#Ad. This Christmas is going to be one of the hardest for many of us. The majority of the population will need to make sacrifices and cut down on their spending over the coming months. The great thing is that Christmas gifts for kids don’t have to be expensive. My post – kids Christmas gifts for under £20 2022 will show you some wonderful gift options from the fabulous Wicked Uncle (click to take a look at their great toy options) that will help you gift something awesome but also affordable. I should also mention there is a fab competition to win a £40 spend with Wicked Uncle.
Kids Christmas Gifts for Under £20 2022
In this post, I won’t be looking at gifts for girls or boys specifically just different gifts that cost £20 or less for ages 10 months to 10 years old. You’ll find plenty of gift inspiration here for each age group. I’ve found the best products available on the site for each age. Gifts have been chosen as they are educational and also help nurture other skills and of course, are fun!!!
10 months -2 years old
Funny & Cuddly
There is a lovely range of items here but one of my favourites are the Windy Bum teddies (£16.95, 10+ months). These come in 3 options, a monkey, unicorn and teddy. These adorable soft toys will leave your child in fits of laughter. Who doesn’t think farts are funny, especially at the age of 2. All you need to do is give the toy a little bump and it starts to fart, laugh, and shake. These encourage creative play individually or with others. They are also soft and cuddly to comfort and reassure children at bedtime or any other time.
Sing Your Heart Out
Another fab option for this age group is the mighty echo microphone (£12.95, 1+). This battery-free, wooden microphone with a smart design amplifies sound as little ones sing into it. This allows children to throw themselves into imaginative play and can be a great confidence booster when encouraged gently to perform in front of family and friends.
So Much Fun!
Skittles – 2 options farm/fairy (£14.95, 2+). This is a fun easy to play game. Both skittle options available are beautifully decorated. The wooden ball is just the right size for little hands. This is a lovely toy for hand-eye coordination and a good one for children to play on their own or help them develop their social skills including sharing and turn-taking by playing with others.
Ring Ring
All kids love to imitate their parents. The sound telephone (£14.95, 18 months+) allows them to do this with a colourful phone of their own. This chunky design is easy for children to hold. The phone is extremely durable so it can take the constant battering one might expect from this age range.
3-5
Chocolate – Need I Say more!
Most kids love chocolate so getting anything chocolatey will bring a smile to their face. There are 3 great chocolate melt and make kits available animal/dinosaur lollipops and Chocolate London – where you can make a 3d Big Ben(£14.95, 3/4+). These are a fun activity for children (and adults) to make. It gives children a sense of achievement making something yummy they can eat.
Love Painting?
Rock painting is an activity that most children enjoy. The rock painting hide and seek fun to share (£12.99, 3+) is a great way to get children to be creative, have fun and once ready play too either indoors or outdoors. This comes with a handy booklet with tips on how to decorate stones and some suggested games they could play with them.
Puzzles – but better
I remember scratch and sniff stickers were all the rage when I was a kid and these sorts of fragranced items have been popular recently too. This has inspired my next selection the Cosmic Fruits/Campfire Friends Scratch and Sniff Puzzles (£16.95, 4+). As you can see there are 2 options and these come with 60 puzzle pieces and 3 different scents, strawberry, banana, and orange. These are great for children to work on visual-spatial reasoning, problem-solving skills increasing IQ, and more. Plus the scratch and sniff side is fun too, can’t forget that!!
Squirting Robot
Next up, the Quizzie robot (£17.95, 5+) which is fantastic!! It’s super popular – as you guys demonstrated when I did my IG competition earlier this year. This is a fun interactive toy that kids will love. This cheeky little guy asks you 5 questions and if you get one wrong he squirts water at you!!! OMG no, just don’t get my hair, lol. It also lights up and has great sound effects. A good choice for a child to play on its own and with others, it’s bound to get some giggles.
6-8
Painting Set but better!
As you wade through the sea of toys on the Wicked Uncle site you’ll come across a popular one Aquarellum. There are various Aquarellum options including butterflies, sealife, dragons, dolphins, elephants (1st 3 £17.95 each, ages 5+, 6+, 7+ in that order, 2nd 2 £11.95, age 5+). These highly detailed images are all embossed with an invisible wax outline. This works by magic to redirect the colours and keep the outlines tidy. A great calming/relaxing activity for children. Great screen-free time.
Up for a Challenge?
If you have a child or know a child that likes to be challenged/ mentally stimulated then these are perfect. There are two different handheld sorting games on the site, Rami/Pallino Handheld sorting Games (£19.95 each, ages 4+ 5+). These can be played anywhere. The player uses levers and switches to guide the balls into the correct colour slots. This is a good option for developing logical thinking.
Make Your own Pearl Jewellery
Okay so this is more for girls than boys but honestly, I couldn’t resist. Seriously, you get to make your own pearl jewellery with a real pearl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope I’m conveying how fab the gift is. You could of course gift one to a boy that would love a pearl and they can decide what to do with the necklace. This comes in 3 different jewellery style options, Turtle, dolphin or unicorn. The pearl jewellery gift set (£12.95, age 6+) has a genuine cultured freshwater pearl which can be any one of 5 different pearl colours. Once opened this is added to the necklace charm.
Superhero 3d Puzzles
There are so many options but the 3D superhero puzzles (£15.95, age 6+) on the Wicked site are in a word “Wicked”. This suggestion kind of makes up for the more girly item above although can be gifted to girls that love superheroes too! There are 3 options, Batman, Spiderman, and the Avengers. These are fun to put together and kids will love looking at the finished version which almost comes to life. A lovely gift that with use helps strengthens connections between brain cells and improves the speed at which children think as well as improving attention span.
9-10
Something Different
I love the create your own Sandscape (£18.95) gift idea. This is something completely different and a great thing to keep children entertained. It’s not just fun to set it up. It’s something you can use whenever you want. Simply turn the glass frame and watch the sand cascade down like a waterfall creating different patterns each time. It’s quite soothing to watch – a bit like fish in a tank.
A Wacky Kids Game
Kids Against Maturity (£20, age 10+) is a hilarious game jam-packed with toilet humour. Perfect to play after a long day at school. It’s so good that it won the kid’s game of the year award in 2020. This game has over 40,000 crazy combinations guaranteed to have kids in fits of laughter. It’s perfect for family game nights.
Love Baking?
The Ginger Bread House Baking Kit (£12.95) is great for this older age range. By this stage, most enjoy helping in the kitchen and creating tasty treats to eat. This lovely kit has all the dry ingredients you need but a word of warning, buy extra sweets. My kids always sneak some into their mouths when I’m not looking accidentally on purpose. Ops. Be prepared. Yummy, and gives a great achievement provided it’s not eaten before they can set it all set up.
Escape Room for a Phone
I know, how crazy is that? Kids will have great fun trying to crack the code on the Phone Escape Room (£19.95, age 8+). This game is suitable for 4-8 players. Participants need to solve riddles and find the code to get their phones out. It’s a great one for family game nights and even for adults to borrow and play with friends.
I really hope you enjoyed reading my Kids Christmas Gifts for Under £20 2022 post.
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The phone escape room looks like fun for children and adults
It really is a lovely gift idea x
The Funky Arm Warmers for my son he would love all the colours and loves the feeling of wearing arm warmers when he is over whelmed
It sounds like they would be ideal for him x
Wow another great Christmas Guide at this rate i can get lots of the Guides well done Melanie
Aaahhh yes, I have had years of practise. Glad you liked my ideas x
I love the Fun Tape Measure – Filled with Silly Facts, I think it would be a great gift for most people of any age! and currently under £6 too. Practical, educational, small and fun.
It’s great that you can find a wide range of items in various price ranges.
The Glow art board looks like great fun and the upside down game looks like lots of fun too!
I do think that is a great option for encouraging creativity.
I would love to buy the Gear Ball – Colourful IQ Brain Teaser to get my son off of his X box!
Anything to cut screen time!!!
We love wicked uncle and use them a lot at birthdays and Christmas! I know my daughter would love the jellyfish lamp and my son would love the colour your own pillowcase 🙂
The lamp sounds great!!! I might look at getting one for my son x
So many great choices but I love the look of the Glow are Neon effect drawing board and the LED light up gloves
The gloves are great, we have a few pairs for my kids. They love them.
I would buy the giant bubble kit and the butterflies magic painting kit as they both look great fun.They have some brilliant present ideas on there.
I agree, there are loads of lovely products to choose from.
The Rainbow Dancer Ribbon Wand and the Sticky Wall Crawlers would make fab stocking fillers.
Those are really fun!!
our Alex would love the 25 amaxing colour changing pens, she is autistic and loves to draw and she is obsessed with the colours
I am sure she would love those!!!
The upside down game looks like lots of fun my kids would love that and the fluffy note journal.
Who doesn’t love a fluffy note journal!!
Some really great Christmas present ideas
There certainly are!!
I like the light up skipping rope!
I love that they have such a range of fun products.
Great gift ideas. Thank you.
I’m glad you liked them Martin.
I’d love to get the scratch and sniff puzzles 🧩 they look amazing and my daughter would love them!
Those are such a great idea!!
Sonic Booma Boomerang – Returns Every Time sounds like it would be fun for my son
That would be great fun!
Love the bath light show for my niece and the neon effect light up frame would be loved by my daughter!
The bath light would make kids want to have a bath, that’s for sure!!
My Grandson would love the human body under X-Ray
That is a great product.
The Original Den Kit – Build a Den Outside! – great idea, my kids would love this.
That sounds like fun!!
Giant Piano Dance Mat will be a hit with my nephew and nieces, and would be really great for them to play together
It is a great toy that would work well for siblings.
I’d get the upside down challenge game, as that looks like it would be great fun. I also have my eye on the origami art and creations.
Both are great choices!!!
I would get the Unicorn Friendship Charm Bracelets Kit & Peel & Stick Artificial Nails – Top Model. My nieces would love them!
It sounds like they would be perfect!!
I love the Catwalk socks!
Those are great!!!!!!
The original den kit
Great choice!!!
I like the look of the phone escape room. No more telling them to put their phones down!
Yes, I completely agree!!! It’s a great idea x
The dino poop is cute and I love the odd socks. The dino head torch is actually quite annoying with the sound!
I wouldn’t made some of these gifts myself. I’m loving the DIY pearl necklace and also the sandscape. And I’m sure I will be much more focused and excited to be making my own animal shaped chocolate and rock painting than my 5 year old.
My kid loves bubbles so it would have to be the giant bubble set and the boogie in the bath kit.
I would love to buy the ‘The Upside Down Challenge – Very Funny!’ for my youngest and the ‘Gross Factopia – 400 Fun Foul Facts!’ for my eldest. Both of these gifts would suit them down to the ground!
I would get the Paper Planes – Fold, Fling, Fly!, my son loves making paper planes
lots of things my daughter would love, esp the press on nails and arm warmers
There are so many great ideas on there and I think I would get the Detective Tool Kit with 10 Unsolved Mysteries for my Goddaughter (and hope she lets me play too) and the SureShot Crossbow for my nephew (and knowing my family, his granddad too!)
As Big As…Height Chart – 190 Wacky Comparisons! Looks fun and the Animals Magneti’book
I would buy the Magnetic Floating Globe – With LED Lights, my son would love it!
That sounds like a lovely gift x
My twin nieces would love one of the Glow Art – Neon Effect Drawing Boards in pink
So many items to choose from i know my daughter would love the Glow Art – Neon Effect Drawing Board but there are many more she’d love as well
I’d definitely get the Kids Against Maturity game for my 2 boys (and me!) It looks like great fun
The phone escape room looks really good, great for everyone
I would pick the Phone Escape Room – Crack the Code and the Jellyfish Tank – Colour Changing Mood Light
my toddler would love the floating disco light in his baths
Build a Fort – Glow in the Dark 85 piece Set is the coolest……………
I love the look of the magic pens and the large bubbles 🎅🎄⛄
Those would make great gifts!!!
The phone escape room looks ace.
That is a great choice!!!!
Love the Tattoo Glitter Gel Pens – 3 Cool Colours and Pokibot – Mini Interactive Robot
I would like to win the voucher to get my newborn son the bunny stacker (five sensory pieces) and the my lovely rabbit dous dous set. lovely items, thank you very much
I like The shop – wooden jigsaw and playset, my granddaughter would love this.
love the large bubbles great range of gifts
Love the jewellery making and stationery sets!
Love the jigsaw puzzles.
Me too!!!
I’m not sure what I would go for. The Marvin’s Treasured Magic Tricks looks great. But I might go for Hama Beads – 3D Cat and Dog Models and the My First Magic Showcase – For Young Magicians. One each for my nieces.
I would really love to play the Escape Room game with the family
I like the look of the phone escape room! i hae having to tell the family to not bring thier phones to the table! the giant bubbles would be fun too
Probably the “Windy Bums Piggy – Wiggly, Giggly Fun” I feel like a bad parent for picking this, but I know my daughter would find it hilarious. I’d have to get her a puzzle or something too, something a bit more educational. ♥
Ha, fun games always go down well. It’s part of being a good parent knowing what games your children will enjoy.
I love this site. The funky arm warmers and the Party Unicorn – Crystal Art by Numbers would be perfect for my granddaughter.
I would get the Grow your own bug eating plants. My granddaughter loves growing things and this would make a change from tomatoes and cress.
The escape room gift is brilliant, this is right up my daughters street!
Lots of ideas here for family on my present list, I like the look of the game, Kids against maturity!
That is a really good one!!
I love the Giant piano dance mat and the Fairytale pillow case
the large bubbles would just blow my boy’s mind
Some lovely gift ideas. Thank you very much.
I like the fact that you have not categorised most them as either girls or boys toys
I love the Glow Art – Neon Effect Drawing Board. They could have hours of fun with it!
The neon light up message board for my daughter and odd socks for my son
The neon light up message board for my daughter and odd socks for my son
Ha, odd socks are always fun!!!
The Glow art neon effect drawing board looks great
It sure does, I might get one for my nephew x
The chocolate melt set looks fab. I think my kids would love Boogie In The Bath – Floating Light Show too!
My daughter would love the Archi.Tech Smart House
I would choose the skitttles
Those are fun!
The Airfix Spitfire Jigsaw Puzzle looks great and would be fun to do over Christmas
Who doesn’t love a good jigsaw x
Phone escape room looks interesting.
It is a great gift idea!
I really like Marvin’s Treasured Magic Tricks. That’s because my son at the moment is obsessed with magic and I think he could do with his own set
I would use the voucher to get the jellyfish sensory light and some small fidget toys
The phone escape room looks great for teens! The brainbolt game looks fun too
It sure does. They have such a great selection.
I would buy the boxes of colourful odd socks for hubby and the kids – they never pair theirs up anyway!
Ha, that make sense. I’m sure they’d love them!!!!
The phone escape room looks like a great gift idea. Or even for myself, I love escape rooms.
My daughters would love the LED Light Up Gloves, they look amazing.
Marvin’s Treasured Magic Tricks
I would love to buy the Tiny Baking – World’s Smallest Baking Set (cos apparently tiny things or giant things taste better?!) and the Spirograph Animator cos I had a spirograph as a child and loved it
Great gift ideas. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Wicked Uncle always have so many gift ideas don’t they! I love how they break things down into categories so you can find a present by age or interest depending on what the child is into. I’m tempted to get one of the phone escape rooms for my nieces, they love a good escape room game!
the Giant Piano Dance is cool and looks fun
It reminds me of the movie Big !!! It sure looks like fun x
I’d get the talking pet buttons to see if we can teach the dogs to talk!
The football that counts keepy uppys! Or the punch bag. Both would be perfect for my energetic nephews!
I would buy the Giant Piano Dance Mat for my niece looks great fun
The Marvin’s Treasured magic tricks, as my son loves magic and has a few of these sets already.
Glow art neon effect drawing board be right up my boys street
It certainly is a great product.
i love the sock game! played it with some friends before and keep meaning to buy it
i would choose some gifts for my Godson’s birthday next year. I would choose Lord of the Rings Exit Game and Death by Chef’s knife murder mystery game.
I really want to try out a Zorbi magic flying saucer – so I’d get one (for my daughter…)! 🙂
GREAT FOR THE GRANDCHILDREN WHEN THEY COME TO PLAY
I would buy Brainbolt and Sleuth they look like so much fun!!
My boy would love the dinosaur magneti book. His fave things!
I love it and so would my boy
I would buy the Jellyfish Tank – Colour Changing Mood Light
Spooky Sounds Machine
the magic pens are cute
I would buy the Unicorn Sparkle Luxury Bath Set and Chess Teacher.
Dynacube, detective toolkit and macaroon lip balms look really good
I’d put it towards the make a den kit for my nephew
Love the gingerbread house making kit, lots of fun to be had
Love to have a go at the Phone escape room looks really interesting, and may be the Giant Piano Dance too
The stacking pyramid water world and My first safari animals
My daughter would love the Macaroon Lip Balms. Also the Horrible Histories board game sounds fun
I love the Hop Skip & Funk – Six Odd Socks! they’re really cool. I’d also buy the Aqua Bluetooth Speaker – Water Dancing – my daughter would love these for Christmas.
I think the giant piano looks amazing and reminds me of big
Light up Skipping Rope, Move Your Body, Why, because it will help a person keep fit and therefore improve their health.
I think I would buy the Macaroon lip balms and the Unicorn poo bath bombs.
loving the phone escape room, definitely be good to use that.
Asteroid escape and dynacube are 2 things that my son would love.
The Boogie In The Bath – Floating Light Show and the Sticky Wall Crawlers – Watch them Go! Both fab products and such fun for little ones.
The Phone Escape Room looks good.
I’d love the farm skittles for my daughters
i like The phone escape room
It’s great isn’t it!
I’d get some of the Top Model books and the odd socks. My niece would love those!
I am sure she would Karen
My son would love the underwater periscope and factopia
Those both sound great!!!
I like the Spirograph Animator and the Logic Challenges.
I would buy for my granddaughter Lovely macaroon lip balms and Sensory slug wiggly rainbow fidget toy
I love the ide of the phone escape room. No more telling them to put their phones down and eat dinner etc
the giant piano dance mat looks fun
I would love the Funky Arm Warmers for work – I always get cold hands! My children would love Unicorn Book Tails!
Hungry Bug eating plants – grow your own – a fun gift and useful to me!
I’d get the Amazing Magic Pens and the Hop, Skip and Funk Odd Socks. My granddaughter would absolutely love both of these. She insitsts on wearing odd socks all the time now!
the jumgle crash looks like fun
The Airfix Spitfire Jigsaw Puzzle looks wonderful, we love everything to do with Spitfires
My granddaughters would love the Giant Piano Dance Mat
id buy the Dino Roar! – Four Noisy Dinosaurs
id go for the Hydraulic Cyborg Hand
id buy the Roadster Cabriolet – Meccano 5 Model Set
The original den kit
Large bubbles and rock painting
Such a great selection. The paper fortune tellers set would go down well with my little one, as would unicorn tail bookmarks!
The phone escape room looks great for teens! The brainbolt game looks fun too.
It is such a great product.
the neon effect drawing board is something my kids would both like
It is a fun toy!!!
id choose the Dinosaur Glow T-Shirt
Ha, my son would love that!
My little girls would love the bath time flutes and chocolate lollipop animals melt & make set. I really like the look of the phone escape room game!
There are some great options on there.
id pick the Spirograph Animator
That is a great choice!!
i love the BrainBolt – Fast Light-up Memory Game and the Pokibot – Mini Interactive Robot
Those are both lovely options.
my kids would enjoy the BrainBolt. it looks like fun
It is a lovely toy Dora.
Love the Sandscape and the escape room for phones!!
Me too, those would be ideal as gifts.
I would treat myself to the BrainBolt – Fast Light-up Memory Game to see if it helps my perimeno brain fog! And then the XL Mega Bounce – Giant Inflatable Ball for when my friends children come over
I like your thinking. I could do with a BrainBolt too!
I love the stacking tins of hair accessories- In a house with 5 girls it’s always a must 🤣
Ha, yes. Always good to have loads as they vanish very quickly.
The light up skipping rope looks cool – I’d love to have a go with that and get one for my niece too!
The arm warmers, hippy go lucky socks and the set for teaching your dog to ‘talk’.
I’d choose the lovely SEAHORSE PEARL GIFT SET – REAL PEARL IN CLAM Open the clam to reveal a real pearl, with seahorse shaped pendant. I’d also choose the Europe Wooden insert Jigsaw Puzzle.
Oh for me it would have to be guess poo, think it would be soo funny to play
The Giant Piano Dance Mat looks like so much fun!!
My boys would love the original den kit. Helping them to enjoy the great outdoors!
That sounds like a great gift.
The glow art looks amazing some really good things here! Will definitely be taking a look at the sight for birthdays
There is so much choice! I like how you can put the age in to get recommendations. My daughter is 8 and it suggested some great ideas for her. I would choose the fluffy diary set, or the arm warmers, or possibly the sticky wall crawlers as her older brothers would love those too!
I’d would choose the sticky wall crawlers or the arm warmers for my daughter xx
Those are different but great as gifts.
The sands cape and the locking the phone away game would be good to give the kids some time off from screen time
I would choose the Smart Sounds Symphony – Magic Touch for my baby boy
That sounds great. My sister might like that for her baby when they arrive. I’m sure they’ll love it x
I like the smart ball and the optical illusion cards
They do sounds like fun toys!
Steggy the fine motor Dino and Dino Roar! – 4 noisy Dinos would be perfect for my dinosaur mad 1 year old!
The glow neon effect drawing board and the giant piano looks brilliant
The light up jellyfish tank and the giant bubble set as i know my little girl would love both
my nephew would love the cyborg hand and the brainbolt memory game
I would buy the Bunny Stacker and the Farmyard Friends for my new great niece 🙂
The neon light up message board is awesome.
Phone escape room for my nieces birthday. Spotted it on the weird uncle site before Xmas but has already got her gift. She lives for her phone and loves an escape room so perfect
Love the look of the phone escape room, would keep everyone busy!
I’m intrigued how the pearl jewellery gift set has a genuine cultured freshwater pearl inside, which is then crafted to make jewellery. Not just for girls though!
The phone escape room looks like a lot of fun and something we’d enjoy.
I would love to get the Mini Aquarellum Dolphins – Magic Painting Kit for my daughter.
The Giant Piano Dance looks fantastic and something my kids would love!
It is such a lovely gift idea!
Glow art neon effect drawing board is something my grandson would like a lot.
It is a fun product!!
I really like the look of the Phone Escape room, a great way to get the kids off the devices and talking and working together to get them back.
Superhero 3D puzzle – why should the kids have all the fun – this one is right up my street 😀
It is a great choice!!
Love the Sticky Wall Crawlers – Watch them Go! An affordable and fun gift.
They are fun!!