13 Best White Elephant Gifts (2025): Coffee Pot Mug, Legos, Sushi Magnets, and More

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White elephant parties coming a unsocial challenge: Can you find a cool aliases funny achromatic elephant gift wrong a group fund that a group of people—who are perchance strangers—will conflict each different to return home?

The existent thrill of nan crippled comes from uncovering thing awesome successful a heap of who-knows-what. Some folks bring joke gifts, immoderate bring booze to beryllium safe, and immoderate gifts will consciousness for illustration garbage to you but gems to others. Some of my favourite achromatic elephant gifts see a java pot-shaped mug ($29), portable cereal and beverage ($25), a nosy Lego group ($49), and sushi-shaped magnets ($17).

Here's each achromatic elephant gift I urge bringing, ranging from quirky to cool. There's thing successful this guideline excessively for each imaginable value cap.

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Updated October 2025: We've added caller gifts from Galison and Funwares, positive caller sections connected what not to bring and rules of nan exchange.

  • An Actually Fun Mug

    Photograph: Nena Farrell

    Everyone hydrates, truthful a drinking alloy is simply a safe gift each around. And astir group portion immoderate benignant of caffeinated drink, whether it's coffee aliases beverage aliases possibly an energy drink. This nosy mug looks for illustration a miniature java cookware and tin grip basking drinks. It moreover comes pinch a integrative lid truthful you tin return it connected nan go. I for illustration really comfortable nan grip is to hold, and it's conscionable truthful funny to look astatine while still doing a awesome occupation holding my greeting tea.

  • A Reusable Film Camera

    Photograph: Nena Farrell

    If your friend group is nan type to person disposable cameras astatine weddings aliases dreams of being film camera gearheads, bring this nosy small Kodak camera to your achromatic elephant for them to conflict over. It comes successful a fistful of nosy colors for illustration mint greenish and cerulean bluish (sadly, nan acheronian greenish colour I person is discontinued, but location are plentifulness of others to take from!) and looks for illustration nan classical disposable-style camera but better. It's easy to use, pinch nan aforesaid satisfying spinning mechanic to load up your adjacent photo. I did person a small problem opening nan hood to spot my film, and recovered following a video adjuvant to cognize each measurement and to beryllium definite I wasn't breaking nan camera. Make judge to see a rotation of movie and a AAA artillery truthful whoever wins tin commencement snapping photos correct away. Or if you're really nice, load each these things up for them and instrumentality a small statement connected nan beforehand that this camera is fresh to commencement snapping photos.

  • Chic Legos

    Lego group shaped for illustration a centerpiece of dried flowers and botanical pieces

    Photograph: Lego

    Lego

    Icons Dried Flower Centerpiece (Botanical Collection)

    Legos are nosy for each ages, and Lego has a ton of cool sets we’d each beryllium proud to show astir our homes. Architectural sets! Floral sets! Massive Star Wars sets! Most of these, of course, won’t fresh into nan achromatic elephant budget. But 1 group gets beautiful close: nan Dried Flower Centerpiece Set. It’s usually astir $40, which mightiness not activity for immoderate lower-entry achromatic elephants, but is simply a cleanable prime for nan $40 to $50 ones. It’s a nosy group that personification tin build unsocial aliases successful a duo—I built excavation pinch my hubby for Valentine’s Day a mates years ago, and now it’s a imperishable fixture connected our bookshelves. It moreover survived a move!

  • Paint by Numbers

    • Photograph: Nena Farrell

    • Photograph: Nena Farrell

    Galison

    Liberty Paint by Number Kit Thorpe

    I'm complete gifting puzzles, and alternatively I'm gifting stylish paint-by-number kits this year. I've started connected this beautiful 1 from Galison—I'm 2 hours successful and person apt 2 much hours to go, which amazed me. It comes pinch 12 overgarment colors and 3 brushes, and while I'd possibly see a fewer much brushes aliases immoderate different coating accessory if nan spending period is supra $30, it makes for a awesome gift for your hobby-loving friend group.

  • Tasty-Looking Magnets

    Photograph: Nena Farrell

    Hey Foly

    Hey Foly Sushi Fridge Magnets

    Jazz up someone’s fridge pinch adorable sushi magnets. They almost look a small excessively real—the salmon nigiri looks fresh to eat—but are still nosy to look astatine connected a fridge. While nan magnets connected nan integrative rolls are small, they’re still plentifulness beardown capable to clasp up papers and children’s artwork connected someone’s fridge without slipping aliases falling. I’m craving ikura conscionable looking astatine them, and nan foodies astatine your achromatic elephant tin conflict it retired for who gets to return these location and woody pinch nan aforesaid cravings. Plus, each azygous visitant I person comments connected really tiny these magnets are. After a twelvemonth of rocking these connected my fridge, they're each holding up strong.

  • A Punchable Key

    Photograph: Nena Farrell

    Nummove

    Big Enter Supersized Key

    I’ll show you correct now: The Big Enter Supersized Key participate cardinal is simply a small excessively overmuch nosy to person connected my desk, and a awesome point to bring for a achromatic elephant pinch your coworkers, chap work-from-home folks, aliases friends who are allowed to really decorate their cubicle. The punchable participate key’s usability is simple: You punch it to deed enter. It connects to a machine via a USB cord, and is bully and responsive truthful you don’t person to punch it ace hard. It’s a nosy summation to lively Slack chats, aliases a concealed measurement to beryllium passive-aggressive without anyone knowing. Unless nan victor of this supersized cardinal has a cubicle partner. But that’s their problem—if they tin negociate to triumph successful nan first spot during nan game.

  • Cereal Anywhere, Anytime

    Photograph: Kat Merck

    CrunchCup

    The CrunchCup XL

    Someone, if not aggregate people, loves cereal astatine your achromatic elephant. And this gift is for them, particularly if they’re ever forgetting to make it successful advance. The dishwasher-safe CrunchCup has a mini tubular reservoir for cereal nested wrong a lidded integrative tumbler that holds a small complete a cup of milk. The thought is that nan personification drinks from nan cup and nan cereal and beverage harvester successful their mouth, not successful a vessel wherever nan cereal will go soggy.

    Tip from personification who mightiness usage this to sneak their child’s Lucky Charms while reference astatine night, which is definitely, astir surely not maine because I’m a mature adult: Block half of nan beverage spread pinch your little articulator truthful cereal has clip to travel out, different you’ll get a mouthful of beverage and nary cereal. It besides useful champion pinch smaller-gauge cereal for illustration Cheerios, not larger, heavier chunks aliases flakes for illustration Raisin Bran. Not that I would cognize immoderate of this from firsthand experience, of course, being a grown big who eats grown big things. —Kat Merck

  • Adorable Sauce Dishes

    Photograph: Nena Farrell

    Musubi Kiln

    Coneco Cat Sauce Plate Set

    A bully achromatic elephant gift is 1 anyone tin use, and these adorable condiment dishes are begging to beryllium utilized anyplace successful your home. Obviously, you tin usage them for sauces for illustration soy sauce, but they're besides ample and level capable to usage arsenic jewelry catchers aliases moreover a mini group of keys. I've sewage 1 astatine my table holding a mates hairsbreadth clips and a hairsbreadth necktie for speedy sprucing earlier a meeting, and nan remainder are downstairs successful my room waiting for sushi night. Plus, really tiny are nan different cats connected each plate?