Spin-off from another post - in your house, if Santa comes, does Santa wrap gifts? In my house Santa always used a special separate paper (Santa themed, natch) but wondering what’s common?
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We only do one Santa gift, and we just leave it out. Usually with a note. And then stockings.
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@skiierchck99: i have been wrapping Santa gifts in separate paper.
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We have a GIANT red canvas gift bag and Santa leaves all those gifts in the bag. Less things for me to wrap!
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We wrap the Santa gift in brown craft paper and the rest, each kid has their own paper so they can tell what is theirs!
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I hate wrapping presents but I didn’t want them to just be out unwrapped and ruin the fun of opening so I got a giant red Santa bag for each kid and their Santa gifts go in there. Santa brings Want/Wear/Need/Read.
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No! We always leave Santa gifts unwrapped in front of the fireplace.
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Yes - it spreads out the fun of Christmas morning a little longer. I even wrap the stocking stuffers which Dh thinks is weird !
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Both! I’m not wedded to it either way so I usually leave out one they’re really excited about (or that is hard to wrap!) so they can see it when they run in, and then I wrap the rest to make the excitement last longer. I do use separate paper - usually from the target dollar aisle so it’s small and gets used up.
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Definitely wrapped!!! I have separate Santa paper. I didn't even know leaving them unwrapped was something that Santa did! @charm55: I wrap stocking stuffers too!
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Nope. Santa leaves the gift they ask for set up in front of the tree ready to play with. Santa brings 1 gift each.
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No, Santa does the thing they asked for and also he fills the stockings, and none of that is wrapped.
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@charm55: I wrap stocking stuff too 🥰
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Nope. All of our Christmas gifts came from Santa growing up (not from our parents) and nothing is wrapped. It is all just in piles under the tree. There are usually a few wrapped gifts from grandparents and other family that we open Christmas morning too but I like the simplicity of the majority being unwrapped presents.
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Like a lot of others we have separate paper for the Santa gift and we use 'fancy' handwriting for the tag
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This is all so interesting - I guess I should have started with “what does “Santa” gift? For us it was stockings and usually one big toy with the stockings - tree gifts were from family. And everything was wrapped with extra tape because my mother is a sadist
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@charm55: I wrap some of the stocking stuffers.
Usually Santa leaves one or two bigger gifts under the stocking and those a wrapped and he fills the stockings. I buy a different paper for him.
Anything under the tree is from us or other family.
Santa has been known to leave toys in the tree and one year a sled fell off his sleigh into our yard!!
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Santa uses just a plain brown wrapping paper (from Ikea) and no notes because he only does stocking stuffers in our house. Last year, I misplaced the paper and had to use one with snowfakes, it was still brown so it wasn't so obvious. I don't think my DD noticed.
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We don't wrap Santa gifts. They're usually set up around the fireplace, relatively un-packaged and ready to play with.
As a kid, I asked for a dollhouse one year and Santa left the house itself out by the tree and set up a scavenger hunt to find the pieces/furniture hidden around the house. My dad got really into setting it up, evidently, but hid the pieces so well it took us days to find all of them!
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Growing up Santa wrapped by gift or gifts and a few things in the stocking were wrapped, but not everything. When DH grew up Santa didn't wrap anything.
In our house Santa brings 1 or 2 gifts for DD and fills all of our stockings. The gift has been unwrapped and sitting in front of the tree. About half of the stuff in the stockings are wrapped, and it's always in brown craft paper.
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I didn’t know not wrapping presents was a thing! We do separate paper for Santa presents. Everything in the stockings is from Santa, and what they specifically ask for is from Santa. If it’s something that’s boxed up I usually assemble it or at least make it look like elves could have made it. All the gifts go under the tree. If we do something big that doesn’t make sense to wrap then we leave it unwrapped (play kitchen, toddler bed, sled, tent). I love reading all of these!
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So for me growing up, Santa never wrapped the presents, they just showed up under the tree.
For DH, Santa did wrap presents. I would've preferred not to, but he won that one, so I do have a separate-Santa wrapping paper, that I now also have to hide!ETA: Santa just brings what the kids asked for, so 1, maybe 2 gifts. This year will be a Baby Alive Doll, Hess Dump Truck, and Kitchen set.
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Always separate paper.
DH’s family uses one separate paper per kid, and it matches their stocking stuffer paper. We did that for a few years, but last year I did a minimalist holiday printed kraft (brown) paper, special printed tags, and twine and thought it was really cool!! It had a “special delivery” sort of look.
ETA: also, I generally don’t inbox unless it needs assembly, line a dollhouse or play kitchen. My girls are modern little mamas and accept that Santa both recycles wrapping materials from our house (hello, Target boxes!) and sometimes uses Amazon
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growing up santa did stockings and maybe half the presents under the tree, all of which was wrapped (including stocking stuffers).
Now we do one gift from santa (in the past its been shared, but this year they each have one) and leave it out/set up, and then wrap all the stocking stuffers.
always different paper than everything else, too!
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HUGE issue of contention in our house!!
LOL
In my home growing up santa gifts were NOT wrapped and they were the large/most coveted gifts
DH's house all was wrapped and DH does not want the large gifts to be from santa but from us.....
Thus far I have won this battle and Santa does not wrap and he does give the big gifts.....
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Santa fills stockings and writes a letter at my house
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Everything is wrapped unless it’s big and bulky and then it just us a bow or something and a note (scooter, dollhouse, play kitchen). I designate different paper for Santa (and usually Over complicate it and make it harder on myself).
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@skiierchck99: Ha! No. We’ve only really done Santa twice (when DS was 2 and 3) and each time he brought 1-2 larger gifts, unwrapped, and left them under the tree. Then we got 2-3 smaller gifts and wrapped them.
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@Bluemasonjar: You have no idea how much I love this idea. And I honestly don’t think my son would care. I didn’t wrap his bday gifts this year because I ran out of time and he couldn’t have cared less. As is DW and I do unwrapped stocking stuffers for each other! We only wrap for DS and boy do I hate it!!!!
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