Classical Kids CDs are great. We love Beethoven lives upstairs and Mr. Bach Comes to Call the most.
Sewing kit with fabric scraps as well as basic supplies like needles and thread. Maybe some printed instructions on how to make projects on the child’s ability level.
Yarn, crochet hook, and beginning crochet book or video
Recorder and beginner recorder book or video
Craft kits
2nd camping supplies recommendation. For my own kids things like tents, sleeping bags, and backpacks. For friends things like flashlights or headlamp, mess kit, poncho, canteen, etc….
My friend and I made bean bags in fun fabric one year. We painted numbers on tin cans to stack in a triangle and keep score by how many cans and what point values dropped down. The handwritten card came with a few bean bag game ideas I printed off the internet. We put the cans and bean bags in a basket (looks like a basket you get when you buy fresh produce or fruit in a bushel).
Card stock, ribbons, hole puncher, decorative edge scissors, stamps, ink pads and other fixings to make homemade cards or bookmarks.
Kitchen apron with some kitchen utensils like spatula, muffin tins, cookie cutters, etc…..
Art easel, paper on a roll, canvas, paints, good quality brushes, artist apron
Books like Favorite Poems old and New, James Herriot Treasury for Children, A Child’s Garden of Verses, Handbook of Nature Study, Meet the Orchestra, and others.
For young ones, we love the Tales of Beatrix Potter DVDs. The ones, maybe by BBC but not sure, that are calm and have illustrations that match up to the ones in the book.
A tree to plant in the yard with info about the tree,
Budget permitting, a telescope.
Compass
Field guides
Fancy pen and stationary.
Origami paper and instructions
Gift pass to a local planetarium if this is an option
