The hardest, yet essential, stocking presents have been ordered!

[frozendaisy]

The Christmas morning ‘tradition’ of the two brothers throwing things at each other up and down the stairs, with (optional) long cardboard tubes as baseball bats lives to fight (literally) another festive season.

Ping pong penguins!

perfect

squashy penguins that fire ping pong balls out of their mouths when you squeeze them, one each, the other animal options were less seasonal so it’s penguins all round!

(this has been going on since they could navigate stairs safely 5&3 ish - they will be 17 & 15 this year - it feels like this will be going on into their 20s)

Well I need a link for these please, they sound brilliant 😂

My two would love these. Please send a link.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0D1B6GMBS?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image

Do you have to buy new ones every year?!

You had a thread for ideas last year didn’t you? Loved it 😆

We had these a few years ago but it was unicorns and the balls popped out their bums 😆 My daughter took great delight blasting everyone all Christmas day

We used to have some of these, they were great!
You could also go for the reindeer for next year.

I have to buy new projectiles for their stockings each year yes. Ones that won't mean we start off in A&E with half an eye first thing in the morning, with the Bailey's coffee in a flask, questioning all your life choices whilst apologising to NHS staff for a totally avoidable visit!

I did! And I got some good ideas and ended up with indoor snowballs, which were good fun and turned into snowball baseball!

So thought I would post that this annual dilemma has been sorted this year and it might be an option for someone else's stocking, as it can sometimes be difficult finding something that is fun, not throwaway, and starts Christmas morning off with much laughing and squeaking trying to hit a brother, or score more goals than a brother, whilst batting ping pongs back up the stairs with a long cardboard tube (it truly is the highlight of their day!)

I have also done the "game around the table" crackers, and the advent calendar, and tried to get the Christmas jigsaw in the bag but have failed at that so far so I may need group help with that before a final decision is made.

Oh I see! I misunderstood and thought you meant you’d been buying these since they were 3 and 5!

I’d better hang around for other good ideas!

I will be ordering 3! Thanks @frozendaisy

I’m going to order one for dd, she loves penguins and her brother plays cricket - I can see these two now, her in the sun lounger on the garden launching them at him to practice his catching 🤣 dd is a fully grown adult!

Haha love these, our teen boys will have fun. It's so hard to find something 'fun' for them as they get older.

We have the unicorn version!

Not these actual projectiles no. But since they established the Christmas morning tradition by themselves, completely by chance and it's never not been part of their stocking experience, they have always had something they can throw, or project, at each other each Christmas, we've had soft mini footballs/baseballs, indoor snowballs, stretchy finger catapulting turkeys, glow in the dark balls, they decided their tiny penguin teddies one year deserved a round of "inner wrapping paper long cardboard tube" baseball to really get the festive day going!

It's really good fun, me & dad lie in bed with a bailey's coffee, half of the stocking unopened, abandoned on our floor (because they both still come up to our room to open it - they are basically fully grown men nowadays), until they find the projectile present, then they go to the stairs and we get a good half hour of in bed listening to them coming up with some crazy scoring/point system and then laughs, squeaks and general sportsmanship jibbing, whilst projectile is being hurtled up and down the stairs.

That is one of our family 'traditions' and it would be a shame to stop it until they are ready. Maybe when youngster is old enough for a Bailey's coffee and that becomes more fun than trying to hit your brother with a penguin mouth fired ping pong ball? Maybe .........

It's really hard, last year I had terrible trouble so I am most appreciative that this has already been sorted for this year.

So it will never end! 😁

If I come up with any else that's fun and a bit of a 'surprise' I'll post. I am sure there will be something, usually is.

well now I want the popping rabbit ones