Choosing gifts that children will love is most effective when the items spark curiosity, creativity, and active play. This guide focuses on options that entertain while also supporting learning and hands-on exploration.
Herbein’s Garden Center in Emmaus PA offers many fun gift choices for children, including nature-themed activities, garden gloves and hats, and engaging outdoor items that encourage kids to discover and enjoy the world around them.
Twilight Garden Memory Game
Immerse yourself in nature with the Twilight Garden Memory Game! This set includes 30 beautifully illustrated cards, featuring 15 matching pairs of garden critters like Ladybugs, butterflies, bees, frogs, and more. Perfect for nature lovers, the game is a fun way to learn about wildlife while sharpening your memory.
Format | 30 cards for 15 matching pairs
Ages | 3+
Sun Hat
Meet our Kids Sun Hats, the ultimate playtime companion for sunny days! These hats are a must-have for any young adventurer, whether they're digging in the dirt, building sandcastles, or chasing butterflies. Our hats ensure your little ones can enjoy endless fun under the sun while staying protected. UPF 50+ material to shield from harmful rays, adjustable fit to suit all sizes, ensuring the hat grows with them
Garden Gloves
A pair of durable, machine-washable children’s gloves made from nylon knit with a natural rubber palm, designed to protect little hands during gardening or play. At a modest price, they’re a practical choice for keeping kids’ hands clean and protected while working outdoors.
Activity Books
Bird-Themed: Entertain and educate your children with this bird-themed coloring book that includes interactive games such as mazes and word finds. Birds are all around us. You will learn important details about nearly 50 species of backyard favorites found across the United States like the American Goldfinch and Northern Cardinal. Activities like mazes word finds and dot-to-dots reinforce the information in unique and creative ways. Plus the Birds & Friends Activity Book offers suggestions for family activities from making a birdbath to going on a bird hike.
Animal Tracks: A fun, interactive workbook that introduces kids to wildlife tracking through coloring pages, word finds, mazes, dot-to-dots and other activities focused on common mammals and their tracks. It’s a great way for young nature lovers to learn how to identify animal footprints and build curiosity about the outdoors.
Felt Dog Toys
Our hand-felted dog, inspired by the Jack Russell Terrier, is sure to match its spirited and energetic personality in the hands of a child! Our felt doggies are the perfect toy companion to spark your storytelling or playtime adventures!
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt book
A companion to the new Over and Under the Pond and the beloved Over and Under the Snow, this sweet exploration of the hidden world and many lives of a garden through the course of a year "could not be more lovely," according to the Washington Post. Up in the garden, the world is full of green—leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant and lyrical book, discover the wonders that lie hidden between stalks, under the shade of leaves...and down in the dirt.
