Need ideas for 'doing things' to go in a stocking!!!

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as well as toothbrushes, pjs, pants etc I am after some cheap ideas for things that will keep the LOs occupied and busy on christmas day. they are getting new bikes this year so apart from a bike ride - i need other stuff!

What age?

Plain t-shirts and fabric pens?
Craft stuff - pens/pencils/colouring books/sketch pads with funky erasers?
jigsaws
DVDs

Puzzle books? Small Lego sets? Gogos? Periscope? Spy gear?

I got ds3 a little Playmobil set today (as a very rare treat as he was so good about wearing his new hearing aid today) - 2 tennis players - it was about £3 and he and ds2 were so excited that I am seriously considering returning all their christmas presents

How old are your dcs?

Oh sorry! Girl 6, boy 4.
Thanks for ideas so far!!!!

Plus plus. We put these on the tables at a work dinner, people fiddled with them all night, and most vanished at the end. Some colleagues still have them on their desks and play with them while "thinking". :)

In Asda they have make your own sweetie necklace things for £1. I have divided mine into 2 so they can make a necklace and eat it.

My 5yo DD loves any kind of beads - have you got Hama beads?

Betterware sells a set of three racing snails- ideal fun for everyone including big kids.

Our stockings always have a kazoo or swanee whistle in. Also, a cheap sticker book.

I was going to say Hama beads too. I picked up a small stocking size set for 2.50 in wilkos.
I've also bought a sticker dolly dressing up book from book people, they have loads of them for 2.50-2.99.

In hobbycraft (but could probably get them elsewhere) I got each of my DCs an individual Shrinkle each (a picture to colour in, then you put it in the oven!) and an individual paint-your-own sun catcher thing.