Ekaterina Morozova

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New Year- it’s always magic, it’s always hope for the best next year, and I want to make this holiday even more magical. How and what to surprise your baby for the New Year? - every mother asks this question.

Today we will answer this question. Colorful gift wrapping, exquisite New Year's interior, original decorated Christmas tree - it's worth imagining about this along with the magazine website

Note to parents: how to give a child a New Year's gift correctly?

• Think in advance where will the gift be kept? so that the baby does not discover it ahead of time;
• If you hung socks for gifts - be sure to write or write the names of gift recipients;
• Plan all your actions carefully how and where to put a gift;
• If necessary negotiate with Santa Claus «.

Wrapping a children's gift - how to make a child's New Year's gift original?

New Year's packaging is always something special. Largely bright red colors with gold and silver decorations symbolize this holiday, but recently it has become fashionable to choose strict white that goes well with green spruce , harmonization in one style solution is completely your choice.

The role of packaging came to us from the USA, where its significance is placed above the gift itself . The presentation method, the color selection method - special people work on this to decorate this day.

How to give a gift to a child for the New Year - original ways

• The child should know where to look for a gift in New Year's Eve , because usually after the chimes ring, the children run as fast as they can under the spruce to check what Grandfather Frost has brought.
• In most cases gifts are placed under New Year tree , but you can come up with your own specially designated places - by the fireplace or in one of the rooms .
• Some are fictitious throwing gifts all over the house so that the baby finds one gift, then another - they prolong the pleasure.
• You can also draw a diagram of the search for gifts , having previously sealed it in an envelope or placed it under the Christmas tree. The diagram shows in detail where to look for gifts - thereby making the search for a New Year's gift even more fun.
• Is there some more long search method - but the main thing here is not to delay. The first note should be left, for example, under the Christmas tree, where further instructions will be indicated where to look, for example, under the sofa in the room, then leave the second note there, where to look and so on, a couple of notes will lead the baby to the goal.
• There is a custom in Europe putting children's shoes on the threshold or near it, or hanging socks by the fireplace to hide some of the gifts there. Socks are usually hung for the whole family - each with a sock, and a name is written on each of them.

New Year, like Christmas, is a family holiday, so on this day you should gather as many people as possible so that maintain family relationships and show the child the significance of this event and the family as a whole.

In Russia, every year people begin to understand more and more that they need each other, so teach your child to love his family from childhood, and celebrate the holiday in a large family circle, so that as many socks as possible hang by the fireplace.

Santa Claus's mail is a great accompaniment to a child's New Year's gift!

• Telegram from Santa Claus will also be a great addition to your congratulations. Take a real telegram form from the post office, fill it out on behalf of Santa Claus in an original but reliable way, for example: “Dear Vanyusha, I came by at night and left you a gift under the tree. Say hello to mom and dad who opened the door for me. Happy New Year."
• The telegram can be “accidentally” found , checking your mail in the morning, or you can ask someone you know to introduce themselves as a postal employee and bring it.
• Evidence of Santa Claus' presence can be left in the apartment , for example, by laying out a piece of a beard or leaving a large red mitten that did not belong to any family member. You can also leave congratulations to the rest of the family.
• Now various services for sending postcards anywhere in the world , such a congratulation can be “blinded” in this way, but it is not known exactly when it will arrive.

Anyway, congratulations from Santa Claus “personally” should greatly impress your baby and enhance the power of magic in his eyes.

A secret door is a great way to give a child a New Year's gift.

If on the 31st your baby did not wait for the chimes to strike, but fell asleep, and I already decided to look at the gifts in the morning on the 1st , then the secret door is for you!


Close the door to one of the rooms, having previously laid out gifts for all family members . Wait until your child wakes up, let him gather the whole family to distribute New Year's gifts and commands the parade .

Creating a festive atmosphere for bright impressions of the holiday and a gift for a child for the New Year

• Start preparing for the New Year in advance with your baby. Hang the garland above the fireplace or on the wall of one of the rooms.
• Decorate the Christmas tree with your child , believe me, he will be interested in hanging toys on the Christmas tree himself.
• Order a Christmas wreath made of spruce, wicker or rattan , decorate it with New Year's toys and ribbons, or buy a ready-made one and hang it on the door.
• Create an atmosphere of comfort and celebration at home, decorate, and use your imagination. Actively involve your baby in all kinds of handicrafts.

Have a good one To you celebrating New Year and Christmas!

It is impossible to say with certainty when the custom of giving gifts for the New Year began. But already in the Egyptian pyramids, archaeologists discovered vases from the Libyan era, created about three millennia ago, on which was inscribed: “Discoveries of a good year,” or as we would say now: “Have a good New Year.” It is known that even the ancient Persians gave eggs to each other for the New Year, which symbolized continuation of the family.

The custom of giving New Year's gifts came to Europe not from the Egyptians, but from Ancient Rome. They say that the first gifts were laurel branches, which foreshadowed happiness and good luck in the coming year. It is also known that on the first day of the New Year, the Romans often gave fruits and honey to relatives and friends. “I wish you a prosperous and happy New Year,” the Romans wrote on New Year’s gifts, sometimes adding humorous verses, because the New Year is a cheerful holiday.

The custom of giving gifts to children in winter on St. Nicholas Day has been established since ancient times. Saint Nicholas - a white-bearded old man with a sack over his shoulders - walked around the world and lowered gifts for the most obedient and good children into the chimney. Gradually this tradition was dedicated to the New Year.

Many nations have developed common symbols for many New Year's gifts. Thus, paper flowers, fir branches, garlands and lanterns represent light, life and joy, and gilded cones, nuts and apples are the germs of rebirth and renewal of life.

The ancient Romans began the tradition of giving gifts to the emperor on New Year's Day. At first this happened spontaneously and voluntarily, but over time the rulers themselves began to collect “New Year’s gift tribute.”

But already among the ancient Romans unusual and Original gifts and congratulations. Known for this historical fact: on one of the New Year's nights, Julius Caesar's house slave congratulated his master, wishing him to live a little longer in the New Year than in the outgoing one. Caesar highly appreciated the slave's wit, and he immediately received his freedom.

Gradually, some countries developed their own customs of giving gifts on New Year's Eve. For example, in Mongolia of the 13th century, all the courtiers of Emperor Kublai Kublai brought him valuable gifts on the first day of the New Year: gold, precious stones, expensive fabrics. But most expensive gifts Elephants, horses and camels were considered white. IN modern world National “subtleties” also developed. Thus, in China it is not customary to give a watch as a gift, since this word in Chinese is consonant with the word “funeral”. But “nianhua” - New Year’s pictures depicting, in particular, a well-fed baby with various fruits in his hands - a symbol of happiness and prosperity, are highly valued here. In the USA, the New Year's gift of sharp objects will be perceived as the desire of the giver to break off all relations with the recipient. Be careful when choosing perfume if you want to please a French woman you know, because such a gift is regarded in this country as very intimate.

The best and dearest gift to the heart is always individual, personal in nature, however, there are some recommended rules regarding the choice of New Year's gifts, which are not harmful to listen to.

New Year's gifts are required attribute pleasant holiday chores that increase the anticipation of a holiday miracle and speed up its approach. It is better to start solving the gift problem long (at least a month) before the New Year. The internal attitude that guides our choice is very important: a mandatory annual ritual duty, a tedious and pointless waste of money or a joyful anticipation of a holiday, a rare and very pleasant opportunity to feel like a wizard. We hope that your motives will always be driven by the latter motive.

There is an extensive “classification” of gifts; they can be exclusive, symbolic, comic, useful, collective, associative, locally colorful, etc., including “astrological”.

According to horoscope experts, when choosing a gift you should considerZodiac sign the one for whom it is intended.

So, it is best for Gemini to prepare a gift with humor, which has a special, personal meaning. Scorpios will be happy to receive a gift “from the heart” and will appreciate a talisman gift. Cancers will appreciate practical gifts that will add comfort to their home. Leo people will be pleased with chic gifts, including exquisite jewelry or perfumes. Capricorns will be grateful for a stylish gift and things useful in everyday life. Aquarians will approve of an “avant-garde” or romantic gift. Libra will love gifts that bring aesthetic pleasure. Virgos will appreciate a gift that will give food for thought. It could be a book or a video cassette with a good movie. Taurus is favorable to all gifts, except cheap ones. Aries needs to choose a gift taking into account his latest hobby, and technical innovations that decorate everyday life are also suitable. Sagittarius will be happy with gifts if they come in handy on the road, while traveling, or if they contribute to playing sports. Pisces will be impressed by gifts, both elegant and mystical.

An important feature of New Year's gifts is not to lose the prestige of the all-knowing, generous Santa Claus and to predict the cherished desire of people close to us or to make a gift so magical and unexpected that it will be treated as a small miracle. For a New Year's gift, not only its content is very important, but also appearance, so don’t neglect this huge little thing and don’t put off packing your holiday purchases until the last day. Beautiful gift paper is another touch to the mystery and mystery of the ceremony New Year's greetings. Don’t ignore such cute little things as the color magic of elegant wrapping paper, satin ribbons, packaging spruce branches, address labels, touching notes, and specifically New Year’s dedication messages.

Here are some tips on possible preferences when choosing gifts for your family and friends.

Grandparents will be more suitable for practical gifts that will make their life more comfortable and cozy, crafts that keep the warmth of your hands, or gifts that take into account the hobbies and habits of the recipient. These can also be household appliances - a room heater, an electric kettle or an iron; some clothing - a down scarf, mittens, a jacket or pullover; edible gifts - a can of good tea or coffee, a set of assorted nuts or dried fruits, sweets. Pleasant little things will bring no less joy to older people: a new detective story by a favorite author, an elite collection of seeds for a summer cottage, a long-desired indoor flower, tickets for good performance. The main thing is attention and sincere love.

The best way to bring joy to your loved one is to give something luxurious, a little magical and at the same time desirable. For a more accurate transformation into the role of a sorcerer who fulfills cherished dreams, it is useful to find out in advance about the secret desires of the person being gifted. A woman will certainly appreciate expensive and elegant gifts, those that will highlight her beauty, individuality and other advantages, and will also become an impressive confirmation of your special attitude towards her. Without competition, the list of possible gifts includes jewelry, luxury perfumes, elegant clothes, and branded cosmetics.

Most men value the attention given to them more than the gift itself. And if you consider that many representatives of the strong half of humanity turn out to be quite helpless and dependent on women when purchasing items of clothing and personal items, then they will be especially grateful if you present them, for example, with a fashionable sweater, a stylish shirt, a beautiful and warm scarf, suitable tie for a suit. It is believed that it is easier for men to buy a gift. But this is not entirely true; for this you need to know the desires and habits of your loved one, details from his past life and hobbies. Add to this your imagination, and then you will definitely guess what is best to give.

The New Year brings even adults back to childhood, but children have especially high expectations for wonderful New Year's gifts. And parents are simply obliged not to disappoint their expectations. To make gifts desirable and truly wonderful, remind your children in advance about the opportunity to write a letter to Santa Claus with gift requests. Unobtrusively and delicately advise what is worth asking him, and try to fulfill these requests. It is known that kids crave everything at once, so it is advisable to prepare small but many gifts: toys, sweets, books. Wrap them in separate fancy wrappers and provide extra procedural, playful fun in finding and receiving the gift.

Of course, for colleagues and acquaintances, the choice of gift is less individual. Usually we settle on something from the traditional New Year's list: a desk calendar, an organizer, a photo album, a decorative candle. Here those very sweet, sincere notes can come to the rescue, which indicate how warmly and tenderly you treat to this person. It is especially important not to forget to support those for whom the previous year was not successful in everything, and to express gratitude to those who were with you in difficult moments of life.

For New Year's Eve guests, you can prepare some nice little things: Christmas tree decorations, talismans of the year, a New Year's issue of a fashion magazine, etc.

Please your four-legged pets with a cute little treat - a favorite treat, a new pastime.

Etiquette requires us to learn not only to give gifts, but also to accept them. The main rule that must be learned and followed is to pay attention to each gift. This means that the gift should be unwrapped and examined in the presence of the giver, and then be thanked.

Making New Year's gifts. Ideas

Kaleidoscope

The ancient Romans exchanged gifts and coins with the image of the two-faced Roman god Janus, after whom the first month of the year in the Julian calendar was named. It was believed that one face of Janus is turned to the past year, and the other is directed to the new one.

On the first day of the New Year, the bloody tyrant Caligula liked to stage peculiar performances associated with receiving gifts. A gilded chair was installed in the square, surrounded by bodyguards, sitting in which Caligula opened the ceremony of presenting gifts. Each of them, in front of everyone's eyes, was meticulously examined and entered into special book. This forced subjects, competing among themselves, to fork out generously so as not to fall out of favor.

In the UK, Father Christmas gifts are ordered (literally Father of Christmas). In order for the letter to reach the addressee in a timely manner, you need to make a specific list of what you want and... throw it into the fireplace. The smoke from the chimney will deliver New Year's wishes right to their destination.

In German families, there is a gift exchange ceremony, which even has its own name, Bescherung. At midnight on New Year's Day, the head of the family rings the bell and the gift exchange ceremony begins. Everyone tries to include something sweet in a gift - for good luck.

The educational function of gift distribution exists in Spain and Portugal. January 6 - Three Kings Day, children expect gifts from them. Shoes and stockings have already been specially prepared and displayed for this purpose. But naughty children don’t have to expect gifts. As a sign of their dissatisfaction with the spoiled people, the kings will only stain their faces with coal while they sleep. But this happens very rarely...

On the eve of the holiday, little Chinese hang stockings on the walls, where Dong Che Lao Ren (Grandfather Christmas) puts his Christmas gifts for the children.

In South India, mothers place sweets, flowers, small gifts on a special tray. On New Year's morning, children must wait with their eyes closed until they are led to the tray.

Secrets of giving gifts

No one will dispute the truth that when giving gifts, it is important not only what you give, but also how it all happens. This is especially true for New Year's gifts. Even traditions have developed that take into account the customs of our distant ancestors, the peculiarities of the manifestation of feelings and cheerful mischief. Each family creates and carefully passes on its customs to the younger ones. Here we offer only some recommendations regarding the technical side of this procedure.

Method 1. Most often, New Year's gifts are placed in Santa Claus's magic bag, made from a large pillowcase and decorated with bright New Year's stickers and a large bow. All adults gradually fill the bag with their gifts, on which the future recipient is indicated, but the sender remains incognito. Half an hour (hour) after the striking of the chimes, announcing the official entry into force of the New Year, the doorbell rings. Someone (preferably a child) goes to open it, and on the threshold... lies the treasured bag, which, naturally, only Santa Claus could bring. The process of gradually removing gifts from the bag and presenting them, interspersed with toasts, dancing and games, can take more than one hour. A prerequisite for this pleasant ceremony is the public unwrapping of gifts by the recipient and additional wishes and comments from the donors.

Method 2. In its preliminary part, it coincides with the previous one, but the determination of the recipient of the gift occurs as a result of a special game procedure, which involves establishing his identity by a humorous description, listing “special” signs and “bad” habits.

Method 3. This option is best suited for a large friendly company, where New Year's souvenirs are less personal, but more universal, playful in nature. In this situation, the presentation of gifts can take place according to the rules of a “pig in a poke” auction or be played out as gifts in a fun, win-win lottery.

Method 4. If your senior preschool and junior children are celebrating the New Year with you school age, give them the special joy of finding gifts meant for them. In this case, the pleasure will be longer lasting, and therefore memorable and enjoyable. The game area will be a room specially prepared for this purpose, on the floor of which directional arrows or special marks are laid out in serpentine or confetti for searching for encrypted notes with tasks and instructions for each next stage of the search. Periodically, the children return to the common room where the feast is taking place to “interrogate” another witness from among the adult guests indicated in the note and obtain the necessary information to resume the search. They succeed after paying “compensation” for obtaining valuable information. The means of such payment are New Year's poems, songs, skits, and performing fun creative tasks.

Method 5. It is a variation of the previous one. A search operation is played out using the “Santa Claus card”. On it, a cross marks the places where the forgetful grandfather, who dropped the map, placed New Year's treasures for the household. The special code on the magic card contains the name of the person to whom it will help find the treasures of Santa Claus.

Method 6. IN mid-19th centuries, in large noble families and at children's Christmas trees, they loved to play the game “Transfer”. For this purpose, a gift was prepared for each child, but they were all wrapped in several layers of paper. All the children stood in a circle, someone began to gradually unwrap the gift to the next layer of wrapping paper, where the name of one of those present was indicated. He removed the next layer of packaging and handed over the gift according to the name he read. This went on many times until the gift was in the hands of the one whose name was inscribed on the last wrapper. After some time, the game resumed, and another gift found its owner.

By the way, a similar “matryoshka” principle can be used when packaging gifts. Put a really valuable gift in the smallest box (so as not to give a reason for New Year's disappointment), put it in a larger box, and so on.

Method 7. On a specially decorated “gift tree” there are candies (barrels from kinder surprises, nuts in gilded foil, etc.), to which are attached tags, rolled into a tube, indicating the name of Santa Claus's gifts. And in a special bag there are paper tubes on which are written the creative tasks that the owner of the future gift is required to complete. Each person in turn “pays the forfeit”, and then receives a “reward” chosen by their own hand - a New Year’s gift.

Method 8. Guests will be pleasantly surprised to find their New Year's business card on the decorated Christmas tree. In addition to the surname, as well as the usual titles and details, special information about the owner is placed here: character traits, habits, hobbies, area of ​​dreams. Will intrigue guests even more reverse side cards indicating the coordinates of the placement of a personal gift, the search for which each recipient immediately and with pleasure begins.

Method 9. Gifts can be both personal and family in nature. Based on this principle, you can prepare a thematic group of gifts that reflect the guests’ hobbies or even passion for any activity (and such a gift, as you know, is the most expensive). For example, avid gardeners can be given a small Christmas tree, hung with bags of garden seeds, a subscription to Gardening magazine, and clippings useful tips. And novice (or successful) housewives will find a Christmas tree with a variety of recipes useful. The main difficulty in implementing this method is the lengthy preparatory work, which is subsequently compensated by the gratitude and joy of loved ones and friends.

Method 10. Napoleon's brother Jerome Bonaparte, being the King of Westphalia, introduced the ritual of decorating the Christmas tree with bright, elegant gift letters intended for his favorites. Following this experience, decorate your Christmas tree with beautiful gift letters. These sincere, lovingly written New Year's messages, confessions and wishes will be appreciated.

New Year is a special holiday when not only children, but also adults expect real miracles. To make the celebration memorable for your friends and family for a long time, it is not enough to buy gifts for them, you need to present them in an unusual setting.

How to give an original gift for the New Year 2020? You can present it yourself, dressed up in costumes of New Year's characters, or order a congratulation from Father Frost and the Snow Maiden from an advertising agency.

You can hire professional artists who will congratulate your friends with the voices of famous actors or singers, and present gifts in the costumes of life-size dolls.

An integral component holiday gift is its packaging. Such gifts should be bright and impressive. How to pack a gift for the New Year in an original way?

According to the eastern calendar, this year, which begins on January 25, will be the year of the White Rat. Its colors are white, warm gray, milky, beige, light mustard, and pastel colors.

The element of the coming year is metal, so silver, gold, and various light shades with a metallic tint are also relevant. These colors should be used when decorating gifts, which can be decorated with bows, ribbons and beads in matching tones.

Also great importance also has the environment in which they are given. How to give an original gift for the 2020 New Year?

If the gifts are intended for several people, then you can hang cardboard bananas with specific numbers and wishes on the tree, and put gifts with corresponding numbers under the tree.

The hostess of the holiday, the Rat, will take turns taking her gifts from under the tree and handing out her gifts to those present. Another option is to arrange fun competition or a quiz with a prize draw.

But let's get back to how you can pack a gift for the New Year in an original way? If you want to amuse the people for whom the gift is intended, you can use a large number of packaging material.

Arrange in advance with several guests invited to the holiday so that they pack their gifts carefully: put small boxes in large ones, use a large amount of packaging material, ribbons, bows, etc. Such gifts will cause a lot of laughter and will cheer up your friends and family.

How else can you present gifts in an original way for the 2020 New Year? The process of congratulations can be turned into a real festive event that will be remembered by your friends and family for a long time.

For example, a gift can be given unexpectedly, sent by courier, or left somewhere so that the person for whom it is intended finds it himself. Don't forget to package your gift beautifully and accompany it with a greeting card.

On the threshold again New Year, and again parents are concerned about WHAT and HOW to please their baby. After all, this is an extraordinary holiday, all woven from magic, fairy tales, special beauty and the expectation of a miracle. Therefore, the main thing in a New Year's gift for a child is not even what exactly is given, and how this gift was presented.

Packaging is the highlight of the program

It is advisable that they be packaged in a special New Year's way - not at all as if the same thing had been given, for example, for a birthday.

It is known that in the USA the main attention is paid not to the gift itself, but to its packaging - boxes, baskets, cases and bags. The process of unmasking a gift is reminiscent of a riddle about cabbage, and this, in turn, piques the baby’s interest. And here parents must show creativity and imagination: this year’s packaging should not be similar to last year’s.

New Year's gift - personally from Santa Claus

Even if the child is already old, the fairy tale about Santa Claus can be continued, only in a different key and tone, as for adults. This means that a gift either appears in a certain place (in most families - under the tree), but some have their own favorite “Santa Claus places”. It might be worth coming up with something like this, but the child, of course, should know in advance where to look.

There is also such advice: do not put all the gifts under the tree, but extend the pleasure: hide gifts throughout the house (under the pillow, in shoes, mittens, etc.). Or give the child a “treasure map” - let him look for it.

How else can you give your child a gift for the New Year? In Europe, there is a beautiful custom of placing children's shoes on or near the threshold in order to hide some of the gifts there.

Or you can do this: prepare several empty matchboxes and beautiful wrapping paper in advance. Put small notes in the boxes for the child with various easy tasks that he must complete in order to receive a gift. Notes can send him to different corners of the apartment, where surprise “finds”, hidden in advance, await him. In the end, this long puzzle will be solved, and after traveling around his own home, the child will find a gift.

It is better if you ask the children to wait until the morning. If they, like adults, stay up late on New Year's Eve, give them some sweets or the smallest of gifts after the clock strikes. But Main Gift the baby must find it in the morning.

Santa Claus Mail

A surprise telegram is also a great way to surprise children. Take a real telegram form from the post office and write a congratulation from Santa Claus on it. The telegram must be convincing and “real”, addressed specifically to your child. For example: “Dear Andryusha! Sorry that I didn't get to see you. I came in at night and didn't want to wake you up. Happy New Year, hello to dad and mom. Look behind the closet in the hallway. Your Santa Claus." Such a telegram can be discovered “by accident” when someone goes to pick up a newspaper.

You can also ask someone you know to call you in the morning and, introducing himself as a postal worker, call the child to the phone and tell him that a telegram addressed to him is in the mailbox. The gift should already be waiting for its owner in the closet. In the apartment you can lay out several “material evidence” that there was a night guest here. This could be a mitten that does not belong to any family member or a greeting card to everyone in the family.

Secret door

By the time the child wakes up, the door to one of the rooms should be closed. You need to hang a note on the door, in which you should write that the right to be the first to enter the room and distribute gifts to everyone is given to the smallest member of the family. But this should happen only when he gets up, washes his face, brushes his teeth, puts on festive clothes and gathers everyone at home together.

In the “secret” room, place beautifully wrapped gifts with the names of the recipients. Don’t forget about decorating the room itself: on New Year’s Eve, something in it should change at least a little. When distributing gifts, the youngest in the family should, of course, “command the parade.”

A cherished wish with an element of surprise

Even if the child’s wishes were taken into account when purchasing a gift (which is good and desirable), it is much better if the gift does not contain exactly what he saw yesterday in the nearest store. It would be nice to exceed the child’s expectations at least a little. It's not easy, but it's worth trying!

And to avoid the problem: “he/she already has everything!”, it is best to buy serious gifts several times a year: for a birthday, for New Year's celebration, some other important dates for the family. These gifts should be planned thoughtfully and well in advance. And don’t surprise yourself by buying something that no one needs. Maybe it’s worth buying fewer gifts between holidays, especially toys - children quickly get bored with them.

Finding out what a child would like to receive for the New Year is quite simple. And with big ones, and even more so with small ones, Santa Claus is usually taken as an interpreter. Either they write him a letter - as is now customary, or they simply discuss what they expect from Grandfather as a gift. Also, probably, every family has its own style of such conversation. Well, in others they don’t find out anything - surprise, surprise!

Create a festive atmosphere in advance

For every child (and for most adults too), the anticipation of a holiday is something more magical and wonderful than the holiday itself. Therefore, try to create a festive New Year's atmosphere in your house ten days before its onset.

We have already written about. You can also decorate your home by making a magic tree with your child. Hang candies, nuts, and garlands on dry twigs, fastened together and “planted” in a vase or bucket, wrapped in foil. Here, by the way, the child can leave notes hinting what he wants to receive for the New Year.

How not to ruin the holiday

Think through the details in advance so that you don’t accidentally ruin the New Year’s celebration for your child. Where will the gift be stored? the right moment how it gets there, how to put it under the tree (or in a chosen place) or give it to Santa Claus. These little things, if they are not thought out (and it would seem that this is all self-evident) - can sometimes ruin a child’s holiday and the mood of everyone else.

Well, if there are several children, how can you be sure that the children will receive exactly their gifts (many cases have been described when the younger one takes a gift for the older one - and there are also tears and problems). So It is best to make the name of the owner of the gift an element of its design .

If you hang New Year's boots, shoes or socks on the tree in which you put gifts, it is advisable to equip each boot with an inscription with the name of the person for whom it is intended (children, parents, guests), so that it is easy and fun for everyone to find their New Year's gifts. Boots can be made from beautiful paper, for example, from colorful gift wrapping paper, which is sold in stores. Or you can, spending a little more time, sew completely unique handmade boots from scraps of fabric available at home.

And may this New Year be as magical as ever in your family!

Large photo: tesco magazine

Note to moms:

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Most people, when buying a New Year's gift for friends and family, give it to them just like that. And usually this is accompanied by words such as: - “Happy New Year!” Or - “With new happiness!”
Trite? Yes, it's corny. So what to do? How to find a way out of the situation? How to give an original gift for the New Year? This is the question we will try to answer for you right now. Read the article and you can choose any of the options offered. And believe me, it won’t be trivial and your guests will definitely like it.

1 way.
To warm up, we will describe to you a method that everyone already knows. This is an option with notes or riddles. That is, you hide your gift in some place. And you come up with riddles that you write on notes. Give the very first note to the guest. He reads it and must guess the answer. The answer is where the second note is. There he finds a second note and solves another riddle. And again he finds a note there. You can come up with any number of riddles this way, but it’s better to limit yourself to five or seven. And after them there is a note with a riddle where the gift itself lies.
This option is more suitable for children and teenagers. But adults also enjoy playing this game. Especially if the gifts and riddles are interesting, and the company is already tipsy.

Method 2.
Sing a song! Everyone knows the famous New Year's song "If you don't have an aunt." It is performed in the wonderful comedy “The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath.” We remade this song in our own way and we got these lines:

And after this song you can give either a gift certificate or money. But it’s still better to get a certificate, for example, to a clothing or jewelry shopping center. It’s somehow not customary to give money to friends for the New Year, and all this is not appropriate.

3 way.
Organize a spontaneous performance! Everything is simpler here than you think. You buy gifts. Then you need something like a black box. And you will also have to find a magician or wizard costume. Well, or at worst just some kind of costume. You put all the gifts in your black box. Go out with him and put the box on the chair. Here you can show a trick if you know how. Or put on another show. And then you call your first guest and ask him to sing, dance, tell a poem or an anecdote. In general, as in kindergarten- until he does something to please the magician (Santa Claus), he will not receive a gift.
Here, of course, instead of a magician’s costume, you can wear a Santa Claus costume, but this topic is already hackneyed, although it is relevant every year.
Therefore, if you do not want a magician and Santa Claus, then the costume of the symbol of the coming year will suit you. Here you will definitely please everyone.