How do you reveal presents which are too big to wrap?

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For example, bikes, or climbing frames? Do you lead the DCs to the place where they're hidden, or bring it out with a flourish, or get them to unwrap something related to it, such as a helmet? What imaginative ways do you have?

It's not particularly original, but we wrap up something related to it with a little note inside the wrapping paper telling them where to find the big present.

Hidden under the table with a big tablecloth over!

beingthere you are a genius!

Otherwise as pp^ wrap the bike helmet or trampoline instructions. Or get one of those blank jigsaws that you can draw on, draw the thing you're gifting and they find out when they've put the puzzle together.

Or a treasure hunt with clues

You can buy bike gift wrap/ box for cheap on amazon/ebay

Yeah the bike wrap is pretty good!

Or I remember getting a new bike as a child and my Dad asking if I'd pop to the kitchen to grab his specs so he could read some toy instructions and there it was

My parents used to cover it in a blanket or a sheet depending on size

Treasure hunt to the garden?

With large Playmobil sets I want to pre-build I wrap the empty box and leave it set up in another room.

We used to have bikes hidden under the table too 😂

For the trampoline we assembled it in the dark after the dc were asleep and taped together plastic tablecloths to wrap it, cutting and taping a contrasting colour cloth into a long thick strip to tie a bow.
I’ve really no idea what you mean by “ too big to wrap”

Nothing is too big to wrap!!

Covered his toy kitchen with a big colourful blanket and got him to pull it off, he was only 1 though!

Too big? My mum wrapped up a fully assembled play house! multiple sheets of wrapping paper taped together over it. She also wrapped up a car at one point.

I’ve also done treasure hunts for older children and a ribbon trail for younger ones.

Halfords do decorative bike bags at Christmas time.

Years a go I did a treasure map in the garden leading to a buried bicycle bell and when the birthday boy came in to show off his treasure we wheeled the bike in...

...he couldn't give a stuff, he was more fascinated by the bloody bell

Too big to wrap?

I just buy a load of wrapping paper and wrap it anyway

I wrapped a 2 story playhouse once

We use tablecloths too, buy the plastic disposable Christmas/birthday ones from the pound shop.

@NoNoCharlieRascal he was more fascinated by the bloody bell
Just like Grawp in the film of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, or Ronnie Barker in Porridge, playing with a bell he'd nicked from an officer's bike "he's got one and I haven't". And kids who play with the box or the wrapping paper instead of the present itself.

Too big to wrap? Depends on the weather. I'm not sure I'd want to wrap a fully assembled climbing frame, or full-sized car if Christmas Eve happened to be high winds, or rain, or snow (the irony!). I think wrapping paper is a bit wasteful anyway, but I know I'm in the minority.

Here's an idea, I know someone who's done this. Wrap up a sleeping mask from Claire's Accessories: the more silly and colourful, the better; or wrap up a scarf, a bandanna, a beanie hat or a pair of long socks, so they think "what a boring present". Then use it to blindfold them, and lead them to their present for a big reveal.

When we bought ort toddlers a play kitchen we created a short of wrapping paper fence to separate off the whole area. They were very excited when they came down in the morning and loved breaking through it. It was a big hit, but a bugger to create after a few cava's wrapping up Santa presents!

Instead of standard wrapping paper I use big rolls of those paper tablecloths-it's easy! Just staple instead of using tape as it doesn't hold so well...

Mine have come down to big things with token ribbons and balloons on them in either the lounge or garden, and surrounded in glitter and talc to indicate the presence of Father Christmas.

A couple of years ago we bought DD’s a trampoline and the plan was to put it together Christmas Eve pop a big bow on it and literally open their bedroom curtains and there it would be, but the weather had other ideas! We didn’t have enough wrapping paper for the boxes - realised after the DD’s were in bed and shops closed so we wrote them a letter from Father Christmas telling them that they had a trampoline but unfortunately the elves couldn’t put it together because of the terrible wind and that he’d left daddy the instructions to put it together when the weather was better. Our DD’s loved it.

We have bought DS an electric car for Xmas this year and was going to just use a large bow but thinking we might wrap it now after some of these impressive story’s

I would probably just wrap it. A couple of years ago we wrapped up a 7ft pool table.

In the past we have done bikes etc...

I have always found hiding the presents beforehand the harder job.

In the shed or car. Pshh to wrapping a trampoline, waste of paper!