Disguising big pack of crisps as something else

[Amiable]

DS (15) loves a particular brand of crisps, and I’ve got him 10 big bags for Christmas! I want to wrap each one disguised as something else - I need ideas! DD is making a cardboard guitar so one pack will be in that, and I’ve already thought of a giant cracker, and a huge box with tons of packing. What else can you think of? TIA

I think that, with a present like this, the “wow” aspect is the sheer number of them. So I think that that needs to be instantly obvious for him to be really delighted with the present. Is there a door that he will be - or could be - the first to go through? DS had a similar present for his bday once and, once he’d
gone to bed, I hung them all from
the frame of the bathroom. It worked really well. I woke him up as usual, he stumbled to the bathroom still
bleary eyed as usual, was a bit confused why there was stuff in the way so batted it out of the way and then, once he’d gone into the bathroom, you heard the door suddenly open and him shout “crisps!”.
The next year, he was disappointed that I hadn’t done the same thing but what actually happened was that I waited for him to go to the bathroom and then dashed into his bedroom,
took all of his clothes out of his school uniform drawer and replaced it with crisps.
The following year, I had to do a lot of expectation management as he wasn’t having the crisps!

This is a good idea. Once for a family secret Santa, my Dad wrapped a bar of chocolate to look like a dalek.

@Amiable I’d wrap a few and put the others around the house. One in the fridge, sock drawer etc last one in his bed, so when he thinks he's done on christmas night he finds another one.

Wrap like a parce the parcel adding another bag of crisps to each layer.

He's 15. I should think he'd be able to guess by the weight. It's a joke.

I was just going by sight really, and I really wasn't being too serious .

I think if you did 1 gift of 1 packet, the next gift contains 2 packets, the next gift contains 3, and then 4th contains the rest

I agree with everyone else, the joke might wear thin. Wrap the crisps together in one parcel eg a giant box with multiple layers and a bag in each layer or a huge stocking stuffed with crisps on the end of the bed.

Or go the other way, disguise all his actual presents as a big bag of crisps.

Wrap up one.

Hide the other nine in completely random places.

I did this for my DP a few years back. He found a packet in a shoe the following July 😅

Urgh, nothing worse than a “prank” present. I think the chances of this being funny even once are slim, and if it is funny what’s the gag? Ha ha, you thought you were getting a guitar but it’s just a bag of crisps? How shit.

To be fair, as it’s his fave crisps, I’d just wrap them up as a sweet, but rather odd oresent. I do also agree with a pp that he will always remember the weird Christmas he got crisps]. Is there many a ration on snacks in the house or something, maybe I’m lucky but I can’t imagine getting my kid crisps for Xmas, I’d just get her the crisps,

Ok, just to set everyone straight, he’s not getting JUST crisps! Bloody hell, it’s a joke!! DS will love it, yes by the end he will be rolling his eyes but also laughing his head off!!

Thankyou to everyone who understood what I am doing, but honestly, everyone else seems to have had a humour bypass! All I wanted was ideas how to disguise them!!

I have no idea why you are getting such a hard time about this OP. You know what your son will like and it sounds fun!

Don't disguise them, hide them. Give him the clues to their location in the house and let him find them.

He will soon come on here to ask if hibu to cut off his mum for deception at Christmas 🤣🤣🤣

To be fair op knows him best. After 3 packets he might figure it out but with some presents being 'real' and others fun crisps he might take it as a challenge trying to guess what's real and what's not. A bit of fun, no harm done.
Enjoy @Amiable

The bin bag body is the best idea but dress it up in a Santa outfit

There are lovely big Santa gift bag sacks. I would put them in one of those and tie the end with a ribbon.

Treasure hunt? Put the first one in a box, tape on a clue to the next one, which also has a clue attached, then just when he’s starting to roll his eyes, make the last on last one being a ‘proper’ present? Or from the second one on, wrap with one of his other presents? You could do that anyway, even if you don’t think the treasure hunt idea will work

This. I’m sorry but 10 prank packages sounds tedious.

This

It is a bonkers idea and not funny at all.

I chucked it when I couldn't upload the picture but it was something like this. I think tape might be a better idea than staples to attach the string/ribbon. I like the idea of a bin bag body.

Buy a laundry bin as a present and put the crisps inside? You could tie on a label saying something like "because your clothes are crispy" or something along those lines.