How to you label Christmas present piles?

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So this Christmas will be a first as a blended family with 6 children. Previously I only had to buy for my 2 and I used to wrap one pile of presents in blue wrapping paper for DS and one pile in pink wrapping paper for DD so it was clear who's presents where who's. I'm just wondering what people do to label all the different piles so the kids all know which one is theirs? Do you write a card out or use a personalised sack?

Each has their own stocking and then different wrapping paper. Easy enough to still get 6 different patterns I imagine.

Different paper, there is plenty to chose from

We label each present and just scatter them under the tree. Then hand them out one by one. Everyone takes turns opening. Sometimes we balance by having someone open two on a turn.

Meant to add, having a pile is easier to disguise differently sized piles, sacks are harder to do that with (we have a biggish age gap, so older dd's pile is smaller bit much more expensive!)

Pink and blue paper, really?

Just wrap it in nice paper and put gift tags on. Half the fun is in the rummaging!!

Buy a few sheets of personalised stickers:

In the past I’ve used personalised stickers and I do different paper for each. Now after a few years my dc know which side is theirs. DC1 has hers on the right and DC2 on the left. I also try to do paper that they would like. DC2 loves Spider-Man so I found Christmas Spiderman paper. There’s ways around it - if not just get a sharpie and write the names on?

Like others, we always labelled them and wrapped them with the same paper - it was then someone's 'job' to rummage unde the tree and hand them out one by one.

Everyone watches each other open their present and then it's someone else's turn.

The sign of a Good Hander Outer is someone who can balance the presents so that no one is left without anything at the end - by spreading them out properly.

Sticky labels - write the names on. Pile them all up under the tree and have a great time xmas day hunting for them all

Yes these are the future diplomats

just this different wrapping or sticky labels in there own stocking . mine had hessian sacks .

I've got 6 adults and 5 kids to buy for (3 families). I buy several different rolls of wrapping paper so that every person has got their own design each

We don’t do individual piles, everybody’s are jumbled up under the tree. But I either do different paper per child or write their names on, either on the paper or on a tag.

We don’t do individual piles. It’s all in a mass of jumbly fun under the tree. I use sticky labels you get a on a roll. We take it in turns having a present, DS is chief present hander outer.
Santa does have his own paper though, featuring pictures of himself on it. Narc.

This

Oh, and Father Christmas doesn’t wrap presents in our house.

Agree with others ... we never had 'piles' for each person ... presents were scattered under the tree and handed out individually - could easily last a couple of hours and everyone enjoyed seeing what everyone else got.
Never forgot my DM's horror when she went to DB & SIL's for Christmas and it was just a mad dash to open your own presents ... no idea who gave what and no thank you letters ever sent (or even verbal thank you's) ... all over before breakfast!

Yes - obviously everyone should have the exact Christmas present opening ritual they want - but I always loved/love that present opening lasts for a few hours and is a bit more relaxed now everyone is an adult. The more people for Xmas, the longer is takes.

In between are breaks for showers, breakfast, coffee, lunch prep, walking the dog etc.

We always went to my parents - even as adults - and did adults and grandkids presents there.

Nothing special about wrapping paper. They were just labelled with Xmas sticky label saying reciprocates name and senders name.

All placed under tree randomly and handed out to each person and everyone opened one. Rinse and repeat.

NOONE was allowed to touch the presents other than the hander outer and that was my mum!!!!

I just put a sticky christmas label on each present. Then they go in individual piles on Xmas eve.

Tree presents have name stickers (faster), stocking gifts don't have stickers so have their own father Christmas paper. Ds has candy canes and dd has llamas - accidentally bought 10m rolls so these will last a few years!

I used to use last year's Xmas cards as gift tags - cut out a nice part of the image & write the kid's name on the back. Very satisfying when you could get 3-4 tags from one card!

Attached with sellotape though. My mum used to cut them out with her 2nd best pinking shears, hole punch & attach colour coordinated ribbon. Too much 😄.

But name stickers would work. Different paper sounds miserable, with everyone eyeballing their swag from a distance. Plus I always re-used the paper, so it was a glorious hodge podge of different styles.

Each DC has its own coloured wrapping paper for the main gift labelled to X love from Y and Z under the tree. In stockings I stick to the same colours for each DC. DC 1 is blue, DC 2 is red, DC 3 is green wrapping paper. I am gold and DH is silver. We stick to the same colours every year.

No piles, it's all just under the tree. There's a mix of wrapping paper, and presents have tags on them.

Different paper for each kid and we put them separately next to their big present.

Harder with that many kids though.

I don't know how we are going to fit it all in this year as eldest is getting gymnastics bar with huge mat and little one is getting a LOL dolls house and it's pretty big too 🙈