Dh's work has come up with what I think is a brilliant idea. They do a secret Santa but not for each other, but for children around the world. Dh was desperate to get a girl as he wants a daughter and we buy boys stuff for dts anyway! Naturally he was given a 7-year-old boy from Eastern Europe and I wanted to find out what m'netters would send.
This is our ideas and what we have so far.
We had bought a tub of Lego for Christmas, we have taken a few of the packets out, the doublers, leaving about 1000 pieces left, so we can fill the tub with other goodies. The idea is to buy another bag of Lego windows, doors, wheels etc. so he can build whatever he wants.
The list of other things to send is:
drawing pad and pencils
pencil case with things for school; ordinary pencils, little calculator etc.
snowboarders hat and gloves
We are stuck about what other little things to put in the tub. Dts are just coming up for 5 and we don't want to send 'babyish' things for him. Although we don't have a lot of money we have a hell of a lot more than these people and we just want to give a little boy one cracker of a Christmas!
(Dh is worried that if there are other children in the house they might get a meany buying a cheap crappy toy for a couple of £!)