Would you still consider this too much tat (stockings)

[KevinHoho]

I love doing the stockings and could buy stuff for them forever. As a child my stocking was actually an adult pair of tights absolutely crammed full of stuff and it was so exciting to wake up to! My older children used to get around 40 items in their stockings but I’ve gradually cut it down over the years. This list is me being very restrained but I’m sure it is still way ott to others!

For 5&7 year olds
Satsuma
Chocolate coins
Tube of sweets
Tree decoration
Squishmallow surprise toy
Gabby dollhouse surprise/fossil dig mini
Nerf bullets refill/pinky promise necklace
Magnetic connect 4/bingo
Keychain Operation/Game of Life
Scrunchie/ some elf ‘listening ears’
Gellibaff sachet
Character notebook
Character pen
Paint your own suncatcher
Fart ninja (this will definitely be a 5 minute wonder for the fart sounds but they’ll think it’s hilarious and it’s not something I would ever buy so Father Christmas MUST be real…Plus they really like ninjas at the moment)

@TooBusyGazingAtStarss we do the Stocking of surprises from Santa and then 1 or 2 presents off their lists (mine are 7 and 3 now) Santa also brings us a family game every year - so far we have had pop up pirate, monopoly junior, mousetrap and junior Cluedo. This year its junior scrabble.

the rest (only 3 or 4 more presents or 4 more presents) come from mum and dad and family. Santa only picks a couple of things off the list because otherwise it's not fair on all the other kids. oldest also knows that things like Playstation, Xbox etc are not santa type presents.

Can I just say thank you! You have just successfully inspired my DSs birthday present with the stop motion animation toy idea! Genius! Thank you!