So what are you putting in your dcs stockings?

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Need some inspiration. DD is 3 - so far I've got socks, colouring pencils, stickers, sketch book, orange, apple, chocolate coins..bit dull.

Do people have very big stockings, or very small children? How does a whole Christmas outfit go in a stocking> Or and annual, come to that?

DS is 3 and has asked for (and is getting)

• 5 cars with doors that open
• a teddy called Horace
• a chocolate penguin with Smarties inside
• some drawing paper

as well as

• 2 secondhand Ladybird books
• a Toy Story magic flannel
• chocolate coins
• gummy sweets
• Peppa Pig mug with marshmallows and chocolate
• two boxes of sugary cereal
• socks
• pants
• really cheap mini felt tips from Rymans

I'm making our crackers too so he'll have a wooden watch and a chocolate lolly in that (adults are getting miniature spirits and truffles!)

Looking at it, it does seem like a lot of chocolate and sweets but he's not normally allowed many and we'll do a bit of rationing.

We've got sacks here . I found it too hard to find small things DS would actually like.

DD1 (5) is getting:
a pink guitar (all she has asked for)
a learn to play guitar book and dvd
pink guitar strap
Jamie and Angus Forever book
Olga da Polga book
set of stamps and ink pads
scissors
sun paper
glitter glues (if Amazon ever deliver them)
Tinkerbell DVD
Apple
Chocolate coins

DD2 (3) is getting:
little space rocket (what she asked for)
Brambly Hedge books
Dolls pushchair
Toy toolkit
make a magic wand kit
Peppa Pig DVD
window pens
Bath beans
Clementine
Chocolate coins

I might have got a little carried away there...

They don't have stockings, they have big sacks that I made them a couple of years ago, but even so. I'm not sure I'll be able to fit the guitar in! That was going to be her main present from us, but since she wrote him a letter, and asked him in person, it looks like Father Christmas is going to be getting the credit for it!

DS (3.5) is getting
Tangerine
choc coins
toothbrush
wooden pop gun
Shopping list game
cashew nuts

plus now am stealing sugary cereal, bubble bath and flannel from thread>

DD (6 mo) is getting
humzingers
organix finger food stuff
toothbrush
tights

I am taking my girls to Disneyland Paris on Sat and have a budget of twenty euros each for thier stockings which I am going to enjoy picking way more than they are going to enjoy opening! Santa is also bringing a lotso bear for them (toy story 3)

Mine have stockings in their room and main presents downstairs.
They can open stocking in bed so only have safe and clean things in it that they can have unsupervised.
The idea is to keep them occupied for a while till adults are ready to get up, usually still very early.

So this year they are all getting a magazine and pens, a small box cereal to eat plus fruit, maybe couple of chocolate pennies each and a small plastic tat toy.
Our stockings are quite small.

I have 3 children, they are getting

Chocolate coins
Jewellery (dds)
matchbox cars (ds)
Little Lego set (ds)
Bath goo (ds)
Bath bombs
iPod bag
Headphones
Album each
Socks
Slippers
Calendar
Pencils
Writing paper
Croc Jem thinks (dds)

DD (3.6) getting:
Orange
Chocolate snowman lolly
Turntable for wooden trainset
Mini notebook and pens
Toothbrush
Fairy wand, tiara and tutu
Flannel
Very hungry caterpillar card game
Mini tea set

DS (1.4) getting:
Orange
Happyland policeman and pilot
Buggy book
Cutlery set
Harold helicopter and Thomas train
Toothbrush
Flannel

DS2 aged 8:

PJ's phyllis and ferb
Slippers phyllis and ferb
2 DS games (puzzles and phyllis and ferb)
phyllis and ferb figures
Horrid Henry books x 4
Madilda, charlie and the Chocolate - books
Chocolate
DVD
Litter bugs game
Monopoly
Rubix cube stretcher game
CD player
2 CD's

a few other bits and bobs

He only gets one gift from 'us' under the tree - everything else is from santa

Do your dc's all have huge stockings? How do you fit it all in? My ds (2) has got in his:
A teddy shaped soap
Hand bell from elc
Elc emergancy vehicles
Choc santa and pack of mini snowmen
A little gruffalo
Candy cane
Gingerbread man
Clementine

coloring books, toothbrush, haribo tube, chocolate santa, alien goo slime thing, bubble bath, cars, glowsticks, flashing santa glasses, novelty pen, wallett, party blowers, tattoos. they are ds aged 5 and 6

oh and magazine each.

My DD is 3 in her stocking will be

satsuma
play doh
PJ's
Mog cd
Micky and friends book

Reading some of these i now feel like its not alot!

DD 2.5

Hobby horse (am thinking head sticking out the top?!)
Peppa pig umbrella
Percy piglet sweets
clementine
kazoo
other cheepo plastic music toys
snap cards
felt tips
colouring book
christmas stickers mini book

Thought I didn't have much but seems I do!

DD is four and is getting the following:

Bubbles

• Fairy Dust
• Hair bands
• bath bomb
• bubble bath
• solid perfume (smells of nearly nothing apart from sugar but she will feel so grown up)
• lip balm
• lip gloss in hideous blingy phone shaped case
• Flower Fairy stickers
• flannel (one of those magic ones that you put in water and it expands)
• Hello Kitty biro which writes in 8 different colours
• Colour changing felt tips
• activity book (Galt - letter and number activities and stickers). Might not fit into the actual stocking.
• notebook
• mini aqua beads kit
• tiny magnetic Snakes & Ladders game
• necklace and bracelet
• clementine
• nuts
• a few chocolate coins
• a shiny pound coin (which I will let her buy any old sugary crap she likes with instead of encouraging her to save it or buy something I think is worth it)

I think I might have gone over the top a bit, actually. But her requested FC present is a fridge which really works for her little kitchen set up, so I got her a mini fridge from Argos and it only cost twenty quid so have gone to town on the little presents.