I liked this so much that I've saved it for ideas for next year. Thanks, Deb.Wish more would follow her example. My son's dad
would make sure he had some nice things for birthday and Christmas, but I always got creative about it. We did scavenger hunts, hid things in various places and left him clues to find em. This was also helpful for things like the pogo stick that was hard to wrap to where he wouldn't know what it was immediately. lol We've wrapped things up and put the wrong names on them on purpose....put things like dried beans in the boxes, so when they shake em they're totally confused. Wrapped small things in 5 or 6 increasingly larger boxes, each of them gift wrapped etc. There are tons of ways to make it so much fun they don't pay as much attn to how much they received. They could be happy with a coloring book if you make getting to it enough fun.