Give them a how-to book so they can learn a skill. A local area foraging book with color photo pictures. A book on flint knapping and tools. A battery operated soldering iron with flux and solder. Farmers’ Almanac. A sundial. A 5 gallon bucket of canning salt. As many used Foxfire volumes as you can get for $50.
While I’m not going to art with them - have Foxfire 1 - 5 as well as the first 60+ Mother Earth News
IF you can get around the hippie dippy stuff, there’s a lot of good info in there.