After scouring toy stores, game outlets, booksellers, and the internet for unique gifts that’ll provide kids with some old-fashioned (i.e., screen-free) fun while challenging developing minds, we are pleased to present 10 of 2019’s most Earth-conscious—and awesome—gifts for green-minded kids of all ages.

A recent NPR poll revealed that 80 percent of parents wish their kids were actively learning about climate change. Enter Adventerra Games, a collection of intricately designed board games ($25 each)—including WaterGame, Recycle Rally, PowerHaus (all ages 7+), and Global Warning (ages 10+, pictured), designed to help kids develop carbon-footprint-minimizing habits. The objectives, respectively, are to save maximal community water from a water monster, clean up a town overflowing with garbage, reduce energy waste, and keep the global warming index minimal. The winner? Why, the biggest planetary superhero, of course.

Fact: Kids love stickers. The good news is they’re just as into the reusable kind, which don’t generate any added paper or plastic waste. It's why the craft mavens behind Ooly made four sets of 60 mess-free, durable Play Again stickers ($13 each). Themes include dragons, mermaids, and fairy tales, and each set comes with play boards on which to create scenes. The idea is to encourage kids to reuse their wares to tell (and innovate on) visual stories.

Designed to teach kids as young as five how to code, this starter kit from Robo Wunderkind ($179) turns every child into an inventor. Through a combination of physical hardware (blocks kids can snap together and turn into robots) and software, youngsters can construct and program a range of robotic tools—engaging in experiential, cooperative, and play-based learning that'll help prepare them for an increasingly STEM-oriented job market. The versatile kit, used in many school curricula and designed to grow with kids, can help teach disciplines including math and language—and its most advanced users will even be able to use it to write their own code. 

Teach kids to tune into the natural world with help from Put On Your Owl Eyes ($17), a fetching storybook designed for the 8-to-13-year-old set. Author and environmental educator Devin Franklin reveals how to move through nature as stealthily as a fox, grasp the basics of bird language, create habitat maps, and carve out “sit spots”: accessible outdoor spaces where budding naturalists can stop, observe, and commune with the area's flora and fauna. This interactive guidebook also comes with prompts and write-in spaces designed for journaling, mapping, and tracking wildlife.

A shiny new bike or scooter is always an under-the-tree hit. But we’re going to up the ante and suggest you spend time with your kid, helping them to build their own sweet ride. Infento offers scooter- and bike-building kits (starting at $199) designed to ignite creativity while imparting technical skills. The best part is, as kids grow, they can disassemble and rebuild bigger, more advanced rides, thus stopping toy waste in its tracks.

How about some screen-free, alfresco fun for kids, tweens, and teens? You know what—make it glow-in-the-dark too! Starlux designs family-friendly “glow-based” outdoor games to play in the evening, when kids are apt to turn to devices for entertainment. Check out four games for four to 10+ players, including Capture the Flag ($60, which comes with 40 reusable light-up pieces for up to 20 players) and Wizards & Werewolves (pictured, $40). And yes, batteries are very much included.

Got any budding little explorers on your list? The cartographer artist behind GeoJango makes maps that can be custom-tailored with titles, fonts, and framing options. The popular range of kids’ maps ($149) come with multicolored push pins to help youngsters track where they’ve traveled and where they hope to explore.

OK, so this may be more of a gift for tots’ parents, but kids are also bound to love the vibrant, reusable dinnerware from Repurpose, which features 100 percent compostable, plant-based single-use dining items (cutlery, straws, plates), and a line of nontoxic reusable goods free of BPAs, phthalates, PVC, and PBDEs. The Kids’ Plastic-Free Dinner Set ($30) is durable, plant-based, microwave- and dishwasher-safe, and designed by a mom. Bon appetit.

A plush stuffed animal is pretty much a guaranteed hit come gift o'clock. Check out Axol & Friends, which creates them in the image of rare and endangered species (and from ecofriendly materials too). The organization (which also makes wildlife-themed storybooks, enamel pins, and backpacks) also channels a portion of every toy sold into nonprofit programs that empower youths to become activists and donates plushies to kids in need. Stuffed animals start at $19.

There’s nothing quite like being a tween or teen just whetting one's palate for the vast, wild, and weird wonders of the world. Good news for wanderlusters old and young: Atlas Obscura recently came out with a second edition ($38) of its popular compendium, An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Hidden Wonders. Containing 120 new entries about curious, bizarre, and mysterious places around the globe, this version includes a full-color road trip map and a dream trip itinerary. Neil Gaiman says it’s a “joy to read and reread,” and Sierra staffers describe it as “marvelously, delightfully bizarre.”