what is this year's "finger lights"?

[mabelbabel]

Finger lights were a big hit in stockings last year - lots of fun had on Christmas morning, though I don't generally like bits of plastic tat. I feel something equally transient, possibly light-up, would be a fun distraction again. Stockings (5 & 8 yo) will have an orange, personalised nutella, juice, choc coins, cereal bar or similar, Lego mixels, books, some polished stones or geodes or fossils, stickers and a small thing from the Christmas list.

What random but fun thing should I add?

(though dd2 is perilously close to getting stocking full of coal )

Have a look in m and s. Oh and waitrose do the same.

They're clear plastic battery operated figures. I have a Christmas tree, a penguin and a snowman. They're a couple of inches high and you flick a switch at the bottom and they go through a rainbow of colours. £3.50 each - on a 3 for 2.

A cute little filler

I've also added ... ( my youngest is 8 )

A bag of chocolate Brussels sprouts ( m and s )

Mixels

Freddo frogs

A light up pen

A small egg containing some slime

I just got: glow sticks, glitter cup, wind up Santa, hair bobbles for dd's stockings

Slime sounds promising and light up things - I'll have a look. I bought some chocolate brussels too, but I've eaten them all.

The finger lights I ordered in November 2013 have still not turned up!

I have bought glow in the dark shoe laces this year. I think they were from Lakeland (not sure), but I have seen them in a few of the catalogues.

Also bought cake in a mug from Lakeland.

Ooh just seen on the bargain thread those glasses which make lights look like rudolf/stars etc. I've seen them in a shop before - I think that's what I need..

Ooh mabelbabel those glasses sound great - what are they called?

Last year I got ds finger skateboards from the pound shop for his stocking, the set came with stickers to decorate them, a wee screwdriver for removing wheels and spare wheels. He LOVED them. Hundreds of pounds worth of presents (a massive family) and he just loved these skateboards that cost £1.

There is also the fake snow stuff (can't remember the exact name) from Hawkin's Bazaar. Excellent fun!

Pound land have the snow and the skateboards.

I will be making a trip their tomorrow after work. My son genuinely LOVED them. The snow being in pound land now makes it even better!

Please someone link to the novelty Rudolph glasses! If they're what I understand them to be, they sound great for DS1.

He's a very lucky DS1 because he asked FB for Harry Potter lego and I did say it was very rare (ebay, silly prices) and not made any more and I didn't think FC would be able to source it. And then walked into a charity shop to find several smallish sets, complete, boxed! He's also getting a Star Wars egg (contains small figurine), a couple of paperbacks he really wants, Star Wars torch keyring, and maybe a Therizinosaurus (obscure dinosaur with appallingly long fingernails) but possibly that will go under the tree from me, because frankly he has enough from the Man now!

The glasses are like these ones here:
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MAGIC-CHRISTMAS-GLASSES-3D-turns-fairy-lights-into-rainbows-and-xmas-shapes-/261683175102?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item3ced885ebe
Though they have also been spotted in Homebase and Asda, so I will try that, or I think it was the in the garden centre that I saw them last year. They are pricey for flimsy cardboard specs, but they will be fun for a while.
The skateboards do sound like fun too - maybe for older DD, and especially for £1.