Christmas Eve box

[Floridatilly]

For those with older teenagers, what are you putting in their Christmas Eve box?
I am literally stumped this year apart from chocolate 😬😬

[DisneyDaffodil]

Originally Posted by Floridatilly

For those with older teenagers, what are you putting in their Christmas Eve box?
I am literally stumped this year apart from chocolate 😬😬

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Girls are easier than boys I think but some ideas
Girls: notebook, pens, sticky notes, hand warmers, hot chocolate sachet, face masks or bath bombs
Boys: hot chocolate sachet, socks, small Lego or craft making kit suitable for boys, body wash, popcorn

[princess allie]

Originally Posted by Floridatilly

For those with older teenagers, what are you putting in their Christmas Eve box?
I am literally stumped this year apart from chocolate 😬😬

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For my oldest, who is 26, I put in lounge pants, socks, Christmas beer, mince pies and hot chocolate with a mug. In my youngest ds13, he gets, Christmas pyjamas, socks, coke bottle, mince pies, hot chocolate and a mug and a pre prepared Kilner jar with the ingredients for making a few cookies to eat later in the day. I had a little chuckle at your opening post about giving out the Christmas pj’s early to get use out of them, mine wear them all year long!

[Loulou127]

I haven’t read all of the posts, but when did more presents on Xmas Eve become a thing? I know I’m ancient but most of the presents I’ve seen mentioned are what I’d buy as Xmas day gifts, is it an American thing we’ve taken on over here?

[DisneyDaffodil]

Originally Posted by Loulou127

I haven’t read all of the posts, but when did more presents on Xmas Eve become a thing? I know I’m ancient but most of the presents I’ve seen mentioned are what I’d buy as Xmas day gifts, is it an American thing we’ve taken on over here?

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I’m a dinosaur but I have always given a Christmas Eve gift to our children, and my parents also used to give me and my sister a Christmas Eve gift too (so I’m going back to the late 60’s)

We used to receive a small gift like a colouring book and pens or a book or a cheap board game. My children, when young, had similar to what I had. Now they are older they get a small parcel with chocolate, shower gel, fluffy socks or similar. The idea in our family has been to occupy the children a little on Christmas Eve when they are overexcited

I do think a lot of families give larger gifts than we do, and it’s often pjs, slippers and other gifts, which I prefer to keep for Christmas Day too (maybe I’m just tight 😂 )

[ely3857]

Originally Posted by Loulou127

I haven’t read all of the posts, but when did more presents on Xmas Eve become a thing? I know I’m ancient but most of the presents I’ve seen mentioned are what I’d buy as Xmas day gifts, is it an American thing we’ve taken on over here?

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It’s been a thing for years. An increase on getting new PJ’s before bed on Xmas eve. What you decide to include is entirely up to you and just like any present you opt to buy for your kids or family/friends it will perhaps differ widely from someone else’s idea of suitable.

[All-smiles]

It's actually a European thing. In some European countries christmas eve was more important and it was celebrated more. My Grandad was polish so we always had the tradition of opening small gifts for each other on christmas eve and we had family gatherings on christmas eve. Now I have my own family, I like to do a shared christmas eve crate with all our christmas goodies in, so instead of them getting christmas day, we start on the snacks christmas eve and get all cosy with the hot chocolate I put in there. I always put in there a cheap christmas themed colouring book which again, I would usually put in a stocking but we have it on christmas eve in the morning so we actually get time to do it together. It all just adds to the fun for us and makes another christmas day magical. We are also having a small gathering with in laws this year for the first time but with small novelty type gifts - our rule this year is that the gifts have to all be £1 or under as a challenge.

[mandco]

Originally Posted by Loulou127

I haven’t read all of the posts, but when did more presents on Xmas Eve become a thing? I know I’m ancient but most of the presents I’ve seen mentioned are what I’d buy as Xmas day gifts, is it an American thing we’ve taken on over here?

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Xmas eve boxes have become a lot more popular along with Xmas elves but people take on them varies greatly.
I’ve always done one since my eldest was little and For us the Xmas eve box used to contain all the bits for Santa a Xmas themed baking kit(something to leave for santa) a craft kit(something to keep the kids busy) something for bath time & xmas book for bedtime. As they got older the contents changed a bit we moved to movie night over bedtime stories so a Xmas movie popcorn & hot chocolate etc. Now we skip the dvd and pick something off a streaming channel instead.

This year so far I have movie night snacks, new board game & a small pack of crackers might add some of the Santa bits if ds still wants to do them

I also used to put thank you notes in

[Tigger71]

Originally Posted by All-smiles

It's actually a European thing. In some European countries christmas eve was more important and it was celebrated more. My Grandad was polish so we always had the tradition of opening small gifts for each other on christmas eve and we had family gatherings on christmas eve. Now I have my own family, I like to do a shared christmas eve crate with all our christmas goodies in, so instead of them getting christmas day, we start on the snacks christmas eve and get all cosy with the hot chocolate I put in there. I always put in there a cheap christmas themed colouring book which again, I would usually put in a stocking but we have it on christmas eve in the morning so we actually get time to do it together. It all just adds to the fun for us and makes another christmas day magical. We are also having a small gathering with in laws this year for the first time but with small novelty type gifts - our rule this year is that the gifts have to all be £1 or under as a challenge.

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Exactly this - I have a Swedish upbringing and like all of Scandinavia and several other European countries, in Sweden Christmas is celebrated on Christmas Eve. in the evening, Father Christmas comes to your house to hand out gifts. (Coincidentially a grownup - normally dad or grandad - have always left the house to mail a very important letter just before father christmas arrives…. I was amazed how many times my father missed him !)

We now keep a little bit of this tradition and leave a small sack with pj’s, books, chocolate on Christmas eve for the kids.

[Floridatilly]

Originally Posted by Loulou127

I haven’t read all of the posts, but when did more presents on Xmas Eve become a thing? I know I’m ancient but most of the presents I’ve seen mentioned are what I’d buy as Xmas day gifts, is it an American thing we’ve taken on over here?

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This year I feel like it’s something I wish I hadn’t started 🙈😂🙈
I was 40 when I had Mason with my other two a lot older, it was a massive change for us as a family unit so we decided to make some new, exciting traditions for Christmas; Elf on the shelf and the Christmas Eve box. My aunt made us a Christmas eve crate and hand painted it so its very special and Mason talks about it often. He is more interested in Buddy the elf and the Christmas eve box than anything 🙈
Ours is quite a big crate and I am quite honestly tight so I like the children to get good use of things 😉