Need a bit of help Christmas shopping for your kids in Adelaide? Here’s a few of our favourite local businesses, brands and products we’ve tried out this year. Lots of toys for indoor and outdoor play, useful gifts for teens and tweens and even something for us mums and dads!
Adding just ONE thing from this list will put some extra $$ into the pocket of an S.A owned small business for Christmas and that’s a win/win for everyone right?
Base. Bikes
South Australian owned and operated, this family business located in the Adelaide Hills offers fabulous lightweight, quality kids bikes that will take your little one from balance bikes for the 2 year olds right up to the 20 inch option for the 8 year olds.
Ready to ride just about straight out of the box (no messing around trying to get the brakes to work), with a unique low design to cater for little ones and handbrakes ideally suited for tiny hands, we have found this to be a fabulous option for the younger kids bike market.
order online below
www.basebikes.com.au
One of a Kind Finds at Have you Met Charlie?
Looking for a one stop shop where you can find the perfect gift for your kids, your family, your teacher and your best friend. Look no further than the colourful walls of Adelaide store Have You Met Charlie?
They proudly support independant makers, creators and quirky brands and you’re sure to find something unique to give this year (and pick up the perfect card too!)
Around half of the products you’ll find here are made right here in South Oz too, so you’re supporting a local store that supports other local small businesses. WIN/WIN we think so!
Just be warned, you’re very likely to walk out with a few little treats for yourself too…..
Have You Met Charlie have two stores in Adelaide. One in Adelaide Arcade and one at Jetty Rd, Brighton
Or you can shop online at haveyoumetcharlie.com
Haigh’s Christmas Collection
It’s no secret – we’re massive Haigh’s lovers around here!
From their iconic chocolate frogs to those dreamy, creamy truffles, every bite feels like a treat made just for us. Haigh’s has a way of making every holiday, celebration, or even a random Tuesday feel extra special. And with their Christmas collection looking as delicious as ever (seriously, how cute is that little reindeer?!), we’re all about gifting…. and maybe keeping a few for ourselves.
Mud Kitchen
This mud kitchen from The Crafty Beardsman is the perfect shared Christmas gift for siblings or friends who love outdoor adventures!
It’s big enough for multiple kids to play together, whether they’re teaming up to create the ultimate mud pie or having a “bake-off” with flower potions. Not only does it encourage teamwork and creativity, but it also supports a local craftsman, Matt who puts heart and care into every piece.
A sturdy, well-made gift that will keep kids entertained for years
We love ours!
Personalised Canvases from ArtVibe
We discovered ArtVibe earlier this year and think their hand-drawn personalised canvases are the PERFECT Christmas gift this year!
The kids will love seeing their name as part of a funky design and best of all, they will be able to spend hours colouring it in and have a fantastic keepsake to hang on the wall – we think it’s the perfect summer school holiday activity!
Free As a Bird Kites
Want a gift that won’t cost the earth and guarantee’s to get your family outdoors and moving? We love Free As a Bird Kites! So simple. So fun. This little local business can hook you up with something small and easy for the youngest kids or something a bit bigger and more advanced for the older kids and parents. You won’t find them in a shop front, although you can often find them around local Adelaide markets. Take a scroll over their Facebook albums where you will find prices and details on all kinds of kites, single line, double line, stunt kites, parafoils, flags and wind socks. Then you can either email them or DM them or phone them and sort out a purchase. Easy as. Priced from as little as $20.
Phone: 0413 953 653 | Email: freeasabirdkites@gmail.com
Helen’s Mini Worlds
Helen’s Mini Worlds is a beautiful store in Prospect where you can buy indoor plants, giftware or best of all – have a go on their Make Your Own Terrarium Station and make your own Terrarium to gift with love!
They have a huge range of products to suit just about anyone!
Eco Art & Craft
If arts and crafts are on your Christmas shopping list this year consider shopping local and buying online from Eco Art and Craft.
Their gorgeous range of crayons, paints and craft kits are eco friendly, plant based and non toxic. The colour pigments are pure botanical and both the crayons and paint are coloured with plants, vegetables, roots, spices and flowers. All of the art materials are food grade and taste safe. No primary colours here just beautiful natural shades to make those special artworks.
Pick up a crayon pack, powdered paint starter kit or even an Eco Christmas Craft Kit.
Get 20% off storewide using the code KIA20
www.ecocrayons.com.au
Kytons Bakery
If you have a sweet tooth in the family, why not grab them something delicious from Kytons Bakery to wake up to on Christmas morning?
They have some great options in their Christmas range, including their Choc Chip Santa Houses (delicious AND fun to make!), fruit cake, Christmas pudding and star cookies, or of course you can grab something from their traditional range such as their famous lamingtons!
The way to someone’e heart is through their stomach right? There’s no better option than Kytons at Christmas! Yum.
Check out the range via their website and pickup your goodies at their Edwardstown bakery.
Paint Your Own Christmas Cookies from Artisan Delights
We stumbled upon Artisan Delights at the Royal Adelaide Show and the kids just HAD to take home one of their paint your own cookies – they absolutely loved it so we were thrilled to learn that they were also putting together festive paint your own cookie kits for Christmas!
These are a 3 in 1 present – it’s something fun for the kids to unwrap, they will be occupied for awhile while they create their masterpieces and they have a delicious snack at the end!
The kids come with the cookies and special textas to do the colouring in.
Click here to order from Artisan Delights.
(They are also available from selected Foodland stores and a couple of cafes in Adelaide, check out their website for info.)
Play Pouch
OK here’s a gift that you’ll love just as much as the kids! Play Pouch will be your storage saviour in 2025.
Not only a brilliant solution for those endless LEGO® bricks lying around the house, a Play Pouch is also great for dolls, toy cars, train sets, arts and crafts pretty much anything you’re sick of stepping on or over! We really love the Barbie Play Pouch which is big enough for Barbie, all of her friends, the car AND all of her accessories…..all packed away together in one place.
Play Pouch are made from durable materials with a range of colours and prints including Barbie®, Hot Wheels®, Fisher Price®Little People®and Thomas & Friends TM.
Play more and pack up less! Sounds like a great idea to us!
Shop online at www.playpouch.com.au
Spread Kindness with The Pass It On Series
The Pass It On Series was created by Daniella & Vince – two talented South Aussies with a passion for spreading kindness and encouraging others to ‘pass it on!’.
They have self published three beautiful children’s books that will make the perfect Christmas gift this year – ‘Nonna Lives Here‘ explores the hard to talk about topic of death in a beautiful way for children to understand, ‘A Piece Of Happy‘ encourages children to think about others and what they can do to make others happy and their latest book ‘A Sprinkle Of Kindness‘ serves as a sister book to ‘A Piece Of Happy‘ to get kids thinking about being kind to others.
These books are beautifully written with powerful messages and their stunning illustrations make reading them an absolute delight for people of all ages. After all, we can always use a reminder to be a bit kinder, right?
Grab them online here and be sure to also check out their range of bookmarks, poem cards and insprirational quote cards.
Ugly Swan Scream Free Brushes
Ugly Swan Scream-Free Brushes gently detangle hair on even the most sensitive scalps. Uniquely designed for Ugly Swan with natural boar bristles that ease your natural scalp oils down to condition your hair while soft, large-dipped nylon pins detangle without scratching or pulling on the scalp. Designed by three talented Adelaide Mums, these brushes are absolutley sensational and loved by every one who tries them. If you know, you know. Grab a pack for Christmas!
@Lenswood Pick Your Own Apples Gift Voucher
Gift your family the gift of experience this Christmas. Get them out in the Adelaide Hills, soaking up the serenity and learning about where their food comes from.
Get them picking their own apples with the family!
Entry for 4 people +
4kg of apples
= $39 (BYO bag)
This includes all of the farm inclusions, Apple Row Mini Golf, Kids Scavenger Hunt, Tractors to play on, Learn about how apples are grown, Sandpit and with more inclusions always being added. AND an onsite Cafe for locally produced lunch items!
@Lenswood Pick Your Own will even send out your voucher to your loved one and can write a personalised special message if requested.
@Lenswood has easy parking, their own permanent toilets (no gross port-a-loos), fresh apple juice food and coffee for the adults. And they’re dog friendly too!
Order online at
www.atlenswood.com.au/lenswood-packages-and-gift-vouchers
Tagsy Shoe Kits
Tagsy shoes kits are a sure hit present for your older kits! Buy them a kit and let them go to town decorating their own shoes – how creative can they be?
Tagsy run birthday parties and workshops but you can also buy the kits directly from them which is a great way to support a local SA business, have a great present for the kids to open on Christmas morning AND keep them occupied for a few hours in the holidays while their create their masterpices. AND they will have a brand new pair of shoes to wear. Winning all round!
Riverbalms
This is the perfect gift for a teen or tween – locally made lip balms!
Riverbalms are made with all natural ingredients and come in a range of scents. They are completely plastic free too, all packaging is able to be composted, repurposed or recycled.
Riverbalms also do some lovely gift packs with multiple lip balms or even soaps – perfect for a stocking filler!
Grab yours Riverbalm lip balms via this link.
Bazinga Trading Cards & Collectibles
If you haven’t yet visited this hidden gem in Munno Para and now in the Barossa, put it on your Christmas shopping schedule now!
Whether you have a sports fan, movie geek or gamer in the house, you’ll find something unique at Bazinga to fill their Christmas stocking with! They stock a huge range of trading cards, merchandise, memorabilia, funko pops and other novelties.
While you are there, have a go on the arcade games!
Check out their website for products and opening hours.
Applause Activewear
The cutest active wear for active kids! Applause Activewear is a local Adelaide brand that celebrates and applauds vibrant and active kids!
They have matching active wear in some really cool patterns, they wash brilliantly and are made to last.
Menz Gifting
Personally, I would be pretty stoked to wake up to find Fruchocs or any of the delicious Menz products in my Christmas stocking!! They have made Christmas easy with their range of Gift Boxes & gift ideas.
Whether the sweet tooth in your life loves Fruchocs, fruit & nut chocolate, Violet Crumbles or even Crown Mints, there is a gift pack for them! It’s not just yummy treats either – for true Fruchoc fans, you can buy a plushie Mr Fruchoc, a Fruchoc hat or even hoodie!
Scouts Ultimate Activity Guide
The Scouts SA Ultimate Activity Guide is set to keep kids entertained with over 200 pages of intriguing Scouts facts, top tips, recipes, experiments, jokes, games, real stories and activities spanning eight chapters including:
● Splashtastic – Dive into a world of our planet’s most special resource: Water!
● Adventures – Embrace the excitement of new experiences
● Extreme – Push the limits with thrill seeking activities.
● Construct & Create – If you can dream it, you can build it!
● Camp it Out – The essentials of camping and enjoying the outdoors.
● Community – Give and gain as you interact with like-minded groups.
● Creativity – Get creative and build the world around you.
● Our Environment – Reasons we should give back to our environment.
$34.95 available online here
Willow Bay
Here’s an Adelaide owned business where you can shop online for the whole family. Willow Bay Australia are a female owned, South Australian brand with a great and functional range of gym bags, every day totes, latptop bags, vintage-inspired designs and even a best-selling nappy bag.
Their signature and washable neoprene fabric is used throughout most of their bag designs, with other fabrics like vegan leather also used.
They also have a very cute little kids range, we have the iPad which has been fantastic.
Shop online at www.willowbayaustralia.com.au
The Goodside Project
A passionately South Australian, sustainable and environment focused business, that uses recycled plastic to make your favourite beach products – thongs, towels and kid ponchos.
The Goodside Project thongs come in 7 different colours and in slender and regular sizing. Each pair sold funds the removal of up to a kilo of plastic from the ocean and our blue thongs sponsor The Great Barrier Reef Foundation. TGP towels and ponchos are made with 13 recycled plastic bottles, dislike the sand, absorb 7 times their weight in water and will dry 10 times quicker than a standard cotton towel. Plus they come with a free water proof bag for the big towel and waterproof backpack for the kids poncho.
Not only do they work with recycled plastic, they use only sustainable and biodegradable packaging and their postal service is the first 100% carbon neutral delivery company.
They also upcycle. So when our thongs are tired they will recycle them to be made into new thongs.
Shop online at
www.thegoodside.com.au
When in doubt… get them chocolate!
South Australia is home to HEAPS of chocolatiers so it just makes sense to grab some chocolates for your favourite people from your favourite chocolate producer at Christmas time!
We have done a wrap up of all of the best chocolate to be found in Adelaide and beyond – many do special chocolate gift packs or boxes, so click below and grab something sweet. And be sure to treat yourself too!
Oskars Wooden Ark
Oskar’s Wooden Ark are an Adelaide based online store who sell the most divine range of high quality and handmade educational wooden toys including building blocks, creative puzzles, a huge range of gorgeous hand carved animal figures, toys that rattle and for grasping, stacking, sorting, teddy bears that become family heirlooms and so much more. Be prepared to spend a LONG time gushing on their website, it’s full of beautiful gift ideas that will last a lifetime.
Buy from a Kidpreneur!
Adelaide has some talented future business leaders who are already running their own businesses at the age of 8 years old! Amazing!
Consider shopping from one of these Kidpreneurs this Christmas – you’ll be supporting their dreams, plus so many of them donate a percentage of their profits to charity. How great is that?!
Click here to read our Kidpreneur feature – it includes everything from candles to earrings, clothing, lip balms and even toilet sprays!
Adelaide Range Gift Cards from Unseasoned Greetings
From things that make us laugh to simply photos that we love, these cards are designed to celebrate what it means to be from Adelaide and the little things that make it so unique.
From “We think you’re the Malls Balls” to “Murray Christmas” and featuring Adelaide icons like the Giant Rocking Horse, Rundle Mall pigeons and Colonel Light these cards are the perfect addition to your local gift.
Printed in South Australia. Next day dispatch on all cards.
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