Christmas gifts for children

On the eve of the New Year, the feeling of a miracle that is about to happen, captures even adults, and what can we say about the children! After all, for them, Santa Claus is a wizard who, of course, is in fact, lives somewhere far in the North, and on New Year's Eve always comes on deer and brings exactly what it was and what so wanted to get.

Belief in a fairy tale and a miracle has a very beneficial effect on the development of children, stimulates their imagination, forms the most kind and positive qualities of a human character. How to choose a New Year's gift for the baby and how interesting it is to present it so that the fairy tale he is waiting for will surely occur, we will tell in this article.

The most difficult thing is not to even buy a gift, but to find out exactly what the child wants to see under the tree. The stupidest thing adults can do in this situation is simply and directly ask the child what he wants as a gift. Such tactics will quickly destroy faith in Santa Claus, and as soon as the little tot learns to carry out cause-effect relationships, the fairy tale will no longer exist for him.

A great way is a letter to Santa Claus. Bearded wizard children sit down to write in advance. LDo it better on December 1st. Mom has time to prepare for a surprise, and for children after sending the cherished messages begins a very difficult and exciting waiting period - “will bring - will not bring? ".

Everybody writes, both big children and small ones who still do not know how to write. This kid can be explained that the wizard can draw the desired gift. Do not forget to check with the crumbs, which will bring a picture boasting what exactly he painted. So you will know exactly what your baby dreams. With older children, things are somewhat more complicated.

They are unlikely to carry letters to their parents for show, because they themselves are very interested to find out if Santa Claus is real, and if it was not his father in a cotton beard that brought a bag of candy a year ago. There are suspicions, which means that mom and dad have to be extremely careful.

Parents can ask their children to seal the envelope without showing them a letter, and then, on the way to the kindergarten or school, deliver them to the nearest post office. There in December, workers are usually ready for such clients. They take envelopes from children's hands, businessfully slap the seal (according to the stories, they even took 23 rubles for the brand from one father!), And say goodbye to the little ones.

Needless to say that the letter can expect a very unpleasant surprise! For example, the son unexpectedly asked Frost for a live dog “big and shaggy”, or a 6-year-old daughter really needed an “iPhone of the latest model”. To make such surprises less, you should prepare your child to write a letter in advance.

Discuss the preparation for the New Year more often (even if it is still three months old), and at the same time make sure you “direct” the baby the idea of ​​a gift (“Look, what a beautiful teddy bear, it would be great if you had one!” “Look at what an interesting children's tablet went on sale at this store, but I can't buy it, it's expensive, only Santa Claus can help, he is a magician!”).

With a probability of 99%, the child will indicate in his letter exactly what you so often unobtrusively “pushed” him to. But you still need to read the message!

Children's New Year's gifts, ideally, should be fun and beneficial for the child, no matter how old he is. Let's consider the best ideas of the New Year's presentation:

• Sweet gifts. This is a New Year's classic, and you should not refuse it if your baby does not have medical contraindications to eating sweets. Every child at any age is pleased to find bags of candy under the Christmas tree. Now sweets are sold in a variety of sets, stylized under the plots of winter fairy tales, under chests and little bags.

• Toys These are also classic New Year's gifts, which can also be presented to children. Stuffed toys, dolls for girls and cars for boys are an excellent gift if the donor does not break the age limit, because a simple machine that will delight a boy at 2 years old can be boring for a child at 5 years old. Here you need to be well versed in the age purpose of the toy;

• Sports. This is a great gift idea. However, the bike, given to a child, whose family lives in a cramped apartment, where there is no place to ride it, will bring less joy than a sled, on which he will be able to ride downhill on the same day. Older children will like such equipment for winter fun as snowboarding, skiing or skating;

• Gadgets. Children always want to be more mature, and adolescents - just to be on the crest of fashion, and therefore modern gifts, such as gadgets, will bring great pleasure to their sons and daughters. A child from 3-4 years to 12 years can pick up a children's developmental tablet, while a teenager will be happy with a new mobile phone or tablet;

• Developmental. It can be cubes for the baby, and a magnetic designer for older children, and logic games, sets, and objects for creativity. A large selection of "development" offers brand Bondibon;

• Other ideas. Children from 1 year old will be delighted with interactive toys, bizyboordy with a mass of interesting objects, to which the vigilant adults can never get to. For children of 3 years old, the toy should not only be interactive and musical (which will fully satisfy the needs of the little year old, but it will be of little interest to a three-year-old child who needs more and more new impressions).

If the family budget does not allow spending too much on gifts, you should go shopping in advance, at least three weeks before the holiday. The choice at this time in the shops is still there, and quite large, and the prices have not yet managed to take off, as it happens a week before the chimes. In addition, there are pre-holiday discounts.

A beautiful cup for a child with the image of the characters of his favorite cartoon, a T-shirt, a small lamp, a night light in the nursery can be attributed to the category of inexpensive ideas to translate ideas. The child will enjoy cozy pajamas and a nice bath towel, as well as a set of bed linen with his favorite movie characters or funny cat-puppies.

All children like to draw, sculpt, make applications, and therefore you can assemble a set for creativity, which will include an album, plasticine, watercolor paints, and colored pencils. Cheap and angry!

If the budget is very limited, you can buy a set of balloons in the pump to inflate them. The task will cope even baby. For affordable gifts include soap bubbles and various devices for blowing them, board games, books.

Age features and interests must be taken into account when choosing a present. A large teddy bear is unlikely to come in handy in the near future, no matter how beautiful it is, and a teenager would hardly be happy with a table lotto if he so dreamed of a new smartphone.

Most often, children up to 1.5 years old are presented with cubes, rolling toys, interactive musical toys. Children from 2 to 5 years old - developing children's toy tablets, dolls and cars, constructors, children after 5 years - radio control equipment, books, developing designers, puzzles, kits for creativity.

The preschooler will like one of the robots, for example, a robot puppy or a robot that can dance. An excellent gift can be an interactive friend who needs to be trained, taken care of him, for such a character you can include a cheerful and bright Ferbey.

The student should choose a gift according to his hobbies. One desired present will be a telescope for studying the starry sky, another - a drawing electronic tablet, the third - gadgets.

Children from birth to 3 years is better not to give sweet gifts, because they do not yet have teeth, and then, after their eruption, there is no sense of proportion, and the crumb can eat sweets.

At the age of 3 years, the desire to learn the world grows many times, and sometimes it is more than the peanut. Here are suitable designers and kits that develop perseverance and promote creativity. As well as gifts that will benefit physical development - home sports corners, balls, skates, sleds, ice-boats.

Preschoolers demonstrate excellent learning abilities, they can safely be trusted with children's development learning tablet. Also at this age a great and colorful children's encyclopedia on any topic of interest to the child (space, underwater world, dinosaurs, cars, fairies and wizards, etc.) will be perfectly perceived.

Children over the age of 12 should be considered as adults, and therefore the selection of a gift for a teenager - the task is as individual as the child himself is. One will dream of skiing, the other about a laptop. But all adolescents without exception want to be fashionable, it makes them more mature in the eyes of their peers. Therefore, before choosing a gift, it is best to gently inquire about what is popular among your child’s communication environment.

Everyone knows that the price tag from the gift should be removed. But here's how important the idea of ​​gift wrapping, few realize. For an adult, a bright box or original bags is only an insignificant detail of the main thing - the gift itself. For a child, everything matters - the bag, the ribbon on the box, and the drawing on the bag.

It is advisable for children to choose boxes and bags with a Christmas theme, this will create an additional festive mood. It would be nice to put a small response message from Santa Claus in the box, in which he indicates that he was pleased to receive a letter from Vanya (Kohl, Masha), and that he is proud of the achievements and behavior of the child, and therefore he is happy to fulfill his New Year a wish.

If the family has needlewomen and craftsmen, you can make a gift with your own hands. For example, bizybord - a board on which dad can nail and glue bolts, locks, buttons and sockets. The girl can come to the delight of a set of dresses for her favorite doll, which the mother will sew with her own hands, but will be presented exclusively by Santa Claus.

How to make a bizybord with your own hands, see more in the video below.

Among the things you can do as a gift with your own hands, you can note photo albums, backpacks, soft toys, and sweets.

This is another very difficult question for most parents, which can only be compared with the task of finding out the child’s desires.The fabulous atmosphere of the New Year does not provide for platitudes, and therefore just to give the child a purchased gift and declare that “Santa Claus asked to be conveyed” is a bad idea. The more inventive adults are, the brighter and more interesting for the child will be the holiday tale created.

The gift can be put under the Christmas tree on New Year's Eve, when the child is already sleeping, so that the first thing he could find in the morning was a long-awaited toy. But twice as much joy, if it will be handed by the gray-bearded wizard himself, who will come to your house and congratulate the baby. In this case, you should not wear a cotton beard and a red robe to someone from the relatives whom the child knows, it is best to ask to help a neighbor, acquaintances, colleagues or use the services of an animator.

If the child is already old enough, then he will take great pleasure in playing the quest, the main prize in which will be a long-awaited gift. Quest can be planned with the help of experienced professionals - organizers of leisure, but you can invent and implement on their own.

For example, in the morning, under the tree, the child will find only an empty gift box, and there is a note in it that the gift itself was stolen by pirates (robbers, gnomes, trolls, evil elves, "bad" transformers, Decepticons), anyone, just imbued with the spirit of adventure. Well, if you look for gifts on hidden notes or mysterious signs there will be several children, for this you can invite friends with their sons-daughters to visit.

This will immediately turn a little quest into a big adventure of a group of friends. A company, by the way, can be quite uneven, because both teenagers and adults like to search for and solve puzzles. If the child is alone, and there is no one to call for a visit, parents can play along with him, and take part in the search with him, pretending that their gifts are also gone.

Parents will need prior training - thinking through the game scenario, placing caches and notes. Quest, which goes beyond the apartment (in the courtyard, in the entrance), adds thrills, and children are happy to rush along the route and perform tasks, overcoming stages. It is only important in the process of creating caches to avoid places that may pose a danger to children.

See the video below for details.

Quests should be focused on a certain age .. Children in 6-7 years will be interested in a game based on the themes of “Masha and the Bear”, “Smeshariki”, “Plants against zombies”, “The Snow Queen”, “Trolls”. Adolescents and middle school students will love the game based on "The Vampire Diaries", "Pirates of the Caribbean" and any other film or book that is popular with this age.