Stocking presents - wrapped or unwrapped?

[BigArea]

Just that really - I have wrapped them in the past but wonder whether it would be better to just bung em in and let DD get on with it? What does everyone else do?

[bigTillyMintspie]

I wrap them. Takes them longer to open and they like to guess what they are before they open them. But it's a PITA!

[BigArea]

Excellent, Ikea bags it is then - thanks MissBee

[DiseasesOfTheSheep]

Oh wrapped of course! But then, I loooooove wrapping with a passion and will do anything to engage in more of it before Christmas!

[HelloHoHoDolly]

Exactly as Haribotanfastic says.

Everything is wrapped in special paper. Paper that Santa uses - not the stuff in our box. And the Christmas eve pj's (which are from Santa, but delivered by one of his helpers as Santa, according to Norad, is on the other side of the world at that time) are wrapped in the same paper.

Oh, and it's a different paper for each person so when they get tipped onto our bed on Christmas morning there is no confusion over whose is whose.

[Itwasntmeanttobelikethis]

Haribo - that's an excellent idea about the wrapping paper

[DrHolmes]

My mum seemed to pack my stocking full of stuff. Some items not wrapped - ;ile choc coins and toothbrush etc but shed also put some nice gifts in there too. If there were jewelry or clothes or soemthing - that would be wrapped.

[DrHolmes]

It has never crossed my mind to tip out a stocking! I just pick items out one by one?

[chanie44]

Wrapped, except for food stuff like:
Sweets
Chocolate Santa
Glitter j20

[Thirstysomething]

Wrapped - either in tissue paper, or last years Christmas wrapping paper, saved .
My mum is super-thrifty, so we always had to open our main Christmas presents carefully at one end. That left her with open ended 'bags' she kept in a drawer, and the following year she just bunged the stocking presents in the 'bags' and had to twist and seal one end. We never twigged that they weren't from Father Xmas, despite this! We were allowed to rip open the stocking presents and throw the paper in the air, so she wasn't totally anal!
Too much of a faff for me to make sure everyone only opens one end of a present, but I do keep scraps of last years paper for stocking presents, so the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree...

[HelloHoHoDolly]

DrHolmes we don't encourage the dc to tip the contents of their stockings, but on dd1's first Christmas a much loved, well intentioned family member bought her her first stocking. It is two feet long and one & a half feet wide. A4 colouring pads get lost in there! She's a tiny dot of a thing even now at 5yo and can't reach into the bottom.

We were worried that dd2 would develop ishoos if her stocking were smaller (it being from Santa and all that) so we stupidly bought her one equally big.

There's a fair bit of tipping out of stockings n our house on Christmas morning .

[DrHolmes]

Haha sounds good HelloHoHo!

We had stockings and sacks. God i miss that. I hate being an adult!