I love reading annual gift guides and sourcing cool ideas for gifts, so thought I’d share a few of the things that have caught my eye for Harry this year.  I’d love to hear your suggestions too (as a delegate-elf, I am still looking for a few bits and pieces for stockings…).

Sign here, a book of official pull-out forms for kids, in which they can petition for a pocket-money raise, share secrets, communicate false bedtime information to babysitters and much more.  A perfect choice for pint-sized negotiators.

Two gifts for advent; these elf door stickers which we’ve used to decorate our fairy door for the holiday season (more on that soon) …and How Winston Delivered Christmas, an amazing storybook with activities for each day in December – because it’s never too late to start.

Magical notebooks for young wizards, from here; a genius suggestion from a reader (thank you; ordered!)

A whole pack of skintone pencils, for your budding artist who always colours faces in bright pink, so everyone looks like they are holding their breath.  Now the whole class can be accurately captured on paper.

Or this retro mechanical pencil; a perfect stocking-filler together with a replacement set of leads; for endless threading and clicking and scribbling (and a useful incentive for writing thank-you letters).

Amazing magical thumb lights that allow you to toss and catch light and astound your family; Harry was given a set for his birthday and our table brought the restaurant to a standstill as we got the hang of it.  I adore these. Watch this for tips.

A subscription to Tattly, so that a bundle of awesome tattoos arrives each month, like these beautiful Oliver Jeffers animal designs.  I’ll tell you a secret; I wear these ones a lot and get asked about them Every. Single. Time.

Or a subscription to The Week Junior, so that you can all read your own copy of the newspaper at breakfast.

Or an actual tiger, because your 9yr old son wants to be either a vet or a zookeeper or to ‘run a huge nature preserve where animals can have fun and have no-one bother them’.  Sponsorship feels like a fairly safe way to start.

A voice-activated  dictaphone, because he might also become an author and when new stories pop into his mind he needs to be able to record them RIGHT THAT VERY MINUTE and it’s too exhausting to write them down.  Besides, you will secretly keep all of his recordings so that you can listen to them for years.