9 Christmas Gifts To Buy at Five Below If You Want To Skip the Gift Cards This Year

How far could $25 take you with buying Christmas presents? You could put this money toward buying one gift card valued at $25. Or, you could buy up to five gifts from Five Below that include a mix of games, self-care essentials and crafting playsets.

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Did we just sell you on fun gifts instead of a gift card? GOBankingRates checked out some of Five Below’s bestselling gifts and picked nine of our favorites. Start shopping now for these Five Below presents.

• Price: $5

You might not add any one gift to your shopping cart faster than the Build Your Own Gumball Machine. Inside, you’ll find all of the pieces necessary to build a gumball machine, along with stickers to decorate the machine once it’s complete. 

Gumballs are not included. However, Five Below does sell gumballs, including those from the Dubble Bubble brand, at $2 per pack. Grab a few sleeves before heading to checkout so you can fill up the machine. This toy is recommended for children ages 6 and up.

• Price: $5

Let the kiddos become “bakers” for the day with the Play-Doh kitchen creations creatin’ cakes playset. 

For just $5, you’ll receive all the necessary tools to bake tiered cakes and two dual color Play-Doh clays in pink, blue, green and white colors. This toy is recommended for children ages three and up.

• Price: $5

Teach the girls how to make friendship bracelets with the Bestie bracelet studio set. 

Five Below shoppers get tons of bang for their buck as this set makes more than 30 bracelets. Put on some of your favorite music and get all your BFFs together for hours of creative fun. This bracelet set does contain a choking hazard and is recommended for children ages 6 and up.

• Price: $5

Young sports enthusiasts will love receiving the Franklin football as a Christmas gift. 

This junior-size football is just the right size for playing a few games of football out in the backyard or at the park with family and friends. Each football is sold deflated and requires a football pump and needle to fully inflate.

• Price: $25

The standing pool table may be the most expensive item in this roundup, but it’s well worth the money spent if you’re looking for an inexpensive pool table this holiday season.

From the Five Beyond collection, this pool table can be used for more than pool. Once set up, it can be an air hockey table, a 3-in-1 game table and more fun ideas for your game/rec room. Adult assembly is required and this table is recommended for ages 8 and up.

• Price: $5

Spend your next snow day pampering yourself with Spa Life’s self-care gift set. 

For $5, you’ll receive a hydrating lip mask, soothing facial mask, one pair of brightening under eye masks, one pair of hand masks and one pair of smoothing foot masks. The perfect present to send along in a college student care package or anyone who could use a self-care treat.

• Price: $5

A set of 12 sparkly nail polishes for $5? Definitely add it to your Five Below shopping cart.

Smoke & Mirrors nail polish set is a great gift to give all of the beauty lovers in your life or to break up and add to stockings as stocking stuffers. (Or do both at this price.)

• Price: $5

Spend Christmas Day with family or friends dividing into teams for a game of Pictionary. Each game set comes with a stack of card prompts, one die, two score trackers and markers and erasable boards to etch out your sketches. See which team gets the most answers right — and which sketches get the most hilarious guesses.

• Price: $5

Teach kids, teens and even adults the strategic game of chess.

Each set comes complete with 32 wooden pieces, a board and a set of instructions. At $5 each, it’s also a little cheaper to shop at Five Below than it would be at a big-box retailer. Walmart, for example, carries the Spin Master Games chess set for $9.97. Five Below shoppers would be able to buy two chess sets at that price.

Editor’s note: Prices and availability are accurate as of Dec. 17, 2024, and are subject to change.