20+ Editor-Picked Holiday Gift Ideas for Kids

I don’t know about your brood, but my kids start writing their Christmas lists sometime in July. It’s like a switch is flipped post-Easter but before school starts, and they start connecting items they want to the annual visit from the Big Guy in Red (this is perhaps related to the time of the year when I start to drop the good ol’ “Santa is watching, you know”). This year, though, we’ve had many conversations about making sure we’re giving back, too, so in my house, we’ll be buying an item or two from Sophie and Juliette’s lists to donate to a toy drive.

For many people, the past eight(+!) months have felt like five years and I can imagine the holidays will be difficult and fraught for lots of families. With that in mind, we’ve tried to curate a gift selection that includes both smaller, local retailers and larger stores, to help support communities across the country but also keep household finances in mind.

We’re thinking of you and yours this season, and hope you’ll manage to find some peace and joy. Even when we’re worried. Even when we can’t see all of the people we’d like to. Even when the parties will have to wait, and the hugs will be few. We can still bring the happy.

Katie Dupuis
Editor-in-chief