Secret Santa

Secret Santa gifts for young and old

The time before Christmas is Secret Santa season - 
a trend that is now here to stay

There's hardly a home that the gnomes don't move into at the beginning of December, taking over every night and presenting a new surprise the next morning. In the run-up to Christmas, new ideas from the little creatures keep popping up around the little Secret Santa door.
 
The winter season is made a little cosier everywhere with atmospheric Secret Santa decorations and families, friends and colleagues develop real Secret Santa traditions to present small gifts.

The gnomes have also been busy in Einkochwelt and have come up with lots of gift ideas, recipes, pre-prepared gifts, stories and crafting suggestions.

This popular tradition has its origins in Sweden, where Secret Santa is called ‘Julklapp’. There, a gift is thrown into the living room on Yule (21 December) by an unknown messenger. The name of the Secret Santa itself is derived from the little fantasy creature, the gnome, who appears in many Nordic sagas with a red cap and white beard.

Secret Santa's Recipes

Secret Santa's Recipes

Winter apple jam

1 litre naturally cloudy apple juice
100 g marzipan
1 organic lemon (its juice)
1 tsp cinnamon
500 g gelling sugar 2:1


Dissolve the marzipan in the apple juice over a low heat. 
Add the lemon juice, cinnamon and preserving sugar and stir. 
Bring to the boil for 6 minutes while stirring, then pour into the previously 
into the previously boiled jars and seal tightly. Leave to cool.
 

Secret Santa tip:

Fill homemade jams and jellies into the 230 ml jars with red elve jewellery lids and label them with matching stickers.

Mulles wine jelly

350 ml mulled wine
400 ml orange or apple juice
500 gelling sugar 2:1
½ tsp cinnamon and clove spice
½ tsp star anise and cardamom

Bring all the ingredients to the boil in a pan for approx. 10 mins. while stirring. Switch off the heat, wait until the foam subsides and the clear mixture remains in the pan. Pour the jelly into the boiled jars and seal quickly. Leave to cool; the jelly needs some time to set. 

Secret Santa's presents

Secret Santa's presents

Money gifts from Secret Santa
With the red or green 
money boxes, in the trendy 
elf design, an extraordinary 
gift of money is quickly conjured up.  
 

The Advent jars can be filled
with small sweets, nuts, spices, 
small gnome tasks, vouchers or 
puzzle pieces for the 
surprise on Christmas Day.

It's as simple as that: 
Insert the banknote into the
slot, wrap it once in foil 
and add a nice gift
ribbon. And a beautiful
gift is already made.

Delicious, home-made liqueurs or juices can be filled into the beautifully designed swing-top bottles in three different sizes. A message in a bottle for a lovely Christmas story or a gift voucher is also a great idea. 
 

Little treat from the gnome:
The small jars with the pretty
decorative lids can be
filled with a delicious 
homemade jam
or other treats.

Secret Santa ideas for the run-up to Christmas

Secret Santa ideas for the run-up to Christmas

Gift-giving with our prepared Secret Santa presents is so easy

Flavour preserving

The pre-Christmas period is all the more beautiful when the scent of home-baked biscuits fills the air. The individual delicacies are best presented in a jar with a beautifully designed elf-lid. Whether as a gift with a personal touch or for your own coffee table.

One, two, three...

In the cold season, a flavoursome and delicious liqueur or punch is always welcome - with or without alcohol. Our gnomes have come up with a very special Advent wreath for this purpose: Every Sunday in Advent there is a liquid delicacy that they have created themselves.

So beautifully packaged ...

the three small WECK tulip-shaped jars are just waiting for their contents. Quickly bake a few biscuits or mould small chocolates and fill the jars. The gnomes have already designed the beautiful red or green gift packaging so that the filled jars only need to be put back into the packaging.

Crafting and reading aloud with the elves

Crafting and reading aloud with the elves

Download, get cosy, read aloud

Where does the gnome come from and how does he get to us? The new flatmate in the run-up to Christmas: never to be seen, but always to be noticed.
You'd like to know a bit more about it. Best read quickly.
 

Secret Santa gift box and colouring pictures

Download the craft template and print it out in colour on cardboard (min. 250g). Download the colouring pictures (DIN A4) and colour them in. If you like, you can upload your artwork to our Facebook page. We are already very excited!