Giving crystals as a gift is a great way to show your friends and loved ones that you care about them and want them to be happy and successful.
Since healing crystals come in so many different colors, sizes, and shapes, you can find one that perfectly matches the personality of the person you are giving them to.
Crystals can be used as a talisman, for meditation, or for decoration around the house. With so many possibilities, gifting crystals will surely bring joy to any recipient!
10 of the Best Crystals to give as Gifts
Rose Quartz
This pink crystal is the stone of unconditional love! It’s the most essential heart chakra crystal and one of the best ways to show love to a gift recipient.
Rose quartz encompasses every kind of love: Love between family, romantic love, friendship, forgiveness, self-love… It’s such a great stone that’s not only beautiful but perfect for meaningful crystal gifts that come from a place of love!
Rose quartz has many remarkable healing properties as well, in addition to supporting loving relationships. It relieves stress, promotes inner peace, and helps with anxiety.
This beautiful pink stone is full of feminine energy and looks wonderful as jewelry. Every fan of the color pink will be simply delighted to receive rose quartz as a gift!
Rose quartz crystal bracelets are the ultimate gift for me since they are a token of your love for the recipient. And it’s perfect for any occasion, whether it’s for your crush on valentine’s day or for a family member on Christmas.
Rose quartz jewelry is timeless, and since this is such a popular, beloved stone, you can find beautiful pieces for any budget, from simple beaded bracelets to artful gold necklaces.
These are genuinely the best crystals to give as gifts to people you love!
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis lazuli has been appreciated throughout human history for its beauty!
This blue stone resonates with the throat chakra and third eye chakra, making it a fantastic gift for young people in college or starting their career. Balancing and opening these two chakra points helps us to be more intuitive and perceptive while helping us to use these insights to express ourselves better.
Anyone who has to navigate a new environment while communicating clearly, benefits from these beautiful stones!
Lapis lazuli helps the overall emotional and mental well-being, especially during new beginnings, which makes it a thoughtful and caring gift for a friend or loved one.
Its properties of emotional healing and promoting feelings of self-awareness, self-expression, and wisdom can help the gift recipient navigate difficult times and support them to feel strong, resilient, and optimistic.
A lapis lazuli crystal gift can show your friend that you care about their emotional and spiritual health and well-being and want to support them to the best of your ability!
Clear Quartz
Clear quartz is a powerful healing crystal with many benefits. It’s the master healer and brings balance to the body and mind. It excels at removing negative energy and filling us with positive energy.
It’s also the best amplifier of energy, helping to increase focus, clarity, and concentration, and it enhances the energy of other crystals.
Clear quartz also aligns the chakras, which promotes overall well-being.
These properties, and the fact that it is simply a gorgeous stone, make this a one of the best crystals to give as gifts for any situation and opportunity!
And it’s easy to find good crystal combinations with clear quartz if you want to give someone several crystal bracelets or a small collection of pocket stones. Some crystals don’t go well together, but you can combine clear quartz with any other stone!
Red Jasper
Red jasper makes for a lovingly warm gift! This is a grounding and stabilizing stone. It brings emotional balance and is also the stone of endurance and strength, helping to increase physical energy while promoting a sense of safety and security.
In addition to that, it promotes focus, determination, and courage. Red jasper is just a wonderful boost of power!
These properties make red jasper a good gift for anyone who needs extra support and strength to overcome challenges, tackle a new stage in life, and stay grounded.
Green Aventurine
Green Aventurine is a crystal of love and good luck!
It attracts prosperity and abundance, which makes it a great choice to give to someone looking to improve their financial situation. It also resonates with the heart chakra, promoting feelings of well-being, calmness, and emotional balance.
And it supports creativity, intelligence, and perception. The perfect crystal gift for a friend or family member wanting to start their own business or on the brink of making big career decisions!
Green aventurine brings balance of the mind and loving-kindness. It supports an overall feeling of well-being.
This green stone, with its fantastic properties, is also one of the best crystals to give your boyfriend, family member, or a good friend if you are looking for an alternative to rose quartz!
Tiger’s Eye
Tiger’s eye is a powerful stone that promotes courage, confidence, and determination. It is beneficial for the mind, helping you to stay focused and think clearly. Additionally, tiger’s eye is a protective stone that wards off negative energy and attracts positive energy.
Giving tiger’s eye as a gift symbolizes support, encouragement, and protection on a journey or a new project. It expresses that you believe in the recipient’s ability to achieve their goals and that you want to support them to succeed while being a safe haven for them!
Tiger’s eye is one of the best crystals to give as gifts to artists and those who work creatively as it brings inspiration and opens the sacral chakra, the seat of our creativity!
Amethyst
Amethyst is such an all-rounder that it’s simply one of the best crystals to give to friends!
A beautiful amethyst cluster or geode is a unique crystal gift that looks absolutely stunning and is one of a kind.
Having an amethyst crystal around helps to dissolve negative emotions. It’s also called the stone of sobriety that supports us in letting go of any kind of unwanted habits!
And it’s a powerful crystal to destress and relax.
It’s simply a must-have for anyone who loves beautiful stones, whether or not they are interested in crystal healing!
Black Tourmaline
Giving a black tourmaline crystal as a gift is a very thoughtful thing to do!
This is a powerful protective stone and particularly beneficial for sensitive people, empaths, and those suffering from stress.
Black tourmaline promotes feeling safe and secure and is very efficient in keeping negative energies away. It also directly boosts energy and concentration.
Given its properties, black tourmaline can be a great gift for someone going through a difficult time.
But I will also give black tourmaline to my daughter when she starts school this year. She’s a sensitive person, and this stone will shield her from any possible toxic energies of others while being a physical object she can touch to ground herself and think happy thoughts.
It’s a wonderful talisman to give to someone who starts something new in their life, be it school, college, or a new job.
Turritella Agate
So far, we have talked about very common, popular crystals to give as gifts that you can easily obtain in many different shapes and forms. Turritella Agate, on the other hand, is a relatively uncommon gemstone and a very special gift!
These minerals include tiny fossils, which give them a very distinct look.
Turritella Agate has a deep connection to the earth and to our heritage. That makes it an ideal gift for people interested in history and those who are very active in caring for our planet.
I also found it to be one of the best gifts to give my dinosaur-loving child! Crystals are a great gift idea for children. Kids are fascinated by all stones, but especially by those looking as beautiful and special as turritella agate.
And since stones are almost unbreakable, the crystals we get as children often accompany us far into adulthood, as talisman or fond memory.
Caribbean Calcite
Another uncommon gem that makes a wonderful crystal gift is Caribbean Calcite!
These beautiful stones, with their gentle energy and unique look, are a perfect gift for someone who loves to travel or wishes they could. And even avid crystal lovers will greatly appreciate this rare stone, as it is the ideal addition to any mineral collection!
Caribbean calcite resembles a bird’s eye view of the sea and beaches and is simply stunning to look at!
As someone who loves the sea, it always fills me with so much happiness to look at my Caribbean calcite with its vibrant blue colors and interesting formations.
Birthstones as Crystal Birthday Gifts
One of my favorite gifts, especially for children and new moms, are birthday crystals! This is a fool-proof way to pick the perfect crystal to give as a gift (although it isn’t necessarily a good idea to try and give one of these at a baby shower since babies like to come in their own time, haha).
Each month has a corresponding healing crystal that works well for people born in that month.
For people born in January, choose garnet.
Amethyst is the birthstone for February.
The birth crystal for March is aquamarine.
April’s birthstone is the diamond.
If you are looking for a crystal birthday gift for those born in May, pick emerald.
Pearl is the June birthstone, together with alexandrite. You can choose here which you like better or which fits the gift recipient better.
The July birthstone is ruby.
For those born in August, choose peridot.
September’s birthstone is sapphire.
The birthstones for October are opal and tourmaline.
For November, the birthstones are topaz and citrine.
And lastly, for people born in December, choose turquoise or blue topaz.
To add even more meaning to a birthstone gift, look up the properties of the crystal so you can tell the gift recipient a bit more about what the stone symbolizes and how you hope it will support them.
More Crystal Gift Ideas
My partner gave me a crystal gift over a decade ago, and it reignited my own love for stones! It was a little handmade Zen garden with beautiful white sand and a tiny rake. He included several raw crystals and figurines that I could place on the sand.
He had printed out a profile for each stone. I was going through a rough time health-wise, and the crystals mirrored how I was feeling.
It was the most wonderful gift for me, and I kept it for a long time!
While I don’t have the sand anymore, the crystals are still right in front of me, on my desk, and I look at them fondly each and every day.
Because that’s the thing, giving crystals as gifts has so much meaning! It tells your loved one that you see them, and since stones are (almost) timeless, it will remind them for a long time to come that someone cares for them and sees them. And isn’t that what we all wish for?!
As I mentioned earlier, crystals are a gift that works for any budget! Thoughtfully chosen pocket stones or beaded bracelets are fantastic yet cheap crystal gifts that anyone would appreciate.
If you want to and are able to spend a more considerable sum of money, you can look into elaborate crystal jewelry with gold or silver. Or you can take a look at geodes, large raw crystals, or figurines.
While, on the material side, you have such a range of options, I feel that the actual crystal you choose is so personal and individual, which is the most crucial part of giving a meaningful gift!
If you are now wondering where to start looking for the best crystal gift, and if you don’t have a local gem shop, check out Etsy! Many stores around the country offer their gemstones there as well.