help desperately needed

cymrumam

My daughter has just told me that she needs to buy a present for the scout troop that she helps with - for tommorrow.
There are 25 of them and they have a range of food allergies so she cant buy a tin of sweets or any foodstuffs.
It cant be any more than a pound, preferably cheaper as she is paying for it and needs to be unisex they are aged 10 upwards and she needs it for TOMMORROW ! She is in work so I have been roped in.
Any suggestions gratefully recieved

jeningers

Only thing I can think of is Christas mugs which are about 79p in HB or the like. NOt sure if She would wantt o give them on their own as they are nice made up with stuff in them but as you say food is out

O a hard one I thin maybe someone else will come up with something brilliant!

Bella-Bubble

And I thought I left things until the last minute lol!

What about those stationary packs you get in Poundland? There's character ones too and you get a jotter,pencils,ruler, rubber and sharpener. I've bought these for party presents before.

Sure there's a £3 voucher when you spend £13 kicking around somewhere too.

Or packs of books from the works? You could split them up and give one each.

Xmas teddies? 89p in card factory? They also have funky light up pens and lots of other little bits too, all under a quid

ohohoh_2

Just thought I'd throw in another suggestion.

Is it necessary to buy them an individual gift?

She could adopt an animal on their behalf, I know WhSmith's used to sell the packs although I'm not sure if they still do but it could just be done online.

cazpumpkin

how about wall calenders from poundland? plenty of girly fluffy kitten and dogs types for the girls and top gear footie types for the boys (sorry to be sexist lol) might appeal to 10 year olds as they can circle events for school etc and as the calender club ones cost around ten quid each the poundland ones look more expensive than a pound

Bella73

I'm wondering why she has to do this? Don't wish to be mean but surely if she helps out they should get her a gift rather than the other way around?

But if she has to what about a mini torch or something they can use?

kingfisherblue

I am a Rainbow and Brownie leader, and it is my responsibility to get any Christmas presents for the girls. I certainly don't expect assistant leaders to get individual presents.

If she does feel she has to get something, she could buy a tin of sweets (about £5 in most supermarkets), and count them. Then divide the amount of sweets by the number of children. Tomorrow night, she could give each Scout three or four sweets, depending on how many sweets in the tin and how many Scouts.

At a push, and if she insists on individual gifts, she could use the same idea but pre wrap the sweets. Cut a circle of fabric, crepe paper, or similar, put the sweets in the middle, bunch up and tie with ribbon.

Another idea, but fiddle, is to buy some cellophane bags and make a cone. Put in two scoops of drinking chocolate and add some mini marshmallows and chocolate chips. Tie with a glittery pipecleaners. Add a red pompom to the tip of the cone, and two googly eyes a bit higher up, and you have a Rudolph hot chocolate drink. It does depend on you having some craft stuff in, or the chance to nip out and buy it though.

A very inexpensive idea is to buy some plain baubles and add each child's name with a Sharpie pen, or if you have them, porcelain or multi use pens. She could add the year as well. I bought shatterproof baubles from the pound shop.

Also from the pound shop, you can buy display books with about twenty pockets. She could give these, with the first pocket filled with a printed sheet saying 'Badge Work', and maybe the Scout's name. They could then be used to store any evidence of work towards Scout badges.

Notepads and pens can be bought cheaply, especially if you can get a pack to split. Tie together with Christmas curling twine.

B&M have packs of four mini stockings for 99p. She could put a couple of sweets into each one.