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)

Can you share some of his creations?

He sounds very creative - to be encouraged!

At a similar age I got my ds a large box with smaller boxes packed inside and inside the smaller east celloptape and paint etc.

He was also a fan of making box models etc and he made a train and carriage from that set.

Added bonus that it kept him busy the rest of the holidays

Once, not around Christmas, I wanted to make little notebooks and asked my dad if I could borrow the stapler from his desk. He said yes and the next day brought me a brand new stapler, a really nice one, so I could have my own. It was better than his. I had lots of great presents in my life but it's one of the ones I really remember and it still makes me smile 20+ years later.

DSD asked for a jar of pickled gherkins one year. She was 8 years old and had tried them for the 1st time at my parents house and loved them. DD wasn't keen on them so we got DSD 4 jars of the things which she was absolutely delighted with. It became a bit of a tradition every year after that....there was always at least 1 jar of them wrapped up and under the tree.

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A reel of cellotape seems very reasonable compared to that.

Introduce him to duck tape and masking tape as well. Duck tape can make flexible hinges for his models and masking tape you can write on/draw on.

😂
Clearly our DDs have good taste!
My DD is 22 now and when we talk of it, she still insists it was one of her best presents ever and sees nothing odd about it!!

Why not? Eldest DD had similar years ago. The boys have had a bag of nails.. most went into my coffee table, lol.. and a loaf.
Oh & feather dusters. ;-)

Hobbycraft do a vast array of different coloured duck tape. I was so tempted.

Op have you heard of makedo cardboard tools?

I think you can get them on amazon too.

Basically a tool set for junk modelling (including screws, screw driver and a tool which makes it easier to bend cardboard without breaking it)

DD got a box of bubble wrap from Rudolph one year.

Wait.. it’s Sellotape right!

My daughter loves cellotape!! Buy him a multipack, he will love it 😀

My son has a load of paper, washi tape and a pack of pritt sticks.
He loves stuff like that.

YANBU - these are the most fun presents and will be remembered

Over the years mine have requested and been given:

Frozen peas
Spam
Loo roll with pictures on
A whole Edam
Halloumi
A nose hair trimmer (ds was 11!)
Mop slippers

Why not?🤷one of my DC loves post it notes and other crafting materials so I bought some for his birthday present when he turned 7 earlier this year.

Some of DS's best presents were fun, inexpensive things like a whole roll of bubble wrap or wallpaper, and a whole ream of A4 office paper.

My son loves blutac to put stuff on his walls so thats in his stocking

My son had a massive box once filled with pound shop stationary one Christmas! Cello tape, stapler, pens, pencils, sharpeners, a rubber band ball - absolutely all sorts of stuff! He absolutely loved it! Now, we do go all out for Christmas but each year this is one of the pressies he looks forward to most! In fact, I did my poundshop stationary run this very morning!

I had to stop getting my son blutac for Christmas and birthdays because it ended up EVERYWHERE!!

Get him to check out Darrell Wakelam he makes some amazing creations from cardboard and tape. Has lots of tutorials on his website as well, which are great.
We have a large drawer of making stuff including dowels, glue gun, tape, batteries and wires and a shed full of cardboard.

Think the fact he wants sellotape for Christmas is brilliant.

I've bought my daughter blue tack 😂 she loves it so why not get them something they enjoy

My 9 year old loves stationery and often asks for bluetac etc for Christmas! He and my DD both love crafting. Definitely get it for him!!!

Ooh! Glue gun could be good!