well, our beloved water heater box became a tunnel and then moved to the recycling bin.

good thing we had another box to wrap. lots of tape and gifted wrapping paper were used to hide “every bit of box.”

then we played this game:

one child (or teacher!) hides in the box…

everyone else walks around the box…

we sing this song:
(to the tune of “all around the mulberry bush”)
all around the christmas box
who could it be?
it’s almost time to find out
when we count to three:

then we stop walking and count
one…two…three!

and then the box child pops out and general cheering ensues!

it never mattered that we knew who was in the box…still exciting!

enjoy this horrible quality movie: