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  1. #1
    Registered User

    Apr 2008
    Adelaide
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    Stocking Filler Ideas?

    As the title suggests I was wondering what you put in you kids stockings (if you have stockings)

    Last year I got lots of $1 and $2 toys but they were really a waste of money as they broke or had a bout 2 minutes of use.

    This year so far I have a cadbury chocolate stocking to squeeze in each girls stocking (hoping this will bulk it up a bit). I want to get some new licensed undies for each girl and I have been on the my wooden toys website and they have a cute stocking filler pack which looks cute and has whistles and happy sacks etc hoping the wooden stuff lasts longer than the plastic stuff I got last year. I may get a lip balm each but think I need 1 or 2 more ideas.

  2. #2

    Jun 2010
    District Twelve
    8,425

    I always buy socks and jocks...also things like lunch boxes (if they go to school/kinder/creche) or cups with their names on it.
    I have also bought icy pole maker mould thingos from the supermarket, big jotters and scrapbooks for drawing, disposable camera, deodorant body spray, hair clips, chalk...

    Hope this helps!

  3. #3
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    Feb 2006
    Newcastle, NSW
    4,219

    We fill our kids ones with little things like hair clips, matchbox cars and juice poppers/fruit boxes, sultanas, air popped popcorn etc.


    (Sent from my phone, so I apologise if it makes no sense.)

  4. #4

    Jul 2009
    Out North, Vic
    8,538

    I was going to suggest hairclips, a new brush, new cool toothrbush, glitter hair gel, lip smackers, toy cars, those little pet toys (littlest pet shop etc).
    BUBBLES, new pack of pencils, small coloring books, outside chalk, playdough, cookie cutters, new drink bottles?

  5. #5
    Registered User

    May 2007
    3,220

    I always buy a new toothbrush, undies and singlets. A can of lemonade (such a treat for them), and some of their fave snack foods.

  6. #6
    BellyBelly Life Subscriber

    Jul 2008
    Eastern Surburbs, Melbourne
    1,841

    We used to put in socks, undies, a piece of fruit, a book, bubbles, 1 lolly, things for their hair, a small toy, colouring book and pencils.

  7. #7
    Registered User

    Jan 2009
    pakenham, victoria
    3,660

    The schleich horses are a great size for.stockings

  8. #8
    Registered User

    Sep 2005
    In the middle of nowhere
    9,362

    Mine get a toothbrush too lol.
    DD has a heap of smiggle stuff in hers this year. She loves stationary and writing.
    They both have a huge bubble wand.
    Small books.
    Little bottles of special bubble bath.

  9. #9
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    Nov 2009
    Scottish expat living in Geelong
    5,572

    socks, a matchbox toy car, a bag of dried fruit and a small chocolate santa or similar (to keep them going whilst they open their main presents. I then add one extra thing per child, such as a barbie type doll or a pack of marbles or toy soldiers. Usually something $5 or less. Might have to add a few more things this year as MIL has knitted all the children Christmas stockings with their names on and they are larger than previous years, but it will be in the same sort of theme.

  10. #10
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    Apr 2008
    Adelaide
    1,741

    beckoes balls are good stocking fillers for little ones, get a couple of brightly coloured ones to take up a bit of room. A baby toothbrush? Some fresh bibs? A summer hat?

    I have decided to add a torch to the girls stockings as they love torches. last year I got them a whistle that lighted up whenever you blew into it. It was one of their ffavourite things but it was soooo loud! Never again

  11. #11
    BellyBelly Member

    Aug 2008
    anywhere and everywhere
    718

    Beckoes my dd2 will be 9 months old and her stocking (its pretty small) has:
    Electric barbie toothbrush
    Togs
    Little marracas
    Little wooden xylophone
    Bubbles
    Clothes

  12. #12
    Registered User

    Jan 2007
    7,197

    Little books - Mr Men, Golden books, any op shops books, craft stuff, matchbox cars, undies, pjs,

  13. #13
    Registered User

    Jul 2006
    Melbourne
    4,895

    I went to a shop in Malvern (Melb Metro) called Parenthood & they have a lot of little knick kancky things. I got a mask (mouse I think), a puzzle that can be done in the car/on a plane, some bubble stuff. Elsewhere I got some undies, singlets

  14. #14
    Registered User

    Apr 2008
    Adelaide
    1,741

    one off those pet pillows for $15? I got the girls fluffy dressing gowns from cheap as chips a few months ago for $10. A $5 beach towel rom big w? a basketball lol last years the girls got a pair of sparkly dunlop volleys each! I took a pair of shoes that I knew fitted them with me when we went shopping.

  15. #15
    Registered User

    Feb 2008
    Gold Coast, QLD
    1,563

    Put Santa's present in the stocking if it's so big. That's probably what your mil was thinking.


    Other fillers are nuts in their shells and a nut cracker, bag of cherries, dried fruit.

    Am I the only person who doesn't do stockings?

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    Jude 07/10/08 | Lilac 16/06/11

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    May 2008
    with the fairies and butterflies
    2,535

    nah we never did stockings til they were bought for us, now I fill like i should use them....

    good idea bout santas gift too

  17. #17
    Registered User

    Feb 2008
    1,041

    I haven't done them either. It thread was making me feel bad, glad I'm not the only one who doesn't do them. Dd's birthday is four days before Christmas so it is already present overload at our house.

  18. #18
    Registered User

    Apr 2010
    422

    I have dvd's, undies, bits and pieces from their main present (one boy is getting a firehouse, the other a farmhouse this Christmas so the people for it have gone in their stockings) bubbles, some matchbox cars and trains. Dd has clothes and a handmade dolly and rainstick in hers, she'll be 10 months.

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