Favorite stocking stuffers for kids

Tons of fun ideas for the best stocking stuffers for kids, everything from card games and bubbles to binoculars and play doh. Get great ideas for both classic and artistic additions to your vacation stockings!

Stockings have been the highlight of my Christmas for years now.

I love making them for my kids and I beloved opening mine.

My mom always fabricated stockings really special. They were filled, overflowing in fact, when I was a child and excavation through them to find every last hidden treasure was and so much fun.

When I was older, especially in higher and just later on, my mom started Simply doing stockings for our Christmas nowadays.

Merely instead of being filled with candy and small toys, they were filled with souvenir cards, pretty soaps, toiletries and a new scarf or pair of slippers.

And go this: She wrapped every single thing in the stocking. Even the chapstick. Fifty-fifty the kleenex packs for my purse. All of it was wrapped in wrapping paper.

She said it was and so we could take our time and enjoy Christmas morning and still feel like nosotros were opening presents.

Yup, my mom is the all-time!

And to my please, my husband now will wrap all of the things in my stocking. OK, peradventure not the chapstick, but pretty much everything else. Yup, he'south the best too. ❤️

I've tried to make stockings equally special for my kids (now 6 and eight years old) as they always accept been for me.

On Christmas morning, they come up downstairs to find massively overflowing stockings that have been propped up against a chair or sofa in the living room and immediately showtime rifling through them.

And then I wanted to share some of the many, many ideas I've used over the years to make full their stockings. (They both have very large stockings. I did not remember that through. 😂)

This has everything from toys and games to more practical supplies (like toiletries and winter gear). This is mainly for elementary anile children on downwardly to toddlers. (Though plenty of these would work well for pre-teens and teens as well.)

Also, I should note, I did not include whatever food-related stocking stuffers or processed. I didn't employ things similar that at all when my kids were younger and figured most of u.s. tin can load upward on those but fine on our ain. 😉

I've included these stocking stuffer ideas in two different ways, to make browsing easier for all types:

1. A straight up list of ideas. Old school. Very elementary. I've included some links and photos equally well to exist helpful.
2. At the very bottom of the post is a visual grid with these ideas. There are clickable links at that place as well.

Only these stocking stuffers for kids aren't but for Christmas or the holidays. No, no.

These ideas too work groovy for Easter baskets, mailed camp gifts, tooth fairy gifts, and small prizes for charts or accomplishments.

Pretty much someday y'all need some small gift ideas for kids, this will exist a cracking go-to list.

So without further ado, let'south become to it!

All-time Stocking Stuffers for Kids

Books

Play doh – individual containers or modest sets or play doh tools

Fine art supplies – crayons, markers, glue sticks, pencils, glitter glue, washi tape, craft supplies, etc.

Bubbles – wands or minor bottles

Sidewalk chalk or chalk paint

Light upwardly wands/necklaces/bracelets– the Dollar Store has these pretty inexpensive

Outdoor exploration – flashlight, magnifying glass, binoculars, pocket-size butterfly cyberspace, etc. Nosotros have a set like this and take given it as a birthday gift many, many times.

Money or a gift card – to a favorite restaurant, movie theater, ice cream shop, iTunes, Target, etc.

Pocket-sized musical gifts – maraca, shaker eggs, kid toy radio, etc.

Bracelets or necklaces

Hatchimals – they tin never accept enough!

Shopkins – Open a pack and put the little collectibles correct in the stocking

LOL assurance – always a striking

Mini lego figurines – so many to choose from, from characters to superheroes and more

Stickers– Michael'due south crafts store is my go-to place to get fun stickers

Bathroom toys or bathroom crayons

Toiletries – new toothbrush, fun bandaids, headbands or bows, chapstick or lip gloss, mini nail polish, etc.

Winter gear – Help refresh their wintertime gear with new socks, slippers, mittens/gloves, hat, scarf or snow gear

Pajamas – Roll them upwards and stuff them downwards into a stocking (or tie a ribbon around the roll and put it just beside their stocking)

Tickets to a play, prove, museum, zoo or other local activity

Figurer – even before they tin use it for existent math, they retrieve it's fun to punch numbers

Modify purse or wallet

Counting cubes – nosotros have and dearest this small, colorful prepare

Flashcards for learning – I got this set when my oldest was a toddler and nosotros are all the same using them!

Kids cooking supplies – mixing spoons, spatulas, apron, plastic measuring utensils, kids cookbook, play nutrient, etc.

Modest stuffed animals –  Beanie Boos or other small teddy bears or animals

Trading cards – baseball, football, Pokemon, superheroes, etc.

Card games – Uno, Old Maid, Go Fish, SkipBo

Activity books – coloring books, tracing books, word searches, game books, sticker books, Mad Lib Junior, etc.

Balls – bouncy balls, small foam balls, light-up assurance, etc

Pocket-size racing cars, such as Matchbox cars or small trucks

Board games – Candyland, Shutes & Ladders are favorites and nosotros besides love Count Your Chickens for a collaborative (versus competitive) game – these tin become beside or underneath a stocking

Matching game – play alone or with a friend! There are tons of themed varieties of this type of game, from unicorns to Sesame Street to animals. My son loves this Marvel matching game with all the superheroes.

Puzzles – mini versions or regular sized puzzles that you can put near a stocking or in a large Easter basket (my son'south a huge puzzle fan and we loved these Traffic Jam and Alphabet Train floor puzzles for toddlers and younger kids)

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I hope you lot plant some new great ideas for kids stocking stuffers — or any other smaller gifts for young children!

(And as mentioned, in that location's a visual grid below with photos and clickable links likewise, in case you'd similar to scan some of these ideas that way instead. 😊)

Feel gratis to share any of your favorite stocking stuffers in the comments below. I e'er love hearing new ideas!

Happy gift giving!

XO,

Kathryn

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