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LEGO® as a Sint-Nicolaas gift: why it so often hits the mark

There’s one thing that makes a Sint-Nicolaas gift difficult: you’re giving it to someone you know well, but you don’t know exactly what they already have. LEGO® solves that in a pleasant way. A duplicate set isn’t a bad purchase - two identical boxes simply provide twice the parts, and in this case that means building something even more fun.

LEGO® also fits every budget. A three-euro set for a shoe gift and a sixty-euro box for pakjesavond come from the same shop and both feel like a real gift. This collection contains all the sets we have in stock, up to 75 euros, sorted by best sellers. Looking for something bigger or something specific? Take a look at all LEGO® sets.

From shoe gifts to pakjesavond

Small, for the shoe

A shoe is smaller than you think. What fits well inside: polybags, small seasonal sets, and loose minifigures. The difference between a fun and a mediocre shoe gift almost always comes down to completeness - a bag containing a complete little model does more than a handful of loose bricks. Everything under ten euros is collected in Sint-Nicolaas gifts up to 10 euros.

Large, for pakjesavond

The big gift can be big. For children, what matters most is whether there’s something to play with: vehicles, figures and a story around them last longer than a model that merely looks good on display. For adults, it’s usually the other way around; the building itself is the gift. These two sides are listed separately in Sint-Nicolaas gifts for children and Sint-Nicolaas gifts for adults.

Building your own Sinterklaas from LEGO®

LEGO® has never released an official Sinterklaas set. No Sint, no Piet, no steamboat. So anyone who wants one in their LEGO® city has to make it themselves - and that has become something of a phenomenon in the Netherlands.

A Sint-Nicolaas minifigure from loose parts

The basics are surprisingly simple: a red torso, red legs, a white beard from a Christmas or elf figure, and headgear that could pass for a mitre. A staff is often a flagpole or a gold bar in practice. With loose LEGO® parts you can search by individual part and by colour, so you don't have to buy an entire set for a single beard.

A LEGO® surprise

A LEGO® surprise works well for the same reason as a cardboard surprise: it's clearly homemade. A steamboat, a mitre or a sack of presents can easily be built out of bricks, and the gift can literally go inside. If you'd rather not glue and cut, build the surprise so it can be taken apart again after gift-giving evening - then the parts remain usable.

New or second-hand

For the same amount, you get a considerably larger box second-hand, and you can't see the difference in the completed model. That makes second-hand LEGO® a smart choice if the gift needs to make an impression without the budget growing. If you're looking for something the recipient used to play with, take a look at vintage LEGO®. If you'd rather have a sealed box under the wrapping paper, everything is at new LEGO®.

Sinterklaas 2026: the dates

The national arrival is on Saturday 14 November 2026 in Grave, for the first time in 26 years in a municipality in Brabant, and therefore more or less right around the corner for us. From that evening onwards, children may put out their shoes, and gift-giving evening falls on Saturday 5 December this year. That means just over three weeks of putting out shoes, which in practice amounts to around five to eight small gifts.

Would you rather have a look in person? The shop in Oss is open, and you can take your time browsing and handling boxes before choosing something.