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?

Stockings by bed from Santa. Then sacks downstairs from Santa too. Then under tree presents are from family etc and me

My kid is 4 too and asking lots of questions. I guess they are just all different.

Don't you want them to know that you got them a gift? And be thankful for it?

Roughly half are brought by santa ("delivered" in the afternoon by a local hired santa), other half are from us and family. Stockings are filled by the elves, who come in the night to check the children are sleeping - if they're not sleeping they don't get filled (had to add this story in when ds was too excited to sleep)

Santa gives them the present they ask for when we go visit him and then fills up a their stockings with some little bits and chocolates. The rest are from us.

@Perfect28 the thanks comes from the squeals of delight ? There are a million ways people show thanks

We pick a few things from DS Christmas list to get him from Father Christmas. It’s usually some big plastic toy that I don’t really approve of but I guess that’s why he asks FC! He also fills the stocking. There is usually a big present from us plus a few small bits, then anything else is from whoever it’s from (grandparents, aunts, etc).

In our house Santa fills the stocking magically overnight with a variety of small gifts (unwrapped cause I have enough to do!). Bouncy balls, chocolate, a book, shower gel etc.

The main gift is from the parents eg a scooter or ipad or something, and is wrapped and under the tree with a label that says to Joey love from Mum and Dad. Don't want Santa taking credit for the big gift.

Gifts from others, such as friends, grandparents, Aunts etc, all wrapped (by them!, see above comment about me having enough to do!) and under the tree with labels. Kids then have to keep track of who gave them what and either phone and thank, or write thank you letters.

Every present is from Santa with Santas name on the gift tag.

Just stocking from Father Christmas.

Only 1 gift from santa and he drops all the presents from eveyone else off with it, thats why we leave him out a mince pie and shot of whiskey glass of milk, to say thanks for delivering everything

Nothing worse than a kid going to school at christmas who got 298 presents off Santa and their pal only getting 1, who does santa love more

Father Christmas fills a pillow case with bits and bobs, sweets, small toys/toiletries depending on age) and everything else is under the tree and labelled . For me it's important that they just have small things from FC as otherwise it raises questions of why someone in another family got an I Pad etc. I wish everyone did it this way as it's so much nicer for families with less and also it's important for them to thank people in my opinion.

FC does a wrapped stocking and one present each. I tend to keep the budget for the present to max £30ish each. This means if we’re having a lean or extravagant year there hopefully won’t be obvious deviation in the quality of what he brings them. Stockings here are a mix of things they’d like that cost between £3-10ish and some chocolate. Luckily FC uses the same wrapping paper for each child for their present under the tree and their stocking so I notice it isn’t one from us on the day and can tell them it must be from FC as it’s not our paper. I also hide this paper from the rest so it’s not used elsewhere. The Stockings are hung on Christmas Eve on the fireplace (to avoid creeping into bedrooms, I’m famously clumsy). I don’t put presents from us or others under the tree until Christmas Eve night for the wow factor for them in the morning. My eldest is old enough to go rogue around the house after bed time now so I tend to bring it all down in one go, but keep the stockings and tree presents from FC hidden and address the mince pie/carrot/milk situation right before we go up in case he comes down while we’re still up and spots them.

Didn't do this with my own DC but my parents did with my DSis and I. I don't remember questioning it, maybe I did when I was very young but don't remember? I guess it was just the norm for us

Easily, she writes cards to whoever bought her gifts. I keep track because as she opens her gifts we look at the labels together and I write down who bought what. Then she writes one to Father Christmas, which is for the things from us. She is very grateful for what she gets, I don't need any of this nonsense credit people seem keen on.

Santa brings a stocking containing a selection of low cost items - board game, book or annual, stuffed toy, puzzle, chocolate Santa and bag of coins, small Lego that sort of thing. DC get a main present from Mum and Dad and they get presents from Grandparents, Aunties etc.

Everything from Santa here.

@lxn889121 I would enjoy reading that research paper!

In our house, Santa makes and delivers the toys but they are all from us. We also say we have to pay Santa for them as that helps her to understand that she can’t ask for and expect lots of expensive presents and covers the ‘but so and so got a switch, Xbox and iPad, why did I only get x’ conversations.

I decided when ds (now 4) was a baby that Santa would bring him a want, need, wear and a read as that way he (hopefully) won’t be disappointed when he gets older as Santa will be able to bring him those things every year ❤️ The stockings are also from Santa and we get them too ☺️ He doesn’t actually understand Santa yet but it’s still a nice thing to do that splits the present opening up as we open stockings and Santa presents in bed and then the presents downstairs get opened later 😊

When dc1 was a toddler I learnt from mumsnet to say that santa puts presents in the stocking and everything under the tree is from us or whoever has given them. (Where i grew up we were never told that santa is real. I had no idea that's a thing till I came to the uk. Anyway the mumsnet way above makes the most sense to me. When i was a child Christmas was still magical by the way).

The Stockings hang from the fire place so they can open them as soon as they wake up but for the presents under the tree they need to be dressed, teeth brushed and breakfasted.

I think this way makes the most sense but it still has so many holes that I'm surprised they haven't really questioned. E.g. some of the things on their christmas wish list goes into their stocking and some are from us. It mostly depends on what fits into the stocking. If it was me id question how santa and us divy up the items on the wish list and how we make sure to avoid duplicated. My rehearsed answer is that santa knows what we got the kids (x ray vision) and puts the things we haven't got into the stocking if he has them.

Stockings go under the tree on Christmas Eve and we discover them magically filled in the morning. When DD was little she was afraid that if Santa came into her bedroom he’d wake her up, and that she wouldn’t get any presents if she saw him, so we don’t take the risk.

All the wrapped presents are from friends and family.

Large gift from us put under Xmas tree once wrapped. Gifts from family under tree. Gifts from Santa in stockings and piled at bottom of bed.

Stocking are on the bed and magically filled by Santa overnight. Santa also delivers either one big gift (was often a shared gift when the dc were little) or somethings a sack of 2-3 medium/small gifts downstairs.

Everything under the tree is from friends and family.

My dc are way too old to believe in Santa now, but they still enjoy the magic of gifts appearing!

We attribute everything we buy to FC.

FC has nothing to do with other people’s gifts. I’ve always found it odd when people say things like they’ve sent granny’s/aunties’/etc gifts to FC for him to deliver.

Santa brings stocking and presents. Any other ones they get are from people we see on the day anyway.