20 Best Gifts for Siblings That Aren’t Wedgies

This is one of the rare sibling gifts that works well for kids, teens, adults, and the elderly. The party doesn’t really get started ’til they unwrap this bad boy, and once they do, said party don’t stop.

The KM300 connects to other devices and TVs via Bluetooth or a few cord options, and there’s a phone holder on top for convenience. Turn on the recording if you want to save your sibling’s performance for future blackmail… uhh, fond memories.

You can buy these Nerf Guns as sibling gifts for your kids, but let’s be real — haven’t you fantasized about shooting your sibling square in the butt at least once? Because they’ve most definitely thought about doing it to you, and you’re never too old to work out your problems with Nerf darts.

You get two blasters and six darts, which is just enough to annoy each other totally.

The key to buying the best sibling gifts for kids: Get something they can share, or else they’re going to be fighting over it nonstop. Hungry Hungry Hippos also has the advantage of letting children get all their rage out by smashing buttons, unlike Monopoly, which ends in physical confrontation 97% of the time.

If they love baseball and the open road, they’ll love this vegan leather-bound book, which will help them hatch a plan to see as many major league stadiums as they can in their lifetimes. Maybe you can even plan a trip together?

It has you collect information on each game you attend with things like “wild balls,” “attendance,” and selecting your picks for future hall of famers.

As a woman in her 40s who was recently mistaken for a woman in her 30s, I can attest that this red light wand works and lives up to all the hype. Our senior art director, Bridget Clegg, tested both this version and the first generation Solawave. And our beauty editor, Nicole Saunders, recommends it for supplementing skincare products like face serums and night creams.

It emits red light that penetrates the skin, rejuvenating cell growth. Consider it a great gift for a younger sibling who needs to be reminded that they, too, are getting old, and it shows. Or buy one for yourself instead, and let them gradually start looking like the older sibling.

Bonsai kits are a great gift for avid gardeners who need more projects to work on (there’s a lot of downtime when you’re watching grass grow), or for someone whose stress levels are completely out of control and need to calm the eff down. So everybody, really.

This kit puts it all together for you, with four seed varieties, pots, drip trays, fertilizer, and the like to make it easy to get results even with a black thumb.

This is such a cute gift for families that love sharing books, especially for a huge gaggle of brothers and sisters, or for a sibling that’s always forgetting to return them and needs a passive-aggressive reminder. (And an adorable one at that!) It has a date stamp, library return cards, ink blotter, and envelopes!

Okay so this is kinda cheating as far as gifts go — since you and your sibling may come from the same genetic pond, this is kinda a gift for yourself, too. But if you’re going to potentially uncover any long-buried family scandals, wouldn’t it be nice for the two of you to do it together?

They collect a saliva sample at home, mail it in, and get their results in a couple of months.

Croquet is the most dapper of all lawn games. Sure, you can wear a fancy ensemble when challenging your sibling to a game of cornhole, but they’ll probably just laugh at you. Show up dressed to the nines with a croquet challenge, however, and they can’t say a thing. They can either go buy a seersucker suit to rise to the occasion, or be forced to live with the fact they’re nowhere near as classy as you are.

This set comes with enough handsome wood mallets and all the other necessities for six people to play.

This good-looking wood-and-brass box has the potential to be a real tearjerker of a gift, provided you fill it with treasured mementos like family photographs or thoughtful letters. Or you can fill it with hundreds of spiders, which I suppose is also tear jerking in its own hilarious way.

This is another nice gift young siblings (or Swifties) can share, and the focus required to put tiny little beads on a string will likely keep them quiet for hours. (Just pray that neither of them drops said beads, because this set has 7,200 pieces.)

Robes are the quintessential gift for women whose personal lives are a total mystery to you, and everyone knows it. But if you give them an ultra-luxurious robe like this gorgeous silk number, they’ll forget all about that fact, because few things are as wonderful as being comfortable and lazy in your own home.

The problem with a lot of astrology-focused gifts is they look cheesy as hell, especially if they were born under one of the lame signs. (Not everyone gets to be something badass, like lions or scorpions.) However, these bold, modernist prints manage to make things like scales, water bearing, and virginity look unbelievably cool, which is a pretty impressive feat.

If your sibling is a crafter and doesn’t already own a Cricut machine, they’ve likely been dreaming about owning a Cricut machine, or even talking about Cricut machines incessantly in hopes that someone will get the hint and buy them one (cough senior editor Cat Bowen, cough). Why not be the hero that turns those dreams into reality so you never have to hear about them again?

It cuts and engraves a range of materials, and it can connect to other devices via Bluetooth for ease of use.

Here’s another gift that encourages siblings to share and play together, as it’s very difficult to pull off an entire puppet show solo. This lineup of felt cuties features many of the Old MacDonald mainstays. With that material, you will need to hand wash these puppets when they inevitably get grody.

Just remember that their puppet show will more than likely feature one-dimensional characters and a nonsensical plot line, so it may be best to work out some canned compliments ahead of time.

There comes a time in every adult’s life where they suddenly get very interested in birds. Maybe it’s because one of their siblings bought them a bird feeder to make their yard slightly more entertaining.

It’s fun looking at cute birds doing cute things, or squirrels dangling off the side of this flat, round feeder, holding on for dear life as they attempt to steal birdseed. And it looks better than those run-of-the-mill plastic towers.

You can make them a custom Viewmaster reel of all your favorite shots of the two of you together, or cherished photos from your childhood. Or tell them it’s something sentimental, and surprise them with a bunch of pictures of them picking their nose when they were a kid.

Remember going to Blockbuster with your siblings to fight over what to rent? Well now you guys can cuddle up on a couch, light this candle, and fight over what to stream, before ultimately deciding on nothing and spending the rest of the evening staring at your phones.

It actually has notes of (no joke) carpet fibers, dust, and VHS boxes, along with popcorn and sugar.

You could inspire your sibling to take up a brand new hobby! A hobby that will involve showing off their ever-increasing skills by routinely asking you to taste test chocolate!

Make sure you give them constructive feedback so they can make good use of the coconut, sea salt, coffee grinds, and dried strawberries (among other ingredients).

Continuing the genealogy thread of the Ancestry kit, this online class will teach them (or both of you!) to turn the story of your family into an illustrated map, much like the ones in fantasy novels and RPGs. Surely your history has been full of all sorts of adventures that deserve to be commemorated, like family vacations, weddings, and dragon attacks.