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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion Archive: Archive December 2005 : Poll - Kid's Birthday and Opening Presents
Assuming my son feels better, we will be having his 4th birthday party tomorrow. His whole preschool class plus some other friends are coming. What's the rule on opening presents. Are we supposed to do it there?
I let my dks open their presents at the party. My ds went to a party last month and the little boy took the presents home to open later. My ds was really disappointed, he loves to watch the kids open the presents that he got them.
Our kids open presents at the party. My kids have also been bummed when they went to parties where the presents were opened later. It's part of the fun!
We always open the gifts at the party. At that age, I would always have the child who gave the present stand up or stand near my child. I would have the presents on a table and hand them to my child one at a time. Once opened, it went back on the table. That seemed a little less chaotic. Once the presents are opened, I let all of the kids look at the stuff.
I do not like it when my kids go to a party and the gifts are not opened. Its crummy! Kids are so excited when they go to parties and seeing their friend open the gift they picked out for them is part of the excitement! There is a connection made in that moment, this is what I give to you because you are my friend, KWIM? For older kids I mean.
I agree. The kids love watching the birthday child open 'their' present. Suggestions (I know you didn't ask
It's so much fun to see the person's reaction, when the present is opened. I would do it, at the party.
OPEN gifts at the party! As the others have already said, the kids LIKE to see the birthday child open their gifts.
Adding to what Tayjar said, I take a picture of my daughter with her present and the friend who gave it to her. Then I print a copy of the picture and include it with the Thank you note for a cute keepsake.
I agree, the kids love to see what thier friend got and want to see them open the gift they brought!
Open them at the party, but LAST. That way, they don't have time to open everything and try it out and lose the pieces before your kid even gets to play with it
I think Wendy's idea is very good. WE don't open presents at the party but later at home, some of my friends do it this way sowe just copied them
Well, the first thing I asked my kids was " how did they like the present? When my kids were little they never waited till later, and I think if it had been done that way I would think that it was strange as I agree with some of the others that opening the presents at the party is part of it, all the kids want to know what the birthday person recieved. The only rule I would have is that the presents are opened and then put up, unless it was a game that the whole group could play.
I don't have a hard and fast rule about how it's done, but we always open presents at the party. Sometimes, if the giver is really excited over what they've given my child, I will let them open it right away.
I agree open at the party. DD went to a party once. The person took the presents home and never even acknowledged what she was given later. DD was very hurt and she has never attended one of the girls parties again. Very rude...
I agree, the presents should be opened at the party but it does get crazy sometimes! The kids like to crowd around and sometimes help so you have to kind of keep some room between your child and the party guests but otherwise it's soooo much fun!
I have never heard of a birthday party where the gifts weren't opened. In all my years going to parties as a child as well as going to the ones my children have been invited to. The gifts have always been opened at the party but at the end.
Well - we survived! 22 preschoolers at a party! It was a lot of fun. Several of the moms helped out and several just kept an eye on their own kids (which was fine), but some just sat on their you-know-whats and let their kids run and push and be generally bad.
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)--have a table for unopened gifts, one for opened gifts and a big trash can nearby for all the paper and trash. Also, have someone with a piece of paper writing down the gift giver's name and the gift for thank you cards later. A picture of the birthday child opening a specific gift is great to put in the ty card to that giver.