Looking for some ideas for gifts for kids? The British Museum is chock full of the kinds of things kids love. Egyptian mummies, Ancient Roman and Anglo Saxon masks and helmets, stories of Greek heroes and gods - even the magical Lewis Chessmen, featured in the Harry Potter films. The museum's wonderful shop is a great place to find inexpensive gifts for kids. And you don't even have to come to London to buy them - lots of kids gifts for under a tenner are available from the British Museum's online shop. Check these out.

•Draw Like an Egyptian

This is one how-to book that anyone can enjoy. Author Claire Thorne has put together a 48-page manual to help the all the little artist-archaeologists on your shopping list draw people, gods and animals in the style of the ancient Egyptians. Not only fun for children. Artistic Moms can use it to decorate junior's bedroom with some dancing pharaohs.

•Pocket Explorers, The Ancient Greek World

Ninety color illustrations illuminate Richard Woff's little book (32 pages) about the spread of Greek culture and civilization across Europe and Asia. There's a fold-out map poster to help young historians follow the ancient Greek traders as they opened new routes and founded new cities in the ancient world. Such mythical and historic figures as Odysseus, Herakles and Xenophon are touched on as well.

•Games from the British Museum

Bet you didn't know that "Snakes and Ladders" and "Pachisi" were really ancient games. This activity book, ideal for kids under 12, looks into five ancient games - some played in prehistoric times - and provides five fold-out game boards and rules for games from Ancient Egypt, Rome, Mesopotamia and India. Add ordinary dice and the whole family can play these games with coins, buttons or beans as markers.

•The Lewis Chessmen DVD

The Lewis Chessmen were carved from walrus ivory some 800 years ago and discovered on the Isle of Lewis in the 20th century. They're one of the British Museum's most popular attractions - more so since they were featured in the film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher Stone," and the children's animation "Noggin the Nog". Older children and adults alike will be fascinated by this half hour DVD for worldwide play. The DVD includes a lively film about their story and an extra gallery of pictures.

•Children's Shakespeare Skull T-Shirt

Gruesome enough for the most bloodthirsty toddler, you can plant the seed of a Shakespeare fan in them young with this glow-in the dark skull decorated t-shirt, that has some of the bard's most famous quotes from Hamlet. The shirt is 100 percent cotton and comes sized for 3-4 years, 5-6 years and 7-8 years.