Ideas for joint gifts for children.

[Juk3]

I have 3 dc aged 14, 11 and 8 and I would some ideas for a few joints gifts for them. They will have individual gifts also under the tree but their main present is the new 2020 iPad pro each. I want to wrap the 3 ipads individually and put them in a box, wrap that box and place it inside another box with a joint gift in, then that in a bigger box with joint gift etc etc up to about 5 or 6 layers but willing to have more layers if ideas are good. I have a gingerbread house construction kit so far for one layer so all ideas welcome.

Mine are having a milk frother, few nicer than usual hot chocolates, some of the hot choc toppers from Home Bargains, gingerbread glass mugs and sprinkles/mini gingerbread men as a joint gift this year.

And maybe Bop-it (if the price drops a bit - as fun as it is, I don't think it's worth £40!)

OP send the iPads back and then go volunteer at a homeless shelter on Christmas Day

Alternatively, ignore the pps above and have a wonderful Christmas (and ticket to ride - awesome game )

I think this is a lovely idea. What about something they can build together like lego or gravitrax or something? Or perhaps a board game, incoherent is good and also exploding kittens

Op you can buy your children what you want. Ignore other posters being mean. For some reason mumsnet goes crazy if you spend significant amounts of money on your children its always a competition to spend the least.

Its a lovely present and your children will love them im sure.

How about a wirless charger as a joint gift.

How annoying! Good thread turned sour. Thanks to the pp who recommended the sharpies, great deal!

Why do people have to jump on to Christmas threads to criticise how much the Op has bought or spent or how they space out presents? It is so tiresome! The Op asked for joint present ideas not whether she should get her DC the Ipads! @Juk3 - you don't need to explain yourself - you can do Christmas exactly as you like and it is noone else's business.

Back to the question: I've got my DS a card game called One night a werewolf that would be a good joint present. Last year I got my 2 a joint present of a game called Bank Attack - we've had lots of fun with it. A console game they can play with together. You can get treasure hunts in your local area.

If you’re getting sharpies then one thing I’ve bought for my dc I is a game called Art Out Of The Box which was less than half price on Amazon - basically a load of promptsand things to draw, kind of a set of challenges to help give them prompts to do different stuff and gamify a bit (and can do one a day or 4 challenges each with 5 minutes on each one etc) along with a ream of paper. Maybe a clipboard or baseboard or similar too as the problem with sharpies is they go through paper - you don’t want to end up with your furniture covered with bits from their drawings that have bled through!

A book of mug cake recipes - easy baking and fun for kids - maybe flick through and see if there are any ingredients that would help such as choc chips, mini marshmallows, toffee sauce, cherries, sprinkles, lemon, etc etc that could be presentified. Actually they could also be nice ice cream sundae toppings so maybe add a sûndae glass each and make them dual purpose.

A quiz book

A cheap set of juggling balls (or scarves for less damage indoors!) each

Headphones each - I’m going for some anker ones for dh for being a proper brand that gets good reviews but not expensive - currently on Black Friday deals.

A power bank for their new iPads. Again Anker is a good brand for them - it’s the brand that most of my techy friends recommend.

Lego do a good little set with klutz to make your own movie or stikbots do a make a movie set that might be better - challenge them all to make a mini movie each on their ipads.

Oh no, someone bit. OP clearly had to get it in there that she’s bought 3 iPads 🙄
There’s lots of joint ideas, as I’m sure you know. But we’ll done on being able to buy iPads?!

As a 14 year old I would have been less keen on receiving joint presents with younger siblings than the OP is anticipating with her children. (But you know them best!)

But it's surely outrageous for people to complain about the cost of her gifts. Particularly after we've mostly had rubbish years and missed out on all sorts of expected pleasures.

I'm not having a go at you or anything - if you have the money to spare, that's absolutely fine - but just so you know, me and DP bought an iPad pro recently and SS has an older version of just a normal iPad, and we can see no difference in quality that warrants the difference in cost. SS has done online lessons using his iPad (iPad for watching the class, and then typing on his computer) and it's running fine. You can get a normal iPad for £329 from Apple or on Amazon, so you could get all 3 for almost the same price as just one pro! I think the children are too young to need the most expensive model (I mean, does anyone need it really?)

As I said if you have the money it's 100% up to you how to spend it, but if you're stretching yourself thinking that this is the only way you're going to be able to support their education, I'm just saying that a more basic model would work fine - probably even an older one than the one I mentioned!

@LindaEllen

I'm not having a go at you or anything - if you have the money to spare, that's absolutely fine - but just so you know, me and DP bought an iPad pro recently and SS has an older version of just a normal iPad, and we can see no difference in quality that warrants the difference in cost. SS has done online lessons using his iPad (iPad for watching the class, and then typing on his computer) and it's running fine. You can get a normal iPad for £329 from Apple or on Amazon, so you could get all 3 for almost the same price as just one pro! I think the children are too young to need the most expensive model (I mean, does anyone need it really?)

As I said if you have the money it's 100% up to you how to spend it, but if you're stretching yourself thinking that this is the only way you're going to be able to support their education, I'm just saying that a more basic model would work fine - probably even an older one than the one I mentioned!

Look its no skin off my nose what a random person spends on their dc but my dc is using a laptop for remote work and teams and its great and you could buy three of my laptops for the cost of one of the ipad pros...

Baking and board games are good ideas

Also:
Karaoke machine
Non-board based games - Twister, Pictionary etc

@formerbabe I'm not sure why you quoted me, because I'd literally just said she could buy 3 cheap things for the price of one expensive thing, and you've quoted me saying exactly the same thing, but wording it as if you were contradicting me? Confused.

[quote LindaEllen]@formerbabe I'm not sure why you quoted me, because I'd literally just said she could buy 3 cheap things for the price of one expensive thing, and you've quoted me saying exactly the same thing, but wording it as if you were contradicting me? Confused.[/quote]
No I was agreeing with you

I might get the Horrible Histories board game as a joint present for my 2, not sure if your eldest would be keen though?

My two (similar ages) have asked for a shower speaker to share.

I think the iPad idea is fantastic,

pocket kite - cheap and gets you out the house
board game - Centuary games are unusual but good and easy to play.

Spend what you like on your own kids - I do! We have had both frugal and fancy Christmases over the years depending on our circumstances.

Shocked at some of the judgment on this thread!

OP, the private school attended by my DDs provides every child with an iPad which are used on a daily basis in school and these are used to provide a full remote learning curriculum whenever required during lockdown/isolating periods. Clearly good enough for them so ignore all the negative comments. We just supplement with a keyboard/pencil and occasionally plug into a large monitor. They have been used to create a short film for a competition, digital art, recording science experiments alongside all the usual lessons and have been fab.

To answer your question, we have joint presents this year of a Lego set, a board game and a telescope with individual astronomy books to suit the ages of our dd’s (12, 10 and 5). Loving the kite idea however!

Slushie machine? I saw one in B&M last week and seriously thinking of getting one.

Joint gifts I have for mine, a lot younger than yours, are Archery set, punch bag and walkie talkies ( a pack of 3), plus a couple of big HP lego sets. I was also thinking about equipment to do their own videos, they are obsessed with YouTube, tiktok so I was considering, green screen, lighting equipment etc.. most if it’s really cheap online. If they like building things, lego, robots etc there is the Lego boost, mixing lego and coding.

[quote Juk3]@OnlyFoolsnMothers would you please give it a rest we all get the point you don't approve of my choice off gifts for my children.[/quote]
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