Each year I try to come up with a fun way to open Christmas gifts. I don't like when we blow through the gift giving in 10 seconds flat and nobody knows what the other person received. let alone what they just opened. I like to take our time and have a fun, calm gift giving session.
This year it went off with out a hitch, we won't talk about mishaps of previous years :)
Each gift was labeled with a "bingo number" such as J8 -instead of a name.
The kids each took turns pulling a bingo piece out of a bag, hanging that piece up on the big Bingo Card hanging on the wall and then go and find the gift with the matching number and turn the piece over to find out whose gift it was and then give it to that child.
In the end it made this picture.
It was wonderful. Aybra had to wait three rounds before her turn to open a gift came but the kids weren't worried about whose turn it was to open a gift, they were just excited to find out who the lucky one was.
The last gift they opened was a Bingo game for the family to enjoy and hopefully bring back memories of a wonderful Christmas.
I will have to think long and hard to compare to this for next year.
1 comment:
ok. seriously. YOU. ARE. AMAZING!! What a fantastic idea! I grew up opening gifts one at a time. We went oldest to youngest, and then switched youngest to oldest the next year. lol. Dh's family is just a rip fest and I HATE it. It's so loud and you miss everything. lol.
You look AWESOME. love the hair ;) I know I"ve said it before, but I feel sorry for your future dIL's and SILs. LOL They will never be able to compete w/ all your amazing family traditions.lol You rock woman!
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