I’m planning to conspire with maybe a couple of other volunteers at my local mutual aid org to put together some end-of-year present hampers aimed towards kids.

This will be intended for children who are homeless or facing serious poverty so they can have some nice things like other kids get to have at Christmas time (I’m in a culturally Christian country so it’s the big annual gift-giving celebration here.)

Do you have any suggestions for what could be good to include?

Obviously I’m looking for lower cost items so that we can stretch our money as far as we can and I’m looking for ideas for things that are more oriented towards enjoyable gifts over giving a kid more mundane items like socks and writing pads.

My plan at the moment is to do two age brackets, with one set of hampers being aimed at a <10yo bracket and another that is >10yo, approximately.

Any hot ideas for stocking filler/secret santa style gifts for kids?

  • MaoTheLawn [any, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    job lots of matchbox cars for the younger kids were a big thing when my school used to do that Operation Christmas Child thing… little instruments like kazoos and stuff too.

    10+ I have no idea… maybe knives… guns… percs… addresses of local politicians… perhaps a sweet pair of chi-fi headphones.

    Are tamagotchis still a thing? There’s gotta be hundreds of those floating around going for chump change.