Budget ideas for children's presents

pookienoodle

I have bulked out my sons(who is 2 ) presents with small items such as a plastic christmas cup,crayons,colouring books.
I bought most of these from £1 shops or home bargains.
how old are your children? are you looking for stocking fillers or mini presents?

SeaBee

Toonie wrote: »

Depending on your budget, check out www.bakerross.co.uk/ they do packs of toys which you can split up. I find it very useful as I have 11 children to buy for (6 nieces/nephews and 5 children I babysit/nanny for).

Thanks for the link Toonie - some bits and pieces in their sale section that will be useful for homemade Christmas crackers :T

sweetnskint

how about bubbles, kids soap, colouring books...
balls,can of pop,pens,puzzles,marbles,teddys,books,
i got some smaller bits from hawkins bazaar! http://www.hawkinsbazaar.co.uk

MrsKelly_2

I love the crayon cakes idea i am going to try this tomorrow when my DH has gone to bed, she is only 3 and loves drawing but the crayons break so easily we have plenty of little bits lying around in her easel! Thanks Rainmac

rainmac

belle2008 wrote: »

I am also on a budget for stocking fillers, just wanted to say a special thanks to rainmac for that crayon cakes link! What a brilliant idea! Now i know what to do with all the manky old broken crayons we have ended up with! :T

No problem, I 'cooked' mine at 130 degrees for 10 minutes and that was enough to melt them. A couple of mine stuck in the tins and were hard to get out so not sure if I would try next time to melt them in cake cases rather than direct in the tins and them peel the cases off. I was so impressed at how quickly you get something completely original from old bits of crayon

rainmac

RoxieW wrote: »

the mirror newspaper are doing a lego givaway this week and next. Just collect 7 tokens and send off £6.50 for a set of 12 lego items such as dinosaurs, speedboat, digger etc. I'm collecting tokens for both my boys. You can redeem tokens daily in woolworths but as I dont have one local I find it easier to just pay the £6.50 to get the whole set at once.

I'm doing this too, great offer and my DS1 is really getting into Lego - he's 4. They will be a fab pressie for not much £

rainmac

Here's a pic of my crayon 'cakes', you can see the ones that were b*ggers to get out of the tins as they've got bits missing round the edges... :rotfl:

boiler_man

Nestle cereals have a special offer on some of their boxes to send away for certain DVDs from Play.com for only £1. See www.play.com/nestle for full list. You need to buy the cereal to get a unique code inside the box.

rosekitten

boiler_man wrote: »

Nestle cereals have a special offer on some of their boxes to send away for certain DVDs from Play.com for only £1. See www.play.com/nestle for full list. You need to buy the cereal to get a unique code inside the box.

I got this earlier today and bought
Monster House its cost £1 inc p&p
which seems like good value

The cereals were £2.32 as they only
had the honey nut loops in stock with
the offer on at the time.
But it all seemed to go through fine

Melon78

2nd the Mirror Lego offer, its fab

I've got a couple of them for my sons, but am also collecting vouchers to send off for the full set - will be perfect in my DS2 party bags in Feb