Christmas wrapping and what does FC deliver?

[Smellybears]

Just wondering what everyone does? I know families that FC leaves presents already unwrapped/FC only delivers one present and rest are from family and friends/FC delivered all the presents when I was little/FC only delivers a stocking/mother Christmas delivers a stocking/FC delivers presents wrapped in different paper.
So many different traditions regarding who delivers presents and also if presents are wrapped or not. I’d be interested in what happens in everyone else’s houses 🎅🏻🤶🏻

DD leaves an empty stocking at the foot of her bed, then overnight FC fills it with small presents and chocolates wrapped in his own wrapping paper ;)

No big presents from FC, big presents are always from me/other family members so that there is a real person to say thank you to

Agree with @Paie . That's how we did it. I only wrapped because of the film Arthur Christmas which dd saw aged about 3.5.
When I was a kid SC never wrapped his presents.
Where we now live, SC delivers everything which is a weird idea to me. This is DD's first year knowing SC isn't real - she started Y7- and she's fine with it. I promised her there will always be Santa presents as long as she has Christmas under my roof. That's how my parents did it. In fact, I remember rolling in about 1.00 am after going to a gig on Christmas Eve aged 18 to find Santa had been.

Our family tradition was that FC only left smallish unwrapped presents in a stocking and the big ticket proper presents came from family members. DH's family tradition was everything was wrapped and everything came from FC. My way won.

In our family, FC leaves one present under the tree, wrapped in different paper.

When I was a child, the FC present was always a book - but I remember that being underwhelming, so I have FC give the toy which she really wants but is a bit fad-ish (which allows me to maintain my line whilst indulging her ). Parents /family give all the rest.

Santa also brings the stocking, which again has things I would normally say no to (e.g. squishy, lol surprise, hatchimal colleggtible) as well as chocolate.

Presents in the stocking aren't wrapped in our house.

When I was younger, he was used as a sort of glorified postman. The presents were all wrapped and labelled from relatives but they sent them to him before Christmas and he decided whether we were ‘good’ enough to receive them. I think that way is great as we appreciated the presents and thanked whoever they were from but also got the magical part of it too.

I wrap presents with great care with good quality paper and beautifully coordinated ribbons. The over worked elves slap on some tacky character themed paper. I know they’re busy but they really should have some sort of quality control. It’s obvious they’re not from me. Each dc has different paper from Santa so easy to tell apart in the chaos of Christmas morning.
Santa fills a stocking, brings a big gift and 2-3 smaller gifts (and knocks over the furniture or the Christmas tree and leaves grubby sooty marks about while his reindeer get up to mischief in the garden). He usually brings at least one thing that I strongly disapprove of and have been refusing to buy (like nasty slime) or have declared a waste of money (Smiggle tat).
When we are waiting in the queue to go see Santa I get myself quite worked up over last year and the dc convince me not to give out to him, or even mention the reindeer.

We open Santa’s gifts at silly o’clock, and then open the rest of the gifts before dinner (and the dc play with the second wave of gifts when they have finished their dinner, leaving the adults to linger for an hour or so.

Stocking presents wrapped in cheap character paper that isn’t used for anything else. Used to be Thomas but need new this year as DS is 6.
Presents downstairs wrapped unless too big, again different paper than used for anything else. All presents from Santa.

0hMy That is how we’ve always done and how it worked when I was a child too,

Father Christmas does the stocking which is left on the end on child's bed, individually wrapped inside in his own paper.
All other presents under the tree from whoever purchased them, they go under when received.
Presents from me appear under the tree Xmas morning, wrapped in different papers not one per child so we have to read the tags to see who's who's.

FC brings the stocking and the presents in the living room. He asks for the money from me and DH so we get some credit! But FC chooses, wraps and delivers the gifts. Anything from family is separate.

FC brings a stocking and one requested present to our house - this year dd has asked for a flashing yoyo and last year it was a bicycle bell! He has a box for the present so she has to ask for something that will fit, and his own wrapping paper for stocking. Last year our in laws arranged for FC to forget a present andhe knockedon the door mid morning which was magical!

We have done it so that FC brings everything under the tree and the stocking except any presents brought by others (family and friends). However we told ours that we paid for everything FC brought to explain why some kids got more or less than them. We gave him a budget and he sent us a bill 😂 Sometimes if we found a present they liked we would buy it and send it to him (ie when they found a present in boot of car etc 😆).

That has worked for us but each family is so different I do wonder why kids believe for so long. My nine year old dd still seems to believe and never questions it.

Here santa brings what fits in the stocking. Last year dd asked for an electric toothbrush and other wee things. I bought red and white striped paper for these gifts. Other gifts are from us or family.

I like the idea of family giving presents to FC and he deciding if the children have been good enough! Reading this thread I think I’ll probably do the stocking from FC and a present or two then everything else from friends and family. I want my little one to be able to say thank you to family and make a thank you card for them.

Santa brings one present. If Santa brings stocking presents what do your dc ask for when they write or visit him? The rest are from us and family.

This has always worked with my 2 ds but dd is another matter. Feel I’m tieing myself in knots with all the questions she asks!! She’s 5 and I feel like she’s going to suss it soon 😬

FC wraps badly in cheap paper. He uses different paper for each dc.

He fills the stocking they leave at the end of the bed and a couple of bigger presents. Anything I usually wouldn't buy as considered a waste of money is delivered by him.

We buy a main present and a couple of smaller ones and these are beautifully wrapped and under the tree.

Dc are 14 and 12 and I can't see this ever changing

In our house because there are lots of children in the world, parents, friends and family help Santa and buy presents. Santa brings each child one present which is wrapped in foil paper (red or or silver with tag). The rest of their presents from us are wrapped in their own individual paper just so I don’t have to write tags for them.

We do a stocking from Father Christmas with small gifts like stationery, a flannel, gold coins and one small present under the tree (last year for example, DD had a pencil case). All wrapped in different paper.

Just to give a different perspective on the issue of saying thank you: I think when Santa brings gifts, it ultimately teaches children about generousity; giving a gift where your only reward is making someone happy.

We've always said mummy and daddy buy all the presents but that we send them to Santa to add the Christmas magic this way it explains why their cousins get hundreds spent on them and they don't

Santa does a stocking full of presents usually at the end of the bed when I was a kid but DD4 nearly 5 wants it hung on the front door rather than in her room...😁 presents are all wrapped in paper used only for the stocking. All presents under tree are from family etc

All the pressies (apart from family) come from santa, its only for a few years before kids realise the full extent. Always worked it out for themselves and they appriacte all the effort that goes into making it magical. My youngest is 16 months so doesnt understand any of it yet. But myolder 3 know and the 9 year old admits to knowing this year (she had doubts last year) so this year she is on the magic and they will all help play santa.

Santa leaves everything. The only things under our tree on xmas eve are presents we have bought for other people who we will see on Christmas day. We put our stockings at the end of our beds and then santa fills them and puts them on our beds, and leaves sacks full of presents under the tree. It's magical watching the kids faces and the excitement in the morning

Oh and absolutely everything is wrapped. Well, everything except the Apple and orange in the stocking

In our family, FC is the delivery man. Family buy all the presents, which go to FC to be checked against DD's behaviour. Maybe she'll get them all, maybe some will go to someone else (which explains why some children get presents "from" FC too!)