My son wants cellotape for xmas

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My 9 yr old son loves cello-tape ( and staplers, scissors) and makes ‘ models’ from our junk waste. I have saved some interesting junk waste and bought some patterned cellotape and a staple free stapler ( packaged into a gift box) for a Xmas. My husband thinks this is (pun) a rubbish gift. AIBU to give him cellotape and junk because he will love it ( he has other larger gifts)

That has just reminded me. My Cousin used to ask for bubblewrap for Christmas back when we were kids, and in the early 70's it being a fairly new invention (1957) it was nowhere near as widely used as it is today.

I can see her now sitting popping it, saying it was her best present ever!

It wasn't about money either as they were the posher side of the family (had a piano and shares )

She still gets some every Christmas even now.

I never saw the appeal myself being more than content with my Sindy.

If that's what your DS wants OP, get it and ignore your DH.

My 3 year old is obsessed with plasters and putting them on her dolls. I have bought her loads for Christmas as stocking fillers. I know she will be made up.
All that matters is if they will make them happy

Jesus, I'll swap you my young lad 😀Get him some gorilla sellotape as well and tell him that is the beast of tapes.

Also meant to say that Paperchase have some great patterned tapes, wider than standard washi tape.

I've got some with Dinosaurs on and Sprouts!

Mine have tape and post it notes. Always gets blu tac when we travel - they all love it.

We mail ordered some board games years ago, he was excited about 20 seconds then spent the rest of the day playing with packaging

We did go on to play the board games after a while though

I always wanted window putty and a tape measure when i was a child. I never got it.

I recall asking for, and getting, cellotape one year.

I never got a Mr Frosty though.

He isn't the only one, my DD asked for the same from Santa one year.

My mum works for a supermarket and brought home some of their gigantic cardboard boxes that they get marketing in. I filled it with a roll of bubble wrap, colour pens, scissors that cut different textures and so much tape. Little tiny washi tape, masking tape in different widths and colours, cellotape and a proper dispenser and a duck tape. It was DDs favourite present, she spent days in that boxes drawing designs and it's a few years later and that tape is still coming in handy - it's not as if it goes off.

I think cellotape is an amazing thing to ask for. I'd get every type of tape I could find a wide, narrow, different sized reels, double sided, masking tape, pattered .....

My son once asked Santa for baked beans and cheese. Santa delivered. This year he's asked for Tuna and Sweetcorn and Mayo ....

My DD was around that age when she wanted sellotape and silver tape holder to put it in

Get him a really nice heavy Sellotape holder/cutter - I got one as a kid who loves crafts and I still have it now over 20 years later. It's great as you can pull a piece and cut it to size with one hand.

The lightweight ones are crap as you need to hold it down with the other hand in order to use enough force to pull it and cut on the teeth

Sounds brilliant! DD will be getting sellotape (the new, plastic-free one) and some split pins (is that what they’re called?) and bubble wrap because it’s about giving her something she will enjoy receiving and using, not about what I want to give her!

Oh, DD is about to turn 9, so same sort of age as yours, Op

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I give my son a stick of paper glue & a packet of blu tack every Christmas (he gets other presents) & he loves them.
I've got him sellotape as well some years (he loved the double sided stuff).

We have an entire stack of craft drawers full of glue sticks etc..., but he just loves having one 'of his own' to make things with.

If it makes him happy & it harms no one, it's the right thing to gift him.
Presents are supposed to be about trying to delight the person you are giving them to, not the person giving the gift.

For my broccoli loving friends two years old, I suggested the Jellycat broccoli toy. But apparently she'd be upset because she can't eat it! Cuteness overload!

Brilliant idea - that is what he wants also a great cellotape dispenser and agree a good heavy one 🎄🎄🎄🎄
There are also the dispensers that are used on the boxes when moving house that fit the wide kind of tape, they are brilliant fun to use - get them from BIG YELLOW storage places or msybe straight from Pickford's

Yes, dd2's favourite gift from a few years back was double sided sticky tape.

Santa has also brought numerous rolls of patterned tape over the years.

I work in self storage, and a lady came in the other day to buy a massive box for her granddaughter.... who asked for it for Xmas to build a castle!

Do it

You could also see if any friends have small unusual empty rubbish boxes

Wonderful idea

I have just bought masking tape for my 10 year old DD as she loves to make baskets etc out of it so

My DD asked Santa for her very own roll of sellotape when she was 6.

She was very happy when she found some in her stocking.

It's brilliant! I'd add crinkle cut scissors, a tape dispenser, thick masking tape (stronger for the junk), a single hole punch and shape hole punches. These are things the kids at work love using when junk modelling 😄

A gift is never rubbish if it's something the recipient loves!