Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel and to my Ultimate Kids Christmas Gift Guide. Today I'm
going to share with you 20 presents that I think would be perfect for your children this festive
period. This is probably my most requested video ever. So many people have been asking
what I've got the kids for Christmas, but some of the gifts that I've got for my own children
this year are very niche and what they're into. So what I've done instead is actually think about
all of the toys we've ever had over the years and which ones of those have lasted the test of time,
have been worth the money and that my kids go back time and time again to play with.
I've also thought about when they have friends over, which toys do their friends grow gravitate
to whether they be girls or boys and different age ranges as well. And I think I've got a
really good mix of toys here that I think your kids will love. So I'll link them all
in the description down below. If you don't even have time to watch this video, you can just go and
check out those links. I do that all the time on fashion videos, but I hope really enjoy it.
I hope it inspires you as well. And I would, of course, love to know in the comments down below
what have you got your kids for Christmas? I need tips as well and I'm sure everyone will really
enjoy reading all of those as well. So if you're new to my channel,
then my name's Emily and I'm a mom of three. I have three boys. One's nearly 11, one is eight,
and one is five. If you have a baby or toddler, I would say I've made so many videos about toys for
younger ages as well. So I will link a playlist down below because that might be more suitable,
although some of the toys that I'm going to show you are great for a one-year-old, a two-year-old
as well. So I'll just get into it. But if you're new, please subscribe. I'd love to have you.
But the number one gift, I feel like some of you guys will know that this is coming. And I also put
something out on Instagram to say what are the best presents or toys that you would recommend
for Christmas? And this was the number one on that as well. So of course it is Playmags. I've talked
about these before on my channel and they've been in vlogs as well. They're basically colorful
magnetic tiles that you build with. So they look like this. You get different shapes, squares,
rectangles triangles as well. And you can build castles, houses, doll houses, car garages or when
they were very little, we would just build high towers and then they would like knock them down.
They all like stick together so they're fun to play with. And as an adult, I quite like
playing with them with the kids as well. So there's 100 pieces in this set and
this cost about 45 pounds. So it's not like the cheapest gift, but I think it's worth the money.
And this is probably all you need or they do do smaller sets of like 50 as well. And then
you can also, because my kids loved, we also got little accessories like you can get Playmag cars,
so then you can build cars and buses on top of them. So that has got to be my number one.
And the next gift that I wanted to share with you is Kinetic Sand. And if you've never played
with this before, I would describe it as a cross between sand and Play-Doh. It's got a very soft
texture to it. You can build castles with it, but then if you hold it in your hand like this,
it kind of all falls apart. My kids also like to cut it as well. It's got a really cool
texture to it and it never dries out to like say Play-Doh does. It stays good pretty much forever.
If you get this case, you can close it up and it's kind of like a sandbox that you can just get out
time and time again. It's also easy to clean up and I just really like it. So this box set here,
I think it was about 22 or 23 pounds, but they also do so many others that are cheaper,
but I just really liked that case. But for Christmas this year, I've got Jackson
this Ice Cream Kinetic Sand set, and the sand is actually scented in this one. They also do
Glitter Kinetic Sand, and I've also seen a rainbow set, which was only about eight pounds. So I think
this would also be a huge win this Christmas. And the next one is a big one in size. This is
a Micro Scooter and all of my boys have loved it so much. There's two big wheels at the front
and just one at the back, so it makes it very easy for them to balance from a young age. And because
there's only one at the back, they don't end up kicking a wheel while they're scooting along.
My boys love to take it to the skate park, but equally if we're just going out for a walk or on
a school run, they love to scoot on that as well. And I would say, I think we've got the boys a
scooter like this from the age of two because they do these little add-ons. You can get a
seat on it when they're very small. There's all kinds of different ones on their website. You
can also personalize them. And they're classic scooter, I think it starts from just 50 pounds,
but it's a very impressive gifts under the tree. You can imagine
this with a big bow on it. It's a great gift. The next one feels very obvious, but I don't
know how I could make a Christmas gift guide without including LEGO. And I especially love
LEGO on Christmas Day because it's so nice for them to have something to do or to build. Often
dad wants to get in for and granddad loves it as well. And there's just so many sets that you can
get if your children are under the age of three. DUPLO is great as well. So this is a classic set,
but it's a great starter. You get so many colors in it and you also get a place to store it with
this LEGO brick. And there's also instructions inside of simple things that you can make.
But as I said, they do in different sets for girls and boys literally almost everything you
can think of. So for Jackson, he really wanted some Minecraft LEGO this year.
My older son also likes the LEGO DOTS now as well. There's just so much different selection.
I think I've also got, where is it? I've got this NINJAGO set for one of the boys as well.
As far as having something to do, it's also great to have some games to play. And we have had so
many different board games over the years, but these ones we always tend to go back to.
So the first one is UNO. This would also be a great stocking stuffer as well.
The whole family plays UNO together. Even my five-year-old can play it as well. They just
really enjoy. It's very simple. And then Dobble is another one that we love. It's
kind of like a matching game. You have to like spot the pairs on two different cards. So again,
even little ones can play it, but even if you're an adult it's quite fun and you can get different
themed ones. So we've got the Harry Potter one. So again, it'll be a great stocking stuffer as well.
And then this one is fairly new to our family, but we keep playing it over and over again and
it's really fun. It's called Go Sushi. I would say it's for like six or seven and upwards and
it takes a little bit longer to learn, but once you learn it, it's really fun and we laugh so much
when we all play this together. So all three of those we love. We also like the Orchard Games for
younger children. We love the shopping list game. The kids loved to play that when they were little.
They also do some great matching games as well. And the next gift is for slightly younger
children, probably five and under, but my kids loved this cut up food. It's by Melissa & Doug.
Melissa & Doug Toys in general are great. They're just very good quality.
This is wooden fruit that Velcros together. So you kind of put it together and we use the knife
to cut it up, and then you just put it back together. And we used to play it over and over
again with the kids. I think I got it for their first birthday present, but then we played it when
they were two and when they were three and if they had friends around, they play with it in their
little kitchen as well. So we really rate it. And next up we have the LeapFrog Ice Cream Carts
and this has been so well-loved in our house. I got it for Jackson's first birthday. And now that
he's five, I still feel like I can't part with it just yet because if we have friends over girls
and boys, they all play with this. You can turn it on. It has ice cream songs on it and it talks and
it makes noises and they can make ice cream and they really enjoy it. He sort of pushes it around
as well. And yeah, it's 40 pounds I think, which I think is really reasonable because the size of it,
it's like a main present for Christmas. And next up we have a fort making kit. I've shared
this a few times on my channel before, but my kids really like this. This is a set of 120. Basically
you get like the sticks like this and the balls as well, and you clip them together and you could
build all kinds of different shapes. And this is enough to make quite a big fort. And then you have
like a frame that you can put the sheet over and we've even put our projector in it and you can
watch movies and stuff. It's just very cool. And my son Jackson liked it so much that we actually
ended up buying it for his preschool and also for his reception class as well because he wanted to
have it there. So it would be nice to like gift that to the class so they can all play with it.
And I also wanted to include some kind of cooking or baking set in this gift guide and this is a
Chocolate Lolly Maker. I got this for my middle son a couple of years ago and he really liked it.
So in this, you get all the molds and a little thing that actually melts the chocolate
so that you can make your own chocolate lollies. You even get like the cute cellophane to like
make it look very professional. The only thing I would say with this is you might want to also
buy a bit more chocolate so that you can keep making more and more of the lollies.
And I think this set was 16 pounds. Then I also thought that this was a really
cool idea. This is a bath bomb making kit and this is actually on Jackson's Christmas list to this
year. But in the first lockdown when we were homeschooling, but our school wasn't telling
us what to do. We did a bath bomb making kit then and the kids really enjoyed it. It took up quite
a bit of the day. We actually got more out of it than we thought we would and then the kids loved
putting the bath bombs into the bath as well. So Jackson wanted this kit. You can decorate it,
you add sparkles, there's sprinkles. And like you can actually put little toys inside the bath bombs
as well. So I thought that that was a really cute idea, especially if your child is also creative.
And the next gift is a very big one. But when I was thinking about the toys that my kids actually
play with all the time, I couldn't not include this item. So it is their trampoline. We got the
kids a trampoline about a year ago for Caleb's birthday and they have used it every single day,
even in the middle of winter, even when it's snowing they go on the trampoline and my husband
and I often say to each other, 'That is the best investment that we have ever made." So the brand
that we went for is called Springfree. It is quite pricey. I'm not affiliated with them in any way,
but when I was Googling because I just know my boys, I Googled the safest trampoline in the world
and apparently it is the safest trampoline because the springs are underneath so they
can never get their feet caught in the springs. So I would really rate it if you have the space
for it, if you have the budget for it and if your kids have huge amount of energy, I know not all
kids will be like mine. I have three very active boys who also happen to enjoy gymnastics, but I
just had to include the trampoline in this list. And I also wanted to show you some really cool
books that my kids like and that I love to give to people. These books are called Little People,
BIG DREAMS, and they're not only beautifully illustrated by their educational as well.
They give a short history about an outstanding person. So here we've got Stephen Hawking. We have
got Captain Tom Moore and also Gandhi as well. But we also have the Muhammad Ali book
and they also do great ones on historical women and sets as well. So you can get a whole sets.
I think there's like five or six books in it all about like groundbreaking women. So there's like
Rosa Parks in that. And they do ones on like Coco Chanel. They do David Bowie. They do some really,
really cool ones. So I thought that that was worth saying because they're just beautifully
made and the kids really like them as well. And then I also have some other books that
my kids enjoy because they personalized, I got these on a website called Penwizard
and you can basically change the characters to look like say this is Matt here.
You can also change the names as well. So you can have like Fraser, Caleb, Jackson, your kids'
names throughout the books. And we have so many books that the kids really like, but they also
really like to read these ones because they're in them. So this is like Fraser's second birthday,
but I'll still read this one to Jackson. He just gets a kick out of the fact that it's Fraser.
I feel like you're not going to thank me for the next idea, but it's one of the most requested and
played with Christmas gifts and it is slime. So in the past, we have got the kids like just a big
bucket of slime and Caleb especially he loves it so much. He plays with it, but then you can
also get these sets like an ice cream slime set. This one I've actually got for Jackson this year.
And then you can also get this really cool DIY set, which are also a little bit cheaper. So this
one is from Elmer's, I've got this one on Amazon and you can add glitter. You actually put it all
together yourself and make a really cool slime. So I feel like all children seem to just like slime.
I know it's a bit messy, but an idea for you. Maybe Santa could get it for them. I don't know.
And of course I couldn't make this video without talking about Fidget toys. This is all my kids
seem to be playing with at the moment. They love puppets. They also love really small puppets.
Caleb got some for his birthday, including a puppet board game and a puppet puzzle as well.
You can get really small ones, which would be great stocking stuffers. And my kids love the
little simple dimple and my eldest really likes Rubik's Cubes, which again I know is quite niche,
but it's still kind of like a Fidget toy. And they like them so much that for their Advent calendars
this year, I found a Fidget toy Advent calendar that I've got for the kids. So every day to the
lead up to Christmas, they'll get a new little Fidget toy so hopefully they'll enjoy that.
And for the next one, I don't have the original box, but I wanted to show you the boys wooden
train set. I got this initially for my eldest son and we've had it ever since we got a Melissa &
Doug Wooden Train Set, but I think even Ikea do a version of it as well. There's quite a few. I
think the BRIO one is also supposed to be really, really good. It's been so well-loved the kids play
with it all the time. We actually keep it upstairs in Jackson's bedroom and he'll often just get it
out. There's trains that come with it, but he'll even put cars on it. You get a little bridge as
well. And it has been one that he loves a lot. And the next one is quite a classic and it is
Play-Doh sets. So this is what Jackson wants this year, but all of my boys have just loved
playing with Play-Doh. It's also reasonably priced and I feel like I find it quite therapeutic
to play it with the kids. So this year we've got him a Play-Doh ice cream set.
This was about 13.99. And we've also got him a Play-Doh breakfast Set, but you can get them
for even cheaper if you choose just to buy the colors. You can also get like the dentist set.
We used to have that. They really enjoyed that. And I also wanted to recommend to you guys Marble
Run. All of my boys have really enjoyed playing with that. And when I asked you guys on Instagram,
it kept coming up over and over again like people recommending that as a Christmas
toy. It's quite cool because the kids basically need to build the Marble Run
and you can see them working out how the marble is going to fall down the run and it's quite cool.
Obviously, it's like a three and up game because you don't want anyone eating a marble, but it's
a really cool one. And I think they even do an electronic version of it now called Marble Rush.
So that would also be quite a cool one. And another one that so many people kept
recommending to the point where I thought, "I cannot not include this," but as a mom of boys,
I've never had this toy in my house even though I think my boys would probably love it as well.
But when I asked you guys on Instagram, everyone kept messaging of me saying the Barbie Camper
Van or the Barbie Dreamhouse. People were saying their kids play with it for hours and hours. Those
sound like two to definitely check out because they seem to love it, and it also looks like quite
an impressive Christmas toy as well. And my last Christmas gift idea is another big one
in size, but it doesn't necessarily have to cost a lot and it is a toy kitchen or a toy shop. So
we've had a few of these in the past. Ikea do a great toy kitchen and then you can get all
of the like toy food to go in it. We actually had the Ikea one and we ended up painting it and like
adding a few things to make it look even nicer. But we all also got a toy kitchen on Amazon and we
got a secondhand Great Little Trading Co toy shop last year for Jackson and he totally loves it.
So with items like that, it's definitely worth looking on eBay because often they're still in
really good condition, but they're just like quite large. So as soon as their kids have grown out of
it, people want to kind of move all on, get rid of them. So it's definitely worth looking on eBay.
But that is everything that I wanted to show you guys. Actually, one more thing.
I wanted to show you I've got the kids some like personalized chocolate this year.
So on the Cadbury's website, you can add your kids' name and you can even add like a photo
on the back and a message as well. So I've got that for the kids. They do like different sizes,
but I went quite large. But yeah, I think that is everything that I wanted to show you guys. Ask me
any questions that you have in the comments below. Let me know what you think as well. Do
you agree with these or do you really not agree with these? I'd be interested. And yeah, thank
you so much for watching. I hope the shopping goes well and I'll see you soon. Bye-bye.