Australian Made Christmas Gifts for Kids

If you're not sure where to start, start here. The Little Learner Tracing Bundle is our most-ordered gift by a long way: a personalised name board, an alphabet board and a numbers board, all in your state's school font, with a chalk marker and felt mat included so it's ready to use on Christmas morning. The Personalised Name Tracing Board is the smaller version of the same idea, and it's the gift parents tell us their little one is proudest of. Last Christmas our number one gift was the Nature Scavenger Hunt Board, a wipe-clean checklist that turns a walk into a hunt, and the Road Trip Scavenger Hunt Board does the same job in the back seat on the drive to see family. For the tree, the Gingerbread People Personalised Christmas Ornament comes as a gingerbread girl or boy, personalised with your little one's name. And our Christmas by the Beach Girls Flutter Sleeve Dress has been the most popular piece in this year's outfit range.

Preschoolers learn best with their hands, at their own pace, with a grown-up nearby. Our tracing boards are simple on purpose: calm, uncluttered and easy to wipe clean so they can have another go. The Pre-Writing Line Tracing Board is the gentlest place to begin, with lines and curves that build pencil control before letters. The Shapes Tracing Board and the Alphabet Tracing Board come next, and the alphabet board is made in your state's school font so they learn the letters the way their teacher will show them. For play that sneaks in some learning, the Bee Counting Game practises counting and colours, the Dinosaur Memory Game builds turn-taking and concentration, and the Wooden Dinosaur Set is a 15-piece set for small-world play, with a printable matching game that teaches the dinosaurs' names. None of them need a screen, batteries or any setting up.

If your little one is starting kindy or prep in 2027, a school-ready gift under the tree can make the first day feel exciting rather than daunting. The First Day of School Board is made for first and last day photos, and the names can be swapped so younger siblings can use it too. Sight Words Stage 1 covers the first 100 high-frequency words they'll meet in their early readers, and the Sight Words + Board Bundle adds a board to practise them on. The Number Tracing Board introduces numbers in your state's school font. For families who want everything in one go, the Mega Tracing Board Bundle is our biggest tracing set, and the Phonics Kit Complete Bundle takes them from the basic code through to the advanced code. They'll come back to them all summer, and they're ready to go again the moment school starts.

For the child who's always drawing, writing stories or making something out of nothing, these are gifts that get used every day. The Acrylic Drawing Board wipes clean, so they can draw the same picture twenty times without using a single sheet of paper. The Creative Writing Kit is for little storytellers who are ready to start writing their own, and the Personalised Art Journal gives their drawings somewhere special to live. Pair any board with the STAEDTLER Lumocolor Coloured Chalk Markers, an 8-pack of bright colours, or with Kitpas Rice Wax Crayons, which glide smoothly on paper, windows and our acrylic boards. Play Clay Play Dough is soft, squishy and an easy stocking filler for creative kids of any age.

Sensory play is how little ones explore texture, cause and effect, and early maths, usually while making a bit of a mess. Our sensory trays arrive ready to play, with no hunting around the house for bits and pieces. The Dinosaur Sensory Trays are a ready-made dino dig, the Christmas Sensory Trays are perfect for the lead-up to Christmas, and the Dino Dig Sensory Play Base tops up any tray with a fresh base. If you have an IKEA Flisat or Trofast table, our inserts turn it into a learning station: the Upper and Lower Case Alphabet insert for letter sorting, The Hungry Chook Game for counting and feeding the chooks, and the Bee Hive IKEA Flisat Mega Bundle, a whole bee-themed set of play and learning activities in one gift.

For kids who come home with pockets full of rocks, gum nuts and the occasional beetle. The Nature Scavenger Hunt Board was our most popular Christmas gift last year: a wipe-clean board of things to spot on a walk, so every outing becomes a hunt. The Beach Scavenger Hunt Board does the same on summer holidays by the water. The Australian Animal Tracks Matching Game pairs ten Australian animals with their footprints, from wombats to the tiny Corroboree frog. Our life cycle puzzles show how living things grow, piece by piece: the Bee Life Cycle Puzzle, the Chicken Life Cycle Puzzle (we know a thing or two about chooks on the farm) and the Anatomy of a Bee Puzzle for curious little scientists.

Australian wildlife and landscapes run through everything we make, and everything we make is certified Australian Made. These gifts celebrate Australia most. The Wooden Australia Puzzle is an educational map of every state and territory, with the animals that live in each one. The Australian Play Money Set has realistic Aussie notes and coins for shop-keeping and early maths. The Australian Habitat Sorting Activity, an IKEA Flisat insert, has little ones matching native animals to the places they live, and the Australian Themed Sensory Trays, shaped like a wombat and a map of Australia, make sensory play a little less messy. For the tree, the Personalised Christmas Ornaments come as wombats and koalas in a range of colours. The Australian Animal Lacing Toys, a koala and a wombat, keep busy fingers occupied on a long drive. Our native bird earrings, from kookaburras to gang-gang cockatoos, are in the Australiana collection too.

Our Christmas outfits are made in our own exclusive prints, so the whole family can match in the Christmas photo. This year's Christmas by the Beach range has a Girls Flutter Sleeve Dress, a Boys Christmas Shirt, a Men's Christmas Shirt, a Women's Christmas Skirt and a Plain Strap Baby Romper. Our A Bush Christmas Baby Romper is also available for littlies. All outfits are pre-orders and are expected to ship in late November, in time for Christmas Day. Christmas Bucket Hats, Christmas Bows and Matching Christmas Dolly Outfits round out the range, so even the favourite doll can join in.

The gifts families tell us they love most are the ones that come out of the cupboard every December. The Milk and Cookies Santa Treat Tray gives Santa somewhere to find his snack on Christmas Eve. The Personalised Santa Stop Here Sign has your child's name on it, so Santa knows exactly where to stop. The hand-painted Dear Santa Board is where little ones leave Santa their wishes and thank-yous, and it comes out again every year. The Personalised Wooden Christmas Countdown counts down the last 40 days with number discs that attach each day, and the Personalised Christmas Tree Topper puts your family's name at the top of the tree. For a baby's first Christmas, the Baby Birth Details Personalised Christmas Ornament records their birth details on a teddy bear ornament.

The school year finishes just before Christmas, so a teacher gift needs to arrive on time. Our Christmas cut-off is Sunday 6 December, and ordering earlier gives it the best chance of arriving before the last day of school. Our Teacher Classroom Plaques, one with positive affirmations and one with growth mindset reminders, are made for the classroom wall, and the personalised Teacher Welcome Sign goes on the classroom door. The Personalised Bookmark is an easy, thoughtful gift, and a nice one for a class to give together. Our handmade native bird earrings are a favourite with teachers. The Kookaburra Earrings and Magpie Earrings are two of the most popular, and you'll find galahs and cockatoos in the full teacher gifts collection.