Does Santa wrap the gifts that he brings to your house? When I was little, the wrapped presents were from the family, and Santa gifts were completely unwrapped. It was a free for all with the Santa gifts as soon as we all got up, and we had to wait patiently for the wrapped gifts. My husband's family wraps everything.
What does Santa do at your house and why?
Thanks for all of the answers! m It is fun to read about how other families do things . . . and how there is no one right way! Since mu husband is insistent that Santa wraps gifts (except awkward shaped large ones and stocking stuffers), I think Santa might have a special paper. I really like the solid red idea!
Unwrapped. Santa knows we recycle and compost...he knows we wouldn't want to waste all that paper. ;)
There is still wow factor. It's really fun to watch the kids not know where to look because of the excitement of seeing the gift all at once!
Every present is wrapped, whether from Santa or mom and dad, etc. This is the way it was when I was growing up, too. Prolongs the fun a little more, IMO.
We do both. Some of the bigger items we leave unwrapped and also wrap little things from Santa. Just makes it more fun.
Happy Holidays!
Wrapped, with the tag saying "SC". Every picture I've ever seen of Santa putting gifts under the tree has the gifts wrapped, unless they are big like a fire engine with a long ladder or a bicycle.
Have fun, whichever way you do it!
Dawn
Everything at our house is wrapped unless it's too big or awkward to wrap.
One year Santa brought a train table and wooden train tracks with trains. He put it together and had it all set up to play with on Christmas morning. But the other gifts were wrapped.
Santa wraps his gifts in ALL RED wrapping paper at our house. It makes for a dramatic scene Christmas morning when there are big red boxes all over the place. He also has special name tags on each and every gift. :)
We were raised the same way and I raised my children that way ! And I do exactly the same for my grandkids .........! Age is not a deciding factor ,my oldest is 32 and my youngest grandchild is 3 ,its the same thing for everyone ! And we enjoy seeing the shock on someone's face when they 1st see what Santa brought and then building up the suspense as we open gifts from each other. We've gotten to where we separate the gifts and pass them out, but, you can only open one at a time so everyone takes a turn sometimes we make a game out of it,.......C. S.
We do both as well. If it is large or awkward to wrap (like a bike, a sled or a big dump truck) it goes unwrapped.
Unwrapped - it was a big debate with the ex and I ( I won ).
But then my dad took over Santa and he never wrapped anything. He loves the surprise on the adult's faces even more than the grandchildren I think
Santa just doesn't have time to wrap our gifts....he knows we don't mind and like to video the surprise coming down the stairs! We wrap what we exchange from each other! Each child had a different area under the tree that is separate...we have a 3 month old now....gonna have to make taller stacks rather then wider! :-)
Santa wraps present in special wrapping paper.
Santa only brings stocking gifts and they are not wrapped.
My parents had seven kids. Santa wrapped everything (unless to big or awkward)! The presents I wrap at home can be any wrapping paper. Santa wraps each kids presents in their own wrapping paper, ie Boy gets transformer, DD1 gets Tinkerbelle and DD2 gets Princess. Sockings can be opened immediately, presents have to wait.
Santa gifts are wrapped in Santa paper (and the only gifts that are in santa paper so they stand out, everything else is wrapped in other christmas wrap). We wrap everything b/c it's fun to un-wrap! We don't wrap items in their stockings.
Everything is wrapped.
Each kid (three this year) gets all of their Santa gifts in one type of paper that is only used for them. The to is filled out on the label, but not the from. Big gifts haven't been an issue yet. However growing up for me, big gifts were not wrapped.
unwrapped! I think it makes it so much more fun for them on Christmas morning to come down to all of those toys rather than going through them one by one. Plus it is way easier not to have to wrap all of those presents.
Santa wraps everything at our house unless it's too big or awkwardly shaped to wrap (e.g. the play set last year or the bike next year). Those just get a big bow on them. :)
Nothing get wrapped but we have these extra large felt sacks (Michael's sells them) that get reused each year and Santa fills those with a lot of their stuff, leaving the smaller items on the living room table in stockings their grandmother made them or their Thomas the Tank gift bags (an odd tradition that started one year with my first child when, for the life of us we could not find the box with the stockings after moving in a couple weeks before Christmas). The really big things get left in front of the table or on the couch.
We are an environmentally conscious family and Santa knows that so he uses reusable or nothing at all ;)
Santa's gifts are unwrapped.
It helps distinguish what was was LEFT by Santa from what was GIVEN by mom and dad.
He always brought the "good" stuff. The big items. Poor Santa got all the credit.
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Santa's gifts are unwrapped.
It helps distinguish what was was LEFT by Santa from what was GIVEN by mom and dad.
He always brought the "good" stuff. The big items. Poor Santa got all the credit.
Stockings - unwrapped, gifts under the tree - wrapped.
I think this is the last year Santa is going to be able to come to the house. My son will be 7 right after xmas and hes getting past that magical age. But for the last 6 years santa has wrapped his gifts in different paper then the rest of the gifts, even different tape entirely sometimes.
I grew up the same way you did--unwrapped Santa gifts. My parents had 5 kids--wrapping EVERYTHING would have taken hours.
I only have 3 kids, so I do have time to wrap everything, but I decided Santa is eco-friendly and doesn't want to waste wrapping paper.
I grew up with them wrapped, my husband grew up with them unwrapped. I dont know how we decided but santa doesnt wrap them. The kids usually sneek down and its kinda fun to listen to them ooh and ahh and say hey look at what you got so they tinker around a little bit but I tell them they cannot touch til I am out of bed. So they will run up and tell me something that they got and run back down. Then we get up and go down there and they have a few minutes to fiddle with what they got from santa and then we do the wrapped presents.
Santa only brought one big gift to each child in our house. And no, it wasn't wrapped. The rest of the gifts were from all of us to each other, so the kids could get in on the spirit of giving, rather than just receiving. And those gifts were wrapped.
