Wrapping stocking presents?

[ConstanceL]

Just that really - we didn't really have stockings growing up. Stocking type gifts would be wrapped up under the tree instead. But we are going to do stockings this year for the DC. Are presents inside stockings generally wrapped or put in there loose? Thanks!

I wrap ours

I should say, I don't wrap the chocolate!

Wrapped here. But in plain paper, whereas the other gifts are in patterned paper. Like the candy bags idea, might do that next year.

I always wrap using Christmas tissue. There is always a Betty's chocolate guinea in the toe. My dds are 42 and 35 and they still love a stocking. I collect little things all year

Wrapped, but not very beautifully, and in different (cheaper) paper from family presents. Had to be different when dds still believed in FC, and I still do it. Stockings have always been little things only here.

Wrapped in tissue paper in our house

I have never wrapped the stocking presents - but I generally try to minimise the paper I use - prefer to reuse gift bags etc. They are all on top of one another in a stocking so you have to dip in and pull one thing out at a time so no need to wrap.

Always wrapped in red or green tissue paper

Thanks for all the tips everyone. I think we'll wrap in tissue paper or the candy striped bags that were suggested :)

We wrap all our sack presents from Santa but I use a different wrapping paper for each child so I don't have to label them 🤪

Santa brings sacks and main presents - mains aren't wrapped they are laid out in lounge, and everything under the tree is from us! Not letting Santa take all the credit 🧐

Neither Santa presents nor stocking items are wrapped in our house.

Stocking items for adult DSiblings are wrapped because we have a system of stocking present for everyone except your KK, which is 1 bigger present. But those stocking items tend to be slightly more regular sized and better for wrapping anyway.

This is an extreme (but lighthearted) view - I regard not wrapping the stocking presents as a form of neglect.

The whole point is the unwrapping and not the low value gifts within.

However some people have all the gifts 'from Santa' which also gives me the rage so it is horses for courses.

Wrapped up ! Best part of Christmas

Mostly wrapped in brightly coloured tissue paper from poundshop. I dont bother with tape if I can get away with it. We reuse it for craft during the year. Some items like choc coins etc I dont wrap.

The tissue paper is easy to rip open for little ones.

Half of them are wrapped and half aren't. It's just the way we've always done it.

Each to there own of course, but the thought of not wrapping Santa/bigger presents makes me sad, as a child the excitement of a wrapped pile/sack of presents from Santa and not knowing what was on them is one of my favourite memories, I used to take ages feeling and deciding which one to open next.

We wrap everything apart minus a few awkward/obvious stocking fillers, chocolate coins, satsumas etc...

I used to wrap in various patterns of bright, cheap crinkly wrapping paper as growing up it’s all my folks could probably afford It’s what I always imagined the Elves using go wrap But with the three girls I have now given in and give them each there own coloured/pattern and is definitely feels a lots more organised.

Unwrapped here, stocking gifts are usually small items under £5, too fiddly to wrap. Also it just adds to the piles of waste on Christmas Day which isn’t great for the environment and I get fed up picking up bits of paper 🤣. All presents under the tree are wrapped and tbh the dd’s get fed up unwrapping stuff.

We are going to try drawstring bags for each of the gifts in the stocking this year. Different patterns for each child so easy to identify, gives the unwrapping bit and no waste.

I don't know how it will work out though. I know there is something lovely about the tearing of paper but with 3 kids I would like to generate a bit less paper waste this year than we normally do.

Did I really just read that someone gives blutac as a stocking filler?

Dd got pritt stick last year, blu tac the year before. It was on her Santa list! I think it's a fairly common ask...

Sorry that was for @littleduckeggblue

I've given things like thumbtacks for her notice board, bicycle shaped paperclips, and other useful but fun sundries to DD in her stocking, and she has looked for rolls of sellotape and blutacc in the past as well.

Stocking fillers don't all have to be plastic tat, having useful things can be good too as they will get used up!

(DD always has some socks or similar, hair bobbins as there seems to be a black hole for these in her bedroom, at least 1 book, and some kind of stationary item - as well as fun stuff - and she always loves these just as much, or more, than the fun stuff. )

We wrap in a mixture of red striped paper and red tissue paper. All ready in carrier bags to tip into stockings on Christmas Eve.

Yes. I Father Christmas used the wrappers from our Who gives a crap loo roll. They look v pretty

I never wrap them!m, I’ve enough to wrap without doing those too. Ours were never wrapped as kids either. Stockings are too narrow to see into so it’s sick your hand in and pull something out (still a surprise without the paper!)