20+ Best Stocking Stuffers for Kids under $10 (2024)

The holiday season can be quite expensive but doesn’t have to be. Here are 20+ Christmas stocking stuffers for kids under 10 dollars.

Let’s take a look and get inspired!

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The Legend of the Christmas Stockings

Were you aware that this beloved Christmas tradition goes as far back as 1823 when Clement Clarke Moor wrote “A Visit from Saint Nicolas“?

Yes, this Christmas tradition originated from the life of Saint Nicholas!

Here is a short version of the most popular legend about why stockings are hung at Christmas:

A recently widowed man had three beautiful girls. He did the best he could but had a tough time making ends meet.

Therefore he was worried that through their impoverished status, they weren’t able to marry.

St. Nicholas was in town and heard about the family. He knew the man wouldn’t take his charity directly.

So he decided to slide down the chimney and fill the girl’s recently laundered stockings and hang them on the fireplace to dry.

Quite interesting isn’t it?

Would you like to read more about how this essential part of the Christmas tradition came to be?

Then take a look here for that and more fascinating information.

Go check out our other stocking stuffer lists for Boys, Girls, and Toddlers.

What gifts are from the parents and what is Santa Claus bringing?

So big shock Christmas socks are from St. Nicholas!

But what gifts are from Santa now? What gifts from the parents? Or does St. Nicholas has to bring the stuffing fillers now?

Good questions and I m sure there is no perfect answer to it.

My advice is to decide from the beginning on one tradition that fits your family and stick to it. It is not right or wrong.

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How to fill Christmas Stocking Stuffers

No need to get overbored!

But as you also can tell, by now the holiday season can be very expensive if you get overbored.

The good news is, it doesn’t have to be.

There are still so many nice things out they don’t have to be expensive and bring a great deal of joy. Especially as I always try to remember to my children that Christmas isn’t about getting toys, it’s about the celebration of Jesus’s birth!

Therefore I m always looking for inexpensive things to fill my advent calendar and Christmas stockings. Here is my tip on what I m trying to include in our stocking stuffers: