Do you wrap Santa presents?

[sara74]

I already posted what we do about wrapping but thoguht I would add what my mom has switched to in the last several years. She wraps all of her presents in plain brown Kraft paper. She has 2 HUGE rolls of it in her craft room! Every present has a unique bow/ribbon/decoration whether they are handpainted, cross stitched or needlework ornaments, pinecones and berries collected outside or silk flowers. The presents under the tree look amazing ! I take pictures every year before we open them. The part about all of this that makes it crazy is that the paper she uses is too heavy for tape so she hot glue guns all the paper instead of taping. Takes her forever to do adn she always manages to burn herself once or twice. But we all think it's worth it!

 

[beautybelle]

We wrap Santas gifts in fun cartoon paper and the rest in like classic christmas paper. The gifts in the stocking are not wrapped. I love watching my son on Christmas morning run in the living room to see what Santa brought. To be honest I love watching my husband run in the living room to see what Santa brought. LOL

 

[christinadei]

Most are wrapped, but I, um, I mean Santa always leaves a few unwrapped to peak at. The stocking is mostly unwrapped, with a few being wrapped.

 

[Haley'smom]

Santa always wraps and he has his own special paper ( this was DH's idea and a memory from his own childhood as Santa does not have time to wrap his gifts at our house with our wrapping paper...

 

[dismom9761]

None of santa's gifts are wrapped and they are all put together.That really helps with four kids.

 

[nordkin]

Then 1 gift is opened at a time!! This way it is shown to Mom and Dad, brother; it is stated who it is from, each person gets to make a POSITIVE comment about it. Brother may pick out his gift but not allowed to open it until paper, tags, tape... are in the trash bag. Also allowed is for another family member to pick the next gift for the person's turn it is.

This is exactly how we do it woth our kids starting with the youngest and working our way up to the oldest. This is a change from how I grew up where we started with the youngest who opened all of his gifts before moving to the next one up the line. By doing it this way everyone gets to see what everyone else received and it makes the gift opening part last longer. All of my 4 brothers also do it the sameway.

By the way we are from Maryland and everyhting but large gifts and stocking stuffers are wrapped.

 

[pweyl36]

Santa does not have time to wrap all the present for good little girls and boys

 

[annie1995]

We wrap everything except stocking stuffers. Santa presents are wrapped with special paper, usually with santa or rudolph or something like that on it.

 

[Michigan]

Everything is wrapped each kid has their own paper and Santa cuts a small piece of the paper and tapes it to the wall by their bed so they know which packages are theres.

 

[wvjovifan]

Everything under our tree is from Santa...my kids are 20 and 22 and still get presents from Santa! And yes, every gift is wrapped!

 

[vhoffman]

Here's something a neighbor of mine did when I was a kid. She had 8 children and didn't want to spend an excessive amount of money on wrapping paper that could be used to buy gifts, however, did want some way to slow the kids down Christmas morning. She wrapped the presents in the Sunday comics! We used to help save comics for her. Then, to identify the gifts, she tied each child's gift package in a different colored yarn ribbon, bought in large spools. She then tied a piece of the colored yarn on each child's bedpost after they went to sleep, so on Christmas morning even the youngest ones knew which were their presents. Just a cute idea I wanted to pass on...............

 

[vhoffman]

Oh, this is a little off topic, but I have a problem with my 2 getting up at 5 am (or earlier!) and opening all their presents. Usually its a hopeless mess by the time we wake up. They do this no matter what they're told! So here's what I'm going to do this Christmas--keep the presents in our bedroom until Christmas morning. I've already bought two giant stuffed polar bears for the kids and a red and green clock (found at a garage sale!). I will display the bears under the tree with the clock in between. Each bear will have a nice note held in his hands (paws?) saying that Santa came last night, thanks for the cookies, etc., however, he left the presents in mom and dad's room. They are NOT to wake up mom and dad until 8 am. Even though they can tell time, I'm drawing a big picture of a clock set at 8 am on the letter. If they wake us up before then, all the toys will disappear! In the meantime, I will place a new video and plate of donuts (in a covered dome) on the table and the note from Santa will tell them to watch the video and enjoy the donuts until 8 am. Let's see if it works!

Also, in years past, I never wrapped the Santa gifts. I had everything opened and assembled under the tree. Perhaps this year we will try wrapping everything and not having it assembled, just to slow them down. Hope it works!

 

[vhoffman]

Oh, I just read the post about papering off the living room! Sounds even better than my idea of hiding all the gifts in our bedroom.. We have a formal living room, but usually set up the tree in the "informal" family room. It might just work! Its a rather large archway to the flr, however, we could cover it with some paper (better start looking at Costco!). Then, still do my idea with the bears, the note, and the clock. That way, we can have the gifts nicely arranged under the tree, rather than bringing them out from our bedroom while still half awake. Of course, the can still peak through the paper, however, perhaps the threat that the toys wil disappear might be effective. Also, maybe a second, small tree in the flr, perhaps the ornaments could also be small gifts, like stocking stuffer things, small jewelry, tiny bags of various trinkets, etc. Well, all this requires fine tuning, but there are some great ideas here!

 

[speakupjc]

We compromise in our house. 1/2 of the presents from Santa are wrapped because that is what happended in my husband's home when he was growing up and the other 1/2 is unwrapped becuase my Santa gifts were not wrapped when I was a child. We display all Santa gifts on the Sofa that was in my living room when I was a child. Talk about the memories!!!!

 

[Candleshoe]

Santa gifts are wrapped, but stocking presents are not. Unless they're special adult presents. But kids stockings are always unwrapped things: the stocking IS the wrapping.

I grew up where it was not a present if it wasn't wrapped! Although it could be a gift. LOL.

I'm getting excited about Christmas now!

 

[Candleshoe]

I already posted what we do about wrapping but thoguht I would add what my mom has switched to in the last several years. She wraps all of her presents in plain brown Kraft paper. She has 2 HUGE rolls of it in her craft room! Every present has a unique bow/ribbon/decoration whether they are handpainted, cross stitched or needlework ornaments, pinecones and berries collected outside or silk flowers. The presents under the tree look amazing ! I take pictures every year before we open them. The part about all of this that makes it crazy is that the paper she uses is too heavy for tape so she hot glue guns all the paper instead of taping. Takes her forever to do adn she always manages to burn herself once or twice. But we all think it's worth it!

Wow that is so neat! Your mom is pretty amazing

 

[LaLa]

Santa doesn't bring wrapped gifts to our house. I think part of the fun is seeing them rush in and see that bike/Cinderella castle, etc. sitting in the glow of the lights of the Christmas tree. If you could just bottle that excitement...

BTW, ours are 7 and 4 and we always put up the baby gate in the hallway so they can't get to the living room until we wake up. It's one of those really large gates and it works really well, they can't climb over it or anything. They have never questioned why the gate is there on Christmas morning. Not yet anyway.


They also get presents from US that are wrapped up and those are opened at our big family get together on Christmas Eve. We did it like that when I was little, and it has always been like Christmas was 2 days instead of 1.


"It's the most wonderful time of the year...."

 

[daisyduck123]

Santa has always wrapped the gifts he leaves at our house.

 

[budbeerlady]

Santa wraps in Santa paper and leaves them on the hearth by the chimmney.

 

[Pinkprincessmom]

I never knew Santa wrapped presents!! When I was growing up with 2 sisters and a brother, Santa always had our things laid out nicely with our stocking to signify what belonged to who.

We only have 1DD. I didn't realize until last year that my dh grew up getting wrapped presents from Santa. We just did it my way. We still do, by the way. DD gets 3 unwrapped presents from Santa, all set up and ready to play with. Stocking stuffers are sometimes wrapped, sometimes not. She also gets her presents from Mommy and Daddy on Christmas day, all wrapped. We open presents with grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins on Christmas Eve.

Both dh and myself are from the South.

Happy Holidays everyone!!
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