Do you wrap Santa presents?

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Just wanting to see what everyone else does as my husband and I are in complete disagreement! Just to add we are from Northern Ireland and it is a common thing to not wrap Santa gifts, not sure if it’s the same in England etc!

We have a 2 year old and 4 year old and so far have never wrapped Santa presents as I never got them wrapped when I was a child. My husband always got his wrapped and says it takes the excitement away if the toys aren’t wrapped.

I loved them not being wrapped as a child and coming down and seeing loads of toys! But my husband says the best bit is opening each present and not knowing what it is.

My little girl has just turned 4 and this is her first Christmas proper knowing what’s going on so whatever we decide this year we have to stick to.

What does everyone else do??

I think my little girl is expecting Santa to leave presents wrapped below the tree as this is what she is seeing in movies etc. and I’m just worried that her expectation isn’t going to be met on Christmas morning if her presents aren’t wrapped!

I’m probably massively overthinking this 🤣🤣

I always wrap them.

Oh, but Father Christmas only gives the stocking presents.

The under the tree presents (also wrapped, but in different paper) are from us or whoever gave them.

We had specific Santa paper and only wrapped the presents from Santa with it-it usually had pictures of santa on it.

However-big things-say a bike or a giant butterscotch pony (who remembers that??) are unwrapped. So a bit of both for the win!

I agree with your husband. Always wrap Santa presents (stocking) and diff paper to the presents from us under the tree. As a child unwrapping was so exciting just tipping them out to be would be dull.

I've always wrapped Santa and stocking presents and in different paper. They get a stocking full and 1-3 small toys from Santa wrapped and in a small sack.
They're 17 and 12 now. Enjoy your little ones, it's magical!

I'm from Northern Ireland too. Our Santa presents were never wrapped (6 children - life was hard enough for my folks 😂). My husband (just him and his brother) always had their Santa presents wrapped. He insists we wrap our 2 kids and it's a flipping pain. They are 6 and 9 now so just have to continue it.

Everything gets wrapped in this house

Santa doesn't do presents under the tree in our house, he does the stocking and nothing is wrapped..presents under the tree are from whoever has bought it for them, and is wrapped

Santa does NOT have time to wrap anything. He leaves a stocking and a main unwrapped present in the dining room where his snacks have been left. All presents from us and other people are wrapped and waiting under the tree.

We never did presents from us. Everything was from Santa and they were all wrapped.

My DD has moved to Ireland and it was a surprise when no one wrapped presents over there. Not even for birthdays.

Never wrapped Santa presents here, each child has a Santa sack which is full of goodies on Christmas morning. Life is busy enough and only gets busier with less time with kids out of the way as they get bigger, go to bed later etc.
Ifyour DH wants to wrap them he can take on that responsibility every year - buying paper, doing the wrapping etc along with all the other stuff you as a couple need to do in preparation for Christmas. I would have nothing to do with it.

Everything wrapped here, even stocking gifts. DH does the bulk of the wrapping usually but this year we split 50/50 and wrapped in tandem while watching Die Hard. I think unwrapping is part of the fun, it’s the delayed gratification thing that is such a big part of Christmas generally.

Santa delivers a stocking (unwrapped inside) and a few larger wrapped presents to DD’s room. These are for opening first thing.

Under the tree presents are from family/friends and always wrapped.

Santa paper is completely different to the rest.

So Santa brings a sack of presents and stockings in our house all wrapped in special santa paper. The only things he brings that aren't wrapped os chocolate and sweets. The other presents she knows are from us and family/friends

I’m in Northern Ireland and wrap, so does everyone else I know so I’m not sure it’s an NI thing?

If they are wrappable - yes. Massive items like Barbie dream house etc - no.

In our house, santa doesn’t wrap things like chocolate coins, the satsuma / apple, chocolate Santa, toothbrush etc, (they just go in stocking) but does wrap bigger things (fluffy socks, pyjamas etc) (if they don’t fit in stocking). Santa gives ours lots of things that they need (eg pyjamas), a stash of chocolate, and then a couple of actual gifts too.

main gifts from us under tree.

Santa does not have time to wrap gifts!

Never had them wrapped as a child and didn't initially do it for my children, but at some point I changed my mind and they liked it. Buy a lot less now though they are older, as they earn their own money and tend to buy what they want anyway.

I'm English, in the south. When I was growing up santa brought the stocking (presents inside wrapped) and the 'under the tree' presents (also wrapped) were from our parents and occasionally other family (but generally they tended to give them when they saw us).

This is what we're doing for our kids too.

Santa's wrapping paper is different to mummy and daddy's wrapping paper.

Wrapped! Why on earth wouldn’t you!

Stocking presents from Santa definitely wrapped, unwrapping and discovering what’s inside is a huge part of the fun! But stocking/santa presents all smaller bits, big presents are from us and are under the tree. I know families have different traditions but I don’t get having absolutely everything from Santa

I’m from NI too, and Santa presents have always been wrapped. I am definitely #teamhusband on this one. The fun is waking up to see a stocking of wrapped pressies and unwrapping them to find out what they are.

Everything wrapped here but the main “Father Christmas” was wrapped in special gold paper and the tag written in gold pen. Presents should always be wrapped up!

Yes, I feel the unwrapping is part of the magic for me. Anything we buy for dd is from Father Christmas (stocking and main) and wrapped in different paper to anything else.