How do you do Santa’s gifts in your home?

[KoreanBeauty]

Do you tell DC everything comes from Santa or just 1 gift and the rest is from parents/relatives? Do you use sacks or stockings?
We have always just wrapped the gifts and said everything was from Santa (with different wrapping paper for the few gifts we said were from us or family). How does everyone do it?

Relatives give gifts from relatives. All the gifts we buy DC are from Santa.

They knew I bought all the stuff and Santa would wrap it and deliver it!

I guess my child is more inquisitive. They would definitely be asking why does mummy get a gift from daddy and vice versa but I don't etc etc.

I've also included them in choosing gifts for others.

I also don't like the idea of child going to school and having the whole what did you get from santa', oh I got an iPad/bike/ insert other expensive gift here vs I got an orange and a puzzle.

Ah ok. To be fair when some posters have said everything from Santa it does seem like they mean everything, even gifts from family hence my confusion.

Father Christmas gifts in a sack ( pillow case )
Sock ...on end of bed ...orange ,choc coins and a small toy to keep them occupied for a few minutes !
Under tree ...from us
Father Christmas uses different wrapping paper too

"because Santa gets your presents"

Not for my son, but that is what I have heard from other family members.

In my experience, by the time they are old enough to question, they are already questioning Santa as a whole concept, so it never really becomes a problem.

They don't ask who things are from though, in my experience they compare gifts but generally don't really talk about who gave them what.

Presents under the tree from family. Presents in sack/stocking from Santa.

Stockings from Father Christmas contain items that they wrote about in their letters to him (8 and 11 year old never ask for expensive gifts) along with a few little surprises.

We buy them a present each for under the tree, usually something they’d see as special, this year one has a watch and the other a small drum kit.

other presents under the tree from relatives.
Im sure this will change once they no longer believe ie smaller stockings and any requested gifts from us.

The part about it that confuses me is that it doesn't match any of the Santa "stories" in movies or books, so I always wonder how parents deal with explaining why their Santa is different.

Santa does the stocking, though they've not actually asked about that so not sure it's registered....and brings one gift from their list which is unwrapped and ready to play with under the tree. Everything else is wrapped and from specific people.

Our stockings are sock shapes made by me and my mum, they're about 30cm long I guess, 20cm wide. Limits what can go in them.

We've not reached the point of curiosity about how things are paid for, or had chats about what happens in other houses yet. I think overall we do Christmas differently to many friends and noone has questioned it.

We always suggested the children ask Santa for one to three gifts, he brings one wrapped present under the tree and he fills your stocking with a few nice treats (from your letter) and sweets etc.
He never brought tech or anything with a heartbeat!

We mainly did this to ensure our DC never went into school saying Santa got them a PlayStation / puppy / weekend trophy to New York etc when not everyone had much to open.

@BobblyBobbleHathow do you say thank you or write thank you cards?

We keep track of who has got what for this reason.

I want them to be grateful

They pick a small present or two which Santa brings in a sack and leaves in their room with their stockings, which are filled with daft bits.

Their main present (s) are from us are placed in a nice sack by Santa on Christmas Eve downstairs and placed next to the tree.

All other presents from family who have bought for them are put under the tree by the DC as they arrive.

Santa did stockings only.

Father Christmas brings stockings with a few small gifts in our house - usually a toy, toothbrush, socks, book and something edible. Then everything else is from whoever brought it (parents, grandparents etc)

Nothing from Father Christmas here. He just delivers it all.

The stocking presents here are from Santa. He just chooses and delivers the ones from us - we send money to him for them. This helps to explain the differences in the amount that they and their friends get i.e. some will get an expensive games console, others have far less spent on them. Presents from family are separate.

When my ones were younger gifts from family/ friends were put under the tree as they arrived and on xmas eve santa gifts and stockings were put under or beside the tree when they were asleep. The santa gifts were wrapped in different paper for each dc. They would open the gifts from family and friends later in the afternoon, early evening so they knew who gifted them and they loved doing it that way.

Stocking from santa and everything else from family.

My oldest is 4 so he’s not questioning in the way older children can. We just say it’s from Santa and there aren’t any further questions. Or at least there haven’t been. That’s what my parents did as well.

1 gift they asked for and stocking from Santa. The rest from us/family and friends.

Stockings and the main present they’ve asked for were from Father Christmas. Stockings opened on waking - but not before 6am! Then downstairs for breakfast and main present.
All other presents labelled and under the tree and opened after lunch or around tea time depending on the weather and walk/swim/sleep post lunch. We made a note of what came from who as they were opened so they could say thank you.

This is what we do ( or now I do while the teens roll their eyes) Stocking from Santa presents under the tree from us. Stocking would have one thing from their list either in it or near it if too big. DS2 always wakes up at about 3am and opens his stocking and I still have to sneak it in and out of his room even though he doesn't believe in Santa anymore 😄

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im very impressed with your thought process @lxn889121