https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:51:48 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906962 Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:22:44 +0000 peaches1038 2906962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JennyPenny: great idea! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906959 Wed, 25 Dec 2019 11:21:08 +0000 JennyPenny 2906959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Just wanted to update. We ended up assembling the plane to dissociate it from the box and it seemed to work great! DS yelled “yay, this is just what I wanted!” And no mention of having seen it already! :happy: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906731 Sat, 21 Dec 2019 22:07:43 +0000 wrkbrk 2906731@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I’d just give him the airplane now from you for an early Xmas gift. Save the Santa magic! An extra $8 toy isn’t worth it!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906694 Sat, 21 Dec 2019 04:58:07 +0000 SugarplumsMom 2906694@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My kid would most definitely remember and bring it up for ages! At that age, she might even voice her suspicions and tell basically whoever she could about it, which would most likely lead to her outing Santa for everyone else. So yeh, I would definitely do a Plan B.</p> <p>I would give the gift, but from mommy and daddy and not Santa. Laugh about how sneaky he was in finding it and how you couldn't give it before Christmas because you didn't want to ruin the surprise. Maybe add something else that's small from Santa (something he's into now). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906693 Sat, 21 Dec 2019 00:07:53 +0000 peaches1038 2906693@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JennyPenny: I would just have it be from mom and dad and if you want the number to be balanced, I’d run out and get something else for ds2. I definitely wouldn’t give it to ds2 for his bday if ds1 was the one who initially wanted it and asked Santa for it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906679 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:43:08 +0000 JennyPenny 2906679@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MrsSRS: ooh, that’s an interesting idea. It’s small enough the little baggies could go in the stocking too... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906675 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:17:11 +0000 MrsSRS 2906675@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have it come from Santa but repackage it. Like dump all the set into a basket or something </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906674 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 20:12:01 +0000 JennyPenny 2906674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>In our house Santa brings unwrapped gifts Christmas Eve and everything else is wrapped under the tree, with labels, well in advance. My first thought that if it’s not from Santa I’d probably give it to DS2 for his birthday in April because there are currently a balanced number of gifts for each kid under the tree. But my friend just gave me some hand me down books that I could wrap up for DS2 to even things out if I wanted.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906668 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:45:07 +0000 erinbaderin 2906668@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>If you really want it to be from Santa and he remembers, you could say that Santa’s sled was really full so he sent some gifts early for you to hide until he got there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906665 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:42:39 +0000 charm55 2906665@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would say the gift was from Mom and Dad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906664 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:42:19 +0000 LemonJack 2906664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would just wrap it up from you, then tell him that Santa didn’t bring it because he knew you were buying it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906662 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:19:13 +0000 SproutBee 2906662@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gotkimchi: that makes sense! we label. hence I would just swap the label. :-P </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906661 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:15:31 +0000 gotkimchi 2906661@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SproutBee: @JennyPenny: we also don’t label gifts! One kid is one wrapping paper and the other kid is a different one. We never say this is from Santa or mom or anyone lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906659 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:08:55 +0000 SproutBee 2906659@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My 6 year old would 100% remember he had seen that gift in the Target box and would 100% bring it up if he saw it labeled from Santa. So you definitely run the risk of bursting the Santa bubble - I guess it depends if that matters to you or not? Personally, I would just label it from Mom and have that be it. Santa can bring him that other LEGO set you already purchased. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906658 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 19:01:51 +0000 gotkimchi 2906658@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@JennyPenny: nah he’ll be all jacked up. I say go for it </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906657 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:59:08 +0000 JennyPenny 2906657@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@gotkimchi: in general I don’t either. We saw Santa because he was at an event we were at. We don’t talk about him much or do elf on the shelf or anything. Part of my worry is that I’ll have to say something if he asks weird questions Christmas morning... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906656 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:55:45 +0000 gotkimchi 2906656@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would just wrap it and give it anyways but I don’t really push the Santa narrative. I still hide the gifts but my 5yo saw part of her stocking gift and when she opened her stocking didn’t say anything so 🤷‍♀️ </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/kid-found-a-santa-gift-wwyd#post-2906655 Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:43:19 +0000 JennyPenny 2906655@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ugh, my son opened the Target box that had part of his Santa present in it and I’m already hating how I handled it. I’m trying to figure out what to do next...</p> <p>Backstory: DS1 (5) is getting a big Lego creative set for Christmas from Santa that I bought a while ago. When he saw Santa last week he asked for a Lego airplane. I saw one on sale at target for like $8 - it’s a small one and bought it for Santa to bring too. Well DS opened the Target delivery box that arrived today and saw it. While he asked DH if he could play with it, I hid it, and when he came back I was all “what legos? It’s just clothes for baby sister” which were part of the same shipment. I feel awful for basically gaslighting my kid but I don’t know what to do now. It’s the only thing he asked Santa for so I thought it would be magical for it to be there. But I wonder if now it’ll just bring up questions and it’s better to not give it at all. Or some other option... so what would you do?</p> <p>ETA: DS2 (2.5) asked Santa for chicken nuggets so I was gonna get some frozen dinosaur ones to be from Santa in addition to the plastic dinosaurs he’s already getting. But I could bail on that too if it’d be weird for 1 kid to get their Santa request but not the other. I doubt DS2 will put it together anyway </p>