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24 Cheap Candies From Five Below That Are Perfect for Stockings

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A colorful store aisle displays shelves of snacks, chocolates, and candy. Prominent signs show prices like $2, $3, and $5. Lindt chocolates and protein brownies are featured on central red and purple stands.
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If the draw of cheap licensed garb (from shirts to jewelry) isn’t enough to lure you into a Five Below store, the candy aisle might be what gets you in the door. Five Below slings candies that you can’t find at your regular grocery store, and there are tons of cheap options right now that make for great stocking stuffers.

Tic Tac Naughty Or Nice Lumps Of Coal

A clear container of Tic Tac mints labeled "Naughty or Nice: Lumps of Coal, sour cherry," showing black-colored mints inside. The label features playful cartoon faces on a red and white background.
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Want to play up the naughty or nice bit that goes along with Christmas? Tic Tac offers little sour cherry mints for $1.50 that look like lumps of coal for the naughty ones, along with a white candy cane-flavored version for those on the “Nice” list.

Skittles Dip Candy

A package of Skittles Dips featuring rainbow graphics, labeled with dipping candy flavors: strawberry, orange, and grape. The package includes two candy dipping sticks and four candy pouches.
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Like Fun Dip, but with the flavor of Skittles instead. Plus, they’re only $1.50!

Nik-L-Nip Elf Punch Mini Wax Drinks

A package of Nik-L-Nip Elf Punch mini drinks with six wax bottles in red and green, labeled "Elf Punch" with an illustrated elf on a red, snow-speckled background. Flavors are cherry and green apple.
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This wax candy has a tongue twister of a name, but it’s cute, festive, and dirt cheap at $3 for an 8-pack, making for the perfect stocking stuffer.

‘Wicked’ Cotton Candy

A green and beige bag labeled "Wicked" contains pink and green cotton candy. The packaging features art deco designs and text indicating "Sweet Strawberry" and "Sour Green Apple" flavors.
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“Wicked” is all the rage right now, and what gives visions of sugar plums better than cotton candy?

‘Wicked’ Candy Brooms and Wands

A box of "Wicked" candy brooms and wands featuring four striped candies—two pink (sweet strawberry flavor) and two green (sour green apple flavor)—in a decorative, colorful package.
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If cotton candy isn’t your thing (or if you just wanted to double down on the Glinda and Elphaba theme), these candy brooms and wands are a play on candy canes, making them spectacularly seasonal.

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Grand Ferrero Rocher

A large Ferrero Rocher chocolate wrapped in gold foil, topped with a shiny gold and brown ribbon, and sitting in a brown pleated paper cup. The label reads “Grand Ferrero Rocher.”
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Ferrero Rocher is elite. A giant version for $5 is extra elite.

Bubs Strawberry Vanilla Sour Diamonds

A pink bag of Bubs Sour Diamond Strawberry Vanilla candy shows images of pink and white diamond-shaped gummies with "BUBS" embossed on them. The bag weighs 5.5 oz (156 g).
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Bubs taps into two trends that are gaining lots of traction right now: Swedish candy and natural colors. The strawberry vanilla flavor is a great combo for Christmas, too.

Arctic Sour Punch Straws

A package of Sour Punch Arctic Straws featuring cartoon images of a narwhal and a Santa Claus. The packaging is blue and purple with yellow accents and multicolored candy straws are shown on the wrapper.
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Sour Punch Straws are a reliable (and notoriously cheap) sour gummy candy, and the Arctic variety gives off Snow Meiser vibes from “The Year Without a Santa Clause,” which we love.

Smarties Raspberry and Cream Squashies

A red bag of Smarties Squashies candy featuring raspberry and cream flavors. The bag highlights that the candy is fat free, gluten free, and peanut free. The package contains 5 oz and 70 calories per serving.
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Smarties made a foray into Swedish candy with Squashies, and the reddish pink couple with the white make these super cute for Christmas (plus, they’re only $3).

Grinch Gummy Stick Candy

A skewer with gummy candies shaped like animals and trees in orange, green, and red colors, arranged on a white background.
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Who doesn’t love “The Grinch?” These gummy shapes are cute and convenient on the stick, and they’re dirt cheap to boot.

Haribo Pineapple Goldbears

A gold and white bag of HARIBO Goldbears Pineapple gummy candy featuring a cartoon bear holding a pineapple. The bag is labeled "100th Anniversary Edition" and contains 4 oz (113g).
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We love a good celebratory candy, and the 100th anniversary pineapple Goldbears have our attention.

Harry Potter Butterbeer Chewy Candy

A package of Harry Potter Butterbeer Chewy Candy, featuring an image of caramel-colored candies on the front and branded with “Wizarding World” and “Butterbeer Chewy Candy” text.
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Harry Potter fanatics are all about the butterbeer stuff, and for only $3, the chewy candy is a no-brainer as a stocking stuffer.

Amos Fizzy Soda Swedish Style Candy

A blue and pink bag labeled "Fizzy Soda Swedish Style Candy" with several blue and pink soda bottle-shaped candies sticking out of the top. The bag shows the same candies and weighs 5 ounces.
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Another one for the Swedish candy fanatics! Amos leans into nostalgia with its fizzy soda gummies.

Trolli Strawberry Puffs

A bag of Trolli Strawberry Puffs gummy candy with a pink and black design, featuring images of the puffs and strawberries. The bag has the text "Strawberry Puffs" and weighs 4.25 oz (120g).
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Remember when Trolli was pretty well synonymous with gummy worms? We’ve come so far, and the lineup now includes these tasty looking strawberry puffs.

Harry Potter Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans

A box of Harry Potter Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans featuring colorful jelly beans, a whimsical design, and red-and-white striped top packaging. The front displays the logo and magical-themed graphics.
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Is there a more fun candy than the Harry Potter jelly beans? C’mon.

Amos Cranberry Peelerz Gummy Candy

A pink pouch of Amos Peelerz Cranberry gummy candy featuring images of cranberries and a peeled gummy. The packaging states it is artificially flavored and weighs 6 oz (170 g).
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Finally, a Christmas candy that capitalizes on cranberries! Cranberry is one of the most iconic Christmas flavors, and we’re pleased to see it’s finally coming up in the candy world.

Iconic Candy Retro Sours Tangerine Candy Tin

A round metal tin labeled "Retro Sours" tangerine flavor, with an orange background, vintage-style text, and illustrations of tangerines around the edges.
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Altoids Sours, is that you? No? A $3 dupe will have to do.

Wonder Ball with Super Mario Toy

A box of Frankford Wonder Ball featuring Super Mario, containing milk chocolate, candy, stickers, and a collector coin. The packaging shows Mario and has colorful, playful designs. For ages 5 and up.
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Here we thought Wonder Balls were lost to the ’90s. This one is a must.

Albanese Jolly Gingerbread Gummies

A bag of Albanese Jolly Gingerbread Gummies, featuring images of colorful gumdrop and gingerbread man-shaped gummies on the front, with orange and white packaging.
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If you’re a fan of Albanese gummy bears, the Jolly Gingerbread version is as festive as it gets. At only $1.50, it’s a great choice for stocking stuffers.

Dubars Dubai Chocolate

A box of Dubars Dubai Chocolate, labeled "That's So Pistachio," features an image of chocolate filled with pistachio cream and pastry. The box is pink, green, and yellow, and weighs 2.5 oz (71 g).
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Dubai chocolate is the craze that’s here to stay, but it can be hard to find and expensive to purchase. Luckily, Five Below has a Dubars option for just $5.

Creamsicle Candy Cane Card Kit

A box of Creamsicle Candy Cane Card Kit featuring 12 orange and white striped candy canes and holiday cards. The packaging is yellow with orange slices and an image of an orange creamsicle bar.
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These Creamsicle-flavored candy canes include little cards on them, so you can customize them as you slip ’em into stockings.

Ghirardelli Sugar Cookie White Chocolate Squares

A box of Ghirardelli Squares White Chocolate Sugar Cookie, featuring images of white chocolate squares and decorated sugar cookies on a light blue background with festive holiday designs.
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Sugar cookie is another one of the superior Christmastime flavors that gets buried by the likes of peppermint and hot cocoa. Ghirardelli’s sugar cookie squares are delicious, and this $5 bag is about as cheap as they come.

Krabby Patties Holiday Mix Gummies

A red box labeled "Krabby Patties Holiday Mix" features SpongeBob SquarePants in a Santa hat. Several individually wrapped gummy candies are spilling out of the box.
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With the new “Spongebob” movie coming out, these Christmas-themed Krabby Patty gummies are as appropriate as ever.

‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Pez Dispenser

A PEZ dispenser with a red-haired character head stands upright, surrounded by three packs of PEZ candy in purple, pink, and red wrappers.
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Everyone loves a good Pez dispenser, and we personally love how “The Nightmare Before Christmas” makes sense for two different holidays.

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