with contrasting textures, real nature treasures and everything little hands need to create their own seaside world.
✔ Ready-to-pour sensory play with minimal setup
✔ Includes two contrasting sensory bases for scooping, pouring and exploring
✔ Filled with real shells, driftwood, pumice stones and other nature treasures
✔ Encourages imaginative, screen-free and open-ended play
✔ Perfect for ocean-loving children aged 3+
Make it easy for children to explore one of Australia's most recognisable birds through hands-on, sensory-rich play. Filled with soft black and white feathers and featuring a magpie-shaped tray, this simple invitation to play encourages curiosity, storytelling and sensory exploration while providing a calming, open-ended activity that's ready to enjoy straight away.
Looking for fresh Elf on the Shelf ideas that are quick to set up and packed with Christmas magic? These five easy elf activities go beyond simple mischief, encouraging imaginative play, kindness and festive fun while keeping the holiday season stress-free for busy families.