You can find the best ethical gifts this festive season inside our Gift Guide. Each item has been carefully chosen for its positive impact on the world. We've chosen our top 12 favourite gifts here.
You can download your interactive PDF guide at the bottom of the page.
1. Famileo Family Newspaper
We love this idea for sharing those moments in life with family members. Famileo is a monthly personalised newspaper that is sent directly to grandparents' postbox. It's a simple way to keep them connected to the family, and to preserve precious memories. Using the Famileo app or website, the whole family independently share messages and photos in just a few clicks. Famileo takes care of the rest. From £5.99 a month famileo.com
2. Sheepskin Baby Rugs
A lovely gift for babies, luxuriously soft and crafted with care. Made from high-grade merino lambskin, these rugs are a cosy addition to any nursery, perfect for playtime, nap time, or any time. From £89 baababy.co.uk
3. 2025 Children’s Almanac
The perfect gift for children to enjoy the whole year round! A beautifully illustrated month-by-month guide on everything from nature and astronomy, to sports, science, technology, the world and more. Discover fascinating facts, try out activities, and celebrate festivals, world holidays and other special events. £12.99 harpercollins.co.uk
4. Orchard Toys Christmas Eve Box
Christmas fun boxed up in one lovely package. The Reindeer Race game gets you racing to help reindeer on the way from the North Pole. There's also a 25-piece festive jigsaw puzzle and a 12-page activity book set. The perfect advent or Christmas Eve gift! £14.00 orchardtoys.com
5. Voxblock Screen Free Audio Player
Voxblock is a screen-free audiobook player that gives children full control. With no wifi or downloads needed, the audiobooks just snap into place. Just press play and go! With hundreds of books to choose a starter pack with player and a book for £59.99 voxblock.co.uk
6. FSC® Certified Activity Cube
Little ones will be entertained for hours with this FSC® Certified Wooden Activity Cube. Each of the four sides is packed full of different activities to help babies learn through educational play. Activities include: a shape sorter, a bead coaster, wooden cogs and much more. This toy is from the new Simply Scandi Range. £64.99 bigjigstoy.co.uk
7. Tales from Muggleswick Wood
Get ready to discover the timeless magic of Muggleswick Wood in this beautiful treasury of five interlinked bedtime stories. From fairy revels and mysterious kelpies, to troublesome moles and wishing beetles, the wood is a place of magic, humour and adventure – all brought to life in flawless rhyme that celebrates the ancient beauty of the English countryside. This collection of five classic, heartfelt stories by Vicky Cowie, with stunning illustrations by Charlie Mackesy, can be treasured for generations to come. This beautiful hardback treasury of classic stories is the perfect gift, ideal for anyone, young or old, to read at bedtime. £14 bloomsbury.com
8. Osborne Big Book of Facts
Be the ultimate know-it-all with this book containing more than 5,000 facts! A must-have for any curious mind, this book is packed with fascinating facts, and will take you on a thrilling journey through the world of science, history, geography and so much more. Read from cover to cover, or dip in and out at random, to find out about the human body, animals, the environment and technology, and discover mind-expanding facts on every page. Brilliant, bold design makes complex and wide-ranging information easy to understand and absorb. £15.99 usborne.com
9. First Pedal Bike
A bike is not just for Christmas, it's a gateway for a lifetime of freedom, adventure and fun. We love the first pedal bikes from Frog Bikes, they are high-quality, lightweight, durable and built sustainably. £310 frogbikes.com
10. Woodland Trail Treehouse
An ideal toy to enhance your child's imaginative small world play. This 3 storey Woodland Trail Tree House will allow your child to unlock their creativity and innovation. Included with the set are small wooden ladders and a small wooden bird to allow your child to create an endless amount of creative stories. Easy to assemble, the deeply lasered foliage layers provide an interesting tactile element, and the ladders can be used to link each layer through holes and gaps. £31.99 tickit.co.uk
11. Klean Kanteen Kid’s Bottle
This spill-proof sippy cap with dust cover has a handy swivel metal loop so it can be easily attached to a bag. Designed to play hard, these bottles are durable and safe for people and planet. The narrow design means it's easy to grip and fits little hands perfectly. This has interchangeable caps for easy transition as kids grow up, providing a lifetime of use, from baby bottle to sippy to sports bottle at school. From £16.95 kleankanteen.co.uk
12. The Green Parent magazine subscription
Get a year's worth of positive news delivered! Published for over 20 years and 122 editions in, we're just as passionate today about sharing positive stories on raising wildlings and free-thinkers. You can subscribe to the print edition here, or if digital is more your thing, then you can get every copy sent to your device on launch day and access the full archive here.
