We do silly things in our family like put a gift inside a box inside a box inside a box! The real gift might be something like a voucher or small gift but it keeps everyone laughing as the recipient gets more and more confused as they go through layers of wrapping.
My Dad has also done things like take a gift apart and wrap up an obscure part of it and let the recipient guess the rest of the gift, which then appears from another room. E.g. the gift for my brother was a tool kit, he wrapped up a single spanner.
Gifts in our house are often tickets to something, so I’ve had the picture of an event poster cut up in various different envelopes to piece together. The envelopes appeared over the course of Xmas morning so it was lunch time before I pieced it together.
This year I’m also doing items to represent experience gifts. I’ve bought my Dad entry to a race and there will be some small items (very low cost) wrapped to represent the name of the race, which he’ll have to guess.
We also wrap up silly, joke things- my Dad runs a small trade business and after his apprentice left behind three separate dustpans on jobs, received a wrapped dustpan and brush for Xmas. Following year, same apprentice wrapped up a single Penguin bar for my Dad as part of a long running joke. I’ve wrapped a single bar of soap for my brother that was also an in joke.
Me and DH usually cook lunch at my DPs house as they have the most space but are both terrible cooks. They also have a hilariously inequipped kitchen and every year we end up packing half our kitchen utensils and even simple items such as heat mats. It’s a long running joke so this year we’ve bought some cheap Ikea utensils and cookware (for my parents house!) that we will split between my DPs to open- everyone will get a good laugh and we will use it to cook lunch 😂