Anonymous wrote:My oldest is at the age, where he still believes in santa but has started to notice "inconsistencies" . (Aka -- Santa has the SAME wrapping paper as you do?!? )

How do you guys handle presents from Santa? Does he only bring one and the rest are from you? does he bring them all? Does Santa wrap his presents or are they unwrapped? Are they labeled differently?

I feel like I need to pick a tradition and stick with it...

Rookie mistake.

We mentioned Santa but only casually - we never made a big deal about him. When the kids started questioning things we just let them roll with it and said “hmm. You think so?” and such.

We are Christian and prefer to emphasize the religious aspects of the holiday, so Santa was never the main event.

Anonymous wrote:Santa does not wrap! How would he have time?? Santa does stockings and a few gifts.

This! Of course Santa does not wrap. Now that my kids are older and know, Santa only does stockings and parents give the real gifts.

Anonymous wrote:We ignore the Santa component completely. When asked we confirmed it's old men who dress up for a holiday, the same way people dress up on Halloween.

You realize there is a middle ground where kids can have fun with the spirit of Santa but not expect a guy to slide down their chimney, right?

Anonymous wrote:We use different paper for anything from Santa. And those gifts just have the recipient’s name written on the paper in black Sharpie.

Yes we do sharpie on paper too.

Santa brings just one present and it is in different paper. Santa also writes in cursive.

Pro tip: Santa doesn't wrap presents.

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Anonymous wrote:I have "Santa" paper that is hidden. My kids have outgrown Santa now buy I still have "Santa" paper. For DD, it is always snowman themed and for DS it is always reindeer themed. I just buy paper from TJMaxx/Marshalls and have always been able to find something in those themes.

I’m 8:41 from the prior page and this is exactly how I do it as well.

Kewl

Anonymous wrote:I have "Santa" paper that is hidden. My kids have outgrown Santa now buy I still have "Santa" paper. For DD, it is always snowman themed and for DS it is always reindeer themed. I just buy paper from TJMaxx/Marshalls and have always been able to find something in those themes.

I’m 8:41 from the prior page and this is exactly how I do it as well.

Different paper, gift tag stickers from Santa ordered from Etsy.

We use different paper for anything from Santa. And those gifts just have the recipient’s name written on the paper in black Sharpie.

My son noticed the wrapping paper thing pretty young, so I told him we leave out the wrapping paper and Santa uses it. Then I just left the wrapping paper out with the milk and cookies. Much easier than trying to use different paper.

Santa only brought a couple of presents. Grandparents and other relatives always sent DS way too many presents. When he would ask why Santa didn't bring all the presents, I just said he doesn't need that many presents from Santa since he has all those other people giving him stuff.

We hide the paper in advance and disguise our handwriting on the labels. NBD. Seeing beautifully wrapped gifts under the three - and then unwrapping them - is a huge part of the fun for us and our kids.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone in our house gave a gift to everyone else. The rest of the presents came from Santa. Like PP, Santa had his own paper and we hid it. Instead of gift tags, Santa used the kids’ pictures as a tag. I’d just print a bunch and punch a hole and put a ribbon through the hole.

Brilliant!

I have "Santa" paper that is hidden. My kids have outgrown Santa now buy I still have "Santa" paper. For DD, it is always snowman themed and for DS it is always reindeer themed. I just buy paper from TJMaxx/Marshalls and have always been able to find something in those themes.