I always used to struggle filling up my children’s stockings. It is not always easy looking for small gifts that easily fit. I still have younger children in my family and I absolutely love to put together a stocking for them.
There are so many options for what to put in a Christmas stocking. The traditional approach to a Christmas stocking for kids is to fill the toe of the stocking with either an easy-peel orange or satsuma, or a Terrys chocolate orange.
Other ideas include adding the traditional gold coins which you could do by adding in a small bag of chocolate coins or even some money.
Putting together the stockings at Christmas is one of my favourite Christmas activities and these little. nik naks are always really appreciated sometimes more so than the big expensive items.
Last year I went on a Christmas Stocking mission and this is what I have come up, hopefully this will help give you a few more ideas.
- Scratch card
- Gift cards
- Lego min figure
- Plasticine pack
- Hair bobbles
- Hair clips
- Match box car
- Pen
- Pencil
- Rubber
- Money
- Key ring
- Socks
- Tattoo
- Stickers
- Glow sticks
- Card game
- Glitter
- Badge
- Nail polish
- Funky tooth brush
- Bouncy Ball
- Marbles
- Christmas earrings
- Nerf Bullets
- Chocolate
- sweets
- Candy Cane
- Book mark
- Bag decoration
- Small action figure
Don’t forget some adults love a Christmas stocking too. For adults, stocking fillers could be chocolate, some fruit, something useful like socks and maybe some mini perfume samplers or skin creams to fill space. You can also be a little cheeky and add a cocktail can to start the festivities.
The 5 gift rule
The 5 gift rule is a useful way to plan buying gifts. This is particularly useful if you are buying for children or a large family. The 5 gift rule helps you plan for a variety of different types of gifts whilst keeping the number of gifts sensible.
For presents the general 5 gift rule is:
- 1 thing they want
- 1 thing they need
- 1 thing to read
- 1 thing to wear
- 1 thing to do
Hope this has given you some stocking inspiration don’t forget my Christmas Calendar countdown is now available.
Happy Christmas Planning
