Christmas in July Day 4 ~ Secret Santa Card ~ Country Charm by Tracy

Hello everyone and welcome to Day 4 of my Christmas in July project week.

I hope you’re enjoying seeing all of my favorite projects over the years. I love reminiscing and being reminded of of what inspired me to create that project.

Several years ago, I hosted a Secret Santa gathering at work and it was so- much -fun. There was about 16 of us so we were able to spread out the spirit. If you don’t know what a Secret Santa is an explanation from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Secret Santa is a Western Christmas tradition, in which members of a group or community are randomly assigned a person to whom they anonymously give a gift. Often practised in workplaces, or amongst large families, participation in it is usually voluntary. It offers a way for many people to give and receive a gift at low cost to those involved.

There are various traditions and ways in which a “Secret Santa” is run. In some variations, as Christmas approaches, names of participants are placed in a hat, and participants draw the name of a person for whom to buy a gift. Along with name submission, each participant may also submit a short wish-list of items from which the gift-giver can choose. There is often a limit to how much can be spent on the present. Presents are then sometimes exchanged anonymously. Many schools and offices do this at Christmas time, often as a cost-saving effort. It usually takes place prior to Christmas because the office and school settings require it. Sometimes people leave hints in cards on desks, others create other special ways to make themselves known.

For ours….I developed a simple questionnaire that included random questions like favorite snack, candy, scent, holiday season event, collections, favorite places to go out to eat, shop, visit etc. Then each person drew a questionnaire out of the bucket and that was their person to be the “Secret Santa” for. Since I was the hostess. We did set some limits because as you know with every thing you do there is always those who over spend or under spend, over give or don’t give enough…..so we all agreed to giving something at least once a week until the week before Christmas then we’d send a little something each day, our Secret Santa’s would be revealed at our annual Christmas party for the group. It was so much fun!! We really need to do that again……hmmmm….

Supplies:

Santa ~ Cricut Doodlecharms

Embossing folders ~