We’ve done some major digging to hand-select the best gifts for preschool graduation for your little one. This adorable, entertaining, and albeit bittersweet milestone is a precious time for your family to celebrate your littlest graduate on their first year of schooling.
Celebrating your little preschool graduate is certainly an emotional and joyous time! After all, they are moving up the big kid ladder and getting ready for the next stage – elementary school.
Now that the preschool chapter is closing and a new world of learning and opportunity awaits, we have chosen the absolute best preschool graduation gifts. Celebrate with books about the joys of kindergarten, a fun new board game that the whole family can play together, or even a special watch to help teach the concept of time for your growing kiddo.
Graduation Gifts for Preschoolers
The Best Books for Pre-K Graduation
Books hold such powerful and inspirational messages – perfect for sharing the excitement of what awaits us with our youngest readers. These books are wonderful messages of love and celebration and are truly a treasure.
Kindergarten, Here I Come! by D.J. Steinberg
Those first-day jitters will be a thing of the past after reading this adorable book about the exciting transition to kindergarten. With fun poems, stickers, and charming illustrations, it’s an ideal preschool graduation gift!
The Wonderful Things You Will Be by Emily Winfield Martin
This lovely rhyming story holds such a loving message of support and never-ending love for our precious little ones. The soothing watercolor illustrations are so captivating and the word choice is perfect for young children. This book encourages the time-old question of “What would you like to be when you grow up?” in the most wonderful child-centered way.
And Off You Go To Change the World by Ashten Evans
If you are looking for a memento or a special book to celebrate your child, this is THE one. This book spotlights the important work of a child (building with blocks, dramatic play, and daydreaming) while giving mention of the amazing things they will become. It’s perfect for pre-k or kindergarten graduation gifts and will become a favorite that your child will treasure for many years.
If you are looking for more books for your preschooler to enjoy, check out friendship books for kids, back-to-school books, and powerful books that celebrate and accept differences.
And if you are looking for fantastic books to help your little one on the path to reading, check out these books that help teach reading and letter sounds.
The Best Board Games and Puzzles for Pre-K Graduation
These board games are full of fun, learning, and offer plenty of practice for those much-needed social and cooperative skills. They’re fantastic graduation gifts for preschool! Board games are a great way to add a little challenge to their day and give them a boost of self-esteem and a sense of belonging. Check out these board games perfect for preschoolers and their family members!
Zingo
Zingo! is such a fun matching game that is perfect for a pre-k graduation gift. The concept is much like Bingo, where players have to fill their card with the matching item the “Zinger” spits out, but it’s pictures and words instead of numbers. This family-friendly game will have your future kindergartener begging you to play!
Stack Up!
With three levels of play, this engaging stacking game grows with your preschooler! We love a cooperative game for preschoolers, especially as they head off to kindergarten where working together is a necessary skills and a daily occurrence. This preschool graduation gift will soon become a favorite!
The Floor is Lava
Preschoolers love to pretend, be silly, and active – and this game checks all the boxes! Help build their gross motor skills and have a blast while doing it. Lay out the colored “rocks” and make sure you don’t touch the lava as you jump or game over! This is a pre-k gift that will be played over and over!
Want even more ideas or have a game lover? We’ve got you covered with the best board games for kids, 20+ best family games, and games for preschool that teach!
Perplexus Rookie
These challenging but oh-so-fun puzzles are great for your little STEM learner! Simply twist, flip, rotate, and spin the sphere to move the shiny silver ball along the path. With many levels of difficulty, your graduating preschooler will love challenging themselves with these tricky obstacles without falling off the track!
The Best Preschool Graduation Gifts that Teach
There are so many options for engaging learning games for young children these days. We’ve picked the learning gifts that offer endless ways to play and encourage creativity and critical thinking. As a bonus, these Pre-K graduation gift ideas will help your preschooler prepare for their days in kindergarten!
Time Teacher Watches for Kids
Watches make a perfect preschool or kindergarten graduation gift, and these particular ones are simply fantastic!
The hours are separated by colors and make learning to tell time so much easier! See all the different designs over at Preschool Collection and read about analog watches for kids.
If you need a watch that’s a bit simpler, they also have another design that is brilliant. With bright colors and adorable animals, this watch helps little ones begin to understand the concept of time in a concrete way. Check out our blog post all about these perfect preschool watches!
Amazon Fire Tablet
An ideal first tablet for young children, the Amazon Fire includes parental controls, a hard shock-proof case, and loads of kid-friendly learning apps and books. It also includes a 2-year guarantee on accidents or breakage with a free replacement.
Screen-time is easily monitored, content can be filtered, and it even allows you to set learning and educational goals. Young kiddos LOVE it and it makes a great gift for your growing child and a lifesaver when it comes to family road trips or travel. This just might be your big ticket item for preschool and kindergarten gift ideas.
Magnetic Tiles
The magic of magnetic tiles is truly something amazing. Young children from three and up absolutely adore playing, building, creating, and crashing with these magnetic pieces that come in all shapes and sizes. The imagination runs wild and the only limit is what you can dream up! With lots of sets and combinations, these tiles will become a prized possession for years to come.
GeoSafari Jr. Talking Microscope
Your budding scientist is going to be over the moon about this preschool gift! This talking microscope comes with 60 images of plants and animals, along with narration about each up-close image from the one and only, Bindi Irwin. A great present for curious little minds!
Lego Kits – Lego Friends or Lego City
Legos are a timeless gift that encourages creativity, fine motor development, and perseverance. These Lego kits are perfect for boys or girls and there are endless sets to choose from! Young children feel so much excitement and pride when they are able to put together amazing structures using simple blocks. It’s the perfect preschool or kindergarten graduation gift!
Kids Art Easel
Nothing encourages creativity like an art easel! This easel has lots of different features including a dry erase board, chalkboard, magnetic side and is perfect for painting, as well. It comes with loads of storage, art supplies, and even painting cups so that paint spills become a thing of the past. Your preschooler will love their newfound art center and will certainly enjoy it for many years.
If you’re a teacher or a parent who wants to do something extra special for their graduate, don’t miss our graduation songs as well as our editable and printable graduation certificates and awards!
We certainly hope you have found the perfect gift for your preschool graduate! Drop a comment below and let us know how you chose to celebrate your soon-to-be-kindergartener!
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