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 children! After all, for them Santa Claus is a wizard who, of course, is in fact, he lives somewhere far in the North, and on New Year's Eve he always comes on reindeer and brings under a decorated Christmas tree in a beautiful box exactly what they dreamed of and what I wanted so much.
Belief in a fairy tale and a miracle has a very beneficial effect on the development of children, stimulates their imagination, forms the kindest and most positive qualities of a human character. How to choose a New Year's gift for a kid and how interesting it is to present it, so that the fairy tale that he is waiting for will surely happen, we will tell in this article.
How to find out about a desired gift?
The most difficult thing is not even to buy a gift, but to find out what exactly the child wants to see under the tree. The stupidest thing that adults can do in this situation is to simply and directly ask the child what he wants as a gift. Such tactics will rather quickly destroy faith in Santa Claus, and as soon as the little one learns to make causal relationships, the fairy tale will cease to exist for him.
A great way is to write a letter to Santa Claus. Children sit down to write in advance to the bearded wizard. Lit is better to do this on December 1st. Mom has time to prepare a surprise, and after sending the cherished messages for the children, a very difficult and exciting waiting period begins - “will it bring - will it not? ".
Now it is easy to buy a special form for writing, bright, colorful, the filling of which in itself will really please the child. The form can be downloaded on the Internet and printed, or you can take a regular sheet of paper and ask the child to independently issue a message to Veliky Ustyug.
Everyone writes - both big children and small ones who still cannot write. Such a kid can be explained that a wizard can draw a desired gift. Do not forget to check with the crumbs, who will boast of the drawing, what exactly he drew. So you will know exactly what the baby is dreaming of. With older children, everything is somewhat more complicated.
They are unlikely to carry letters to their parents for show, because they themselves are very interested to find out whether Santa Claus is real, and whether it was daddy in a cotton beard who brought a bag of sweets a year ago. There are suspicions, which means that mom and dad need to be extremely careful.
Parents can ask their children to seal the envelope without showing them the letter, and then, on the way to kindergarten or school, bring them to the nearest post office. There, in December, workers are usually ready for such clients. They take envelopes from children's hands, busily slap the seal (according to stories, they even took 23 rubles per stamp from one dad!), And say goodbye to the kids.
In the evening of the same day, parents can call in at the post office and pick up these letters, so that in silence and solitude they can calmly familiarize themselves with all the desires of their children and start preparing.
Needless to say, a very unpleasant surprise can be expected in the letter! For example, a son suddenly asked Moroz for a live dog "big and shaggy", or his daughter, at the age of 6, really needed an "iPhone of the latest model." To reduce such surprises, the child should be prepared to write a letter in advance.
Discuss preparations for the New Year more often (even if there are three months before it), and at the same time be sure to "lead" the baby to the idea of a gift ("Look, what a beautiful teddy bear, it would be great if you had one!" "Look, what an interesting children's tablet appeared on sale in this store, but I can't buy it, it's expensive, only Santa Claus can help, he's a wizard!").
With a 99% probability, the child will indicate in his letter exactly what you so often unobtrusively “pushed” him to. But you should definitely read the message!
Kinds
Children's New Year's gifts, ideally, should be enjoyable and beneficial for the child, no matter how old he is. Let's take a look at the best New Year's presentation ideas:
- Sweet gifts. This is a New Year's classic, and you should not give it up if the baby has no medical contraindications for eating sweets. Every child at any age is pleased to find a bag of sweets under the tree. Now sweets are sold in a variety of sets, stylized as plots of winter fairy tales, as chests and bags.
The only drawback is that as soon as the gift is eaten, there will be nothing left but the box. Therefore, it is better to combine sweets with something else, inedible, but long-lasting;
- Toys. These are also classic New Year's gifts that can also be presented to children. Soft toys, dolls for girls and cars for boys are a great present if the donor does not violate 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 idea for a useful gift. However, a bicycle donated to a child whose family lives in a cramped apartment where there is nowhere to ride it will bring less joy than a sled, on which he can ride down the hill on the same day. Older children will love winter fun equipment such as snowboarding, skis or skates;
- Gadgets. Children always want to be more mature, and teenagers just want to be at the forefront of fashion, and therefore modern gifts, which are gadgets, will bring great pleasure to sons and daughters. For a child from 3-4 years old to 12 years old, you can pick up a children's developmental tablet, and a teenager will be happy with a new mobile phone or tablet;
- Developing. It can be cubes for a kid, and a magnetic constructor for older children, and logic games, sets, and items for creativity. The Bondibon trademark offers a large selection of "development projects";
- More ideas. Children from 1 year old will be delighted with interactive toys, business boards with a lot of interesting objects, which vigilant adults cannot get to. For children from 3 years old, the toy should be not only interactive and musical (which will fully satisfy the needs of a one-year-old, but will be of little interest to a three-year-old child, who needs more and more new experiences).
Inexpensive Gift Ideas
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. There is still a choice in stores at this time, and quite large, and prices have not yet had time to skyrocket, 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 heroes of his favorite cartoon, a T-shirt, a small lamp-night light in the nursery can be classified as inexpensive to implement ideas. The child will love cozy pajamas and a cute 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 appliques, and therefore you can assemble a set for creativity, which will include an album, plasticine, watercolors, colored pencils. Cheap and cheerful!
If the budget is very limited, you can buy a set of balloons with a pump to inflate them... Even a kid can handle the task. Gifts available at a cost include soap bubbles and various devices for blowing them, board games, and books.
Age
Age characteristics and interests must be considered when choosing a presentation. A big teddy bear, no matter how beautiful it may be, is unlikely to come in handy for a baby in the near future, and a teenager is unlikely to be happy with a table lotto if he so dreamed of a new smartphone.
Most often, babies under 1.5 years old are presented with cubes, rolling toys, interactive musical toys. Children from 2 to 5 years old - educational children's toy tablets, dolls and cars, constructors, children after 5 years - radio-controlled equipment, books, educational constructors, puzzles, sets for creativity.
A preschooler will love 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, caring for him, such a character can be attributed to the cheerful and bright Furby.
The student should choose a gift taking into account his hobbies. A telescope for studying the starry sky will become a welcome present for one, an electronic drawing tablet for another, and gadgets for the third.
Age features
It is better not to give sweet gifts to children from birth to 3 years old, because they do not yet have teeth, and then, after their teething, there is no sense of proportion, and the baby can overeat sweets.
It is advisable for young children to choose entertaining toys that have simple developmental capabilities.
At the age of 3 years, the craving for knowledge of the world grows at times, and sometimes it is more than the little one himself. Here, constructors and kits are suitable, which develop perseverance and promote creativity. As well as gifts that will benefit physical development - home sports corners, balls, skates, sledges, ice skates.
Preschoolers demonstrate excellent learning abilities, they can be safely entrusted with a children's developmental educational tablet. Also at this age, a large and colorful children's encyclopedia on some topic of interest to the child (space, underwater world, dinosaurs, cars, fairies and wizards, and so on) will be perfectly perceived.
Children over 12 years old 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 about skiing, the other about a laptop. But all teenagers, without exception, want to be fashionable, this makes them more mature in the eyes of their peers. Therefore, before choosing a gift, it is better to unobtrusively ask about what is popular in your child's communication environment.
Packaging
Everyone knows that the price tag should be removed from the gift. But just how important the idea of gift wrapping is, few guess. For an adult, a bright box or original bags are just a minor detail to the main thing - the gift itself. For the child, everything matters - the bag, the ribbon on the box, and the drawing on the bag.
If you do not have experience in self-packing, you can use the services of specialists; there are such stands and departments in almost every shopping center.
It is advisable for children to choose boxes and bags with a New Year theme, this will create an additional festive mood. It would be nice to put a small response message from Santa Claus into the box, in which he will indicate that he was pleased to receive a letter from Vanya (Kolya, Masha), and that he is proud of the child's achievements and behavior, and therefore he is happy to fulfill his New Year's a wish.
How to do it yourself?
If the family has needlewomen and craftsmen, you can make a gift with your own hands. For example, a business board is a board on which dad can nail and glue latches, locks, buttons and sockets. A girl may be delighted with a set of dresses for her favorite doll, which her mother will sew with her own hands, but only Santa Claus will present.
How to make a do-it-yourself business board, see the video below for more details.
Among the things that can be made as a gift with your own hands, you can mention photo albums, backpacks, soft toys, and sweets.
How to present a gift?
This is another very difficult question for most parents, which can only be compared with the task of clarifying the wishes of the child. The fabulous atmosphere of the New Year does not provide for platitudes at all, and therefore it is a bad idea to simply hand over the purchased present to the child and declare that “Santa Claus asked to give it”. The more inventive the adults are, the brighter and more interesting the created festive fairy tale will be for the child.
A gift can be put under the tree on New Year's Eve, when the child is already asleep, so that the first thing he could find in the morning is the long-awaited toy. But twice as much joy if it is handed over by the gray-bearded wizard himself, who will come to your house and congratulate the baby. At the same time, you should not put on a wadded beard and a red robe on one of 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 enjoy playing the quest, the main prize in which will be a long-awaited gift. The quest can be planned with the help of experienced professionals - leisure organizers, or you can come up with and implement it yourself.
For example, in the morning, under the tree, a child will find only an empty gift box, and in it a note that the gift itself was stolen by pirates (robbers, gnomes, trolls, evil elves, "bad" transformers-Decepticons), anyone, if only a child imbued with the spirit of adventure... Well, if you look for gifts by hidden notes or mysterious signs, there will be several children, for this you can invite friends with their sons-daughters.
This will immediately turn a small quest into a big adventure for a group of friends. The company, by the way, can be quite different in age, because both adolescents and adults like to do searches and solving puzzles. If the child is alone and there is no one to invite to visit, the parents can play along with him and take part in the search with him, pretending that their gifts were also gone.
Parents will need preliminary preparation - thinking over the game scenario, placing caches and notes. The quest that goes outside the apartment (into the yard, into the entrance) adds a thrill to the sensations, and the children are happy to rush along the route and complete tasks, overcoming the stages. It is only important in the process of creating hiding places to avoid places that may pose a danger to children.
See the video below for more details.
Quests should be age-oriented .. Children aged 6-7 years will be interested in a game based on "Masha and the Bear", "Smeshariki", "Plants against zombies", "Snow Queen", "Trolls". Teenagers and middle school students will love the game based on The Vampire Diaries, Pirates of the Caribbean, and any other movie or book that is popular at that age.
