My daughter is six. When I was bringing the Christmas items down from the attic after Thanksgiving, she saw all of the wrapping paper and asked, “How come Santa Claus uses the same wrapping paper that we do?”
I was about 6 years old when it dawned on me that my Mom and Santa had the exact same penmanship. I never said anything and thanked my parents for everything.
You don’t have to explain Santa to children, they figure it out soon enough. In my case, I played the game as long as they wanted to. :^)
Lol. That’s how I found out too.
My daughter gets presents with different wrapping paper now because of this!
My mom told me when I asked that question that she had to provide the wrapping paper for Santa. I believed her, but when I found the scraps of fabric in a bag from the doll clothes she made for my Barbie that I had gotten from Santa, the jig was up. I think that was fourth grade.
Yesterday my daughter who has a son who is 2 suddenly asked me why did I wrap the “Santa presents”. I really had no answer for her. I sort of remembered my own presents as a kid not being wrapped but as I told her I really only remember one Christmas clearly - the one when I got the beautiful doll I wanted so much.
Oh yeah and I also remember the time when my mom said “this year we’re leaving Santa a beer! “