Christmas presents for daughters school friends

[Anjay1]

Hi,
I would like some advice please.
My daughter is in secondary school, in year 8.
She would like to buy Christmas gifts for her friends at school.
How much should we spend per child? The friendship group has been a good one but there have been a couple of hiccups along the way. My daughter hasn't been bothered about this and has just got on with it.
As long as my daughter is happy that's all that matters.

Is £5 each reasonable? Even though it's hard to find something for this amount given how expensive things have become

Dts are in y8, they both have different friendship groups and are doing a secret Santa with a £10 limit. Their best friend doesn't go to the same school and they will have a budget of £20 each for her

Surely your DD will know roughly how much her friends are spending?

I think that Secret Santa is the better route. DD did it all throughout secondary. Better + nicer to spend money on a singular, well thought out present than multiple cheap ones for the whole group in my opinion

How many in the group?

Year 7 and 8 they largely all exchanged chocolate selection boxes. Year 9 it was proper gifts.

My rule for DD is that I will go 50:50 with what she wants to gift other people, that tends to reign her in a bit when she's actually got to part with her own cash. Most of the presents were related to shared interests so the Good Omens clothbound book for two friends, an angel wings cup as seen in Good Omens for the friend that already had the book etc.

My DD is 12/year 8. She has a wide-ish circle of about 10 good friends and they are doing a Secret Santa between them with a budget of £10.

For her very closest three friends (who are also in the Secret Santa group but she's not actually buying for any of them), she is going to make a bag of Christmas fudge each!

My secondary school DD age 13 does secret Santa too with a small group of 5 friends. Budget is £20 I believe.

Primary DD age 10, I get small bags for 5 of her friends (she picks who) and fill them with a few inexpensive stocking fillers.

There's 4 girls in the group(two are Muslims and don't celebrate Christmas)and then two girls from another friendship group.

I like the sound of secret santa but her friends don't fancy it.

The friendship groups across the year are changing constantly, so this was my dilemma.
I did look at the 3 for 2 in boots.

i'd stick to chocolate or sweets at that age (ensure it's vegetarian if her friends are muslim)

That's a good point. Think I might just get them a chocolate, same one for each of them. That way it's fair