Im wondering if I should wrap my 2 1/2 year olds gifts or just put them under the tree? What do kids think Santa does? Also if u wrap them do u put from mom & dad or santa? And do ur kids question why u dont get thrm anything because they think everything is from Santa?
pdooma
Favorite Answer
Stuff in Stockings, yes.
The gifts from me, yes, regardless of the size of the gift.
The big gift from Santa, no. Santa sets it up and it's open and ready to play.
lurleen
Christmas Gifts For 1 Year Old
Minnow
I wrap everything. I make sure Santa has 'different' paper than what we have.
Santa brings one present in our house, and the stocking. My son gets a musical instrument. (last year was a drum, this year is a glockenspiel), my daughter gets a musical snowglobe (this will be her 5th since she was born in November...) The items in the stockings sometimes are wrapped, often aren't. Always there is an orange and nuts, traditional items in my family (out in the west in the US, oranges were one of the few fruits you could get in the winter, and were hard to get. Getting some at Christmas was often one of the only times of the year you got an orange, and it became very important to get an orange every year. There are many stories of oranges being the ONLY thing in the stocking, and how grateful the children were.) My husband brings the tradition of a toothbrush in the stocking (I have NO clue... it's the only traditional stocking thing he got.) Most of what I try to put in there are things like home-made or old-fashioned candy sticks, harmonicas, penny-whistles, slide-whistles, those musical candy whistles, some chocolate, maybe maple sugar candy if they're lucky, some rice-candy, etc.
Everything else is from us, or from my family or someone.
The result is that my daughter this year asked Santa for... a bell. Really. o_O Last year she asked for candy. :P She figures it has to fit in the stocking, the big present will always be a lovely snowglobe (and she LOVES those, at least so far.) When Santa asked what her brother wanted she said "A Christmas Tree" which is a bit more problematic. I'm thinking Santa will give them chocolate Christmas trees, or maybe a toy one with a note saying her brother doesn't need a full-sized one. I know what she wants too, the replantable living trees that she saw at Lowes, but we have no place we can plant one where it would survive.
girl
Toddlers that age love colors, and tearing things up! I would definitely use some wrapping paper. It will be cute watching them open them too.
I have been putting from mom and dad, on the tags. But that is because my oldest is a little less than 2 1/2 years old. So he doesn't really care or know either way - it's more for me right now until he is a little older.
I have a 3 month old, and it will be his first Christmas, but I am still wrapping his gifts. If not, I think my two year old would go crazy with them lol :)
Good luck, happy holidays!
Grin
We wrap our gifts, the gifts we buy the kids. Santa on the other hand leaves unwrapped gifts in and next to their stockings. Santa brings the best gifts. Always the big main gift comes from Santa and is unwrapped!
It would be impossible to get the same wrapping paper in Texas that Santa has at the North Pole!