By Lisa Neff

Contributing writer

Sock it to your biggest gift recipient this holiday with a “wow” gift certificate for a flying lesson. The closest flight school can be found at projectpilot.org, where for as little as $49 you can buy a flight lesson sure to impress even the most humbug Scrooge on your gift list.

Sponsored by the nonprofit Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, ProjectPilot.org is an educational program that works with more than 3,500 flight schools to get folks hooked on flying.

What else does CFP suggest for the stocking on Christmas morning?

Green giving: Live tree gift boxes from mastergardening.com are no more than eight- to 20-inches tall and come packaged in gift boxes with growing instructions. The red leaf Japanese maple seems especially hardy—and beautiful. www.mastergardening.com

We Add Up is a big statement that rolls up small. The organic cotton T-shirt literally counts the wearer in the fight against global warming. The back of each shirt advertises action to reduce carbon footprints—recycle, carpool, hybrid, insulate, bike. And each shirt contains a unique number in the growing campaign for change. Imorganic.com

Play time: The Digital Dealer Button from DB Dealer features a built-in blind timer and bet clock—the perfect accessory for those Wednesday night poker tournaments. www.dbdealer.com

Rubik’s Revolution is the first electronic era followup to the No. 1 selling Rubik’s Cube. The Revolution tests both speed and smarts with six built-in games that feature voice, lights and sound effects. With multiple levels to unlock, the new cube challenges mind and dexterity.

Spider-Man 3 Battletronics puts players in the heat of battle with all the villains in the third installment of the film franchise.

Bicycle Tri-Peak Solitaire puts one of the hottest online games into a portable, handheld toy that goes anywhere for anytime play. www.technosourceusa.com

Pampering products: Save Your World infuses its personal care products with yerba mate and organic aloe vera. The “Variety Pak” gift bag would overload even the largest stocking with skin care products—and SYW donates a share of proceeds to pay the fees and royalties needed to maintain the Guyana Forestry Commission and protect the rainforest. www.saveyourworld.com

Mad Gab’s holiday gift sets feature 100-percent all-natural balms for the lips, face and body to moisturize and energize tired winter skin. Each set contains two Holiday Moose Smooches for the lips and a skin balm with shea butter, olive oil and vitamin E. And treat yourself to tin of hot cocoa “smooch.” You’ll swear you even get the scent of whipped cream. www.madgabs.com

Hot designs: Ar+Cook continues to revolutionize in the kitchen with sleekly designed essentials (tongs, a basting brush, a seafood cracker, and mixing bowls) and utensils (a cutting board and cheese grater) in signature colors of green, orange, pink, purple, black and white. Sorry, no red or green. www.artandcook.com

From Contigo this Christmas comes the no-spill, stainless steel AutoSeal travel mug. This mug, with the push of a button, seals after each sip. That means there’s no worries about spills at the computer or as a commuter, and there’s also better chance at keeping the heat. Your best bet on finding it in the next week is at Target.

Gadget gimmes: Umbra has created the Bungee iPod Nano holder, a plastic case (blue, black or white) with a spring-loaded cap and a neck strap for easily carrying the most popular iPod around. www.umbra.com

Otto’s wireless MP3 player headset is a 512 MB plug-and-play device that supports MP3 and WMA digital formats, has a rechargeable battery that offers up to eight hours of continuous play. www.hearotto.com

The newest addition to the Baby-G line is a lovable collection of wristwatches that combine the best of analog and digital timekeeping features. The watches are shock resistant, water resistant, contain data memory, a daily alarm, stopwatch and countdown timer.

Clocky, from Think Geek, is a riot—or a scream. The wheeled alarm clock shrieks and races around the room, forcing the just awakened to catch it before they can silence it. A refreshing way to hit the ground running—or entertain on the morning after. www.thinkgeek.com

Adding to the award-winning family of portable storage devices, Memorex offers the ruggedly designed Ultra TravelDrive line of USB hard drives with up to 160 GB of capacity. www.ememorex.com

YouTubers will flip for Pure Digital’s pocket-size Flip Video Ultra Camcorder. The digital video camera is one of the simplest on the market. Just press the power button, turn the camera on the subject and press play. For downloading the video, a USB plug is attached to the side of the camera and flips up for easy attaching to the computer. Directors can shoot up to 60 minutes with a 2 GB recorder and up to 120 minutes with a 4GB. www.theflip.com

Those prized electronics can have sensitive skin. How long did you own that first iPod before you noticed a scratch? Invisible Shield from Shield Skin is like body armor for gadgets. The adhesive shield was originally designed to protect military helicopter blades from wear and tear. Now it can be applied to laptops, cellphones, MP3 players and other go-gadgets to guard against scratches and keep the electronics clean. www.shieldzone.com