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Random things your kid wants for Christmas

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badjeans · 18/11/2025 19:39

Not the obvious toys and gadgets. Anything that amused or bemused you on your children’s lists?

My 4yo wants a banana-shaped yellow jelly. Not jelly sweets, an actual jelly.

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scalt · 19/11/2025 09:11

@ItsameLuigi Aged seven, I loved playing in a dog crate at someone else's house. One of the older kids there said that if I didn't get out of it, he'd lock me in. And when I stayed where I was, he did lock it, with a padlock! He thought he was being mean, but I was happier than ever, and I stayed locked in for a long time, pretending I was Hansel.

I know someone whose kid requested that if she was even given a present that was too big to wrap, that she would have her eyes covered and taken to it: one of her friends had told of this happening to her. In her stocking, she received a pretty mask from Claire's Accessories, and she was blindfolded for a few long minutes while her big present was brought in: a bike.

sashh · 19/11/2025 10:01

asco · 18/11/2025 23:42

DS3 is our only hair pulling santa request child
An easter egg - we managed to get it!!
A surprise, on being asked was there any particular surprise or was he going to be happy with any surprise, his answer? Oh no I know what I want but I want it to be a surprise for everyone, cue us going through hoops to get to santa 1st when we brought them, to describe the child coming through and get him to tell him what the surprise was!! It was a can of Lynx spray. He was 4
Edible wallpaper🤔 and genius DH bought an abundance of coloured rice paper, at the time he started off the night in our bed and was lifted into his own when we were going to bed, so while he was asleep in our bed DH papered the wall behind his bed with the rice paper. He spent the morning licking it off the wall😂

I'm a little bit in love with your DH. Absolutely genius idea.

StarlaBell79 · 19/11/2025 10:54

burblish · 18/11/2025 22:30

When one DC was about 3, they wanted a pink, squeaky, rubber elephant. That would be a dog toy, then. Same DC was also utterly overjoyed to find a ball of string in their stocking once.

My DS also had string, stickytape and a ream of printer paper one year - he liked using the the string to make 'traps' around the house and the paper & tape to stick on the floor for drawing roads on for his toy cars. 🥰

I miss those days! Now he wants a real car... 🤦‍♀️

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BiffAndChipAndKipperToo · 19/11/2025 14:14

Calliopespa · 18/11/2025 23:22

Do you think she meant instead of a stocking ie; to hang at then end of the bed and filled by Father Christmas?

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No, definitely a pillowcase for her pillow! Not even a particular design, just a plain pillowcase. We checked with her a few times.

She had a large stocking already, I know some people use pillowcases but I don't think she would have known that.

BeaLola · 19/11/2025 18:43

I so miss these days of little people with their strange and quirky requests -now DS 17 just wants expensive technology or £ - I would love to get him something that made his face go wow like it did when he was little and Father Christmas delivered - one of the things he got one year which he hasn't asked for but appeared in his stocking was the remote control for the colour changing led lightbulb we had put in his room unbeknownst to him - he spent literally hours changing his room lighting - tbh Grandpa likes it so much I bought him one the next year too

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