We're not wrapping up the new prams we've bought the girls...

[lucysmam]

help me come up with a nice of presenting them in front of the tree?

Dp thinks unwrap the new dollies and put them in like babies but I'm a bit about that idea...any other ideas?

tia

Get a big bow to tie to the handle?

Buy some cheap christmas tablecloths and put them over so they can pull them off.

Tie helium balloons to the handles?

Hide them somewhere and write some clues so they have to find them?

We have wrapped tinsel round big stuff before, put things in giant santa sacks or loosely draped a Christmas tablecloth over them, for a TaaDaa moment

i think a big fancy bow tied to the handle with a thread of ribbion leading into thier bedrooms so they have to follow it?

Treasure hunt with clues? First clue in a beautifully wrapped box?

ah x post with starfishmummy

A string 'trail' to find them sounds good. Our house is too open plan for a treasure hunt I think but will have a proper think about that one later on...

Poundland had two packs of Christmassy tablecovers in so will add some of those and some big bows to my list for a 'ta-da' moment.

Excellent! thanks very much

This reminds me of waking up on Christmas morning 30 odd years ago, and I was most upset that I couldn't find the cuddly animals I slept with. I refused to go downstairs to open my presents until I had found them!

Finally my mum told me to go downstairs, where I found a beautiful toy pram with all my cuddly toys in it

kelda that's an excellent idea if I can wrestle their bears away while they are sleeping!

Poundland has giant bike wrap stuff last week, I think you just drape it over

That'd be even better, will add that to my list to have a look at too. Ty Nix

We've got a similar problem as we've got 3 bikes to wrap.

I'm going to put a big fancy bow on the handle and seal the living room door with wrapping paper

I can't do the wrapped up doorway thing either stairs open straight onto living room & that leads straight to dining room through an arch rather than door.

We have a bike to wrap this year. I'm torn between huge bow or reams of cheap paper around it. Wrapping the doorframe isn't doable here either.

I may do clues or a hunt.

Could you wrap the other presents and put them in the pram?

I'm going to have a visit to pound land to see if I can get some of those bike cover things nix01 was saying about. The bike for dd is being delivered to grandparents as we are having Christmas Day there. Hopefully they will have some in.

what we do with big presents is to hide them in the kitchen then wrap a small teaser and put this under the tree
it could be a doll to go in the pram
then we tell them to go and put the rubbish in the bin in the kitchen
then they get to see the real pressie

I though that Halfords did bike presentation wrap/bags, but if Poundland do them, better again!

Lucysmam, you do right to make sure the prams are ready to be played with immediately, but I agree with you to let them put their new 'babies' in them themselves.

If no joy on the wrapping front, what about a big flat bedsheet over them, with some sort of decoration, tinsel, paperchains etc?

Wilkinsons have bike bags and massive gift bags which might work?

Here:

www.wilko.com/childrens-collections/wilko-bike-sack-festive-kids-148cm-x-100cm/invt/0321150

www.wilko.com/childrens-collections/wilko-giant-santa-sack-festive-kids-61cm-x-95cm/invt/0321229

Hope you find some. Our Poundland had them stacked with all the gift bags. It's red with snowflakes on it and packed like tissue paper.

I saw "bike sacks" in Toys R Us last week when I was in there - just basically big sack type wrapping to put over the bike (I guess they would do for a pram too) they were less then £5 I'm sure. Failing that I saw an idea on Pintrest where you pin balloons to a door frame as a sort of curtain. have a flick through the pictures to see

Can you get some christmas bin bags - the ones that look like christmas puddings or something like that - put the pram inside the tie up the top with lots of ribbons and bows?

bike wrap

This reminds me of when I was little. We went to my Grandma's for Christmas one year and she had bought me a doll's pram. She hid it in a big cupboard, tied a tag to the Christmas tree with a piece of string that led all around the house. I followed the string and found my present - it was great!