Christmas eve hamper

mary43

rainmac - hadn't thought of a basket - been messing about this afternoon with various size boxes but so far only for reindeer food and snowman soup to go in anything untill I find out what sort of bath stuff baby grandson uses and whether someone maybe getting him some xmas pj's. Oh, and I wanted to get him a bath duck with santa hat on - saw one for £1.99 and can't remember where now..............lol

Got teenage grandsons 'safe keeping' jar done this afternoon as well. Only a small one (empty tartare sauce pot) and filled it with a few marbles (hadn't got enough) and brown nutty type button things. Now need to do approriate label and thats another thing ticked off my 'to do' list........:T

rainmac

Here's the Xmas Eve hamper for my 2 boys...



You can't see everything in the basket but this is what's in here...
Basket - had already
Pjyamas x 2 pairs £11 + £10
Star certificates x 2 £4 (inc price to have laminated)
Personalised Xmas story - printed from internet (thanks for link Mary )
Personalised Xmas book - never read last year as we got one for each of our monkeys and only read one.
Board books x 3 - £4
Chocolate oranges x 2 - £1.79 BOGOF from Tesco
Gingerbread house to make - Ikea £1.95
Xmas rubber duck - £3.50ish ebay
Bath crayons - £3 ish Tesco
Bath bombs x 2 - £2.70 Lush (thanks for idea Rusty )
Reindeer food - £?
Torches x 2 - £4 Asda
Mugs x 2 - £7
Snowman soup x 2 - £?
Snall reindeer x 2 - £5 John Lewis
paper, envelope & fine glitter (magic dust of course ) to write letter to Santa
Name plaques x 2 for bedroom doors - £?
Santa Stop Here door hanger - £?
Xmas DVDs x 2 - £6ish ebay

To add nearer Xmas Eve - biscuit mix in a plastic jar to bake Xmas Eve, a carrot and a couple of paper plates for DS1 to decorate to leave biscuits and carrot on.

Really pleased with this basket, going to leave it out so they see it Xmas Eve morning and we can have a whole day of getting ready for the BIG day

Forgot about my no-sew blankets - bought 4 fleeces from Ikea to make 2 blankets and also a letter each from Santa printed from internet.

mary43

rainmac - that looks brilliant.

Mine will look a bit sparse by comparison,mind you he is only 18 months old and won't know what on earth is going on................lol

So far its
Reindeer food with cuddle little reindeer attached
Snowman mug with chocolate sachet plus choc. sprinkles with snowman stuck on top.........thats it for now
Oh and I'll stick little white teddy in there I got off freebe board

OH feels I ought to put his name a star certificate in with the book as the story is a bit more Christmas eve than Christmas day

elainew

Great thread and I've started on my wee girls. Primark have some fantastic reindeer and santa slipper socks for £1 . Got 2 pairs .

mary43

Been and got sachet of drinking chocolate (I thought) - got home and its Horlicks chocolate drink - to make Santa sleep..................lol
Methinks I'll have to keep that one and try again with brain switched on !:rotfl:

icecubequeen

I read this thread last night and was in awe of the ideas people have posted!

Last year I did the "pyjama elves" who delivered pyjamas on xmas eve, but after reading this thread I think I'm gonna do a xmas eve hamper instead as it such a great idea!

I've been out today and started getting bits to go in the box already, plus some bits which I already had:

2 x pyjamas - £3 each
2 x xmas colouring books - £1 each
2 x snowman art sets - £1 each
2 x snowman cake kits - 10p each (reduced Tesco)
Magic snow - £1.99
Ben 10 Mug and marshamallows - £3

Lots more things I wanna put in like snowman soup, xmas books etc also liking the idea of the magic reindeer food, but not sure how it works? I understand how to make it etc, but do you get the kids to sprinkle it on the garden before they go to sleep on xmas eve? If yes then what if they go and look in morning and it's still there? Don't they know the reindeer didn't eat it? Anyone know what I mean? lol

Hels xxx

elainew

The birds will eat it hun so its gone in the morning xx

mary43

Magic snow ? That sounds brilliant ! Where would I get that from ? (It's probably been mentioned on here and I've missed it )

icecubequeen

mary43 wrote: »

Magic snow ? That sounds brilliant ! Where would I get that from ? (It's probably been mentioned on here and I've missed it )

I got mine from Hawkins Bazaar instore, heres the link to it on the website....

http://www.hawkin.com/find/keyword-is-magic+snow/product-is-09206?SearchIsReferrer=true

I got two lots but yet to use any yet, so can't say what it likes when you use it, or how messy it may be! lol

rwaite

My Mum told me that when i was little they used to try and keep the reindeer food on the path so that they could go out and either sweep it away or water it down. That way we always thought that the reindeers had eaten it! xxx