We’re so thrilled to present our amazing Ultimate Birthday Gift Guide newly updated for 2024. It features more than 150 of the best gifts right now, for kids of all ages, with all interests, in all price ranges. Whoo!
We’ve scoured the web to hand-select the very best toys and games, the sweetest keepsakes, amazing craft kits, cool accessories, pop culture goodies, and more, to help you find the best gift for kids of any age, whatever your budget.
The coolest first birthday gifts
The coolest birthday gifts for 2-year-olds
The coolest birthday gifts for 3-year-olds
The coolest birthday gifts for 4-year-olds
The coolest birthday gifts for 5-year-olds
The coolest birthday gifts for 6-year-olds
The coolest birthday gifts for 7-year-olds
The coolest birthday gifts for 8-year-olds
The coolest birthday gifts for tweens and big kids 9-12
The coolest birthday gifts for teens
And it’s all sorted by age to make it easier — we’ve got those special first birthday gifts all the way up through the best gifts for tweens and the best gifts for teens. (Trust us, we know how picky they can be. Which is why our own tweens and teens made sure to give us the thumbs up on everything.)
Of course the best birthday gift for a 3-year-old might be great for another 4-year-old, and lots of 10-year-olds will be into the gifts rated for kids 8 and up. So be sure to click around to the other pages to get even more of the best birthday gift ideas for kids that we hope you’ll love.
This guide contains affiliate links, which means we receive a small commission from some purchases to help support our team. All picks are determined editorially by our staff; there has been no compensation in exchange for our picks.