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Holiday Gift Guide 2025

Unwrap your imagination! Dive into our favorites and find something for everyone you love. From cute wind-up bugs to a cutting board for chemistry lovers, our curated gifts for all ages are sure to spark curiosity all year long. Every purchase supports the Exploratorium’s 501(c)(3) nonprofit mission of transforming science learning worldwide.

A blue cube, beetle, dodo, and geometric toy on a pink background
Stocking Stuffers
A colorful cube, cutting board, mug, and beaker pin are on a blue background
Gifts for Science Lovers
A robot, chameleon, and tower toys on a purple background
Gifts for Kids
Octopus markers, a train, and a crochet narwhal are on a green background
Gifts for Makers
A collection of toys and string that forms the shape of a smiling face.
Holiday Gift Guide 2025

Gifts for Science Lovers

Black water bottle with 'exploratorium' logo on a white background

Exploratorium Eclipse Insulated Water Bottle

$ 42.95
$ 42.95
A transparent cube with different colored sides.

Exploratorium Color-Mixing Cube

$ 15.00
$ 15.00
The pocket microscope is 3" x 5" and fits easily in your hand. The image is a side view of the microscope. It is silver and black with a clear plastic bottom where the slide fits into.

Exploratorium Pocket Microscope

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
A natural colored box with a black ribbon sits open with black Einstein portrait socks, a grey brain-inspired journal, an amber glass candle, and a natural colored canvas pouch screen printed in black with Science is Magic and science tool icons.

Exploratorium Gift Box - Pamper Yourself

$ 50.00
$ 50.00
Black mug with mathematical equations and text on a white background

Equations that Changed the World Mug

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
Teal mug with white fossil design on a white background

Fossils Hand Carved Ceramic Mug

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
A pair of ammonite halves on a white background.

Ammonite Cleoniceras Pair (mini)

$ 12.00
$ 12.00
Rock tumbler with accessories and instruction manual on a white background

Rock Tumbler

$ 80.00
$ 80.00
A book cover with boxes with different colors and symbols like the periodic table.

The Periodic Table of Wine

$ 18.99
$ 18.99
Tea towel with illustrations of kitchen accidents and their consequences on a white background

Kitchen Accidents Dish Towel

$ 13.99
$ 13.99
A white box with cut out letters and squares that show a green paper underneath.

Turing Machine

$ 44.00
$ 44.00
Wooden puzzle resembling a Grecian computer with numbers on a white background

Grecian Computer Mathematical Puzzle

$ 17.99
$ 17.99
Dark blue MicroKits Theremin Electronic Kit packaging on a white background

MicroKits DIY Theremin Kit

$ 50.00
$ 50.00
Wooden electronic project kit with components on a blue background

DIY Walkie Talkie STEM Kit

$ 37.00
$ 37.00
Snap Circuits Arcade electronic kit packaging with colorful graphics and text.

Snap Circuits Arcade

$ 100.00
$ 100.00
A dark blue metal tumbler with light blue images of constellations, planets, and lines.

Astronomy 12oz Steel Bottle

$ 30.00
$ 30.00
A drinking glass with white lines depicting the solar system and a chart with all the planets. The glass is filled with a dark liquid.

Solar System Drinking Glass

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
Gold necklace with 'Au' pendant on a 'elements!' branded card

Gold Element Necklace

$ 20.00
$ 20.00
Silver necklace with a Fibonacci spiral pendant on a paper background.

Fibonacci Necklace

$ 32.00
$ 32.00
Red pouch with anatomical heart design on a white background

Anatomical Heart Pouch

$ 16.00
$ 16.00
Blue socks with various cats in white lab coats and beakers printed on it.

Science Cats Socks

$ 12.00
$ 12.00
"Not Necessarily Rocket Science" is a hardback book with a black cover; Kellie Gerardi is on the cover wearing a Final Frontier Design orange spacesuit.

Not Necessarily Rocket Science: A Beginner's Guide to Life in the Space Age by Kellie Gerardi

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
A dark blue box with image depicting Saturn in the sky and a view of the ocean and aquatic creatures in the lower half.

Ecologies: Solar System

$ 30.00
$ 30.00
Red robot-shaped circuit with yellow lights on a white background

Wacky Robot Capacitron: DIY Mini Robot

$ 25.99
$ 25.99