In most families, it is customary to place New Year's gifts under the tree or give them directly to people. What if you try other options for delivering long-awaited presents? We are sure that they will be no less exciting and will be remembered by your guests for a long time.
Ancient game
A century ago, noble families had a wonderful tradition of presenting gifts to guests and relatives in a special way for the New Year. This tradition consisted of the following. A gift was prepared for each of the guests invited to the holiday. Then, at the beginning of the 20th century, just as now, people tried to choose unusual New Year's gifts to please loved ones and tell about their warm feelings for them. Each gift was wrapped in a bright, beautiful package, and the name of the guest for whom the New Year's souvenir was intended was written on it. The gift was wrapped on top with several more layers of bright wrapping paper and on each layer the names of the other guests of the upcoming celebration were written.
The guests were seated in a circle, and the long-awaited moment of presentation arrived! They chose any holiday box and presented it to the guest whose name was written on the package. He began to remove the top layer of wrapping paper and found another layer there, but with a different name, so the New Year's gift was passed on to the next participant in the holiday. And this continued until the gift found its real recipient. This kind of game brought special joy and fun to the New Year's celebrations. This tradition will be quite appropriate in our time.
Business cards for guests
You can also use other ideas. For example, choose interesting gifts for the New Year, buy them in advance and hide them well. Then hang business cards on the beautiful Christmas tree, prepared for each of the guests of the New Year's entertainment. Business cards must include the person’s name, description, and credentials, real or fictitious. On the back of the business card, describe the place where the recipient can find the gift intended for him. Such surprises are remembered for a long time and always bring great pleasure.
How to give gifts to colleagues correctly?
The tradition of giving gifts is also part of the culture of business relations. Methods of presentation and business gifts themselves for the New Year should be kept within the framework of work etiquette, which will help to avoid misunderstandings. When choosing gifts for your colleagues and business partners, you should remember that business New Year gifts can only be inexpensive. This is the first and most important rule, otherwise your colleagues or partners may find themselves in an awkward position. Business etiquette prohibits giving clothes as gifts, with the exception of scarves, shawls and ties. It is also not recommended to give religious items, perfumes, cosmetics and comic gifts, especially if the recipient is older than the donor in age. Basically, as a business gift, they try to choose something memorable, but unobtrusive, discreet and, of course, correct.
Business New Year's gifts can be more expressive, bright and original. Therefore, unusual ones are very popular, but definitely. Ceramic products would also be appropriate. Business gifts for the New Year should be presented in beautiful packaging with a classic or neutral design. And don't forget to remove price tags from all gifts. After all, the most important thing is the signs of attention that we show to our colleagues, partners and simply acquaintances. And the New Year is another reason to give joy, attention and care.
Most people, when buying a New Year's gift for friends and family, give it to them just like that. And usually this is accompanied by words such as: - “Happy New Year!” Or - “With new happiness!”
Trite? Yes, it's corny. So what to do? How to find a way out of the situation? How to give an original gift for the New Year? This is the question we will try to answer for you right now. Read the article and you can choose any of the options offered. And believe me, it won’t be trivial and your guests will definitely like it.
1 way.
To warm up, we will describe to you a method that everyone already knows. This is an option with notes or riddles. That is, you hide your gift in some place. And you come up with riddles that you write on notes. Give the very first note to the guest. He reads it and must guess the answer. The answer is where the second note is. There he finds a second note and solves another riddle. And again he finds a note there. You can come up with any number of riddles this way, but it’s better to limit yourself to five or seven. And after them there is a note with a riddle where the gift itself lies.
This option is more suitable for children and teenagers. But adults also enjoy playing this game. Especially if the gifts and riddles are interesting, and the company is already tipsy.
Method 2.
Sing a song! Everyone knows the famous New Year's song "If you don't have an aunt." It is performed in the wonderful comedy “The Irony of Fate or Enjoy Your Bath.” We remade this song in our own way and we got these lines:
And after this song you can give either a gift certificate or money. But it’s still better to get a certificate, for example, to a clothing or jewelry shopping center. It’s somehow not customary to give money to friends for the New Year, and all this is not appropriate.
3 way.
Organize a spontaneous performance! Everything is simpler here than you think. You buy gifts. Then you need something like a black box. And you will also have to find a magician or wizard costume. Well, or at worst just some kind of costume. You put all the gifts in your black box. Go out with him and put the box on the chair. Here you can show a trick if you know how. Or put on another show. And then you call your first guest and ask him to sing, dance, tell a poem or an anecdote. In general, like in kindergarten - until he does something to please the magician (Santa Claus), he will not receive a gift.
Here, of course, instead of a magician’s costume, you can wear a Santa Claus costume, but this topic is already hackneyed, although it is relevant every year.
Therefore, if you do not want a magician and Santa Claus, then the costume of the symbol of the coming year will suit you. Here you will definitely please everyone.
Modern gift shops sometimes surprise with their widest range of original products. Among them, you can choose absolutely any product for any person who will certainly be impressed by such special attention on New Year's Eve. However, it is worth noting that it is not enough just to purchase a suitable gift for the upcoming holiday, because it is no less important to present it correctly.
In order to understand how to give an original gift for the New Year, you first need to decide who exactly this unusual gift is intended for. After all, if you want to surprise your children, then this is one story, but if you want to please your beloved spouse, girlfriend or girlfriend, then completely different actions and words should be included here.
Four original ways to give a New Year's gift
How can you give an original gift for the New Year so that your loved ones will forever remember this winter and fabulous holiday?
Game option for adults and children
An extremely interesting option for giving gifts would be the active game “Thirteen Notes.” First of all, to do this, you need to securely hide all the prepared gifts in your apartment or house. Then you should take a piece of paper, cut it into thirteen even pieces and on each piece write the original path to the created cache. For example, in the first note that you hand to the team captain yourself, you need to hint where the second clue is. On the second piece of paper you should describe the place where the third note lies, and so on thirteen times. It is worth noting that the clues must be hidden very carefully, since all invited guests should enjoy the pleasure of the search.
As a rule, such an original way of presenting New Year's gifts is quite a popular activity, because many people prefer to actively celebrate the New Year rather than sit at the table all evening and all night, eating all kinds of goodies.
Treasure hunters
The presented method of presenting New Year's gifts is more suitable for those families who celebrate this winter holiday in a large house or apartment. After all, the originality of this method lies in searching for your gifts over a large area for a long time and with interest.
In order to implement your plan, you will need to make every effort and prepare the necessary equipment in advance. To play pirate treasure hunters, you should purchase the appropriate equipment, namely several vests, hats, canes and other attributes.
In addition, you will need to carefully hide the gifts of all participants in this game, and only then start drawing cards. To prevent this idea from falling apart in the first minutes, it is recommended to confuse guests with a map that is slightly difficult to read. It is also worth noting that for a more fun game, you can additionally come up with some competitions, after winning which the participant receives a hint about the location of his treasure.
Despite the fact that the presented idea is a kind of children's option for receiving gifts, quite adult people still love to get involved in it.
For those who do not like outdoor games after a hearty New Year's feast, we can recommend a more passive, but original way of presenting gifts. To do this, you should build a large black cardboard box in advance, in which you need to place all the prepared gifts. After this, the initiator must dress up as a magician (black cloak, top hat, magic wand, etc.) and place his equipment in the middle of the room. Calling each family member or guest in turn, you need to give him the opportunity to “pay” for the future gift. For such a fee you can accept poetry readings, songs, dances, jokes and other humorous acts. After payment, you can safely take out the prepared gift from the box and reward it with a distinguished family member.
If there are too many guests and there is not enough money for large gifts, then it is better to purchase a variety of equally inexpensive but pleasant goods that relatives can pull out of the magician’s box themselves.
Romance
If you are going to celebrate the New Year with your significant other, then there are many other original ways to give a gift to your beloved woman in an unusual way. It is also worth noting that one or another method of presenting a gift depends entirely on what exactly you purchased for your wife or girlfriend. But at the same time, it is necessary to take into account that the main thing in such a situation is not to forget to admit your sincere and deep feelings, since these words are the most valuable gift for any woman.
Instructions
If your child believes that Santa Claus brings gifts, ask friends or neighbors to put a box under the door, ring the bell and hide. It's a good idea to sprinkle a gift with snow. The child will open the door in the belief that the wizard came, but could not stay.
Older children enjoy looking for gifts in Christmas stockings or mittens: don't disappoint them. This method of presenting gifts can be used for all household members. And if you make sure that the mittens are personalized, this can become a real family ritual. You can’t put large things in such packaging, but pleasant surprises like new cell phones or boxes of jewelry fit perfectly there.
To deliver large boxes and packages, choose a different method. Choose Father Frost or Snow Maiden - usually the youngest member of the family is appointed to this role. The kid, dressed in an appropriate costume, will present gifts, and the recipients should congratulate the good wizard and, in turn, give him some little thing: a chocolate medal, a cockerel on a stick or a small toy.
If you are gathering friends at home for a New Year's celebration, take care of surprises. Buy small gifts like computer flash drives or CDs with your favorite movies. Wrap them in gold paper, tie them with decorative cord and hang them on the tree. Let each guest choose a gift for themselves. Universal admiration is guaranteed.
Congratulate your work colleagues in the same way. You can team up, make a list, determine the amount you will spend on gifts. Everyone should buy one present for a colleague. Gifts can be personal or anonymous. Wrap them in beautiful paper and put them in a bag or basket. Let each party participant choose a package. Of course, such parties are not complete without humorous gifts, but the team will be in a good mood.
