Looking for a unique gift for the teen in your life—or maybe just a fun little treat for yourself? You’re in the right place. We’ve rounded up some of the best subscription boxes for teens and young adults, covering everything from creativity to curiosity, spirituality to snacks.
Whether you’re shopping for an artsy teen who’d love a Doodle Crate or Tinker Crate project, a budding adventurer who’s all about the mystery and science in the MATTER box, or someone who finds peace through crystals and self-care with something like the Mindful Box—this list has something for them.
We’ve also included quirky picks for the offbeat ones, socially conscious boxes that give back, and even classics like Book of the Month for bookworms who want to stay ahead of the literary curve. Read on to find one they’ll actually be excited to open every month.
BEST SUBSCRIPTION BOXES FOR TEENS
Mystery Toy Box
Great for: The teen who’s into POPMART toys and blind boxes.
If your teen has gotten sucked into the blind box, collectible toys, or Labubu crazy, this Mystery Toy Box subscription will be right up their alley. Each month, you’ll get 5–8 premium toys from cult-favorite brands like Tokidoki, Kidrobot, Funko, Superplastic, and POPMART—no repeats, ever.
Every box is valued at over $65 and makes for a fun care package for collectors or anyone who just wants something cool to unbox. Subscribers also get exclusive discounts at Mindzai Toy Shop, which makes it a smart pick for toy fans who want to build their collection with quality, limited-edition pieces.
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: Starts at $31.99 per month
Ships To: The US, shipping costs are extra.
Mindful Box by Mindful Souls
Great for: The teen who’s into spirituality, crystals, and horoscopes.
The Mindful Box is a monthly self-care subscription that’s more than just pampering—it’s therapist-curated wellness delivered to your door.
Each box includes 6–8 thoughtfully chosen items like crystals, aromatherapy, self-care tools, skincare, and even spiritual mystery items, all designed to help reduce stress and boost your mood. Everything is ethically sourced, valued at over $100, and ships free for under $40/month.
With over a million happy customers and no middlemen involved, this box is perfect for anyone serious about building better wellness habits without the guesswork.
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $23.95 per month, additional savings if you pre-pay for additional months.
Ships To: The US.
Love Goodly
Great for: The teen who’s into conscious beauty.
About This Box: It’s crazy when you actually learn how many chemicals and toxins we’ve all been putting on our faces and eating every day. The LOVE GOODLY box aims to change that.
With this lifestyle/beauty subscription box, every other month you will receive 4-5 cruelty-free, toxin-free, vegan products, with mainly full size products. You can expect a good mix of beauty and skincare products, healthy snacks, wellness products, and eco-style accessories.
Each box provides a really good value, always over $80+. In addition to receiving the box, you’ll also have access to LOVE GOODLY’s shop which sells many of the brands featured in the boxes. Lastly, every purchase always supports one of their fabulous cause partners. This is a subscription that you and your teen will feel good about supporting!
Frequency: Bi-monthly
Ships To: The US for free.
Skip a month feature: Yes.
Tinker Crate
Great for: The tween (ages 9-14) who loves building and tinkering.
Tinker Crate is an educational subscription box created by the company, KiwiCo. It is aimed at helping young teenagers learn the principles of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
Each month, Tinker Crate subscribers are sent a project-based activity that focuses on a particular area within STEM. Projects are designed to help teenagers explore their creativity while also fostering critical thinking skills.
The boxes contain detailed instructions for each activity as well as all necessary parts and materials. Additionally, each box also includes access to an exclusive online learning platform that offers additional resources such as instructional video tutorials and related articles. This helps teens further explore the topics they get exposed to through their Tinker Crate projects.
Previous boxes include: Coin-Eating Robot, Wooden Automaton, Drift Motorcycle, and a whole bunch of other creative concepts that let young ones explore building and creating at the same time!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $23.95 per month, additional savings if you pre-pay for additional months.
Ships To: The US.
MATTER
Great for: The teenager that loves intriguing scientific items.
With MATTER, your teen will become their own version of Indiana Jones. Each month, subscribers will get interesting items from around the world to build their very own personal museum.
They’ll get really fun and interesting things like prehistoric fossils, scientific tools, cutting-edge materials, historic artifacts, and other curiosities. Along with each item is detailed research about them so not only are they building a collection, they are also doing a lot of learning!
Frequency: Monthly
Ships to: Ships free to the US. They also have international shipping to all 190+ countries that USPS serves.
Skip a month feature: Yes, pause at any time.
Bath Bevy
Great for: The bath and body lover.
Bath Bevy is a subscription box full of 5-7 carefully curated bath goodies delivered either monthly or quarterly. Items within each box can include bath bombs, body oils, bubble bath products, bath salts, whipped soap scrubs, and more.
For those that don’t have bathtubs but still value self-care and pampering, there is a TUBLESS option now available too. Subscribers to the TUBLESS Bath Bevy box can expect products such as shower steamers, loofahs, lotions, pumice stones, handmade soap, candles and more.
Frequency: Monthly or Quarterly
Ships to: The US, additional shipping costs apply.
Skip a month feature: Yes.
Wicked Good Perfume
Great for: Fragrance lovers.
About This Box: With the Wicked Good Scent Club box, subscribers will get an exclusive, custom-curated perfume delivered to them every month, along with 2-3 other scented goods. Each month brings a different theme, so the boxes are always exciting to receive! Wicked Good also has awesome customer service, so should any issues come up, you’ll be in good hands.
Frequency: Monthly or Quarterly
Cost: $33/month; cancel anytime
Ships to: Free U.S. shipping.
Skip a month feature: Yes.
the oddball club
Great for: Teens who enjoy cool yet quirky accessories and unique goods.
About This Box: Treat the teenager in your life to a plethora of unique goodies every month! With the oddball club’s monthly membership, a box of 6-9 quirky, hard-to-find items valued at over $70/box will be delivered right to their doorstep.
Items could include enamel pins, artwork, socks, cute stationery and desk accessories, novelty handbags, and pretty much a bunch of other cool things.
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $35 per month, additional savings if you pre-pay for additional months; cancel anytime.
Ships to: $8.50 shipping to the US, $13 to Canada, and $18.25 internationally.
Skip a month feature: Yes.
BREO BOX
Great for: The gaming and tech-loving teen.
About This Box: BREO BOX brings you the hottest and latest products on the market to ensure you’re living your best life. Each box features the best from name brands in tech, gadgets, home goods and lifestyle products. The items are carefully curated based on current trends and innovations, as well as seasonality.
You can expect to receive 5-8 of the best products in health, fitness, tech, and modern living. If the teenager in your life (or you for that matter) lives for new and cool technology, this is the ultimate box to get. Each box contains up to $300+ worth of gear, so it’s quite a bargain!
Frequency: Quarterly
Ships to: Ships free to the US, and $45 to Canada.
Skip a month feature: Yes
Read More: BREO Box Review: Coolest Tech Subscription Or Waste Of Money?
Goddess Provisions
Great for: The astrology, horoscope, spirituality, or yoga lover.
About This Box: If you know a teen who loves astrology, horoscopes, or all thing spiritual, a Goddess Provisions subscription will be the perfect gift. These subscription boxes are curated to nurture the inner goddess in them and help grow their spiritual practice.
Each box contains 5-7 full-size products with a total retail value of $80-$100. All the products inside are vegan, cruelty-free, and natural. They can expect a mix of crystals, aromatherapy, natural beauty products, superfood snacks & spiritual tools.
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: Plans starting at $28/month, cancel anytime
Ships to: Ships within the US for free
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Finders Seekers
Great for: The escape room fanatic.
About This Box: Finders Seekers is a monthly “escape room” style subscription box, ideal for anyone who loves puzzles, escape rooms, solving mysteries, or anything requiring a little brainpower. With Finders Seekers, you will experience a mystery puzzle box featuring a new destination theme each month. In addition to the puzzle/escape room experience, you’ll get a mini travel experience, too, learning about different regions of the world while you solve riddles and puzzles!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $30 per month, additional savings when you prepay for 3, 6, or 12 months
Ships to: Free shipping, only ships within United States
Skip a month feature: Yes.
Read More: Finders Seekers Review: An Immersive Escape Room Experience In A Box
Book Of The Month – Young Adult
Great for: Young adults who love to read.
About This Box: With the Book Of The Month subscription, your teen will get one new hardcover book per month. Each month, five Book of the Month curators will recommend their favorite titles, then you choose which one you’d like to have sent in your box. If one isn’t enough, you’ll have the option to add up to 2 additional books for a discounted price.
This membership certainly beats buying books a la carte because all the books are carefully curated and vetted, so you know they’ll be great picks. Plus, a subscription will get them excited to read, so they might actually do more of it!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $14.95 per month; cancel anytime
Ships to: Free shipping across the USA.
Skip a month feature: Yes.
Escape The Crate
Great for: The escape room / murder mystery fanatic.
About This Box: Find the clues, crack the codes, unravel the riddles, solve the mysteries, Escape the Crate! Escape The Crate brings the escape room experience into your own living room. Every other month, you’ll get a different time-traveling adventure delivered right to your doorstep.
Each box contains a 1-hour long game and includes items like ciphers, letters, sleuthing tools, puzzles, and more. The best part is the value; the cost of one Escape The Crate box is a fraction of the cost of 1 entry to a regular escape room!
We love gifting activity boxes because it’s like gifting them a few hours of unforgettable entertainment and memories!
Frequency: Every other month
Cost: $29.99 per box, but discounted if you prepay for a longer membership
Ships to: Ships free to US, additional costs for Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other countries.
TheraBox – Self Care Subscription Box
Great for: Young adults who value a little “me”-time.
About This Box: Unbox happiness on a monthly basis! This wildly popular box is one of our favorite gifts for people who need a little bit of self-care and self-love. TheraBox contents are mindfully curated by therapists to reduce stress & increase joy through self-love.
Each box includes 1 research-inspired therapeutic activity to promote gratitude and happiness. It will also feature 6-8 self-care and wellness products that will serve to reduce stress & enhance the mind, body, and soul! Expect products ranging from aromatherapy, natural/organic bath, body, skincare products, and other lifestyle goodies!
Each box has over $120+ retail value, so this is quite a deal for the price you’re paying!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: Plans starting at $37.99/month, cancel anytime
Ships to: Ships worldwide from United States
Adults & Crafts Crate
Great for: The artsy/crafty teen.
About This Box: Adults & Crafts is a thoughtfully curated subscription box for adults & teens who are looking for DIY and arts/crafts activities. With this subscription, you’ll be able to create fun and trendy projects every month! You can expect a different craft with each box, allowing you to expand your art skills and learn a new craft technique such as wood-burning, clockmaking, embossing, and engraving.
Each project will take you about 2-4 hours, perfect for a crafty night in. Previous projects include wine carriers, epoxy resin coasters, wine and cheese serving trays, hanging terrariums, holiday wreaths, candles, & more!
This arts and crafts subscription is one of our go-to’s for family night, friendly hangouts, and date nights. They also offer gift subscriptions as well!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $33 per month, additional savings if you prepay for 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months
Ships To: Ships to the US for $6.95, internationally for $20.
Skip a month feature: Yes.
Craft In Style
Great for: The teen that loves Pinterest-inspired DIY projects.
About This Box: With the Craft in Style subscription box, you can expect to get your hands dirty with a wide variety of Pinterest-worthy craft projects. Projects include acrylic paint pouring, watercolor, terrarium building, DIY planter boxes, gourd painting, calligraphy, soap making, and more! The sheer variety of activities you’ll get with this subscription is so impressive.
Each month’s Craft in Style Box has a theme and contains multiple projects all in one box. Aside from the materials, they also give you access to blog posts and videos (live and prerecorded) to help you explore the box on a deeper level.
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $42 per month, additional savings if you prepay for 3 months, 6 months, and 12 months
Ships To: Free to the US, also ships worldwide.
Maker Crate
Great for: The artsy/crafty teen.
About This Box: With Maker Crate, your teen will get a new art and design workshop delivered every month. A Maker Crate subscription facilitates the discovery of new art and craft styles. Some previous projects include making Macrame Planters, Punch-Needle Pillow, and Terrazzo Clay Organizers.
This is an awesome subscription box if your teen is looking to learn a new artistic style. This subscription is ideal for anyone ranging from 14 to 104 years old. It’s perfect for future artists and designers!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $29.95 per month, additional savings if you pre-pay for additional months.
Ships To: The US.
Doodle Crate
Great for: The artsy/crafty teen.
About This Box: With Doodle Crate, your teen will get hands-on creativity delivered every month. A Doodle Crate subscription, also in the KiwiCo line of boxes, helps subscribers age 9-16+ express themselves creatively while teaching them new art and craft techniques. Some previous projects include making a Felt Succulent Garden, Faux Leather Portfolio, and even handmade soap!
With each subscription each month, your teen will also get an inspiration booklet, additional DIY design content and activities, and online video tutorials. If you have a teen that may be too young for the Maker Crate (above), Doodle Crate is the ideal choice!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $22.95 per month, additional savings if you pre-pay for additional months.
Ships To: The US.
Eureka Crate
Great for: The innovative teen that loves science and engineering.
About This Box: With Eureka Crate, your teen will get hands-on exposure to thinking and learning about the design and engineering behind everyday objects. With this subscription, they’ll be creatively applying theories and scientific principles to real-world problems. Let us be the first to tell you that this box has got some truly awesome crates.
Some previous projects include making an Articulated Desk Lamp that actually lights up, an Electric Pencil Sharpener that actually sharpens, a Wooden Ukelele that actually makes music, and even a Wooden Pinball Machine that you can actually play!
This subscription is ideal for anyone ranging from 12 to 104 years old (so if this intrigues you, you can get one for yourself and one for all your grown-up friends too!).
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $31.95 per month, additional savings if you pre-pay for additional months.
Ships To: The US.
National Geographic Rocks & Fossils Kit
Great for: Teens who love rocks, history, or geography.
About This Box: Though this one isn’t technically a subscription box, we’ve heard too many good things about the National Geographic Rocks & Fossils Kit that we just had to include it on this list! If your kid loves rocks, science, history, or geography, this will be the perfect standalone collection or addition to any kid’s rock collection.
This massive kit includes rough and polished samples of Aventurine, Rose Quartz, stunning Snowflake Obsidian, Desert Rose, Red Jasper, Blue Quartz, Pumice, and meteorite specimens as well. It’s such a cool STEM gift for girls and boys!
Try The World
Great for: The curious foodie.
About This Box: Try The World is the first gourmet tour around the world, no plane ticket needed. With this box, you will receive gourmet products from different countries like France, Japan, or Argentina every month. You’ll be able to take a food journey around the world and discover tons of the best gourmet and cultural finds in each box!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $19/month for the Snack Box, $39/month for the Signature Box; additional savings when you prepay for 3, 6, or 12 months
Ships to: Free shipping, only ships within United States
Skip a month feature: Yes.
Explore Local Box
Great for: The teen who cares about small businesses.
About This Box: This snack subscription box is so creative and fun, especially for families who are cooped up at home but still want to explore. With Explore Local Box, you guys can explore a new US city every month through premium, locally-made food products!
Boxes include food items as well as non-food items that are locally produced by small businesses and local artisans from the featured month’s city. You’ll also get a watercolor map as well as fun facts about the featured city.
Previous cities include Albuquerque, NM, Chicago, IL, Brooklyn, NY, Portland, OR, and way more. They also have separate gift subscriptions, perfect for all the other adventurous people you know who have the travel bug!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $39.99/month, additional savings if you prepay for 3, 6, or 12 months.
Ships to: Free shipping across the United States
IPSY Glam Bag
Great for: Teens who love travel-sized makeup and discovering new looks.
About This Box: If you really haven’t heard about IPSY yet, IPSY is an extremely popular beauty subscription service that delivers subscribers a “Glam Bag” filled with various beauty products. A typical Glam Bag includes 5 deluxe-sized beauty samples that are customized based on how you answer your beauty quiz upon signing up.
Based on your preferences, you’ll receive a healthy mix of makeup, haircare, skincare, and nail products. There are three types of Glam Bags offered by IPSY (the Glam Bag, Glam Bag Plus, and Glam Bag Ultimate), each with different perks and set at different subscription costs.
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $12 to $50 per month; additional savings if you sign up for additional months upfront.
Ships to: Ships to US for free and Canada for $2.95
Skip a month feature: Yes.
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Allure Beauty Box
Great for: Teens who love makeup and discovering new looks.
About This Box: Discover new products that’ll transform your beauty and skin routine with the Allure Beauty Box. Each month, your new box will bring 6+ handpicked editor-approved makeup and skincare products (worth over $100 per box).
The best part is that at least three of those will be full-size products! Previous brands include L’Occitane, Laura Mercier, Urban Decay, Tarte, OUAI, and many more prestigious favorites. An Allure Beauty Box membership also comes with a few additional perks, including members-only discounts and events!
Frequency: Monthly
Cost: $23 per month; additional savings if you sign up for 3 months or 1 year; cancel anytime
Ships to: Free shipping across the USA.
Skip a month feature: Yes.
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Thanks for reading, we hope you find the perfect box for yourself or that special teen you’re shopping for!
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