What are the best little bits pressies you've given your kids?

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You know, that might fit in a sock?

DS's 7&5 haven't really asked for much this year. We've got one idea for a main pressie, which will be from mum and dad between them, but old guy will have to get them something.

What are the best pocket money type toys your boys have enjoyed?

Dino eggs, you put them in water and they fizz to reveal a dinosaur. My ds loves them.

Playmobile do very small packs with just one or two characters like a knight or a pirate.

Silly putty

Torch

Magnifying glass for looking for bugs

I'll see if I can think of anything else

Agree Silly Putty is fabulous stuff. Also whoopee cushions, (a 'parp whistle' that cost 50p was the 'star' of Christmas two years ago ), colour-change LED egg, wind-up what-nots (somersaulting animals this year), pack of stick-on moustaches, harmonica, bendy pencils, little kaleidoscope, Star Wars light saber, 'Make Your Own Beano' - all made frequent reappearances rather than disappearing to the bottom of the toybox never to be seen again. Hawkin's Bazaar always have lots of good bits in.

Whizzy balloons. Long balloons that you blow up with a plastic tube. When you let them go they scream round the room at top speed. Fantastic fun! And if we are at my parents house the dog goes mad. Superb!

Whizzy balloons here too. And those rainbow colouring pencils or "spy pens"-the ones where you write in invisible ink

Same here, dino eggs, torch, magnifying glass, whoopee cusions (also popular with rest of family), kaleidoscope, slinky dinky and bouncing balls

Somebody mentioned Hawkins Bazaar. it is all you need!

Kittenloren thank you so much for this website, its brill!!!!
Great fillers for socks, crackers, advent etc
DD and DS's birthdays before christmas so great for party bags many thanks!!

YOUR A STAR!!!

whoopee cusions.....especially the self inflating ones, joke shop stuff like sugar cubes with a plastic fly in/nail through a finger/ink the disappears, reindeer/santa that poos sweets....

My Stuff arrived today and its FAB.Only ordered sunday night and it was here before 12 today! I have an offer code of deleivery for a £1. just enter POUND.

I don't have boys but .....

Those cardboard trees that you water and they grow coloured fluffy stuff for blossom.

Fortune telling fish - it is the 11th commandment that every stocking must contain a fortune telling fish, you know!

Those bird kits that slot together to make a flying bird or flying aeroplane (still available from Hawkins)

Torches, Playmobil sets, drawing stuff, face paints, marbles - all good for longer term play value.

Those thin polystyrene old fashioned planes that you slot together. They fly like a dream.

Also, a dino egg where you scrape away the egg like an archaeologist to revel the dino within.

That's the ones I was trying to describe but your description makes much more sense!

Those flannels that start of tiny and grow in water.
Dinosaur eggs that hatch in water then grow for a few days.
Polystyrene(sp) planes
Bendy men

Go to the joke shop and buy:

Plastic dog poo
Stick on side burns
Joke sweets
Whoopee cushion or remote controlled fart machine (also sold in various other places
70s wig
Plastic sick

All will create HOURS of torture fun

www.hawkin.com/find/keyword-is-bendy+men/product-is-01968
here are the bendy men.
we had one of these shops in our town last xmas. it was fab

top trumps

Bendy Smily Men on eBay

I've just bought from SILLY JOKES online

dog poo
giant ears
snap chewing gum (remember that?)
whoopee cushion
fake bourbon biscuit
fake nail through finger with bandage
google glasses on springs
loaded dice

For ds(7) for Christmas. I'm going to put it all in a box for him .

Paperchase do very cool packets of noses, moustaches and teeth.