This year they have
A small craft set
One of those digging kits, this one is a 'precious' bit of coloured glass gem
A card game each
A sticker book
A satsuma and nuts
Chocolate coins
And, probably the best present of all Christmas, a box of tictacs. For some reason, tictacs are seen by my children as very grown up and sophisticated.
I'll probably twitch at some point and shove more things in but for now, that's it. Usually there is a present each from Father Christmas in there too, wrapped in brown paper. In our house, Father Christmas brings just one present and puts it in the stocking along with ours. This year, the present from Father Christmas is joint so it'll go under the tree with a note explaining.
Usually we open them first thing Christmas morning. The kids find them in their rooms and drag them in to us in bed. I get up really early and make breakfast in bed on a tray, and once the kids are in, we all eat that and they open the presents. It's my favourite part of Christmas.
This year it will be a bit different as we will be at my parents' house. We'll get up instead and come downstairs with the stockings so my parents can see them opening them too. And we'll breakfast after. The tree presents will wait for a few hours until my sister manages to drag her arse out of bed and come round with my niece but at least my kids will have something to open and play with until then.
When we were little, the stockings got taken downstairs and we were not allowed to open a thing until everyone was there. We had tons of sweets, usually something like a magazine or annual, socks and knickers that we needed (mum insists to this day on buying us knickers at Christmas, lol) and a few 'bits and bobs' sort of things like a random stuffed toy, a little snow globe, hair stuff etc. I loved it, and I hope my kids will grow up loving our way of doing it.
I wish you a very merry Christmas, OP, and I hope you'll enjoy having a few British elements in your day. We are a mixed family and I live outside of the U.k, and I've adopted lots of non-British things into our Christmas. It's wonderful, you can cherry pick all the nicest things and turn them into your own traditions.