If your out of town relatives send Christmas gifts to you and your kids, the right thing to do would be for each of you to send a Christmas thank you card to everyone who sent a present. There is no need to go out and buy expensive printed thank yous.
It is easy and fun to make your own thank you cards. You can find some delightful Christmas thank you templates on line. Although this is primarily a site for children, you can get some free printable Christmas thank you stationary that is really cute at Kidprintable.com/thankyounote.
You can print the notes on regular computer paper in bright colors if you’d like and mail them in business size envelopes. Let the kids write their own and don’t correct spelling or grammar, you relatives will cherish it more than any store bought notes. For little ones you will have to address the envelopes. Be sure to put the kids’ names in the return address. Not only will they be excited to be sending “grownup mail” but will be learning a lesson in expressing gratitude that will stick with them into adulthood.
If you can’t find something you can use on the kids printable site, there are dozens of other sites where you can hopefully find thank you notes that may better fit your individual taste.
So many people neglect to send thank you cards for anything other than baby and wedding showers and the wedding itself. It will be refreshing for people to get Christmas thank you’s especially from children.
No matter what gift your child gets, even if it is a bright purple and orange sweater knitted by great aunt Millie, the child should send a thank you. He can just say thanks for the sweater. Aunt Millie will be thrilled. You can tell her he outgrew it.