There’s not much you can give the person who carried your child that equals the gift they gave you, but hey, who doesn’t love a steamy, delicious cup of French-pressed coffee? These stocking stuffers are about the creature comforts and niceties that make her life more enjoyable and just a little bit easier. Because you tried to buy your wife a week’s vacation at the spa, but it didn’t fit. When your kid doesn’t know their ass from their elbow, the goal of a stocking stuffer is 10 percent to find their favorite toy for the next 30 seconds and 90 percent to blast the cutest Christmas morning ‘gram EVER. Almost all of these will satisfy both requirements with absolutely no fear that they’ll be returned. Although, who returns a stocking stuffer? At least have the common courtesy to regift it at the daycare Secret Santa. Your kid’s starting to grow up now, at least enough to throw a fit if the contents of their stocking don’t measure up to their discerning toddler taste. You won’t have to worry about that because magnetic blocks, balloon-powered boats, temporary tattoos, and everything else here is both little kid- and aesthete-approved. (Read: all the fun of the Fisher-Price stuff without the disdain from your hipster parent friends.) Christmas might be about the giving and the spirit of the season for you, but for your older kid, it’s business time. They’ve been good AF all year and their haul better damn well show it, even the gifts you stuff into a sock at the very last minute. Fortunately, there’s something here to appeal to all of their interests: building, exploring, sporting, creating, and Harry Potter.
