The ultimate collection of high school graduation gifts! Graduation gifts for her, for him, or really anyone! Everything from printable graduation cards you can fill with money to DIY graduation gifts you can make yourself!
And of course if you want something a bit easier, the best graduation gifts you can buy for any age graduation – high school, college, or even those little kindergarteners!
2021 High School Graduation Gift Ideas
I was hoping that last year was going to be the only year ever without traditional graduation parties and graduation celebrations. Doesn’t look that way with where we’re at in 2021.
While we may not have the same celebrations as normal that doesn’t mean you can’t still give a great graduation gift!
These are the best high school graduation gifts you can make, buy, and give in 2021! And anyone graduating this year needs a good gift with what they’ve been through!
This list is mostly geared toward high school graduation gifts but you could totally use any of these for college graduation as well. Or just change them up a bit to work for graduations of other ages!
Personalized Graduation Gifts
Let’s get this graduation party started with some of my favorite personalized graduation gifts. These are ones that you can either make yourself or buy and have them personalized for your graduate. Personalize with a quote, their graduation year, their name – whatever you want!
These type of high school graduation gifts are special because they tell the grad you are thinking of them specifically, not just getting everyone the same thing!
Even if you don’t actually use it, having all of your t-shirts in one place to remember those memories is seriously amazing. I have one that I love! Make one for your graduate using all their high school shirts (the ones they don’t wear) with this easy DIY tutorial from Stars for Streetlights.
Money High School Graduation Gifts
I said it once before but most graduates would be extremely happy to get some sort of money or gift card. Here are some more fun ways to give money or gift cards!
Graduation Gift baskets
I love gift baskets because they’re a great way to gift personalized items, be clever, and still give the graduate things that they’ll want! These are some of the best graduation gift basket ideas I could find!
You could also just put together a college care package that includes laundry items and other goodies!
DIY Graduation Gifts
When in doubt, money and gift cards always make great graduation gifts. Even if you wouldn’t regularly give someone money or a gift card because it’s not personal enough, graduation is the perfect time for it. Those graduates are going to be on their own soon and money and gift cards can really make a difference as they’re on their own!
More Creative Gift Ideas
- You’ve been booed ideas – all sorts of creative gifts to give along with Halloween boo signs!
- 30th birthday gift ideas – 30 creative ideas to give to someone turning 30 (not too far after graduation!).
- Orange gift tags – orange you glad you’re my mom, my teacher, my friend – all sorts of fun orange themed gift ideas!
- Date night cards – gift an entire year’s worth of dates in this fun DIY gift idea! Plus over 150 date night ideas!
- Candy gram ideas – all sorts of fun ideas for giving someone sweet treats (with tons of fun sayings!).
Michele says
I want to do a virtual advice tree, how would you suggest I do that? (Considering we’re social distancing right now!)
BritniV says
Have friends and family email you and then you can print them out and add them to the tree or you can put them in a picture binder so they can take those messages with them to college.
Tom Biehn says
Choosing the right graduation gifts for graduates is really a hard task. What gift should we give, whether they like it or not, what are their preferences! There are many other questions like these that keep one indecisive or confused about which gift to choose. I really like your gifting ideas. Especially the ideas of graduation money cakes instead of giving old school actual cake. Graduation money cakes will be appreciated by the graduates for years because money is the thing that a graduate will need most at that time. Great article!
BritniV says
thank you!