Christmas Packages

Christmas is a favorite holiday for my family. I love wrapping gifts and displaying them under the tree several weeks before Christmas. But I have curious kids so I never put a card on the gifts. Instead, I make up a “code” for each child and write it on the bottom of the box. The same code never gets repeated and the kids never know which gifts are theirs. They sit around the tree together and use their best deductive reasoning to “crack the code.” I may answer “yes” or “no” but the idea is that they don’t figure out the code until Christmas Eve or else they start deducing what’s in the box!

Example: One year the code was the first letter of each of their birthstones. Elizabeth's was "A" for Amethyst, Emily was "S" for Sapphire, Luke was "E" for Emerald, and Lee was "R" for Ruby. (But every year I have to come up with a tougher code because they keep getting smarter at deducing the code!)