Best Secret Santa gift ideas: great gifts, whatever the price

This kit lets you create your own flavoured gins. Inside you'll find 10 pouches, each with different infuser ingredients. Flavours include chocolate orange and classic citrus.

This hamper contains 50+ sweets you may remember from childhood. There are rainbow drops, double dips and dib dabs. Sugar may be the enemy these days, but if you're going to indulge, it might as well be at Christmas.

Here’s a fun one. This pack includes a 3m length of pink neon tubing. You use a length of wire to mould it into the shape you want and clip the light tube to the wire. It uses two AA batteries, not included, so make sure to include some under the wrapping.

That’s right, Nerf guns are still a thing. This is perfect for an ultra-budget secret santa, to chase colleagues around the office after a few gins. It fires its foamy darts up to 27m. You could get a three-pack from a £20 budget.

There are many, many whiskies/whiskeys you could pick for secret Santa. Our tip is to try to find out if they prefer the peaty styles from Scotland, or the vanilla-forward ones from the US and Ireland. This is a 70cl bottle and its flavour is packed with notes of fudge and toffee. Sherry casks are used in its maturation for a spicy kick.

Bulldog London Dry gin It has a light flavour, making it great for a clean G&T, or as a base for cocktails. There are floral and citrus notes, with greater complexity than you might expect at the price.

Seen Hot Ones on YouTube? This is the hot sauce that blows everyone's head off. It's 113ml of pure evil, an extract-based chilli sauce that has the potential to ruin, to truly spice up, any Christmas party. Approach with caution.