How it works
- 1
Add the families
Each family’s grown-ups and children. Gran and Grandad can be a family of their own.
- 2
We draw the names
Every grown-up gets a child from another family to buy for, never their own. Every child gets someone.
- 3
Everyone gets their own link
By email or WhatsApp. It shows only who they’ve got, with that child’s wish book one tap away.
Questions
- Who needs an account?
- Only you, to make the draw. Everyone else just opens their own link: no app, no password.
- Can I see who drew whom?
- No. Nobody can, you included: each link shows only that person who they’ve got. You can see who has opened theirs.
- Can anyone get their own child?
- No. Nobody draws a child from their own family, and no child is left out.
- What if the families don’t split evenly?
- Every child still gets someone. When there are more grown-ups than children, some children get two; when there are more children, some grown-ups buy for two. If the only children are yours, you sit this one out.
- How do they know what to buy?
- Their link shows the child’s wish book, if they have one. If not, it asks the child’s family to make one: it’s free, and the family can circle what they’re getting so nobody doubles up.
- Do the children draw too?
- Not in this draw: it’s the grown-ups buying for the children, so every child gets a present without everyone buying for everyone.
Give your children a wish book first
Whoever draws them sees what they’d love, and the family circle what they’re getting so nobody doubles up.
Make a wish book, free