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Moms View Message Board: General Discussion: Archive December 2007: Santa gift identifiers?
How do you identify your kids gifts from Santa. When we only had one child it was easy - we had his name on metalic confetti that we glued to the presents and we had special paper that Santa's gifts were wrapped in.
I printed labels on the computer! She is too old for that now, but she never even questioned it. LOL The gifts from dh and I had regular labels that I wrote on.
In our house, we dont wrap Santa gifts, so its easy..We have all the wrapped presents under the tree, and Santa only brings one special present to each child. Those santa presents are not wrapped and just left out in front of the tree.
My mom would label presents, in an inconspicuous spot, so she knew who it was for. Then, before she put them under the tree, she put tags on and said, "from Santa". We never questioned why it was her handwriting and not Santa's. LOL!
We have always done all of the gifts under the tree are from mom & dad and Santa does the stockings. It made having to "lie" to them much easier!
I guess I don't understand....don't you just have tags that you can write on 'To Molly From Santa'?? We use regular gift tags and Daddy disguises his handwriting. Surely the elves tag all Santa's gifts!! Otherwise Santa, himself, won't know who they are for, what with a sleigh full of toys for the whole world!!
My parents always had wrapped gifts from Santa as well, and just used regular tags that said 'to Mary from Santa' like Kate suggested. I love your idea of the initial stamp though - I think that's cool!!
Often we will put the gifts for each child in a separate pile with their stocking next to their pile. That way, each child knows exactly which presents are for them from Santa because their stocking is with them.
My mom never disguised her writing. I never really thought anything of it.
I have special wrapping that is from Santa, to help me remember which wrapping paper it is, the wrapping I has Santa on it. This year I hid the wrapping paper and the tags (that I only used as the "From Santa" tags) in the same spot I hid the "fromSanta" gifts. I also disguised my handwriting by making it a bit fancier.
We didn't wrap Santa gifts.
When the boys were little, we'd put their stocking with their Santa stuff. Or I'd get special Santa only tags and attach them.
Patti, we do the same thing. My mom wrapped our presents from Santa in paper with his face on it, lol. So I just started doing the same. Your daughter is so cute. Although I have never met her, I know I would like her!
Our santa gifts aren't wrapped, he only gets a few gifts from santa but the majority are from us. This year he's getting the transformer voice changer helmet and High School Musical 2 along with Zach and Cody dvd. He'll also have a stocking with stuff in it from santa, all else will come from me.
Santa never gives the same amount of gifts each year. I just buy whatever and then divide it up between us and Santa. This year Santa is giving six gifts, plus everything in the stocking. And yes, I'm in the north.
I've decided this year only one present for each child will come from Santa, and they will be unwrapped. Everything else is from us, so I will wrap them, and this way I won't have to worry about using different paper to make sure they don't notice. It's hard enough that Sant's writing is just like min, LOL!
We always leave a big gift (usually one for each child, but this year, they will be getting a combined gift: the wii) from Santa, and sometimes a couple of small things. Oftentimes, it will be themed, such as last year my son received the big pirates of the caribbean playset and some figures to go with it.
Kate- That's what we do. Buy everything and then divide it up, biggest gifts coming from Santa. Natalie has maybe 6 gifts from Santa this year, plus stocking, then 7-8 gifts wrapped under the tree from us.
At our house, Santa only sends stocking stuffers with all the "real" gifts from Mom and Dad. Santa doesn't wrap the stocking stuffers at our house but he sets up all the gifts that were opened the night before so everything is ready to be played with. This also cuts down on the "will you open this?" when they first open toys. They know that's Santa's job. Plus, I love that the living room looks like Toyland when they come out on Christmas morning.
When the kids believed we wrapped all the Santa gifts in red paper. Then they knew that the red paper was from Santa with out even having to read the tag.
We have large felt sacks that I picked up at Michaels a few years ago that I put each individual child's santa gift in. I also tie an ornamanet with their name on the bag so that they know which one is theirs.
Santas gifts in our house now and when I was growing up were and never are wrapped. Presents from us are wrapped and under the tree we open those on Christmas Eve and then Santa's stuff is out and put together and ready for use Christmas Day morning.
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Our gifts would be wrapped in printed paper and Santa's would be in bright red. We would put the presents out around the room in piles for each kid, with their stockings in front of it, so they knew whose gifts were whose, and who they were from with out having to read tags.