Christmas Wrapping Made Easy
In the past I had just wrapped my four kids’ presents and put the name tags on them, then I’d separate them into piles for each child. It made opening presents with four kids less chaotic on Christmas morning.
Then a couple of years ago I started selecting different wrapping paper for each child. No pesky name tags, and I can just throw the presents underneath the tree. The different wrapping paper is easy to find. Of course, it’s important to remember which paper goes with which kid so I just keep a sample with their names on it hidden until Christmas morning.
This year I’m trying something different with Christmas morning since we really don’t emphasize Santa. I’ll be putting the presents under the tree BEFORE Christmas and on Christmas Eve I’m going to hide them all over the room. So we’ll start off with the Christmas story and emphasize how the wise men sought after Christ, the greatest gift of all. Then I’ll give them their little scrap of wrapping paper and let them go find their presents.
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We actually did this last year and the kids seemed to have fun hunting for their gifts. I think we’ll try it again this year!
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we grew up with different wrapping paper for each kid.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:08 amheck, we still do that.
now a scavenger hunt–that’s cool! of course, to make it more realistic, maybe you should send them to different countries and have a two-year amazing race!
oh, by the way, you’re right. there’s not an “email me” box. huh. i thought there was.
December 11th, 2007 at 11:09 am