Object: several rolls of Christmas wrapping paper

Good morning (or evening), boys and girls. Look at all this wrapping paper! Have any of you helped wrap any Christmas presents this year? (Wait for show of hands.) What do we wrap presents for? (Let them respond.) We wrap presents to hide what is in them, don't we? We want whoever opens the present to be surprised when they see what is in it. If we bought some special jewelry or a tie for mom or dad for Christmas we wouldn't just put it out for them to see, would we? We hide it and wrap it in pretty paper and br…