Do you wrap Santa presents?

[lillygator]

Or put them under the tree with no paper?


We've always wrapped ours but now I am wondering if I should....

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

Santa leaves all toys out of their boxes around our Christmas Tree. Santa discreetly gets rid of the boxes. Our children get to play immediately with their toys on Christmas morning! I don't have to put any toys together before I've had my coffee.

Lori

 

[my4kids]

Everything gets wrapped unless it is bigger than a train table.....I even wrap every single thing in their stockings! For mine the whole fun of it is wondering what is in the packages and unwrapping. When mine wake up - they are allowed to go as far as the doorway of the living room to gaze in at all of the wrapped packages but must wait for my husband and I to get up and get dressed before they can go in and unwrap......the entire time we are getting dressed ,the squeels of excitement and joy are hilarious. They can see that Santa has been there and that they made out well...but they have to prolong the excitement a little.

To keep it from getting overwhelming for me...I start buying early and as I bring something home, I wrap it before I hide it away....that way it is all ready to go before they go to bed on Christmas Eve. I usually end up wrapping the stocking that night...just to prolong the fun on that too.

 

[Nevergrow'nup]

Santa "wraps" the room at our house!! All entries to our living room are covered with Christmas paper. That way when one child gets up before the other, no one peeks first! We have fun teasing that nothing is on the other side, Santa even took the tree, etc. Gives us time to get up, open our eyes, make coffee and tea, etc. Slows down the morning. Then they have fun either punching thru or jumping thru the paper! It is still the highlight of the day and the boys are 12 and 15 now!

 

[we3disneygo]

gifts from Santa are always left unwrapped with a note saying how good the cookies were and how good dd has been all year...... now she's going to be 12 right before Christmas she says she doesn't think santa is real I told her i think he's real

 

[ButterflyJen]

Our DD is only one, so we don't have a lot of experience here. We did wrap last year, because that's how we grew up: Santa presents were wrapped. And we had to wait as kids, too, until Mom and Dad were up before we could open anything. (Actually, I think we had to have breakfast first, too, otherwise it was too hard to get us to settle down and eat!)

 

[DisneyCrazyX5]

The gifts from Santa are wrapped in a special paper that has Santa on it. Gifts from mom and dad are wrapped in the same paper we use for all the other family. My DS (a fourth grader) doesn't believe in Santa this year, but loves playing it up for his younger brothers. Last year we thought he would never go to sleep so we could get the presents under the tree. We ended up setting the alarm for 3am to wake up and move presents.

 

[Allabtprincesses]

We do for our two DD (6 and 2) what my parents did. Santa's gifts are wrapped in special paper, something only used for Santa gifts. They are labeled with cut out pieces of white paper with the kids names written in big, "fancy" letters. (I remember getting my Mom to write our names a bunch of different ways to see if SHE was Santa !). Sometimes we will leave one or two things unwrapped...something big or something special. Gifts in the stockings are usually unwrapped, but sometimes not.

 

[rie'smom]

Growing up our Santa gifts were unwrapped and that was fine. However, I wrap all gifts including those in the stockings. It's fun to watch my DSs who are 30 and 21 tear off the paper. DD,11, looks like a cartoon character the paper flies off so fast! I hope that these are memories that I can hold onto for all of my life.

 

[mickeyfan2]

Santa always wrap.

 

[dangler]

We don't wrap the Santa present, but wrap everything else.

 

[Peace Mickey Lovers]

We wrap all presents.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Growing up Santa's gifts were never wrapped. I wrap all Santa's gifts however because otherwise the kids get nutty pouncing from one toy to the next. They take turns opening them and it makes it a little bit calmer Christmas morning.

 

[malibuconlee]

When we were kids everything was wrapped. Stockings were fair game and kept us buys until the parents were awake enough to focus. We got up EARLY on Christmas morning. My little sister actually set her alarm for 4:30 AM.

 

[mrsltg]

Santa wraps at my house, too. There are some presents that are waiting all put together though (ie a bike, or a doll house). This year the doll house and the rocking horse will be put together with big bows on them. I love wrapping the presents!

Erin

 

[Disney29]

Santa wraps at our house but always uses "his" own wrapping paper which is different then Mom's. It's such a joy to watch each present being nicely, slowly and carefully opened!!

 

[Rex Rules]

The gifts from Santa are wrapped in a special paper that has Santa on it. Gifts from mom and dad are wrapped in the same paper we use for all the other family. My DS (a fourth grader) doesn't believe in Santa this year, but loves playing it up for his younger brothers. Last year we thought he would never go to sleep so we could get the presents under the tree. We ended up setting the alarm for 3am to wake up and move presents.

That's great! DH has done this same thing for years. "Santa" has to have his own supplies - wrapping paper, bows and gift tags - which I think is funny because we only have 1 child - who else is it supposed to be for? And the paper always has to have santa on it. This is hidden with the presents. We love wrapping on Christmas Eve after she has gone to bed. Being Santa has honestly been one of our favorite things about being a parent!

DD will be 11 in January and she is already asking questions about Santa being "real". She will say things like some kids at school don't believe Santa is real. To which I usually respond, those kids must have been bad or I ask her what do you believe? I want her to believe as long as possible. But honestly, DH and I still plan to hide the Santa things and wrap them, even after she figures out the ugly truth.

 

[momto2inKC]

Santa leaves the gifts unwrapped, out of the packaging and completely put together at our house. The kids have a kids size table/chair set and he usually 'borrows' their chairs and hangs thier stocking on it, then puts that childs gifts around and on thier chair so they know who's stuff is who's. He also usually leaves them a card thanking them for the treat they left him.

 

[tlbwriter]

Santa doesn't wrap gifts at our house, but if we had more than one child, I guess he would at least have to use gift tags.

 

[Priorityonecb]

Santa doesn't wrap here! He leaves all gifts out unwrapped in two separate piles. With our age difference, it's easy to know whose is whose! Our girls are allowed to play with and enjoy all of Santa's gifts while we make tea/coffee/cinnamon rolls. After breakfast, we all sit down together and open the gifts under the tree one by one.