Graduation season is here, and with it comes the exciting search for the perfect gift to celebrate this significant milestone. For most students, graduation represents the culmination of many years of hard work, dedication, and sacrifice. It's a time for reflection, celebration, and looking toward the future. That’s worth celebrating with a fantastic gift!
The best kind of graduation gifts are personal, practical, and sentimental, featuring something that the grad can use and cherish for years. When it comes to teens, it’s important to think about the longevity of the gift as well. A piece of jewelry, such as a watch or bracelet, may be an appropriate choice, depending on your budget and relationship, but style is important. Choosing one in a trendy look may turn your timeless treasure into a fleeting fad. Instead, opt for classic pieces that fit the teen well.
Technology is another wonderful option that’s full of practicality. Cameras, laptops, tablets, and smartwatches are all pragmatic accessories that any teen grad is sure to use as they venture on to the next stage in life.
Ultimately, graduation gifts are an ideal way to show the teen graduate in your life just how proud you are of their achievements. Whether it's a beautiful piece of jewelry, a practical tool or technology, a personalized keepsake, or even just a heartfelt letter, the best gift is one that comes from the heart. Here are some of our favorite ideas for inspiration this grad season.
Alexa-Enabled Atom 2 AE by Vornado
Graduates starting college will love Vornado’s Alexa-Enabled line of fans. Using the power of Alexa, the new Atom 2 AE line from Vornado has enough power to keep their room comfortable with an impressive amount of air circulation. This line offers an array of options to conveniently control comfort, intuitive on-product controls, plus voice and app control via Alexa, tablet, or smartphone. The ATOM 2 AE provides whole-room circulation, 360° oscillation, four-speed settings, and gestural touch-sensitive controls.
'Everything We Should Have Taught You in High School, but Never Did: The Graduation Gift of Life's Most Important Lessons,' by Dr. Richard Gary Shear
For the grad in your life who loves to read and knows it’s never too late to learn something new, consider this new book from an award-winning educator who shares more than 70 lessons that have led a generation of students to become leaders, achieve personal happiness, and live life filled with joy. Having been the principal of four high schools, Richard Gary Shear shares lessons about how to keep dreams alive, what happy people have in common, and the "superpower" of having a positive attitude and temperament. The book is appropriate for people of all ages.
F1Pro Massage Gun from Flyby
For graduates who could use a little R&R or the athlete graduate who needs some deep tissue work, consider this F1Pro Massage Gun. With 50 pounds of pressure, this percussive massage gun is ideal for anyone experiencing stiffness — whether it’s from long periods of sitting at their new jobs or athletes looking to recover and prevent injuries. Boasting three powerful speeds and six unique massage heads, the F1Pro is quiet and lightweight weighing in at 1.8 lbs. It's also available on Amazon and boasts more than 14,000 5-star reviews.
The Saatva Back To School Bundle
Help your college freshman sleep better throughout a better school year with the Saatva back-to-school bedding bundle for students. "Upgrade their bed (and their sleep) for the new school year with this essential bedding bundle," the website notes. It features Saatva’s organic percale cotton sheets, hypoallergenic down-alternative pillow, and a high-density foam mattress topper, all in dorm-friendly twin XL/standard sizes.
Clorox Tabletop True HEPA Air Purifier
The Clorox Tabletop Air Purifier is perfect for taking to college, an apartment, or new home to help combat mold, viruses, allergens, dust, and more. It also takes care of smells! It's great technology for a college freshman. The air purifier captures 99.97% of particulates as small as 0.1 microns with a "whisper quiet" setting for night-time and reduces viruses and bacteria, so you can breathe easier and so can your graduate.
Tinggly’s Bucketlist Experience Gift
This innovative gift is perfect for an adventurist! The Bucketlist Experience allows the grad to pick an adventure from more than 1,200 options in 100+ countries. And of course, there’s something for everyone, so whether they want to go swimming with manatees in Florida, jump on a helicopter in NYC, or take macaron-making classes in Paris, this gift allows you to give a memory that will last a lifetime. There’s no expiration date, so they can redeem their experience whenever and wherever they’d like. Happy graduation to them! Tinggly experience gifts can be delivered instantly via email as an e-voucher or sent in a beautiful box made with eco-friendly materials.
Cosori Mini 2.1 Quart Air Fryer
Leaving the house for the first time is hard, especially without family meals and the lack of time to get busy in the kitchen. Look to Cosori to simplify meals for the grad in your life with its Mini 2.1 Quart Air Fryer. Easier to use with one-touch, four-function cooking, a space-saving size, included recipes, plus an affordable price point, this is the air fryer of all single person's dreams, perfect for fish sticks, chicken tenders, and other frozen items.
Bond Heart
$99
from
Bond Touch
For the ultimate in staying connected, get your grad a Bond Heart accessory. Bond Heart enables wearers to capture, store, and carry the heartbeats of their most cherished people close to their own heart. They can call up and experience the heartbeats of their parents, grandparents, boy/girlfriends, and besties whenever they want to feel them. Bond Heart, the newest offering from Bond Touch, the leader in emotional wearables, is suitable for all genders and comes in black with a black loop and chain or white with a silver loop and chain.
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