To take the guesswork out of buying gifts this year, we at Central Oregon Times asked our friends at The Grommet for their latest and greatest practical gift suggestions for 2021.
These guides are geared towards specific interests. You’ll be able to find something for even the toughest person on your Christmas shopping list.
Top 5 Gifts For Kids
1) illume Personal Alarm & LED Light
MaxxmAlarm: illume Personal Alarm & LED Light - Matte Blue
2) Marble Race Starter Set
The GraviTrax starter set is the perfect rolling, spinning, racing, and jumping-off point for kid engineers. The marble run building set has over 100 pieces and nine construction plans to put into action, or kids can create their own signature twisting and turning race track while honing early STEM skills with concepts like gravity, trajectory, and force.
3) 3D Building Puzzle Toy
This combination 3D puzzle and building toy can actually change the way kids think by helping them learn problem-solving, spatial relations, and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) skills as they play. IKOS encourages kids of all ages to invent, innovate, and create. Made in the USA.
4) Magnetic Construction Story Set
A unique construction set in which colorful magnetic blocks are flexibly assembled through a system of powerful magnets. The blocks can be connected to each other in any sequence without prominent connecting elements or complicated parts of any kind. Inspired by pixels of the digital world, these construction sets allow anyone to create pixel art in real life.
5) Flexible Roll-Up Piano
Rock And Roll It: Flexible Roll-Up Piano - Pink
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