stockign fillers for boys that arent just shit ( but include sweets)

[CodDickinson]

ok am learnign a lesson every eyar. so far have got

chocolate coins
jelly beans( reduced in marks atm)
a small toblerone

i know it cant ALl be sweets but tbh apart fom ds3 wanitng bluctack I am not buying any mroe small plastic tat

have got ds2( poseur) some sweat bands and a naff bracelet oh and s some kind of sport thing - a tennis ball holder that hook on yer shorts...

anr more ideas

I'm giving up on small stocking fillers this year. They're each getting some chocolate, an annual and a board game (operation and battleships) batteried up and ready to go. But actually I'm trying to nip the whole stocking thing in the bud a bit. The dcs will get plenty of presents from grandparents, and uncles and aunts, and I would actually like them to be grateful for the present rather than merely tearing off tons of wrapping paper in 10 seconds flat and then going "What else is there?"

Ok, if they are older then ye olde shower gel and body spray seems to go down ok.

And blades for their wet shave razor (these are things my nephew asked for as a teenager)

And new undies

So they can stop just turning the old ones inside out

Individual magic tricks (Tesco had them last year, not sure about this year). Crystal growing sets, magnetic experiment sets etc (Tesco again)

have a shufti on Hawkins Bazzar. Some good stuff there

Thery have a catapult that fires miniature cats!!!!

and flying pigs

and even a flying supermonkey how can you resist???

and you can order on line and they deliver.

My delivery is dispatched and I am V excited.

They even sell rubber stamps that say 'I haven't got time for this shit' How great is that?

MIL is getting wind up racing grannys

I've got these for the boys

But they might be a bit young for yours? Do include sweets though. And from blessed Lakeland

how old??

Little boys like things like stampers, stickers, Poundland pens, pencil sharpeners (if you trust him not to get a screwdriver and take them all apart to 'make scissors'), coloured paper, pipecleaners (Poundland again) to make intricate wheely creations, etc

I'm tempted to get one of those spud guns (saw them in the Hawkins Bazaar catalogue). I'm also strangely drawn by the candles in there that burn their own colour flame (closet pyromaniac). Could put in stocking then put on Christmas cake and be totally OTT.

Marbles always v popular here (the magnetic ones are strangely soothing).

M&S has some fabulous chocolate money with chocolate notes as well as coins this year.

swimming pool toys
although ££££ but will last

my ds can never have enough cars

oh the other thing they loved last year were their wind up torches (used a lot at night and sleepovers). We don't do camping/scouts any of that malarky but if yours do, it'd be good for that.

boomerang
bow and arrow

goggles for swimming
gel pens or other drawingy things (small watercolour set maybe)
novelty pencil sharpeners/erasers
packet of seeds (if yours are interested in gardening)
some of those scissors that make fancy patterns when they cut
bookmark
fold up hairbrush to keep with gym kit
new mouthguard for sports
socks
pants
ds1 is obsessed with hairgel at the moment, to get that High School Musical look - he'd be thrilled with some in his stocking - must get some actually

thats all my ideas at the moment!

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YOU LTO HAE missed the POINT

NO MORE SMALL TORCHES THAT RUN OUT OF BATTERIS , HANG AORUDN THEN YOU ARENT SO SAD WHEN YOU HOOEVR HTEM UP BY MISTAKE

writing paper?socks??patns?NOVELTY PENS???? are you deluded?

sunglasses a good idea

boxershorts/socks/mitts/gloves/ball hats?

microwave popcorn pack and a dvd (depends on how big your sock is!)

vouchers for the cinema

oh - just read, what's wrong with socks or pants?

But cod, they are stocking fillers! what you are essentially demanding is stocking fillers that are not in fact stocking fillers!

how about giving they their very own wnaky baskets?

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its just clohtes are not seen as anything diverting here realyl( wellapart from ds2)

So

no stationary
no more sweets
no clothes
nothing made of plastic
no torches...

A faberge egg, perhaps? A small working model of a nASA space shuttle? A live dinosaur egg, cunningly disguised as a baseball?

we might reach that stage in a few years time - oldest dd is 6 and anythign wrapped up is seen as 'great'. I know about not wanting crap tho in a stocking - I try to get useful things as well.

what about mini cereal boxes ( have said that before)

I'm still at the stage when I can wrap up nappies and stick them in a sock for dd3! and all the dds think it's funny

How about their own gardening kit, trowel etc? Or those airfix planes? Or warhammer models to paint?

One of those flannels that you have to put in water while they expand? Have no idea where you'd get one tbh but we used to get those - was SO exciting

Magnet
Compass
Spy Glasses that enable you to see behind you
A Dr Who key ring (it is small and does cyber voices)
One of those pocket-puzzle things where you make a beard and hair on a face with iron filings
Indoor sparklers
Harry potter figures
A whoopee cushion
Small travel Etch-a-sketch
'Rush Hour' logic game