I have a 10 yr old son and I need help with stocking fillers that arent mega expensive. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Sweets, chocolate money was what I always got.

Answer 2

The whole pointof a stocking filler is some small fun stuff to play around with until you get up and let him open his prezzies, torches, little handheld games (the ones with the little metal ballz) a cheap DVD, maybe an old classic like Watershipdown (£5 in HMV), anything like that.

Im 27 and still get a Stocking from my parents and find its quite a funny tradition, it doesnt have to be expensive just fun

Answer 3

That's really difficult because some boys mature earlier than others. Maybe get hima voucher for woolworths to choose himself something, just £10, it's enough to get a CD or toy. My niece is a little younger but loves the craft kits from early learing, that kind of thing comes in age ranges and can start at around £4 so maybe model planes or something similar. Beatties do a good range of Airfix models, my local one does anyway. Grown up stuff, body spray, hair gel. Ummmm.....Gosh, this is hard. Have you looked on www.iwantoneofthose.com? They have gadgets and gizmo's for boys of every age ranging from just a few pounds. I buy loads of stuff from there. Mini MP3 player, £15, rythym sticks (drun sticks that make the noise without the drums) £9.99, backwards clock, £9.99, the list goes on. Take a look!!!

Answer 4

I have a great tip. I also have a 10 year old son, and I've got some brilliant stocking fillers from Hawkins Bazaar - chattering false teeth, bouncy balls shaped like an eye ball, a giant pencil. Nice fun stuff - and not expensive.

I think the website is hawkinsbazaar.co.uk.

Answer 5

Well when I was a kid we used to get a orange, apple etc. in the bottom of the stocking then topped up with a few sweets, then a few little inexpensive toys, to the top. Why not his favourite football team scarf, a video or dvd. Just think of what he likes and try to get something at low cost that will please him. Remember he will be more interested in the main prezzies than the stocking. Last thought why not a selection box all kids love chocolate.

Answer 6

Every year I get my daughter, who is 11, toothpaste, a toothbrush, deodorant(added that last year), few pieces of candy, favorite gum, and a chap-stick. Depending on the size of the stocking you could fill it half way with just the toothbrush and toothpaste. Occasionally I will put a gift card in to a favorite store, this year I may do one from Barnes & Noble.

Answer 7

One year when I was really skint I put some choc money in and a few odds and ends but padded the stocking out with "I Promise Cards". Promised to take my son to a theme park of his choice in the summer (and by that time I had saved the money up!), to take him to the local footie team's next home match, promise to bake the cake of his choice ... that kind of thing. My son loved it and it actually worked out that we spent much more quality time together over the following year.

Answer 8

At around 10 years old I loved my "parachute men".

You know the ones.. little plastic soldiers which you throw up in to the air, and their little parachute opens to let them drift slowly down to earth. I got some for fillers too on ebay recently - couple of quid for a pack of 10.

Answer 9

My boy is 14 this year, but I have always found that he responds to books well. Don't get me wrong...he loves all the usual computer games...but he is just as keen on books. Especially the ones you can enjoy with him...Harry Potter...Terry Pratchett...

I won't give you pat answers like...how about your love?...cos you know that already...and you give that already.

I remember as a ten year old boy that I was most excited by ideas. It was around this time that my mother tried to get me interested in archeology...and shepherding....and astronomy...

I am a 52 year old trade union officer now...but these things are still with me...I still read about them and talk about them with my 86 year old mother

I don't know what else to say...I just wish you and yours the very happiest christmas ever. Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Donna M talks a lot of sense...fun things between a boy and his mother...they are great.

Embarrassed to say it...but my mother got me 'pile ointment' for my eighteenth. My fifty year old mates still laugh about it!!!

Answer 10

Try logic puzzles. The kind that are metal twisting loops and you have to figure how to get them apart. Magic tricks. 10 is a great age to get him a good deck of trick cards. A digital watch. 8-minute mystery books. Hope this helps

Answer 11

You do not need STOCKING FILLERS! Does he take music?

You are the father, buy him a instrument and select a music teacher/music school! Helps with character, discipline, math and school. If it is about LIKE, we all have to do what we do not like sometimes, not learning that is why a lot of people have ugly issues.

Look up QUADRO, this set supports creativity!

LEGO the builds moving ROBOT!

Or, on Christmas day, sit down together, at the computer and select all the parts that make up a computer, case, power supply, motherboard, RAM, hard drive, all the parts.

Order them and together, the two of you build his very own computer.

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