Kids' stocking fillers under £10: 20 ideas from £1, with prices checked

A stocking full of small things adds up fast, so it helps to know what's out there for a few pounds. We went through the stocking filler and pocket money pages at The Happy Puzzle Company, Hobbycraft and Winning Moves and picked 20 presents at £10 or less. Prices were checked on 8 November 2026, every item was showing as in stock, and shops can change prices at any time, so check before you buy.

At a glance

• Cheapest: Hobbycraft's Dinosaur Foil Art Kit and Magic Scratch Art Kit 5 Pack, £1 each.
• Best for puzzle fans: IQ Minis, £6.99 at The Happy Puzzle Company, with 392 challenges.
• Best for crafty kids: Hobbycraft's Christmas Bag of Crafts, £8.
• Best for card game fans: Top Trumps packs from £6 at Winning Moves.
• Free delivery: over £20 at Winning Moves, over £25 at Hobbycraft (or free click and collect on orders of £10 or more) and over £60 at The Happy Puzzle Company.

Under £5

• Dinosaur Foil Art Kit or Magic Scratch Art Kit 5 Pack: £1 each at Hobbycraft.
• Maze Pen: £1.50 at The Happy Puzzle Company, in yellow, green, red or blue. The shop says ages 6 to adult.
• Christmas Snap Bracelets 2 Pack: £2 at Hobbycraft.
• Scrunchems Sugar Axolotl: £2.99 at The Happy Puzzle Company. A soft squishy fidget toy; colours vary.
• Classic Blue Waddingtons Number 1 Playing Cards: £2.99 at Winning Moves.
• Christmas Activity Book: £3 at Hobbycraft.
• Paintastics Colour Changing Pens and Magic Wand 5 Pack: £3.50 at Hobbycraft.
• The Amazing Block Puzzle: £3.99 at The Happy Puzzle Company. Pocket-sized, with 40 challenges, and pitched at ages 8 and up.
• Christmas Water Magic Book: £4 at Hobbycraft. Six reusable pages and a water pen, suitable from age 3.
• Micro Fidgetz: £4.99 at The Happy Puzzle Company. A tub of five tiny fidget toys, four of them in surprise bags.

£5 to £10

• Nano Tape Magic Pocket Pets Mini Kit: £5 at Hobbycraft, for ages 6 and up. You'll need scissors.
• Spirograph Envelope: £5 at Hobbycraft, for ages 6 and up. The design you get is random.
• Kids vs Adults: £5.99 at The Happy Puzzle Company. A pocket quiz with kids' and adults' questions on each card, for ages 8 to adult.
• 10 Clues: £5.99 at The Happy Puzzle Company. A trivia game for ages 12 to adult.
• Dinosaurs Top Trumps: £6 at Winning Moves. Awesome Animals Top Trumps is also £6.
• IQ Minis: £6.99 at The Happy Puzzle Company. A one-player logic puzzle for ages 6 to adult.
• Christmas Bag of Crafts: £8 at Hobbycraft. A bag of pens, paints, kits and stickers.
• Spider-Man Top Trumps or WHOT! Harry Potter card game: £8 each at Winning Moves.
• Eugy 3D Highland Cow Model: £9 at Hobbycraft, for ages 6 and up. A card model that takes 10 to 20 minutes to make.
• Rhythm Master: £9.99 at The Happy Puzzle Company. A light-and-music reflex game for ages 3 to adult.

A worked example: three stockings, three ways to dodge delivery

Hobbycraft charges £4.95 for standard delivery under £25, Winning Moves ships free to the UK mainland over £20, and The Happy Puzzle Company charges £3.95 unless you spend over £60.

• A crafty 6-year-old (Hobbycraft): Nano Tape kit £5, Spirograph Envelope £5, Paintastics pens £3.50 and the Eugy Highland Cow £9 come to £22.50. Delivered, that's £27.45. Choose click and collect instead, which is free on orders of £10 or more, and it stays at £22.50.
• A card game fan (Winning Moves): Dinosaurs Top Trumps £6, Spider-Man Top Trumps £8 and the Waddingtons cards £2.99 make £16.99. Adding WHOT! Harry Potter at £8 takes it to £24.99, over the £20 free delivery line, so you get a fourth present rather than paying for postage.
• An 8-year-old puzzle fan (The Happy Puzzle Company): Kids vs Adults £5.99, IQ Minis £6.99, The Amazing Block Puzzle £3.99 and a Maze Pen £1.50 come to £18.47, or £22.42 with £3.95 delivery.

What to do now

1. Set a stocking budget per child, for example £20.
2. Check the age on the product page. Several of these are only for ages 6 or 8 and up.
3. Group your order by shop so you pass the free delivery threshold, or use free click and collect.
4. Order early. The Happy Puzzle Company quotes 3 to 5 working days for delivery.

Questions

Are these prices Black Friday prices? No. They're the prices we saw on 8 November. Any sale saving on a few-pound item is likely to be small.

Can I return a stocking filler bought online? For most goods bought online you have 14 days from delivery to cancel under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. Shops' own Christmas returns policies may give you longer, so check before you buy.

Which suit toddlers? The Christmas Water Magic Book is suitable from age 3, and The Happy Puzzle Company lists Rhythm Master for ages 3 to adult.

Ways to save

Winning Moves has 10% off for new customers, and The Happy Puzzle Company gives 5% off your first order when you sign up for its emails and runs a clearance sale. Hobbycraft gives Hobbycraft Club members early access offers.

When you shop through Voucher Magpie, part of the commission the shop pays us goes to the charity or club you pick. You pay the same price.

Sources: The Happy Puzzle Company, pocket money puzzles, 8 Nov 2026, The Happy Puzzle Company, IQ Minis, 8 Nov 2026, The Happy Puzzle Company, Maze Pen and delivery, 8 Nov 2026, Hobbycraft, stocking fillers, 8 Nov 2026, Hobbycraft, delivery information, 8 Nov 2026, Winning Moves, shop, 8 Nov 2026, legislation.gov.uk, Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, regulation 30

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