Any good stocking filler ideas for big family? (4 children age 11-5). Ideally multi buy type things to keep costs down and save squabbles!

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I try and buy similar stocking things for all 4 children so they feel they are treated equally by Santa (main presents are from us and are all quite different).

The thing is, I don’t like buying too much pointless tat but I am finding the costs add up quickly!

So far I have bought:

• rulers (4 pack in fun designs)
• smiggle key rings and pens (they were discounted)
• pots of slime (token tat!)

If anyone has seen any good multi buys or similar I would love some good suggestions. Needing to do all shopping online this year for complex reasons.

Oh and found them some magic flannel things too!

Sweets/chocolate coins/chocolate Brussel sprouts/popcorn
Age appropriate book
Small game (top trumps type)
Socks/undies
Toothbrush/paste
Water bottle

Online supermarket shop...

Glass bottles of coke ina pack of 4

Pudding in a mug sachets, 50p each

Multipack of sweets or chocolate

Glow sticks from the party section

Punch balloon packs

Multi pack of nice pens/pencils/rubber

Book each (2 for £7 in Asda)

New toothbrush each

Themed Shower gel (paw patrol etc)

Getting bits in our online supermarket shop is a brilliant idea, don’t know why I didn’t think of that

I have 5 from 17 to 4. I tend to do 9 things each in their stockings:
Socks, pants, sweets/chocolate, some other edible, something I’ve banned (eg. Small tub of play doh), a book, something fun (finger lights, elastic band helicopters), then small toys like bouncy balls, action figures, art supplies etc.

Moon ball was a huge hit with ours last year

Practical jokes, I bought some cheap ones off eBay, fly in an ice cube, cockroach in a sweet wrapper etc. Mini torch off eBay, stopwatch off eBay, bookmark. Top trumps

Mine are similar ages, I always do socks, toothbrushes etc. Bag of chocolate coins, silly pens (the sodding singing Rudolph pen from last year still keeps going off every time you open the drawer it's in). Lego minifigurw blind packs, little bath bombs (you can get packs of them from boots or Superdrug). Little mosaic sticker pictures from yellow moon or Baker Ross. Little craft kits (99p type) from the works or hobbycraft.

Mine wanted squishies (2 boys). I got a box of 5 from smyths for £14.99 this week.

www.smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/toys/fashion-and-dolls/squish/soft-n’slo-squishies-5-pack/p/167283?gclid=Cj0KCQiA597fBRCzARIsAHWby0FeyXk5jY6x98Pgsdgx4LXSgHdh_P7T5Ge-Y4IYTuwftPeUOzsTcrgaAmA_EALw_wcB

Lots of nice bits and pieces in the works shop mostly plastic junk but popular with a lot of kids so still worth considering. Mine generally have sweets, bracelet and hair bands, slime, squishies, blind bags, collectible figures, fizz eggs, little personalised bits, smiggle stuff. Depending on size of stockings what about joke book, mini games, gift card, craft things, dvd, card game, watch, ball, puzzle, gelli baff, cd

Wilkos do small packs of colouring pencils or felt tip pens for 20p. Larger packs 50 p, pencil cases from 50p( the clear plastic ones are the 50 p ones). Rubbers and pencil sharpeners around 35p.
Craft sets from £1, pocket activity books from 50p, craft paper a pound a pack( buy 2 and split to make 4 sets) and loads of other cheap craft items which you could buy a selection of and split to make mini craft kits.