Gift-Giving is NOT my love language

My kids are just reaching the ages where they’re invited to birthday parties regularly, and I have been spending a depressing amount of time in toy stores lately trying to find birthday gifts for the kids’ friends (approximately ages 3-6) that are exciting, not cheapo plastic garbage, and a good value. How do you handle this? It’s so time-inefficient to shop for them one at a time. What I’m saying is please tell me your affordable, slam-dunk kid gift of choice so I can steal your idea, buy 20 of them to have on hand, and get back to mothering my children. My family thanks you : )