10 Best Mushroom Gift Ideas (2025)

Mushroom Christmas Tree Ornaments

There are some really adorable and beautiful mushroom ornaments out there. Mushroom-themed ornaments will add some woodland magic to your Christmas tree – these are excellent inexpensive mushroom gifts, too. Some are bright and attention-grabbing and will look wonderful sprinkled among the green Christmas tree branches. Others are more realistic, with muted colors that melt into the tree as a nice surprise for someone looking closely.

Mushroom Christmas tree ornaments come in many shapes, sizes, and styles. Here, we’ve featured a few of our favorites along with our reasons why. Which one is best for the mushroom lover in your life depends on what type of fungi fanatic they are — do they like cutesy, artsy, or more realistic?

Mushroom Puzzles

This collection of mushroom-themed puzzles is beautiful and they are a total joy to put together. They are 500-piece puzzles, perfect for kids’ attention spans and adults looking for a quicker puzzle. The photography is stunning and is sure to delight the mushroom lover in your life, especially if they’re also a puzzle fiend.

With the weather turning cold and with fewer opportunities to get out in the woods looking for actual mushrooms, these puzzles make an acceptable substitute. Plus, they’re a great indoor winter activity.

Coffee Cultivator Grow Kit

This mushroom gift idea is perfect for any coffee-drinking fungi fanatic because the end result is fresh, delicious mushrooms! And, it uses everyday coffee grounds waste to do this. The coffee grounds mushroom cultivator is a green gift idea that may earn you extra points with mushroom and nature enthusiasts, too.

Unlike traditional growing kits, these use spent coffee grounds as a nutritious growing medium for edible mushrooms. It’s very easy to set up and grow mushrooms with this kit, and it is great for kids or novice mushroom growers alike. It’s also an excellent gift for eco-conscious friends who love cooking with fresh ingredients.

The Little Book of Mushrooms: An Illustrated Guide to the Extraordinary Power of Mushrooms

We love this little book of mushrooms, like, a lot. It’s a cute almost pocketsize book with beautiful illustrations, history and information about the species. And, it has little extra interesting factoids and tidbits sprinkled throughout. It’s rather magical to read and look at the illustrations.

This book highlights 75 unique mushrooms around the world and includes interesting facts about their history, uses, and names. This book is a great resource for mushroom enthusiasts, cottage-core fans, or anyone who enjoys beautiful books about fungi. It’s not complicated or super science-y and is a great mushroom gift book for middle-school to high-school age kids as well.

**This is not a foraging or “in-the-field” book; it will not reliably help you identify the different species. If you’re looking for a foraging book, check out our guide The Best Mushroom Identification Books by Region and find the one that best suits where your foraging friend lives.

Organic Lion’s Mane Mushroom Outdoor Log Growing Kit

This lion’s mane outdoor growing kit is for any fungi enthusiast who is interested in learning about outdoor grow methods. It comes with every thing needed (except the log) and is a great introduction to growing mushrooms. It’s excellent for kids and adults, as a teaching method about fungi and how to have patience (this is not a quick growing species)!

Lion’s mane is one of the top edible mushroom species. It has a slightly seafood-like taste and dense texture. It is widely regarded as one of the best mushrooms, and having it growing in your backyard would be incredible for any fungi enthusiast.

For more information and choices on growing kits, check out our guide, Mushroom Grow Kits: The Ultimate Guide

Wild Mushrooms: A Cookbook and Foraging Guide

If you’ve got a friend or relative who loves cooking wild mushrooms, this is the book for them. Finding the wild mushrooms is only half the battle; then you’ve got to cook them properly to enjoy their full and unique flavor. Not all mushrooms should be cooked the same. This book is a indispensable and creative guide to highlighting foraged mushrooms in all sorts of dishes.

This book has a wide variety of recipes that include pickling, making rich duxelles, soups, salads, and even mushroom teas, tinctures, jams, and ice cream. There are tons of tips and extra information that makes this book excellent for both avid mushroom lovers to those just starting to explore fungi.

Questionable Morels Mug

Every mushroom enthusiast (and especially morel devotees) loves a little fungi humor and this questionable morels mug is it.  It is the perfect gift for your favorite mushroom forager seeking morels and morals — it’ll make their mushroom day. It’s also practical to drink chaga tea from, or a strong hot toddy after a rough day of foraging!

Mushroom Foraging Knife

There are a lot of options out there for mushroom foraging knives, and we like the simple, high quality ones made by Opinel. They have a no-fuss design, just a simple, effective, easy to carry knife that does the job well. This knife will cut through most mushrooms with ease to make foraging go smooth as butter.

Even if your mushroom foraging friend or family member already has a knife, there is always room for more (ask a forager how many knives they’ve lost over the years…:/). This is one of the best mushroom gift ideas, as any forager will love it. And this one is super simple to throw in the pack or pants pocket. We highly recommend painting the handle a bright color or tying something around it!

Mycelia Board Game

The Mycelia board game is a wonderful tribute to fungi, with beautiful, accurate botanical-style illustrations of over 69 wild mushrooms. It is also an interesting and fun game to play. It’s rated for ages 10+ and is a favorite or adults and kids alike. If you’ve got a board gamer friend or family member, this fungi focused one is a must.

Mycelia is a tactical game where players compete to build their own mushroom kingdom. Players experience the life cycle of fungi, growing mushrooms for points, sporing them to expand their mycelial network, and allowing them to decay to unlock special actions.

Mushroom Measuring Spoons

If your foraging friend likes the whimsical, these mushroom measuring spoons are something special. Each measurement is a different species and beautifully crafted. They’re also handmade in Oregon, USA out of lead-free pewter and polished to a fine luster. These measuring spoons are made to last!

Everyone needs a set of measuring spoons, so not only are these a beautiful kitchen enhancement, they’re also super practical. For cooks and bakers, these will get used a lot. Even people who don’t cook often will get great joy pulling these measuring spoons out to measure their coffee or sugar. Heck, it may even inspire them to do more baking! Pair the measuring spoons with the cookbook listed above and you’ll make your fungi friend’s holiday season!