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 🤣🤣

Santa and the elves never wrap presents! He dashes in, fills the stockings and he's gone

In my family, Father Christmas just puts little bits and bobs (unwrapped) in a stocking. All the presents under the tree are wrapped and are from whoever they're actually from.

I’m from Northern Ireland too and our Santa presents were never wrapped.

All presents wrapped in this house. I still do stockings for us all too and dc are now 20 and 25!

No, the stocking is the wrapping.

Absolutely we wrap them! I honestly thought everyone did. We have special Santa paper that obviously can’t be used for anything else. It’s a Christmas Eve ritual wrapping stocking presents late at night and it also prolongs the pleasure of getting the presents. No such thing as an unwrapped gift in my life ever at any time. I basically think it’s rude.

Always wrapped, although when they were little, if they had a large item like a pram or kitchen, that might be unwrapped, with a bow on. Everything else was wrapped though.

I started wrapping stocking presents( from Santa in bedrooms ) in tissue paper, a different colour for each person. Scrunch it up and one piece of cell tape. But yes everything wrapped, it’s part of the excitement . Everything under the tree from other people and also wrapped but in proper paper .

Stocking presents always wrapped in different paper. And one small/ medium present also from Santa left alongside the stocking at the end of their bed. Everything under the tree is from family. I'm confused how people make 'only the stocking presents are from Santa work' as my kids usually ask Santa for something that wouldn't fit in a stocking but isn't terribly expensive, like a new football.

We wrap everything, stocking, Santa presents and ours!

Santa presents wrapped in Santa only paper and put in the sacks left out by fire place. Carrot and mince pie left for him.

Family presents also wrapped and put under the tree as they get wrapped (so i don't have to keep hiding them/storing them!)

Wrap

I'm in NI and originally from ROI. Everyone I know down south wraps. In my experience of asking people in NI i think this falls into a community divide... where do you keep your toaster might inform if you wrap or not.

I wrap them, managed years ago to find a massive roll of wrapping paper with Santa on, so that’s for Santa gifts. She’s 9 so she’ll stop believing before the paper runs out.

I used to wrap for my kids!

Yes, I wrap it all; more fun this way!

My Mum used to wrap all of our presents. My grandparents didn’t, and while I was grateful for their gifts I was always a little bit disappointed they weren’t wrapped. Unwrapping presents was (and still is) my favourite part of Christmas. I even wrap up presents I buy myself to have something to open.

Potatoes as a reminder of "bad behaviour" ?! Did that not bring the mood down?

Always wrap them. I’m from NI too, unwrapped gifts are so unexciting.

My DM is from NI and my stocking presents as a child were unwrapped. DH’s we wrapped. We have three.DC so it would be a lot of wrapping to do and I think it’s nice for the kids to be able to see some of their presents when they wake up very early in the morning. So we compromise and wrap about half the stocking presents. Try to do different paper, but not organised for that this year yet.

Not at all. It was a quick reminder that good behaviour is rewarded - and gave DH and I many smiles as we saw the DC trying to hide the potatoes before we spotted them. We laugh about it now. Both DC intend to do this for their own children, so presumably it hasn't scarred them in any way!

There’s generally an overflow😂 but he only brings what he can fit in his sleigh! 🛷

Yes, with Santa paper.

Yes, but in the last few years Santa has been a bit overwhelmed and only wrapped the toy, not the chocolate coins/pringles/selection box that he also puts in the stocking.

All tree presents are from us and are wrapped.

All presents that we buy are from Santa and all wrapped including everything in the stocking .