Christmas hamper advice please?

[peanutMD]

DS is an only child at the moment but fancied making a cheap Christmas hamper.

Now my thinking us would it be more fun on Christmas eve just for him

OR

We always stay over at my mums in Christmas night and I have twin sisters who are 8 months older than my DS so would it be more fun to make a Christmas night hamper for the three of them?

I do prefer the lattee but worry there will be to much going on already so it won't seem as exiting IYSWIM.

WWYD

I don't know...a hamper for a child seems like overkill on Christmas Eve when they have so much on the way!

What about a little thing such as new pjs, a new cup and a nice snack? You can parcel it all up.

I do this and I have someone sneak outside, knock on the door and leave it on the step...the DC answer the door and the parcels are waiting...with a tag saying that they are "From the Elves"

They LOVE it!

I am going to have to do it until they're 18 I think!

Mine put on the PJs and have hot chocolate in their new cup...they love this as it always happens.

I'd do the hamper if it's just him, but if he's going to be with your sisters they'll probably be crazed with excitement anyway, and the specialness might be lost. It depends what else you normally do, if you have family traditions for Christmas Eve. Alternatively, if there is no particular tradition, opening the hamper could be the start of a new one.

I'm just going to so it for DS on Christmas eve.

We always do pj's so I'm just going to add a snowman soup mix, book and Reindeer dust nothing extravagant just about making the night more special for us to chill out before the excitement.

We do one for ds. This year will be pjs as usual, a book and I hope brave DVD for before bed.

how old is he? what about doing a Christmas Eve hamper for all three of them that is really Christmas Eve focused, give it late afternoon/very early evening to help build the excitement then calm them down....e.g. mince pie for Santa/carrot for Rudolph/reindeer food; a CD of Christmas tunes ; (short!) video to watch & popcorn; a decoration each to hang on the tree; a book to read to all three of them before bedtime; a character bubble bath; new pjs if you want to go to that expense.... so theme it very much as a Christmas Eve hamper to make it different to Christmas Day presents. Might not work for you but am loving the idea personally and very sorry mine are way too old for that.(or maybe not!)

The idea of the Christmas Eve one is getting some quiet time (hot milky drink, new book or dvd) and getting excited about a bath bomb and new pjs for going to bed quickly before Santa comes. You don't need lots of stuff in it (I do 1 for DD, and now DH and I too) - but we just do new PJs and a bath bomb each, and I have DD's Christmas mug in there to make hot choc and "Twas the night before Christmas" book - neither of which are new but Christmas Eve is their first appearance every year.

It might lose some of that if you try for something on Christmas night - and you'll also lose the opportunity it gives to slow things down and bring down the excitement a notch on 24th.