Happy thread: What unusual presents are you getting your dc?

[GloriaTheHighlyFlavouredLady]

DS is getting some chewsticks and a birthing ball!

A retractable feather duster and some new salad tongs (he is 6)

LOL, - brilliant!

A teething ring with ribbons attached and anything small and musical I've found in charity shops over the last few weeks (no point in getting them new - they invariably end up in the washing up bowl).

DS's new obsession is spyrographs (dont know if anynes remembers them). He cant do them but he likes collecting the wheels, so he is getting someof these wheels that I have scoured online and charity shops for.

MincePie, I have a spyrograph in a kinder egg egg. If you would like it, PM me your address and I'll pop it in the post.

He kept breaking the cheap feather duster, so I've splashed out on a Lakeland one.

pastry brushes (the colourful rubber ones) & fabric tape measures ("number eels"), and some Octonauts toys but they're just mundane

a tornado tube www.amazon.co.uk/Tobar-Tornado-Tube/dp/B001G4L80U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1323022325&sr=8-2 and 2 empty 2lt bottles

My ds would like a radio telescope . I can just see that in our back garden, NOT! Needless to say what we get will not be wanted because the list has to be done in order and the radio telescope is at the top .

DD likes popping bubble wrap! So getting some for Christmas!

a microscope and a worm farm. DS has a thing about collecting worms and putting them in his pockets ug! and also a thing for picking up bits of fluff and small paper, cat wiskers to collect if one of mine lose one lol so I thought he could look under the scope!

Voidka - my DS likes spirograph type toys too I was so disgruntled they seem to have discontinuted it. Crayola used to do a set with penguins, and Tate Gallery does a dinky little set in a tin.

oh and some wooden pegs. He likes colouring them green and putting faces on them for soldiers. He has real plastic soldiers but he like doing these and my peg basket is empty!

LOL Coff

Disco lights to go in the bath.

ELC do some sort of a Spirograph

Colourful paper clips including different shapes, rubber bands, rolls and rolls of sellotape, glue, and egg cartons, empty boxes galore. Oh, and paint. Come to think of it I could probably buy him a mop and he'd be happy! :-)

A handheld vaccum cleaner,cos he likes to clean and an hamster toy that repeats everything you say to it (so not only am i going to have to listen to an echolalic boy but an echolalic hamster too)..
I do know hes going to make me cringe tho when he insists on taking the vaccum to the relatives over xmas and uses his new phrase (the foor is disgustingly dirty) at each place we will visit

Oh yes and he wants a condom machine that they have in the supermarket toilets near where we live. he thinks its a lovely moneybox.

ineed! I have just choked on my coffee! money box hahahahaha!

coffee its not funny i can face the hand dryer meltdown,the having to que meltdown and the having to get his hands washed meltdown but the "want to put pennies in the moneybox " meltdown tips me over the edge everytime......wonder if he will like the lovely pig moneybox santa is fetching half as much

No I am sorry its not funny.............

I am with you on the handryer meltdowns though! One goes off and DS shouts "Everybody down! I got this covered!!!"..............trouble is he is on the deck to with his hands over his ears

I am sure he will love the pig moneybox :)

If not you could always buy one of those Dairy Milk bar ones with the two slots and...............errr ummm draw pictures on it?

Peanut ball, wobble cushion and I thought a worm farm but dh started taking bets on how long it'd be before ds tips it over so maybe not a good idea.

Oh, also the Alien shootout toy that was featured in the NAS magazine.

I need - I love the idea of a machine in the house.