Christmas Present

northwest1965

We have bought my partners daughter gig tickets for Christmas (she is 12). Rather than just put them in an envelope, I want to do something different. Any ideas?? (Basically make the present opening a little bit longer!)

Oldernotwiser

northwest1965 wrote: »

We have bought my partners daughter gig tickets for Christmas (she is 12). Rather than just put them in an envelope, I want to do something different. Any ideas?? (Basically make the present opening a little bit longer!)

As long as you're sure that she'll be really thrilled you could put the envelope in a series of ever smaller boxes that she has to open. (Rather like Pass the Parcel.)

esio_trot

I'd second the above idea, though you could do what my dad used to (and still does to an extent - hes a bit cruel!) and really tape it up. i.e. make sure every edge is well sealed with selotape - used to drive us mad as kids and now gives us a bit of a giggle as adults!

it'll certainly lengthen the opening process if you do it right!:p

northwest1965

Yeah & I suppose I could put clues in each box/envelope

Becles

Buy a CD of the band, and put the tickets inside the CD case.

mandragora_2

Disguise it so it looks like a 'boring' present - a jumper, a book, or, as said above, a cd case. Then up to you to use your imagination - when we did a surprise visit to France for my parents, I created a package which unwrapped stage by stage to reveal a series of clues - a Paris A-Z, a postcard, a recipe for our favourite French dish, but didn't include the tickets in the pack. My mum (who was staying with us at the time) than had to try to work out what we were giving her from the clues. Fun, because it was a total surprise for her!

sneezyboots

when i was younger my aunty bought me concert tickets. she got a box big enough to fit a person in, placed the tickets in a small box which she sellotaped to the bottom and then filled the box with loads of random boxes wrapped up (so i would have to open them all to find the tickets) and loads of potatoes wrapped up (to make it heavier) and loads of newspaper. It took me ages to get to the bottom and my whole family found it quite hilarious.

spikeage

I bought one of these last year to put money in for a teenage boy, it took him a while to open

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There are often money off codes kicking around for Firebox in the discount codes and vouchers forum.

sarymclary

I did this a couple of years back. I did the box in a box in a box thing, and also put little treats in along the way, so lots of chocolates and small treats along the way, along with little notes like 'are you bored yet?', 'ooh, what can it be?', etc. I then made a gold 'Wonka Ticket' that was in the last box, with the tickets in an envelope inside, which promised a wonderful night of entertainment for their delectation! I like the idea of clues too. Just save loads of boxes between now and Christmas, especially if you're ordering other stuff online. I've been saving boxes since August. My boys know that no parcel will ever look like the item inside, because one year I noticed they were calculating what was inside the gifts and deciding what to open on that basis. Now all their CDs, DVDs or video games look more like a packet of socks or a jumper, or a medium sized box. It's also a good idea if their gifts are quite small, as everyone finds a large gift impressive! One year I packed an Xbox inside a box big enough to fit 3 children (they played in the box for a week after), to fool my eldest, that I'd used as a packing box when we moved house.

mountainofdebt

Why not make a scrap book of press clippings about the band and on the last page have the tickets in those photocgraph corner thingings?.....and get the camera ready to record her face when she sees the tickets?

Dormouse

A friend bought a big inflatable snowman from a pound shop, and sellotaped the small gift to his hands. Then she wrapped the enormous snowman, so there was no way to guess what was inside!