Available in a wide array of colors and prints, these popular skates are our pick for the best affordable beginner roller skates. With their fun, retro look, your gift recipient will definitely want to take them for a spin outside.
If you want to go the extra mile, you can also gift them this foldable helmet (one of our all-time favorite products) to easily stash in their backpack.
For the person who has more variations of El Yucateco in their fridge than actual food, this hot sauce kit comes with ingredients and instructions to make six different bottles — the punny names are all up to the chef, though.
While wheel-throwing pottery classes can be expensive (same with an at-home setup), pottery kits are a lot more accessible. Sculptd offers a variety of air-dry clay vase kits and starter bundles to make sculpting at home easy, creative, and fun.
This beautiful kit comes with bamboo needles and nice wool yarn — two basic but high-quality supplies expert knitters recommend for the best results. It also comes with a starter kit for a few simple projects, but you can also pair with a book that covers more ground.
Paint-by-numbers can often be associated with cheesy puppy paintings, but these Etsy kits offer a more modern take on a classic beginner hobby — and look cool enough to actually hang up in the living room.
Since more professional cameras are typically very pricey and a risky gift if you're not 1000% sure they'll be used a lot, this Instax camera prints bigger photos than other models and can be a fun beginner camera for a budding photographer.
Ranked as our favorite indoor herb garden, this stainless steel device comes with an LED light and six pods to grow Genovese basil, curly parsley, dill, thyme, Thai basil, and mint. It's incredibly easy to use and can inspire more cooking when one has their own fresh herbs to use as garnish.
Crocheting is similar to knitting but can provide a little more versatility in projects (such as cute plush animals). This cute toy (you can pick a fox or penguin) is the perfect beginner crochet challenge.
Williams Sonoma offers a wide range of cookie cutters and stamps as well as pancake stencils, whether you think they'll want to make cute, Scandinavian-style treats or "Star Wars"-themed desserts.
These minimalist dangling earrings offer a great amount of surface area to paint whatever design the heart wants, be it a mini landscape or a funky pattern. Beyond providing an afternoon of fun, it gives the gift of unique jewelry that'll be worn with pride.
This no-frills kit is recommended for beginners because it lets you create a pretty bar of soap without diving too deep into complex ingredients. If they end up liking it (or have made soap before), Bramble Berry also carries other soap kits in scents like aloe.
One of our favorite tarot card decks, this deck offers a more modern, inclusive update on the classic Rider-Waite-Smith deck. It also comes with a guidebook to understanding what all the cards mean, so your gift recipient can get to reading tarot for their friends and family ASAP.
If they've shown interest in guitaring but you don't want to invest in an expensive model just yet, this guitar produces great sound for its price. And if you know someone who already plays some guitar but could use more advanced equipment, you can check out our best gifts for guitar players.
The smallest and cheapest of the Cricut machines, the Cricut Joy is a compact device that lets you print and cut anything from custom cards and stickers to decals for mugs or labels for the office.
Book of the Month is a subscription service that lets users pick one newly-released, hardcover book each month to have sent to their home. It's been known to expose readers early on to books that later win huge awards, so the selection is very strong.
Etsy is full of beautiful embroidery kits, but this one stands out because you can pick your gift recipient's state (and state flower). Plus, starting out with a simple border outline and flower is especially appealing to complete beginners.
This DIY succulent kit comes with all the supplies and simple instructions to build a small, cute terrarium that'll last for years to come with proper care. It can be an especially thoughtful gift for the person who always complains about killing all their plants.
It's hard to feel truly zen when your mat is slippery or peeling off in chunks. This yoga mat is our favorite affordable pick.
Uncommon Goods carries a few beer kits that come with all the supplies needed to brew a small batch of their own IPA, ale, or stout. If your gift recipient is more of a wine drinker, you can opt for a Merlot or Pinot Grigio kit instead.
This sketchbook and colored pencil set are both among our favorite art supplies and make great gifts for a total beginner who might otherwise not spend the money on good materials for themselves. If you want to go the extra mile, you can pair this with a bestselling online Udemy class they can take at their own pace.
As far as language-learning programs go, Rosetta Stone reigns pretty supreme and boasts a huge selection of languages to choose from. While more affordable subscription plans are available, the lifetime subscription lasts, well, forever and gives them access to unlimited languages if they need help deciding what to study.
Candle-making can be a fun hobby, but it has a small learning curve. Before investing in a host of supplies, professional candlemakers recommend starting with an easy kit to better understand the process.
- If you know they like to write (or just always vaguely talked about writing a novel someday), a book can be a great, low-cost way for them to learn at their own pace. This one comes especially recommended as an alternative to getting a writing MFA. You can also find more gifts for writers here.
If they've openly expressed interest in working out more but have no idea what they like, a ClassPass gift card can give them the ability to test out group classes within their area to find out if they're more of a barre or boxing person.
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