My daughter was one of those that wanted to get up at the crack of dawn to open Christmas presents. I got an old Santa hat and, each year, I would leave it on the pillow next to her head. When she woke up and the hat was there, she knew that Santa had been there. If she woke and there was no hat, Santa was not there yet. I always explained that Santa must have lost his hat when he stopped to kiss her good bye. After Christmas, we made a big deal of pretending to mail the hat back to the North Pole for next year. This worked great for years.
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What a cute idea! Thanks for sharing this! I hope others will adopt this idea for future Christmases with their children. As a kid, I would have been enchanted if my parents had thought of this!
This is a great idea. You could carry it one step further and put some stocking stuffers in the hat to keep the child busy for a little while, and let the parents catch a bit more sleep. :)
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