Looking For Non-Toy Stocking Ideas

My dad always gave us scratch off lottery tickets in our stockings, and my mom always made sure she put a new toothbrush in our stocking. I guess the toothbrush was to show the disciplinarian side of Santa.

How about packets of seeds to plant when the weather warms up? Or a single use disposable camera if your kids don't have their own. Then you can also include a little album and help them make their own capturing christmas book.

Ali, if you have a flip-type page-a-day desk calendar, you can put the 2010 refill in your husband's stocking.

I am doing little photo albums this year, brag book style with a random collection of photos from through the year. I've put my son's name and the year on the cover with rub ons. Great way to use up left over photos.

novelty bandaids, ornaments, beef jerky, fun pens and pencils

An icord knitter (looks like a child with 4 nails on top, hole through it, to learn to knit. My oldest son with Asperger's loved his. He enjoyed knitting on it and moved on to larger loom knit projects.

Stockings have always been our favorite part of Christmas morning. We save them until last when everything else is opened. It's like dessert! I usually do things like chapsticks, hair dodads, those candy canes filled with chocolate candies or hershey kisses (reseese cups for hubby), cute pens, new toothbrushes usually the battery operated in the fave character, gift cards (older kids) plushy toys for the little ones, small lego kits for my little guy, paints, markers, pocket calendars, etc. I like the battery idea!

LOL!!! Love the tissue idea!! Get pictures!

Maybe a different take on this idea...
my oldest decided he didn't want a lego advent anymore a few years ago but my youngest still does hers. I couldn't stand just one of the kids having a daily 'open' for advent. Sooo...I purchased a cheap chocolate one that had doors that could be opened up right away. My husband and I typed a list of 25 things we love about him and put one slip in each door. We added a slip to my daughter's toy doors as well. The kids LOVE it. Their ages are 12 and 16,

Me too!
Very fun spy eye glasses and drinking straw eye glasses......
plus tea candy for my oldest.
Very cool!

WOW!! Such great ideas from everyone.
Did not see tub crayons mentioned or the color fizz tablets for the bath. If bathtime is an issue, these can be fun. If not, they are still a blast!!
Mittens/gloves are fun-practical!
Merry, merry:)

A baggie of stuff to build the snowman. Hat, mittens, sticks, candy or buttons for the eyes and carrot for the nose. I put other little crafts in there so that the kids can make them and use as gifts or gift tags. They put beads on a wire and then wind the wire into a twirl (about 7 inches long) and a bow on top. Then another fun one for kids is the wooden ornaments they can either paint or use sharpie markers. We did shrinkey dinks too....we always got those as kids....window clings (they have those new cool gel ones now).

Another good one is a "book on tape (cd now)". I would have a friend or my brother record a new christmas book in their "elf" voice.

My girls love to get toothbrushes, especially my 3 year old autistic daughter. She likes to go to bed with one in each hand. My almost 6 year old likes the spin toothbrushes.

I but Simon would love a pocket sized wind up flashlight. It is so fun to read the ideas. Our family doesn't celebrate Christmas, but I love the the stocking tradition. Have fun stuffing...

Love this idea!

Some ideas I have are flavored chapstick, fun socks, activity pads(about half the size of a coloring book), electric toothbrushes, and new crayons.

This year I will get to everyone
1.SANITIZER
2.box of wipes for the car(dollar srore have gret one you can atach them to a car door).
3.tooth brushes
4.hair clip and coloring pages,large coloring pages
5.camera(my kids love to do pictures)
6.gel for hair(boys like that)
7.personal sticky notes
8.personal CALENDAR,with special dates for each kid
9.fun pajamas
10.CANDY'S

tickets to zoo, museums, chuckie cheese,...
Library card in a wallet with gift cards
Make the wallet stuffed with all these items and photos of the family. Really gown up for your young son

Hat/gloves/mittens (these always seem to get lost), a gift card to Marble Slab/Cold Stone/Baskin Robbins, chapstick, new hairbrush/comb, socks, fun toothbrush, art supplies, play-do, dvd's, i-tunes gift card, book store gift card, disposable camera and mini photo album, hot chocolate/marshmallows... I love stockings! =)