Wrapping paper from santa

[dreamygirl25]

In the past, I've wrapped santa gifts in one type of paper, then gifts from us in a different type.
Does anyone not do this and do your 6/7/8 year old children make the connection?

I'm struggling with my mental health at the moment and can barely face doing much at all right now so please be kind - it may be another thing I seem to be over thinking! When I was little I remember noticing Santa's handwriting was the same as my mum/dad's and the paper was the same but it never stopped my disbelief!

I'm sure wrapping everything is more of a recent thing . When I was a child in the 80s , Santa ( my parents) used to set the large toys up ready to play with. The small things were in my stocking unwrapped.

Shiny red or green plain paper from Santa.

So many replies. Thank you. Thanks for the tips with the gift bags. I think my oldest is searching for clues and possibly knows. Will have to be 'no comment' and 'it's risky not to believe' if he says anything and just hope he goes along with it for the sake of the younger children.
Thank you to those who have wished me well - I've been to GP and hoping things will look up in a few weeks.

Different wrapping paper from Santa and also, I buy printed labels online which say "To DC, love Santa" so that way there's no giving away my handwriting lol!

We use fabric wrap. Santa does not wrap at all due to environmental concerns. He used to when DH and I were children but no longer does.

When my sister and I were little, Santa used thin cheap and cheerful paper whereas the family presents wrapped by my mum were in thicker better quality tasteful paper. 1970s Santa, bells, holly paper still takes me back to my childhood Christmas. I have no recollection of what the better quality paper for family presents looked like.

https://www.sukie.co.uk/blogs/an-analogue-world/vintage-christmas-cards-wrap-designs

This kind of stuff.

I know that doesn't massively help you OP. What have you done in previous years?

I think it is possible that sometimes Santa uses the brown paper that comes in Amazon and other packaging as it is more eco-friendly ( maybe he has a special arrangement with recycling centres for them to send it to him ). He uses it for older children who are more aware of environmental issues and will understand why!

Only last week DD remarked about the wrapping paper Santa used, and how it was always the same paper year after year. She's 24!

<I did once end up with a large job lot of identical rolls of paper quite by chance, and they lasted for a very long time...>

The wrapping paper being the same is actually how I made the connection. My cousin, who knows this, makes a big point of using different paper for Santa for her daughters - the oldest now is about the same age I was when I stopped believing, so I'm wondering how this year will go down.

There is really no harm in kids figuring it out. Santa still comes to our house even though everyone knows the truth. It’s all just a big game we play.

We have different paper for Santa. Santa uses cheap and cheerful paper mostly as well as leftover scraps from last year's 'proper" rolls. Under-tree presents have new good-quality paper which is colour coordinated with this year's tree styling (sorry)

Santa’s paper is always different in the stocking , even when the kids are 27 & 29!

That paper is beautiful.
I've usually done different wrapping paper from santa and almost all presents are from santa with one or two from me and dh.
My husband has actually brought home some different paper. Half the presents have been wrapped already in paper that's nearly run out (most of the stocking fillers have been wrapped - did them on a good day)
Think I might delegate wrapping the remaining presents and we can say they are all from us in the new paper.
One year I did all brown paper with beautiful ribbons and labels. It's a shame, I really love Christmas but just can't face putting the effort in this year. Think it will be a low key one events wise this year.

We sort of use different paper but I don’t wrap most things exactly. I use the stripey paper sweetie bags for almost everything and each kid has a different colour so it takes seconds put things in a bag and stick with sellotape.

I bought 3 big rolls of the same wrapping paper for my ds’s first Christmas so there should be enough to wrap his Santa presents in every year 😁 I also ordered personalised from Santa stickers to go on them 🎅

Different paper but I get Grandma to wrap them. Saves time and hiding paper.

We do everything from Santa/Us depending what they believe, so they each have their own wrapping paper to make it easy to hand out presents.

Before when we had fostered children and there were more we had random wrapping paper and labeled them by child and I don't remember but we wrote from Santa on them all.

If we had said only one or a few were from Santa then I imagine we would just put them in a sack or gift bag. And we dont bother wrapping stocking presents.

I wouldn't worry about it too much, put yourself first, I hope you feel better soon.

Same wrapping paper here, I thought I was going to get busted a few years ago but nup, they didn’t care.

Ive always said Santa works with parents, as families have different traditions he likes to help them with. For us he checks we are ok with their lists that’s why they didn’t get a pony, unicorn or iPhone when they asked. I’ve said that it’s easier we stick to the same wrapping paper, each dc gets their own colour but other families don’t wrap presents at all.

My DCs don’t think to hard about and just shrug at anything I say and believe it, I could tell them Santa the Easter bunny and the tooth fairy are the same person and they’d probably believe me 😂

I use different paper for Santa presents but if your DD does notice, you could say that Santa can’t get enough wrapping paper for all the children in the world so parents have to send some to him.

My son firming believes that Mummy buys some of the gifts and sends them to Santa to check he’s been good and deliver them - all via the post office so mummy doesn’t need Santa’s address! 😂

I forgot to say, I used these last year and will again this year, saved so much time and was easy to see what was from Santa and what was from us as ours were hand written stickers.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07KJPBS7X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Santa presents are in cheap wrapping paper that has pictures of Santa on it.

Holy crap, EducatingArti, does that stuff still exist?? I was speeding through the thread to say, THIS is the paper that FC used to use in my childhood - it was rustly and garish and tore easily. (Apparently available for a quid for an enormous roll in local markets but to me it was magical, and not the same as the rather naicer paper my mum used for under the tree.)

Anyway, I decided the magic bit was the crinkly, tearable part so took a cue from MN and started using tissue paper and bright wool or butcher's twine. But it's not always easy to find multicoloured tissue paper and now DS1 is officially a non-believer I went on to using last year's tree presents paper, which I'd saved.

Except he's just said it makes him feel so nostalgic, the feel of stocking presents in tissue paper..... Shit, shall I try to get hold of some now?

We leave wrapping paper on the table in case Father Christmas needs it in the night. Also sellotape and scissors.

Ooooh this is clever and I wish I'd thought of it when my son was little, instead of me faffing around with secret rolls of wrapping paper.

Please look after yourself op, I'm sure your children will still have a magical Christmas no matter what paper you use.

@GlomOfNit

Christmas tissue paper is available
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Traditional-Present-Gift-Wrapping/dp/B08HLZ56RP/ref=asc_df_B08HLZ56RP/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=463435589978&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11155046449492744467&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046612&hvtargid=pla-971699516382&psc=1&mcid=bae77fbacbe83a51a54fac8afc563856