What are your kids' stockings looking like?

[Hetyanni]

I think I have finished mine...
DD5 and DS3

Bamboo toothbrush
Card game
Fidget popper
Small chocolate Santa
Chocolate coins
Bubbles
Playdough
Colouring pens
Bath bomb
Torch
Stickers

Might add one of those £1 sweetie tubes each.

Mammyofasuperbaby how about some little animals? The early learning centre I have no idea if it still exists used to sell small animals that were realistic. DS loved his and when older we made a big papier-mâché zoo for them. We gave them away except the tiger which he still has on his bedroom shelf as an adult. I used to have to check that tigers mouth for food as he used to feed it :)

@FourTeaFallOut

I'm beginning to think the stockings we have must be a lot smaller than the ones here

we have completely average size stockings and they take tonnes to fill.

Everything I bought for the 3 of them (like 60 items) fits in a single standard plastic shopping bag.

Bit of a struggle this year now they're getting older but I think they're pretty much there now!

DS1 19:
Fretboard cleaner
Sudoku toilet roll
Chocolate peanut clusters
Xmas socks
Playing card bottle opener
Bourbon beef crisps

DD 14:
Sheet mask
Shower jelly
Banoffee spread
Slim calendar
Fluffy socks
Mini reversible octopus
Teriyaki chicken crisps

DS2 12:
Neon boxers
Reflex ball
Space trivia quiz
Cherry jaffa cakes
Xmas socks
Robot hand back scratcher
Pigs in blankets crisps

We do have smaller stockings now which is good when I'm trying to keep it cheap

Sweets
Chocolate
Bath bombs
Toothbrushes
Yoto cards for the little one / book for the big one
'Unbreakable' umbrellas... we'll see how Unbreakable they are!

DD 18

Bee Design Water Bottle
Fold up cat design shopping bag
PB&J Jelly Beans
Mini Crystal Prosecco
Head Jog Brush
Bob Ross Bobblehead
Marzipan Bar
Toblerone
Costa Gift card

I think it's unlikely to all fit in her stocking so the water bottle may become a separate present.

I do think some of you must have huge stockings though, I couldn't fit half of some of these lists in ours.

DD 17
Book
Ring
Candle
Chocolate bomb full of marshmallows
Rainbow socks
Tattoo plasters
USB Bottle lights on a string

DS 15
Wargame miniatures
Book
.....
Why are boys so difficult!?!?

DD12:

Cable bites
Revolution body spray
Earbuds
Soap cake
Fitbit straps (well, Amazon ones)
Vegetarian jellies
Choc orange
Lip balm/gloss
Jewelled hair pins
Nail polish
Pastel highlighters
Sticky rainbow memo pad
Notebook
Googlie eye luggage tag

DS 10:

Small Lego set
Magic money box
Hair gel
Lego tape
Mini flashlight
Soap cake
Googlie eyes luggage tag
Blu tak
Batteries
Star Wars hat
Character boxers
Pop tarts
Pringles
Vegetarian jellies

Ds 3 has:

Lego cars
Dinosaur crayons
Chocolate coins
Hey duggee figures
Glitter wand
Hot wheels car
Train crane

Sensory toys
Bubble wand

I have children of extremely varied ages so hope this helps .. my youngest girl will be 9 months at xmas and in her stocking she has flashing ducks from bnm, a bath disco light , that's not my book and some baby instruments in a set that I will split plus a couple of teethers and some clothes. My 6 year old boy has fidget toys, a lol boy , zuru dinosaur surprise balls 2 pack , fantastic mr fox book, a gryffindor scarf, Harry Potter scarf and Harry Potter sweets a bottle of butter beer & croyola crayons . My 11 year old girl has fidget toys , a Jacqueline Wilson book , a hot water bottle , a couple of embroidery sets, slippers , some skincare and makeup . My 12 year old boy has fidget toys , rubix cube, a pack of cards , some smellies and skincare, a 2liter bottle of dr pepper (requested 🤣) and loads of sweets ... x

DD5:
My Little Pony Top Trumps
Ear muffs
Bath bomb
Lego Mia pug cube
Fidget toys
Nail varnish
Slap band watch from Smiggle
Hairband
Hair clips
Novelty mini hole punches from Hobbycraft
Pens
Unicorn bath duck
Lanka Kade soft rag doll
Unicorn cutlery set
Mini Hama beads set

DS3:

Mini Orchard Toys game
Schleich horses
Horse projector torch
Slap band
Bath bomb
Fidget toys
Hot wheels cars
Hole punches mini
Four wooden Lanka Kade dinosaurs
Animal cutlery set
Kinetic sand ice cream cone
Schleich baby giraffe

I think our stockings must be smaller than most!

Dd2 - bath ducks, toy car, bubbles, dolls bottle, Peppa pig toy, chocolate coins
Dd4 - bath bomb, hair clips, stickers, happy/sad octopus, book, chocolate coins.

DS 4.5 - Spiderman beanie,Grow your own shark toy,Kinder Santa, kit kat Santa's, sour patch kids lump of coal sweets,some cookies as he is obsessed lately, a busy book,& hoping to get him a Spiderman/Hulk drinking bottle as his dad lost his last one,will probably add in some blind bags too from Ryan's world & oddbods
D.S 16 months - Mickey mouse beanie,toy safari animals, milkybar reindeer,milkybar Santa's, baby biscottis,a drinks bottle, a board book (he likes to rip paper ones 🤦🏻‍♀️),some new cutlery just for him,& a pull back car like toot toot or something

Book
Dvd
Chocolate coins
Sweets
Pens
Notebook
Small Lego set or figure
Hair slides/bobbles
Bath bomb

We usually do a small stocking on DS door then Santa leaves the bigger presents in DS sack downstairs. What does everyone else do?

In DS8 small stocking there will be:

Mini can of Coke
Lolly
Pack of pokemon cards
Metal pokemon card
Reversible cat
Astronaut food
Choc coins
Magazine
Jelly beans

Sack:

Pokemon cards trainer box
Large teddy
Switch game
Small remote control car
Pictionary
2 books
Drawing tablet (cheap thing similar to a doodling board, £8)
Marauders Map and wand
And I'm gonna get 1 or 2 other bits

Wow I don't know how you all afford these stockings when they're still going to Get a sack of presents!
My mum used to use one of my dad's socks and put a satsuma, Lindt coins and a tube of sweets in. I followed the tradition but with a father Xmas knitted sock. I added a pocket money toy to the above. My children are now 33 and 31 and still get the same but with a can of body spray replacing the toy. Last of the big spenders I am!

Wow I don't know how you all afford these stockings when they're still going to Get a sack of presents!

Everyone will do it differently but DS only gets one present from us. Any extra gifts go in the stocking from Santa.

@baggies

Wow I don't know how you all afford these stockings when they're still going to Get a sack of presents! My mum used to use one of my dad's socks and put a satsuma, Lindt coins and a tube of sweets in. I followed the tradition but with a father Xmas knitted sock. I added a pocket money toy to the above. My children are now 33 and 31 and still get the same but with a can of body spray replacing the toy. Last of the big spenders I am!

The stocking I listed (which I personally think have plenty in) has cost a total of £6.15 per child... Their Santa sacks cost £12.03 each.

That's £18.18 per child for both stocking and sack so hardly bank-breaking amounts.

Nothing yet as they get something they ask Santa/me (depending on age) for, and something chocolatey. That's it.

Daughter is 7

I have:
Coloured silicon straws
Cute character lip balm and hand sanitiser to hang on her schoolbag from Claires
Chocolate coins
Christmas jelly lollipop
Christmas fluffy socks
Watercolour pens
Christmas pen in the shape of a star lollipop with mini erasers in the star
Rainbow eraser
Scrunchies
Mini TY toy
TY wolf keyring

@baggies

Wow I don't know how you all afford these stockings when they're still going to Get a sack of presents! My mum used to use one of my dad's socks and put a satsuma, Lindt coins and a tube of sweets in. I followed the tradition but with a father Xmas knitted sock. I added a pocket money toy to the above. My children are now 33 and 31 and still get the same but with a can of body spray replacing the toy. Last of the big spenders I am!

You are assuming that parents will do both. When I was a child we had a pillowcase sized sack that had small stocking presents and other presents 'from Father Christmas' all together. Presents from extended family or anything bigger under the tree. DS has a stocking and tree presents. Not both a stocking and sack.

I do both a stocking and a sack but everything goes in there, growing up my Mum used to put presents from family who lived far away in ours stockings with the tale that they had sent them to FC to deliver, this made perfect sense. They were always labelled and we always sent thank yous before half of MN melt at the thought years later she admitted that having 3 or 4 extra presents helped bulk it out a bit more.

So once we have wrapped everything we pick an even number of smaller presents to go in the stockings and everything else is in the sack.

So things like sweets, hair stuff, Lego figures / blind bags, pens. I do need to get my act together though.

Years ago I put a toothbrush and a car in a small dd's (she was possibly coming up 4) The toothbrush was flung to the side with a "why do I want that?" And the car tossed at her younger brother in great objection that it was a boy's toy and therefore she didn't want it.

So far, DD (3) has:

A bouncy ball
A wooden toy I don’t know the name of (you squeeze two sticks and a gymnast figure in-between does somersaults)
A small puzzle
Metallic crayons
Plasticine
A couple of Schleich animals
A skipping toy (a rope with an ankle loop on one end and a ball on the other, hope it’s not too old for her)
Chocolate coins
A few chocolate lollies, wrapped in fancy foil. I loved these as a young child.

I'm really trying not to buy too much plastic tat! Hard to make a stocking and not do that. I'm spending a bloody fortune as well.

So far mine are getting:

Cool wooden toy by Me and My (lovely brand with no plastic packaging)
A bar of Tony's chocolonely
A tin of Pokemon cards
A smaller present from their list worth about £10
A couple of books
A satsuma
Chocolate coins and / or sweets
Craft bits (pens and sketchbook) for older DC possibly a Playmobil figure for younger DC
Fidget toy

Probably spending about £60 each which is crazy 😬 but we don't do really do any paid for Christmas activities

Kowari and mam0918
Hey not a criticism just an observation!
Mam sounds like you're a savvy shopper.