Christmas Gift Ideas for Children of All Ages
This year Christmas is going to be different for all of us that is certain but children the world over are still making their lists for Santa and hoping that will leave their much-wanted gifts under the tree as he usually does.
If you’re looking for gift ideas for children of all ages then you’ve come to the right place as My Three and Me have lots of ideas.
Gifts for the little ones
Timber Tots Magic Tree
- Age: 18months+
- Price: £39.99
- Where to buy: Amazon, Very and all good toy retailers
The Timber Tots Magic Tree is a pop-up toy containing cute animal figures. The playset includes many fun features and accessories to help develop children’s imagination. Simply press on the roof and the tree reveals all its secrets by opening a room, a bathroom, a kitchen, a living room and even a garage! The playset has many activities to discover including a crank to move up and down the elevator, a bush with a rest space hidden inside, a car and a swing. All items are easily stored inside and has a carry handle too. The set includes two characters, a car and nine accessories.
Super Rainbow Deluxe Aquadoodle
- Age: 18 months+
- Price: £25
- Where to buy: Tomy, Argos, Amazon, Smyths
Little one’s imaginations are sure to go wild with the new Super Rainbow Deluxe. It’s perfect for mess and stain free fun play. Simply fill the Aquadoodle pen with ordinary tap water, run the nib over the magic mat and see the colours instantly appear. Once the water has dried, drawings fade away, ready to start all over again by simply refilling the Aquadoodle pen with water! The set comprises of 1 Aquadoodle pen, 3 stampers, a special paintbrush for larger strokes.
Vintage Mickey Mouse soft toy
- Age: From birth
- Price: £27.50
- Where to buy: DisneyStore.co.uk
As featured in Disney’s Christmas advert ‘From Our Family To Yours’, this whimsical and exclusive Mickey Mouse Vintage Christmas Soft Toy is sure to be a big hit with Disney fans young and old this festive period. As seen in the advert, Mickey has a stitched ear from when Lola’s favourite toy gets broken and then mended by her granddaughter, showing that the traditions and spirit of Christmas has passed through each generation. For every Mickey Plush sold within this range, between 9 November 2020 and World Wish Day® 29 April 2021 inclusive, in Disney Stores or online 25% of the retail price (ex VAT/sales tax) will be donated to Make-A-Wish® organisations to help grant wishes for children.
Toomies 2in1 Eggventure Train
- Age: 12months +
- Price: £20
- Where to buy: Tomy, Argos, Smyths, Amazon
Little ones are sure to love this 2-in-1 toy that combines a brightly coloured spinning Ferris wheel and a push-along train with carriages. Little ones will discover five different ways to play as they through different ages and stages! They will discover sounds as each chick cheeps when pressed down into its shell. With their cute faces and bright colours, shells are easy for little hands to pick up and fit together
Paddington Bear Paw Pad Interactive First Tablet
- Age: 3+
- Price: £12.99
- Where to buy: Amazon, John Lewis
Little ones are sure to have lots of fun with 3 fun interactive games in this paw shaped pad. They will learn development of number, shape recognition, basic problem solving, letter and picture recognition. Paddington asks questions inviting the child to explore objects, letters, numbers and funny sounds from his world.
Creative gifts
Marvin’s Magic Treasured Tricks Set
- Age: 6 +
- Price: £28.99
- Where to buy: Amazon, Argos
Introducing a wonderful wooden magic set that is perfect for any budding magician. This Marvin’s Magic Tricks set is presented in a durable wooden box for easy storage and includes everything needed to create a number of tricks including the incredible escaping coloured blocks, the vanishing rabbit illusion, the amazing rising cards and more!
Geomag Construction Toy Magicube Maths Building
- Age: 3+
- Price: £33.92
- Where to buy: Amazon
Magicube Math Building stimulates creativity by helping children to play with numbers. Geomag Magicube is a construction platform created by Geomag. The set contains 16 magnetic cubes and 45 clips that are able to stick together on any side. There are a number of Magicube sets available and all are compatible with each other meaning that the learning and fun is neverending. Each set is designed to stimulate a child’s imagination and creativity and hopefully making learning fun.
Studio Creator
- Age: 8+
- Price: £25
- Where to buy: Argos, Amazon, Smyths
Record your own professional looking videos with the Studio Creator Kit. It contains everything you need to create your own amazing videos; a dimmable, 3 colour mode light ring with adjustable phone holder, desktop tripod and a green screen to get creative backgrounds with all your favourite apps! Easy to set up and ready to go in minutes, the kit also comes with a handy guide, providing you with lots of advice and tips on how to get the best out of your video. Show off your creative side with the Studio Creator and start sharing now!
Fuzzikins Dress-Up Mega Pack
- Age: 4+
- Price: £19.99
- Where to buy: Interplay, Argos, Amazon, Very
The Fuzzikins Dress-Up Mega Pack is the ultimate craft play set. It includes 6 Fuzzikins characters, 6 washable pens and loads of dressing up costumes and accessories. What will your favourite pet be? The choices are totally upto you. When you wish to change your designs, rinse the Fuzzikins in warm water, dry, then re-colour! Perfect for story telling and hours of creative play with endless possibilities of personalisation.
Nail Art Deluxe
- Age: 8+
- Price: £24.99
- Where to buy: Interplay, Argos, Amazon, Very
A new deluxe nail kit that would make the perfect gift for budding nail technicians. The set contains everything needed to create fabulous looking nails focussing on the trend of Ombre Nail Art. With this kit they can design unique nail art ideas using the 8 cool nail colours and fun nail stickers provided. There is an applicator sponge, toe separators, nail masks and an integrated mobile phone holder included in the pack. The polish can easily be peeled off after use so there’s no need for nail polish removers.
Chalk It Classic
- Age: 3+
- Price: £15
- Where to buy: Buzz Retail, Hamley’s, Amazon
This Chalk-it set contains with 4 different coloured hair chalks and works on all hair types. Once read to remove the colour just wash it with water and your hair will be as it was before and undamaged. It looks amazing, is easy to use, not messy and done within seconds.
Supergraph Drawing Station
- Age: 8+
- Price: £26.99
- Where to buy: John Adams, Amazon, Argos, Smyths
SuperGraph is perfect for all young budding artists. It allows users to draw anything, anywhere, with its unique, drawing system. The optical viewer allows them to copy any picture inserted in the picture easel, and create stunning, life-like artwork. Once the picture easel is removed, users are free to reproduce landscapes, buildings, still life or even portraits of friends and family. SuperGraph is lightweight and portable and doesn’t require a power supply.
Fluffy Sand and Super Goo
- Age: 3+
- Price: from £1
- Where to buy: Smiggle
If your little ones are a fan of all things made from goo, slime and sand then Smiggle is the place to shop this Christmas. Their gifts are perfect for stocking fillers and are priced to suit all budgets, from character fluffy sand sets, stationery sets, fluffy sand, pens, scented pencils to alarm clocks, watches, activity sets, character pens and super goo there’s sure to be something for everyone this year.
Action toys
Sweet Shake Surprise
- Age: 3 +
- Price: £29.99
- Where to buy: Zuru, Smyths, Asda, Amazon
Sweet Shake Surprise are the newest Rainbocorns to be hatching from Rainboville! There are 6 sweet-scented characters to find. Each character is in hidden in 15 layers of sweet surprises for little ones to unbox including Boo-Boo sprinkle corns, and DIY Sweet Shake slime mix with your own sweet shake cup, stirrer and food accessories for decoration. Who will you find?! Rainbocorns are full of even more personality with a talk back function! Press their paw once to hear them sing and make cute Rainbocorn sounds, and press twice to hear your Rainbocorn repeat what you say. Each pack contains a giant cup, a mini cup, an electronic Rainbocorn, a Boo-Boocorn, a recipe card, a collector’s guide, 2 DIY slime mix packets, a stirrer and 2 decorative accessories.
L.O.L. Remix Surprise Pets
- Price: £12
- Age: 6+
- Where to buy: Argos, Amazon, Smyths
Do you have a LOL Surprise! fan in your home if so they are sure to love the new Remix Pets characters. Each of the newbies has 9 surprises, real hair, a disguise to make them look like dolls and represent a music genre. Pull the tape out of the cassette package to unbox their song lyrics. There are 12 to collect, you can build a boombox by connecting 2 LOL Surprise! Hair Flip and 1 LOL Surprise Remix Pets packages.
BABY born Treehouse
- Price: £44.99
- Age: 3+
- Where to buy: Smyths, Argos, Amazon
The BABY born Surprise Treehouse Playset is the perfect home for your BABY born Surprise dolls! Open the treehouse to discover an amazing fun park for your dolls to play all day and sleep at night! There’s a lift the babies can take to the top floor, where there’s a swing and a big wheel for them to have lots of fun. The rainbow slide takes them back down into the garden. The babies can swing under the slide, rock on the horse, play on the seesaw or take a ride on the carousel. The flower shower with frog pump provides a welcome way to cool down from all the fun and can be used with real water! The set includes an exclusive BABY born Surprise doll that has a pink bodysuit and glittery yellow and orange wings.
Snax the Sloth
- Age: 3 +
- Price: £30
- Where to buy: Argos. Smyths, Amazon
A cute and loveable soft toy that repeats everything you say to him just in slowwwww motion. Requires 3 x AA batteries that are included.
Airball
- Age: 3+
- Price: £15
- Where to buy: Buzz Retail
Football fans of all ages are sure to love this floating ball that can be played at any surface including a wooden floor, laminate, marble or even a thin carpet. The ball creates an air bubble underneath it so its actually hovering over the ground.
Ricky Zoom Speed and Stunt
- Age: 3+
- Price: £20
- Where to buy: Tomy, Argos, Amazon, Smyths
Ready, Set…Zoom! This playset contains Ricky Zoom, two rescue bike accessories, launcher, stunts and more. Give Ricky an extra burst of speed with the super launcher, transform the track and try for a longer speed dash, or transform again and do a super jump through the hoop. Earn Speed & Stunt badges by hitting the target after a launch, dash or jump to see the badge pop out! Ricky comes with two rescue accessories that help keep him extra stable as he performs the stunts. His front wheels also feature articulated movements that let them steer left and right wherever you point them.
Thunder Glow Drone
- Age: 8+
- Price: £50
- Where to buy: Buzz Retail
A medium size Drone with LED lights all around it. Including 6 axis gyro stabiliser, long range 2.4 GHz control, low/medium/high speeds and an automatic trim function. Includes: back to home and headless mode. The Thunder Glow is perfect for both indoor and outdoor fun.
Nerf Bunkr Challenger Pack
- Age: 8+
- Price: £37.99
- Where to buy: Amazon, Littlewoods
Grab your Nerf guns and go to battle by creating your own Nerf Battle Zones with three inflatable urban themed items – a jumbo tyre, oil barrel and cargo crate. Each item features large 3-way valves for easy inflation and deflation, integrated ammo cache and stability system for outdoor play. The set includes Bunkr Game Cards to extend and enhance game play & team challenges! Nerf guns not included.
Wall Racer
- Age: 8+
- Price: £30
- Where to buy: Buzz Retail
A gravity defying sports car that will turn the walls and ceilings into a new playground. By incorporating suction with the fun of a remote control car, the Wall Racer is able to climb walls and race across ceilings. It has two bright LED headlights to light the way, ideal for night time driving and is available in 3 great colour combinations. The cars charge directly from the remote and are available on a tri band frequency so you can race 3 cars at once and with a flick of a switch, can change from wall to floor driving.
Gifts for older children
Curls 4 Girls Digital Straightening Brush
- Age:12+
- Price: £55
- Where to buy: Buzz Retail, Amazon
The Curls 4 Girls Digital Straightening Brush is aimed at those who are starting to learn how to style their hair. It makes styling your hair faster and easier than ever before, with ceramic bristles that straighten as they brush. It has a digital heat control that you can adjust to the needs of your hair. This product can be used by both children and adults.
Double Supercar Driving Blast for Juniors and Free High Speed Passenger Ride
- Age: 11 – 17
- Price: £79
- Where to buy: Red Letter Days
Do you have a budding race car driver in the family or just a speed demon who loves the the thrill of a super car if so this is the perfect gift for them. With this gift voucher users will get the choice of selecting two supercars to drive. Choose from a Lamborghini, a Ferrari, a Nissan GTR and an Audi R8 plus others. Upon arrival, they’ll be warmly welcomed by an experienced instructor, who’ll run them through a fun introduction and safety briefing. Before a white-knuckle passenger blast in a supercharged saloon car, they’ll take control of two elite supercars as they enjoy five hair-raising laps in each! At the end of the experience, they’ll receive a certificate to commemorate their driving achievement and the opportunity to purchase any action photos from the day. The voucher is valid for one person and is available to book week round, February–November at a variety of selected track locations around the UK.
Fun for everyone
Windy Knickers Game
- Age: 4 +
- Players: 2 – 4
- Price: £19.99
- Where to buy: John Adams, Smyths, Argos, Amazon
Windy Knickers is a game all the family can play. Can you help Granny put out her washing? Roll the dice… if it’s a sunny day, hang your washing on the line. Roll a cloud and you must miss a go. Roll a rain cloud and you have to take your washing in. Roll a storm, the washing line spins in the tornado and granny loses her clothes! Can you be the first to hang out all of your washing? The game contains a rotating washing line, granny with dress and glasses, items of washing, dice, instructions. Granny laughs as the washing line spines. Requires 3 x AA batteries (not included).
Harry Potter Wizarding Quiz Game
- Age: 8+
- Price: £30
- Players: 2 or more
- Where to buy: Argos, Amazon, Smyths
Are you the most knowledgeable Harry Potter fan in your family? if so, why not put you and them to the test with the must have Wizarding Quiz. Choose and defend your Hogwarts house by answering questions from the virtual quiz master about the Harry Potter universe and try to earn points for each question you answer correctly. But be careful, if you’re wrong, you’ll lose some points. The house with the most points wins! There are 1000 questions and two levels of play for both beginners and advanced players.
Disney Colourbrain Game
- Age: 8+
- Price: £20
- Players: 2 – 12
- Where To Buy: Amazon, Argos, Hamley’s, House of Fraser and all other game and toy stockists
A quick and fun game for both adults and children alike who love all things Disney. The box contains 250 question and answer cards, 44 colour cards, 4 colour capture cards and the Colour Brain rules. You can play individually or as a team. Each player takes it in turn to answer a colour related question about one of their character cards.
Read All About
- Price: £15
- Age: 12 and over
- Players: 2 or more
- Where to buy: Argos, Amazon
Read All About it is a fast paced, family game. Filled with laughter and friendly competition that brings the whole family together. You need to use your memory, quick reactions and observation skills to defeat the opposing team. Teams compete to grab the read all about it cone and shout out the answers. The answers are hidden within the pages of the hilarious Rapid Observer paper.
Color Addict
- Price: £10
- Age: 5+
- Players: 2 or more
- Where to buy: Argos, Amazon
Color Addict is a fast, brain teasing fun game for all of the family! Perfect for 2-6 players, this game will get everyone’s brain ticking when you try to match the words or colours. Sound simple? Not when red is green, and blue is pink! Contains 110 cards and game instructions.
Haribo Medley Box
- Age: All ages
- Price: £4
- Where to buy; Supermarkets, Amazon, Wilkos
An assortment of HARIBO’s favourite treats all in one box. Perfect for sharing amongst friends and family, this thoughtful gift includes a handy tray to offer out a delicious mix of sweets including Starmix, Tangfastics, Supermix, Giant Strawbs, Jelly Babies Double Trouble and Jelly Beans.
Computer Games
- Age: 3+
- Price: £19.99 – £30
- Where to buy: Outright Games, Argos, Amazon, Smyths
If you’re looking for a computer game the following might be of interest. All are available for the Switch, PS4, Xbox One and PC.
- Transformers: Battlegrounds – Full Single Player Campaign with Arcade Co-op, play as famous Autobots & Decepticons such as Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron and Starscream each with unique abilities & transformations.
- PAW Patrol: Mighty Pups Save Adventure Bay – All 8 playable pups with unique superpower abilities, 7 action-packed main missions featuring iconic locations from the show as well as 6 side missions, with 4 mini-games (including Pup Pup Boogie) and couch co-op.
- Ben 10: Power Trip – Get ready to transform into powerful aliens to battle enemies, solve puzzles and freely explore an exciting 3D world and team up with Kevin Levin in local drop-in, drop-out cooperative play.
- Gigantosaurus: The Game – Help Giganto unblock the volcano by completing tasks and puzzles throughout the game and unlocking races to get to the next level, featuring open world environments, 6 unique levels and 4 players offline multiplayer.
- Trollhunters Defenders of Arcadia – Based on the DreamWorks Netflix series by Guillermo del Toro, the game features voice talent from the TV series and can be played with 1-2 players.
- Zoids Wild: Blasts Unleashed – Unleash the full power of the Zoids and experience spectacular mecha combat, with anime graphics faithful to the series, full Single Player Battle Story Mode and spectacular 1V1 Battles.
- Race With Ryan Deluxe Edition – Play as Ryan and an expanded roster of friends, with 12 new USA-themed drivers and join them on the open road for an American truck tour, featuring 4 new circuits as exciting and colourful as a kid’s imagination
Books to read together
- Age: 3+
- Price: £6.99+ – £12.99
- Where to buy: Bloombury, Amazon, Waterstones
Books make a great stocking filler and every year I make sure that My Three and their cousins always have at least one new book from us in their present piles. If you are looking for books this Christmas here are a few you might like:
- Santa Jaws – Written by Mark Sperring. A hilarious underwater Christmas romp from the creators of Mince Spies.
- Pirate Stew – Written by Neil Gaiman. Marvellously silly and gloriously entertaining, this tale of pirates, flying ships, doughnut feasts and some rather magical stew is perfect for all pirates, both young and old.
- The World Made A Rainbow – Written by Michelle Robinson. Inspired by the rainbows that children across the world have been creating and displaying in their windows, The World Made a Rainbow is a beautiful story with a hopeful message of staying connected to the people we love, and a proportion of proceeds will be donated to Save the Children.
- Snow Ghost – Written by Tony Mitton. A timeless story of hope and belonging, perfect for sharing with loved ones this winter.
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