What did you buy the children?

[ShesAStar]

I finished the children's presents today - would anyone like to share their lists? I'm only including tree presents - not the stocking fillers.

DS (7):
John Adams Electronics kit
Smartlab Demolition Lab
Fischertechnik Rolling Action
Slushy Cup
Small Starwars Lego
Large Nerf Gun and Bullets
Nerf Bullet Holder
Lego Ninjago flying figure
Knock down tin can game
Atlas Adventure book
Pop-up London Book

DD (3)
Geomag kit
Wheely Bug
Elsa Doll
Magiclip doll set
Elsa light up shoes
Little Live Pet bird
Slushy cup
Unicorn bag
Twirly Woo bath toy
Pop-up Palace Book
Pop-up Under the Ocean book

Well, you've just cost me £38, OP - that Fischertechnik Rolling Action set looks fab so I've ordered it!

DS (8) has:
Lego Dimensions starter set plus the Portal level pack
Radio controlled quad-copter with camera
Fischertechnik Rolling Action
Ferrari steering wheel for his XBox (if it turns up in time....)
New XBox headset
Top Gear book
Magnetic putty
Poo emoji soft toy
Balloon amimal kit
Silicone watch
Eddie Stobart car transporter
Some weird Science Museum slinky bubble spring thing that looked awesome when the woman was playing with it in Hawkins Bazaar but will probably be crap - this is for 'Santa' (who looks remarkably like my DH) to give him at our friend's party on Saturday though.

(That looks a lot, reaading back, but the Portal pack and the Fischertechnik set will be from my dad, who's 91 and can't get out to buy presents)

I've bypassed most of the responses so that I don't twitch!!

I always think these threads get derailed by differing opinions of what is 'enough', 'too much' or 'not enough'.

Doesn't matter really though does it? Each to their own.....

FWIW, my kids get one present from us for under the tree (this year it's a fancy dress costume which one DD spied so I had to take it off the stocking list) - most of the presents go in the stocking so in fact, they get quite a lot in the stocking.

This year each stocking includes:

Leapfrog tablet (DD6) and Leapfrog Reader pen (DD3.5) + games/books
Colouring pens, colouring books
A dress
A swimsuit
Cuddly toy
Barbie doll and a Barbie dvd
Craft kit (e.g. Djeco/Aquarellum)
Books + audio cds (lots.....went a bit mad at the Book People)
Hair bobbles and clips
Character knickers and socks
Games (Party, party party!, a Kloo game, Coppit)
Jigsaw
Tangleteezer

Plus a few extra bits like fairy dust (got that idea from the Christmas thread), and probably cute pencils, key rings etc. DD2 is also getting a duvet cover.

I would much rather pad out the stocking with useful items (clothing, socks, pants etc - my kids seem to love this!) than putting plastic tat in.

Dd 13

Fuji Instax camera
Jewellery box
Silver necklace
2 x books
A few ornaments and picture frame
Ipod shuffle

• stocking Dd 8

Ipod touch
2 x books
Carcasonne game
Magic set
Dobble
Steiff bear
Necklace

• stocking

Dd3
Melissa and Doug:
Train set
Horse set
House with figures
Russian dolls
Orchard games set
Steiff bear
Leappad book
Wooden castle box

• stocking.

Dd (12)
Champ (build a bear)
Build a bear voucher (£50)
Mp4 player
Mini fridge
American baseball coat
Emoji jumper
Set of 3 diary of a wimpy kid books
Jenga extreme game
2 small beany boos
Grown up colouring book

Dd (1)
Scuttle bug
Fake remote control
Plastic tea set
Spinning top
4 books
Teddy
Bath toy

*plus stockings

Sorry Spiderlight, the top three presents on DS's list are all an attempt to prize him away from Minecraft! I really hope you son likes it - looks really good to me!

I only have one dd whos 3. She has..

Frozen cushion
Frozen mug
Anna and Elsa barbie dolls.
Talking carebear
Dont take busters bones game
Orchard game of feed the gorilla type thing.
5 colouring books plus crayons.
3 sticker books
Vtech camera
Frozen singing Elsa with microphone
Ben and hollys castle plus figures
Frozen and Princess knickers to encourage her to toilet train.
Frozen slippers
Chocolate variety which i ve bought individually and put in a box

I do have more but as its all put away i cant remember what else she has.

Love reading everyones lists.

Ds 6- Bike (steered him towards this since his is broken and got with vouchers from work which was a bonus!)
Mario Maker for his wii u
Minecraft story mode
Vinyl Creeper
Board games - monopoly junior and greedy sheep (top of his list)
Jurassic park mashers.
Iron man hands
wii remote -luigi
Talking tom
Lego city space stuff
Lego Creative
Books/sweets/jammies and stocking stuff

DD 4
Barbie Camper van
Anna and Olaf Sleigh Set
Frozen Singalong Elsa
Braun Beauty set (mini hairdryer etc)
Cinderella DVD
Frozen make up case
Duplo Cakes
Duplo Sophia
Frozen snow sleeve
Playdoh zoo set
Zoom zuppies Gemma
Talking Angela
20 pack shopkins
Frozen puzzle
Disney princess snow globe maker
Jelly fun
Book/sweets/jammies and stocking stuff.

Ds1
Big drone
Baby mini drone
Rc tank
I q robot

Ds1
Rc imaginext batman transformer
Imaginext joker set
Nerf hover helicopter
Walle lego

Pie face and derby scalelectrix to share

Plus a stocking each

I'm happy with my lot normally I go over board but I think i got the right number this year for us.

Plus a few extra bits like fairy dust

Ohhh what is this pray tell

Ds1 3
Book - Big book of space
Book- Pirates love underpants
Mr men jigsaw
Bike
Art bits - colouring books -space, pirate book and crayons
Weather book
Small noisy police car
Buzz light year
Kaleidoscope, tangerine and dinosaur matching cards for stocking

Ds2 1
Pirate ride on
Pirate book
Jungle sounds aqua doodle
Farm sound book
Story book
Happy land helicopter
Xylophone
Melissa and Doug doorbell house
Bird whistle, tangerine and a bath toy for stocking

Nothing was full price and has been purchased since July onwards. They've done a lot better than I thought.

Fairy dust I got the fourth one on the list!

Mine never know what they want (I attribute this to them not watching much telly with adverts on it and the fact that we live semi rurally with no toy shops!) so they ask Santa for one or two 'little' things and then me and dh get them some things we think they will like, often to share.

From Santa:
DS1 (8)
Darth Vader costume
Darth vader lightsaber
Puzzle book, felt tips, science putty, hot wheels car, sweets

DS2(6)
Luke Skywalker costume
Luke Skywalker lightsaber
Puzzle book, felt tips, science putty, hot wheels car, sweets

DS3(3)
Hama maxi beads
a few wooden Thomas trains (2nd hand off eBay!)
couple of Mr Men books

From me and dh:
A jigsaw each (I buy them one every year, I suspect partly for my own benefit!)
An MP3 player each for the older two and a docking station to share so they can play music in their room
A tap-tap art set for ds3
A car transporter for ds2 that he saw in town a few weeks ago
A pin art thing that ds1 was playing with in a shop in town a few weeks ago.
A Hexbug Nano set to share, 2nd hand off eBay

God that looks quite a lot all written down and I thought I had reined it in this year!

Dd(14) has asked for cash to spend on graphic novels/manga so we've made her a cash pizza from £100. She's also getting an outrageously expensive quidditch jumper from Harry Potter Studio Tour, a posh pen and some Lego stuff.

Father Christmas has got a tad carried away again...
BB-8 droid (iPad controlled)
Special edition Batman design Converse boots
Complete collection of Death Note manga books
4 graphic novels
Pile of books
Set of Death Note figurines
Black Butler plush
Collection of gemstone bracelets
Choccy

Can anyone tell me the age range for the David baddiel book? Sounds right up my DS10s street!

It says 9 and up. I've bought it for a 9 year old, the protagonists are boy/girl twins. The amazon reviews seemed to be mainly for 9/10 year olds, with a couple younger and older, which helped me choose it!

Lovely, will have to buy it now

Love these threads, seeing what everybody has bought.
DS1 (6)
Razor scooter
cd player with audio books
leapband
where's wally bookset
Ninja turtle shaker makers
ds game
kerplunk

Goal keeper gloves(only thing on his list)

DS 2 (3)
Scooter
paw patrol mat and figures
2x orchard games
minions dvd
Thomas take and play plus trains
snowman dominos

i have been shopping since August. So excited this year as I have 10 days off work. First time in 10yrs.

DS 3.5yr

Playmobil Bin Lorry
Disney Planes aeroplane
Brio Monorail
toy cutting food

DS 23m

Happyland Zoo
Happyland fairground
WOW helicopter

TO SHARE: Vtech toot toot racetrack

I only have one DS who is two and he has the following;

A happyland train set with extra track (got both half price so that was a good bargain).

Stickle bricks

Cars 2 dvd (he's obsessed with the first one)

A story book

Some play food to go with his kitchen plus play sauce pots from my nan.

A vtech hoover

He'll have a couple of other bits from other people

dd aged 11
Cheap laptop
Crayon a paint maker
3 big cheap makeup sets
A load of pigments for soap making
Eos lip balms
Antique china doll (ebay bargain)
Some clothes

Dd aged 7
Clever Keet
Glitzy globes
Barbie head
Big massive bear
Crafty things

Mum has got them about five things each too

I love these threads too - I like to search through them for ideas when I start my shopping. We're in the big pile club here too, which works for us.

DS (7)

Lego dimensions
Lego dr who
Lego city deep sea set
Lego technics set
Pocket microscope
Imaginext mr freeze set
Dr who posters
Skylanders figures
Cluedo
Dr who figures
Nerf gun
Lots of books
Stocking with bits and pieces

DS (10):

20inch flatscreen tv (actually wanted to get him a monitor only for xbox, but tv was cheaper!)
Chelsea beenie hat
Minecraft jumper
Monopoly
Hoverball

DD (7)
Dressing gown
Kindle fire
Roller skates
Hair stylists head with clips/bobbles etc
Electronic dictionary