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Gifts for the COLLEGE kid in your life 📚🍳☕️👩🏫
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items Here are some gadgets, decor, and other accessories for your favorite college kids apartment or dorm that I have on my own Christmas list or I already own! Make sure to remember space optimization is key when shopping for a dorm or an apartment! Don’...
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Practical Gifts 🧊🥄🫖
Gift Cards 💵
Helpful Items for Class 📓💻
Kitchen Gadgets 🔪⏲️👩🍳🍳🎛️
Self Help & Cook Books 📚
Room Decor & Art Prints 🪞🖼️📔
Practical Gifts 🧊🥄🫖
Everything your college kid will need when shopping for practical items like fans, rugs, and organizers!
You can never go wrong with kitchen safety! Although your college student might have a fire extinguisher near their apartment or dorm, it’s nice to have one of their own close by!
Prepared Hero Mini Fire Extinguisher - Organic, Portable, Non-Toxic
Measuring cups and spoons are great gift ideas for a college student just moving into their first apartment that you know loves to cook/bake!
Spring Chef Stainless Steel Magnetic Measuring Spoons Set, 8-Piece
If your student is moving into an apartment that isn’t fully furnished, a knife set is a great gift to get them started in the kitchen!
RAXCO 18-Piece Kitchen Utensils Set
For all the times your child will be working from their bed, a lap desk is essential!
HUANUO Portable Lap Desk w/ Pillow, Fits 15.6" Laptop
For the gym/fitness kid!
Smart Watch Fitness Tracker with Heart Rate Monitoring and GPS
To add a little something to the desk in their apartment!
Premium Leather Desk Pad – Rich Brown, Large Mouse-Friendly Desk Mat
Power strips with surge protectors are a great way to maximize the outlets in a small room
BESHON Power Strip Surge Protector 6 Outlets 4 USB
A first aid kit will always be an important thing to have in your apartment or dorm whether it’s for them or their roommates
First Aid Kits
Battery packs are great gifts for anyone, but especially college students who might not have time to run home and charge their phone on the way to their next class
Best Cell Phone Portable Power Banks
For the girls who might go out or have friends that do, it’s nice to have things to help you stay protected
Nightcap® | Drink Spiking Prevention Products – NightCapIt
A small but practical gift
BACtrack Go Keychain Breathalyzer White
Full body length mirrors are great gifts for girls and are easy to find space for whether you hang them up or lean them against the wall
Large Mirrors - Big Mirrors
Clorox wipes, baby wipes, paper towels, and wash rags are good essentials for apartments
Clorox™ Disinfecting Cleaning Wipes | Scented
Gift Cards 💵
For those who don’t want to give JUST money, make it a little more special by picking a restaurant or store near their apartment or university!
Grocery store gift cards are a great way to help your college student get settled in first semester
Basic Blue Yellow Spark Walmart Gift Card
Don’t know what restaurants they like? Give them the gift of a doordash gift card so they can choose for themselves!
DoorDash Gift Cards
For groceries, games, clothes, and more!
Target Shopping Cart $100 Target GiftCard
Help with buying groceries!
Grocery Bulk Gift Cards | Corporate & Charity Gift Cards
Get a card with multiple stores that way you don’t have to choose!
$25 One4All Ultimate Swap Gift Card (Email Delivery)
Get them the gift of bedsheets you know they’ll love!
Comfrt E-Gift Card — Comfrt
Even college kids gotta have fun!
Buy LEGO® Gift Cards | Official LEGO® Shop US
Helpful Items for Class 📓💻
All the best practical gifts for the classroom that your college student will love
This is a reusable note taking book that you can upload to your phone and erase after use! This is a great way to save money on new notebooks every year and have a digital version of all your notes!
Rocketbook Core Reusable Spiral Notebook 8.5x11
Sticky notes and other basic school supplies are very overlooked when thinking about what to get students, but sometimes it’s good to just go back to the basics and get what they’ll really need
Sticky Notes
A great idea for students going to school for any field in medicine! Definitely get this if your college kid is in an apartment and has a good space for it though.
Whiteboard
For the whiteboard
EXPO: Whiteboard and Dry Erase Board Markers & Accessories
Pens, pencils, and markers are always great cheap but essential gifts
Flair Felt Tip Pens | Paper Mate
Sharpie makes permanent markers, pens, highlighters, and so many other useful classroom supplies your student would love to hahe
Sharpie
Any computer is a great gift idea for a kid getting ready to go to college!
MacBook Pro
Computer mice are great ideas to get your student going to school for any type of engineering where they will have to be on their computer a lot to CAD or Code
Computer Mouse
Heavy duty backpack for class with multiple pockets
Super Deluxe Bookpack, 38L
Kitchen Gadgets 🔪⏲️👩🍳🍳🎛️
These are the gadgets I have on my christmas list for my college apartment! Be sure when looking through kitchen items you think about the space your college girl will have in her kitchen, if she’ll have roommates, AND that she will have a kitchen to...
Air fryers, Crockpots, and Rice cookers are great ways to give your child a way to cook delicious meals from the confined spaces of their dorms!
Hot Pot Electric 1L Mini Ramen Cooker 450W
This Angry Mom kitchen cleaning gadget has space for vinegar or baking soda to put in your microwave and clean it! A cute way to remind your child of you and keep their space clean!
Angry Mama Microwave Steam Cleaner Green
Saving space in a small kitchen is key! Kitchen gadgets that have multiple uses or group together lots of tools are the best for college kids!
Pisol Kitchen 6-Piece Gadget Set - Grater, Peeler, Opener
Scraping the bottom of the jar has never been so cool! Help your broke college student save every penny by giving them something to make the most out of their food!
OTOTO Splatypus Jar Spatula - BPA-Free
Electric or not, fish scrubbers are a great gift!
TUYU Electric Spin Scrubber, IPX7 Waterproof
Mini drink fridges are great for dorm rooms to keep just a few drinks cold at a time
Best Beverage Refrigerators
Tupperware is a great gift for kids in apartments who you know will cook or have leftovers! Even if they’re eating out most nights, it’s nice to have an organized fridge.
Tupperware Brand
Mugs, cups, and waterbodies to furnish their new place
Orange and Blueberry Hand Painted Ceramic Mug
Self Help & Cook Books 📚
The best books on cooking, procrastination, and organizing
Self-help books are perfect gifts for BEFORE your student leaves for college! If you know they love to read, this is a great book!
The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Time Management: Boost Productivity and Focus
We all know it’s hard to come up with meal ideas, especially ones with few ingredients. This is a great book for teaching your college kid to make meals with little ingredients!
The 5-Ingredient College Cookbook
Prepare your favorite student for the problems they might run into with their first roomate
The Naked Roommate: 107 College Issues
Prepare your favorite kid for living in a small space!
Ultimate Guide to Efficiently Organize Your Space: Practical Tips and Clever Solutions
Great book on procrastination and study techniques!
Learning How to Learn: Succeed in School
Highly recommended book across many platforms!
Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Thinking Matters
Self help books are great gifts to give BEFORE they leave for college
Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life... and Maybe the World (Hardcover)
Room Decor & Art Prints 🪞🖼️📔
Here are some of my favorite art prints and room decor pieces!
Art prints from your students favorite artist are a big hit for room decor
Claude Monet - Met Custom Prints - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art prints from their favorite artists or just cute ones that match their room
97 Decor Vintage Eclectic Wall Art Prints
Star maps and astronomy prints are super cute for dorm and apartment walls. This one specifically lets you customize the date the stars show, as in an anniversary, birthday, or secret between you and the gift receiver!
Night Sky Museum Grade Prints - The Night Sky - Custom Star Map
This a craft you can easily customize to make something special between you and your college student
Vintage Matchbox Wall Art Colorful Matchbook
Figure out your students favorite sport or player and get them a poster to hang up in their apartment or dorm
F1 Print Store
For hanging up posters or mirrors without leaving nail marks!
Jewel-Osco
Customize to have their city and state of where they live or go to college!
Hand Embroidered Pennant Flag Custom Unique City Name Pennant Flag Vintage Feel Pennant Trending Popular Wall Art Unique Handmade Gifts
Customize to say their first name, last name, or something silly!
Custom Name Neon Sign for Kids, Kid's Room Decor, Birthday Gift for Kids, Bedroom Neon Sign, Dorm Wall Decor, Personalized Christmas Gifts
funny decorate room signs
Better Late Than Ugly, Audrey Hepburn Lipstick Print, Trendy Newspaper Print, Funny Wall Art Decor, Women Empowerment, Girls Room decor