Make your holiday list and check it twice! Hamilton County, Indiana is the perfect destination to shop small all season long. These local businesses bring magic to the Christmas season. Collect exclusive gifts when using the Holiday Adventure Pass to check in at dazzling light displays, festive performances and holiday festivals. From unique handmade crafts to delicious locally sourced treats, this guide is designed to showcase the best gift-giving options from Hamilton County. Explore and make this holiday season truly special in Hamilton County, Indiana.
Gift Ideas
Back to Top of ListCustom Fragrance Experience
Penn and Beech, Carmel & Fishers
Share the magic of custom fragrance this holiday season! With a Penn & Beech gift card, your lucky recipient can pour their own candle in our newest shop in Fishers. With more than 100 unique fragrances and a variety of beautiful vessels, they're sure to love the gift that is both a candle AND an experience!
Deluxe Hoosier Holiday Gift Box
Silver in the City, Carmel
This box includes goodies made by local makers:
- 8oz hand-poured soy Circle of Lights Candle by Timberjack
- 3oz Hot Cocoa Popcorn by Just Pop In
- 4oz Peppermint Bark by Best Chocolate in Town
- Holiday Monument Postcard by Skye Smith
- 2024 Dome Flake Ornament by People for Urban Progress
GraviBlocks
Kits & Kaboodle, Carmel
GraviBlocks Enhance your toddler's spatial awareness and cause-effect learning abilities with GraviBlocks. Gaining hand-eye coordination, concentration, and an analytical problem-solving approach has never been easier with our storage box and building plate lid included for convenience. Let your child's imagination run wild with GraviBlocks. Ages 18 months and up | $46.99
Hammered Metal Bells
Providence Home + Garden, Noblesville
Some of our favorite new items include these hammered metal bells with star cutouts, and our candles: some Christmas tree-shaped and some Christmas-tree scented!
Handcrafted Artwork
Indiana Artisan Gifts & Gallery, Carmel
Gifts to show your good taste. Gifts that taste good. Find art you can wear, display, or cook with, as well as delicious, small-batch sweets and treats, all handcrafted by more than 140 Hoosiers.
Handmade Home Decor & Gifts
Mercantile 37, Noblesville
Our showroom features a mix of high quality vintage and handmade home decor and gifts from our collective of 100+ local makers. Come visit us and keep it local!
Happy Birds
Noblesville Creates, Noblesville
Visit Gifted: Handmade Wonders for the beautiful handcrafted glass pieces by Jennifer Shelton.
Holiday Gift Baskets
Regalique, Carmel
Featuring fine wines and gourmet treats, perfect for celebrating the season! These thoughtfully curated selections make ideal gifts for friends, family, or anyone who appreciates delightful tastes and wine.
Holiday Ornaments
Linden Tree, Carmel & Noblesville
Hoosier themed holiday ornaments created by Storm Striker Art by Justin Patten. Featured designs include Indiana University, Purdue University and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Luxe Reed Diffuser Set
Unplug Soy Candles, Fishers
Elevate your home fragrance experience with our Luxe Reed Diffuser Set.
Merry & Bright Candle
Unplug Soy Candles, Fishers
This is the perfect candle to have displayed during the holidays.
"Merry Christmas ya filthy animal" Candle
Unplug Soy Candles, Fishers
Most people recognize this saying from the popular Christmas movie, Home Alone. This candle will make the perfect gift for anybody this holiday season.
Resin Tumbler
Hawaii Fluid Art, Noblesville
Our resin tumblers for children and adults are unique gifts. Either buy off the shelf or come in to the studio and create your own.
Something Splendid Holiday Collection
Something Splendid, Westfield
This collection features unique gifts for everyone on your list, or spoil yourself this season
Wine Cozies and Hats
Providence Home + Garden, Noblesville
Our favorite new locally made items are the Indiana and Hamilton County-themed wine cozies and hats, as well as our wonderful PH+G and Cafe Jardin signature scented candles!
Yarn Beanie Kit
Color Me Happy, Fishers
Indiana Dunes Beanie Kit with yarn grown from Westfield Woolies Cormo Sheep, milled in Indiana, and dyed by Color Me Happy. Available for online ordering or pick up during open studio times or by appointment.
Experiences
Back to Top of ListBoard & Brush
- 99 E. Carmel Dr.
Our wood sign workshops provide guided instruction and a relaxed environment. Just bring your creativity and a willingness to learn and you will build a wooden sign piece from scratch that is worthy of your walls.
Conner Prairie
- 13400 Allisonville Rd.
With 1,000 acres for curiosity to run wild, Conner Prairie’s nationally-acclaimed living history museum offers excitement at every turn. Explore the outdoors and immerse your family in a historic, interactive world of science, art, and nature while making some history of your…
Hawaii Fluid Art
- 13185 Harrell Pkwy. Ste. #400
Art studio and retailer dedicated to providing artists of all ability levels the opportunity to learn and experience new art techniques in a semi-private, safe, professional setting through our varied classes and experiences.
Kiln Creations
- 60 N. 9th St.
This unique pottery painting studio allows anyone, adults and children, artists and non-artists, to create a one-of-a-kind piece of art that can become their favorite bowl, plate, mug or piggy bank. We also offer wood mosaics, acrylic painting, special classes, and walk in candle…
Koteewi Range: Sport & Target Archery Center
- 11909 Koteewi Dr.
Join millions in the fast growing sport of archery! Koteewi Range, located in Strawtown Koteewi Park minutes north of Noblesville, invites both seasoned archers and beginners for target and 3D shooting. The archery center offers: Ranges built to Olympic specifications 90-meter…
Penn & Beech Candle Company Carmel
- 145 Elm St., Ste. 150
Penn & Beech Candle Co. is an Indianapolis-based fragrance brand specializing in natural gourmet soy candles and custom fragrance. We offer hand-poured candles in more than 100 fragrances. Penn & Beech candles burn cleanly and evenly due to our natural soy wax, cotton paper…
Penn & Beech Candle Company Fishers
- 8698 E 116th St.
At Penn & Beech Candle Company, we value quality, clean, and thoughtful ingredients. For our team, any one of our products is more than just a candle – it’s a scent that fills you with nostalgia and warms you with the comfort of a familiar fragrance. Our hand-poured…
Scented Oasis Candle Co.
- 110 E. Main St Unit B
Candles, assessories, personalized candle pouring classes.
Sprouts Cooking School
- 13190 Hazel Dell Pkwy.
At Sprouts Cooking School, our mission is to get kids in the kitchen and teach them the love of cooking at an early age. Children ages 3 through 10 will learn basic culinary skills and use kitchen tools just their size. They will measure and combine ingredients, work together in…
Smitten Kitten Cat Cafe
- 7852 E. 96th St
Hamilton County's FIRST cat café! We provide a variety of coffee and tea beverages and tasty treats. Reservations are highly recommended do that you can relax, decompress and share quality time with our adoptable cats and kittens. All of our cats roam freely within the cat lounge…
Unplug Soy Candles
- 12550 Promise Creek Lane
Unplug Soy candles is a local candle company based out of Fishers, Indiana. Unplug Soy Candles hand-pours the all-natural, soy wax candles and ships all over the world. Take part of Unplug Soy Candles pouring workshops and classes.
uPaint Pottery Studio
- 13901 Town Center Blvd., #200
uPaint Pottery Studio is a wonderful place for a creative adventure, where adults and children, families and friends, clubs, groups, troops, and even corporate teams gather to create and celebrate! We are a WALK-IN art studio, no experience or classes necessary. It’s easy and fun…
The Wandering Peacock
- 227 Jersey St.
The Wandering Peacock is a warm, colorful, and inclusive Bohemian pottery studio with an undercurrent of art therapy flowing through every room. Whether it's a one-on-one class, a group of friends, a birthday party, or date night-- The Wandering Peacock has something for…
Holiday Shopping Events
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