29 Amazing Art Gifts for Creative Kids

A must-have to fill out any crafting closet, this box has an enormous supply of beads, sequins, fuzzy sticks, and googly eyes. The possibilities are as endless as your imagination.

With large sheets of paper, a whiteboard, space for paint, and legs that can extend as your child grows, this easel is a fantastic, kid-approved gift for any young artist.

The Pixicade Mobile Game Maker is a super-cool gift for kids who love to draw — and one of our picks for the coolest gifts this holiday season. It allows you to create your own video game simply by drawing the levels. Just take pictures of your drawings and upload them to the app, and the Pixicade makes your art into a playable game right on your phone or tablet!

Art can be, well...anything! Sometimes that can be daunting if you don’t know where to start, but that's where this activity book comes in. Art Play is full of artistic ideas to teach kids to tap into their creative ingenuity.

A perfect, bite-sized introduction to the life of a major female art icon. The story of how Kahlo overcame a devastating childhood injury to become one of the most groundbreaking figures in art will inspire any young artist!

This DIY set is the perfect find for an artist who is starting to get serious. With high quality watercolor paints, pastels, and even paintbrush markers, your budding artist will have all the materials to fill their entire art pad. And don’t worry, the thick paper won’t distort with the water or paint!

Get ready to take your art to the next dimension with this 3Doodler pen that puts a 3D printer directly in your hands. Instead of drawing on flat paper, you’ll be drawing in the air as you start to build your ideas in 3D.

Ready to graduate from finger paints to painting essentials? This Kid Made Modern set has all of the necessities for trying out your first paintings. Not to mention the adorable wooden palette to mix on!

Is it a watercolor paint, a colored pencil, or both? The mechanical pencils in this pack are designed to help kids combine the wash look of watercolor paintings with the crisp lines of a pencil drawing. Kids can experiment with watercolors with zero mess and zero paintbrushes to rinse!

Give inspiration to your young creator with this Kid Artists book. It details the childhoods of many of the world's most famous artists, from Dr. Seuss to Keith Haring to Beatrix Potter. Every great artist was once a kid, and this book will teach your children they can do anything.

The future of art and music is here. You can turn simple colors into musical tones with these Sphero Specdrums. With the accompanying app, players can turn the world into their own instrument. Imagine using chalk to make your entire driveway a giant piano, or creating music from one of your favorite paintings.

In this family game night classic, a little bit of artistic skill gives you a major competitive edge! Open up the included app and watch how what you draw in the air magically appears on the screen — you can even broadcast the drawings onto your TV.

Do you ever have trouble choosing which colors to use? Well, these rainbow papers will have the colors magically appear as you scratch away the black film. You’ll be surprised by how colorful and satisfying these sheets are.

These wooden spaceships are an out of this world family craft that you can play with afterwards. Imagine how you would your spacecraft want to look as you fly through the galaxy, and add a futuristic flair with space-age stickers and paint.

These creative pens will surprise you with their magical trick! When you first use them, your drawings will appear flat, but after adding heat they’ll start to expand and turn 3D! Perfect for making DIY cards with your friends.

These gem-shaped crayons will have you feeling like an archaeologist as you run them across paper. They’re great for little hands to hold onto, and they allow for sharp lines and coloring in large spaces with ease!

After you draw with these multicolored crayons, your paper will look like it was shot with a confetti cannon! Each stroke is a surprise as the multitudes of colors add depth and sparkle.

Is your creative kid ready for 3D art? This pottery wheel has a foot pedal so that they can learn to spin their own bowl or pots, or use the terracotta air drying clay and sculpt with the 12 different tools. No matter how you make it, finish off the project with some colorful paints!

It's never been easier to make your drawings shine, thanks to the Ooly Rainbow Sparkle Glitter Markers. Each color in the 15-pack is loaded with glitter, making each drawing of yours dazzle on the page. Don't worry about a lack of color either, as these markers come in every shade of the rainbow, plus five pastel options. 

If your young artist loves drawing with chalk, but you hate the mess that comes along with it, then you’re going to fall in love with Chalkie. The 10-piece Chalkie set is basically like giant markers, but for chalk. They still draw perfectly on pavement, but without all of the mess that would normally end up on hands and clothing. Plus, this chalk won't break off into a million little pieces. 

Stumped on what to draw? Don't worry, it happens to the best of us — even the greats like Picasso, Pollock, and Kahlo. Luckily, it won't last long when you have advice and inspiration from them as well. Pick a card from the deck of Art Oracles and see what the artists have to say. With 50 cards in the deck, you're bound to find some creative inspiration.

If colored pencils are your young artist's go-to medium, these erasable colored pencils are a must-have. Free your sketchers' imagination to fly across the page without fear of an "oops."

The Giant Crazy Crayon adds a little bit of wonder to any drawing. The crayon is actually 64 different colored crayons mashed together to form one mega swirl of colors. With this crayon in your hands, you never know what color is going to pop up next. 

For when your creative kiddo has graduated from coloring books and wants to start drawing and sketching freehand, a sturdy sketchbook of thick, unlined paper is a must. Every page is waiting for spontaneous creative ideas, so open it up and let's go!

Did you know the Spirograph wasn't actually made to be a drawing tool? In fact, it was invented by a mechanical engineer named Denys Fisher, who meant for it to be a drafting tool. While its original design is still the same, its use has greatly shifted over the years. The 56-year-old design still holds up today and is a classic toy that has mesmerized generations of kids.

Ever wish you could meet a sloth? What about a narwhal or a flamingo? While your nature-loving young artists wait for their animal dreams to come true, this book will help them learn how to draw all their favorites, with step-by-step instructions for every skill level.

For very young artists, this board is basically like an endless piece of paper, thanks to the magnetic tech inside. Kids can draw whatever they like on the board, and "walk the dog" across the bottom to start over from scratch. 

Art skills are super transferable. They'll help you be creative in school, imaginative after school, and even help you dominate when it comes to board games! Board games? Yes, you read that right, especially in a game of Drawsome People. The game is all about getting your teammates to guess what you've drawn on the board according to the crazy prompts. While you don't need to be a professional artist to play, drawing skills will definitely give you a leg up to help your team to victory. 

Where STEM meets art, that's where you'll find Artie 3000. Who is Artie 3000 exactly? Artie 3000 is a robot that specializes in drawing whatever you tell it. So, how do you get Artie to draw what you want? You send it over in code! Simply write the code and watch Artie bring your creations to life. Once you've got the hang of it, have Artie outline a few designs that you can color in. You'll quickly become the best collaborators around! 

The Creative & Colorful Origami Kit by Open the Joy is a great place to start learning about this amazing art form, with everything you need to make a variety of super cool origami creations. Make planes, flowers, boats, animals, and more — you'll be an origami master after working your way through this set! Follow the step-by-step illustrated instructions and choose from a colorful array of origami sheets for your creations.

For any artist, the idea of their favorite tools just up and quitting on them is the stuff of nightmares — but in this charming, best-selling picture book by Drew Daywalt with pictures by Oliver Jeffers, it's more comic than tragic. And the idea that you can always find new ways to use old favorites in your creativity is a lesson that will stick long after the crayons have gone back to work.