How To Keep Your Kids Busy While Your Wrapping Christmas Gifts?
I’m looking for ideas of what to do with the kids while wrapping Christmas Gifts. When I was younger, my mom bought my brother and I a JUMBO activity book while she was wrapping gifts. I loved it and it kept us busy and out of her way. Any other ideas?
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November 13th, 2010 at 7:11 am
My mom does it after we go to bed…Or she gets an on demand movie…Hope I helped!You could also rent a movie…
November 13th, 2010 at 7:14 am
i wait till they are in bed or outside playing. i lock myself in our bathroom and wrap in there.
November 13th, 2010 at 8:07 am
Well, if they go to school, you could do some then and if you have time on christmas eve, get them to bed and wrap the rest then, it saves time really. 🙂
Hope this helped!
November 13th, 2010 at 8:51 am
If you loved the activity book so much, why don’t you get one for your own kids? Or wait until they’re in bed.
In my home, our “santa” gifts were never wrapped. Only those from mom or dad were wrapped (like 1 or 2). This could save you tons of time and wasted wrapping paper.
November 13th, 2010 at 9:27 am
Make up a game or two.We used to do a Christmas themed Memory game. We made our own cards using index cards and big Christmas stickers (candy canes, trees, presents, etc.).
Activity books, coloring books, Christmas dvds for them to watch, wait til they go to sleep
November 13th, 2010 at 9:51 am
My mom would always wrap it when we were sleeping 🙂
November 13th, 2010 at 10:28 am
I always wait until my kids are sleeping. I also wrap as I buy so I don’t have as much to wrap at one time and I am not wrapping forever.
November 13th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Do it when they go to sleep at night.
Thats what I always do. I have some hot chocolate and take my time and enjoy wrapping the presents. if they’re up you have to rush and it’s not fun that way.
November 13th, 2010 at 11:00 am
I do it when they go to bed, i put on a christmas film and get wrapping 🙂
November 13th, 2010 at 11:05 am
Movies, tv specials.. Get them a book to look at. Do you get christmas magazines? Toy magazines? Give them different coloured markers and have them circle what they want with that marker. You could also send them off to another room with a couple presents they will give to you, to wrap, if they are old enough, it will take them forever with such care.. depends on theyre age. Activity book is good.
November 13th, 2010 at 11:42 am
You can find stories and coloring pages here
http://bestsantasletter.com/
November 13th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
The smartest thing to do, is when they are at school, but if they are little then my mom used to always lock herself in the bathroom, or closet (hers was really big).
Wait until they go to bed. Or, have your husband take them out for ice cream, to the library, the park, a movie, or something cute. Let them have a “Daddy & Me Day” or an “Auntie/Uncle and Me Day” because I know my dad was always working.
Also, just letting them run around in the backyard for a while, or find a good movie for them, set up your living room like a movie theater so they feel special, and won’t leave mid-way through the movie to go and find you to see what your up to.
November 13th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
I mostly wrap while my daughter is at day care on my days off. If she’s with me, I put on a movie I know she loves, especially around the holidays that she will sit down and watch from start to finish with a small bowl of popcorn and i go in my room and wrap. Luckily our hall floors are a little squeaky so I can hear when she is coming and quickly hide them. And sometimes her god mother (my best friend) will come over with her two daughters and they all play together all day and then one of us will come out and make cookies with them while the other finishes the wrapping. Hope some of these ideas help.