What feelings do you get when watching your children play with their new toys on Christmas day? Share with Mega Bloks for a chance to win a £300 voucher NOW CLOSED

[RebeccaEMumsnet]

Christmas morning is a time full of excitement and anticipation; especially for children excited about the gifts they’ve been left, but also for parents eager to see their children enjoy them. Mega Bloks would like you to tell them about your feelings once you’re watching your children play with their new toys on Christmas Day.

So, whether you usually feel completely captivated by your children’s happiness or you’re just glad that the shopping for the day is finally over with for another year, share your feelings below.

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All those who post a comment below sharing their feelings when watching their children play with their gifts on Christmas Day will be entered into a prize draw where one MNer will win a £300 ToysRUs voucher.

Thanks and good luck with the prize draw!

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I was watching my great nephews and niece and the looks of amazement and squeals of delight were an absolute joy, it has been the highlight of the last year for me and my elderly father. It brought him to tears :)

The stocking part is my fave as it has that magic! For me the rest of the gifts tend to get played with in the days following although seeing them unwrap something they really wanted is pretty cool.

As we're both from large families, our kids have aunties/uncles galore, all of whom insist on getting them pressies, so the first and foremost thought on Christmas Day is usually 'where on earth are we going to put it all'?! Nonetheless it is really lovely and heartwarming to see them finding common ground across their age divide to share and explore their new stuff together.

Prior to the Christmas period we had an almighty clear out of things no longer used or needed. Coats, hats, gloves, blankets, towels and sleeping bags were sent to St George's crypt for the homeless, Toiletries, underwear and baby things were sent to the women's refuge, read and much loved books were sent to the school libraries and any other oddments (of which there were many) were gifted to friends or bagged and boxed up for Martin House charity. Pleased that we were free of clutter and unnecessary items - we were ready and grateful to receive anything new!

Each of my children are so very different when receiving presents.

My eldest son has special needs and spends considerable time just getting excitable holding the gift and scrunching the wrapping - he doesn't even have to open it to find joy!

My middle son delights in each and every gift, showers us with hugs and kisses and proclaims his utter wonderment.

My daughter, the youngest, is always beyond excitement. Whilst she can't open the gifts quick enough and take out and enjoy whatever fabulousness is hidden inside -she also stacks her presents neatly, keeping hold of any adornments of bows, ribbons tags and paper- to make into something wonderfully creative at a later date!

It takes us the best part of the day to open all the presents - it wouldn't do to rush these things!

This said - my favourite part of Christmas is the giving ... both the giving of unwanted items to charities and new homes, as well as the giving of new and much coveted items to family and friends. It takes me the best part of a month to wrap everything and label things. Then I keep everything crossed hoping I've chosen well and that each gift raises a smile!

I get very emotional when I watch my granddaughter open her presents and play Christmas morning, we never buy a lot so she always appreciates what we do buy her.....we would buy her more but her mother doesn't approve.

I love to see how happy they are and I also like to join in and play with their new toy with them.

To be fair I am not one of these mums who adore their children with every breath.I do love them dearly though but I believe that time with me is a gift of a lifetime as I took them to the pantomime for the first time and their eyes light up with amazement and awe and they get to be involved on stage chances of a lifetime last forever

I always bore my lot with a little speech on xmas morning. I explain that its not just about the opening of the gift at that moment, but the fact that someone has had to go to work to earn the money for the gift, go out shopping to buy it, choose it and then deliver it to us. So I kind of get that feeling that all the work during the year not just from us but extended family members has paid off x

I feel proud that I have worked hard to provide for my girls and to see the enjoyment they get from their gifts is very heart warming x

Love the excitement of them opening them,just to see them smile takes away all the stresses leading up to that magical morning

I loved it when they all played together with something as it was so rare! On Christmas morning I always think back to the first Christmas we had with our firstborn. We bought a baby gym and she was only 2 months old and had been born four weeks early so she was small and not able to co-ordinate reaching out and touching it. But she lay underneath it gazing with such awe at the colours and lights- it was magic and her face was a picture.