If you are not quite sure exactly what a 'Secret Santa' is, please allow me to explain. Secret Santa is useful for larger groups of people. It is a way to anonymously give Christmas gifts between students, co-workers, large families, or friends. Everyone's name is placed into a hat and each person then takes turns drawing out a name. The person's name that you drew will be who you are supposed to buy for.
Gifts given in this way can be limited to the amount of money that you should spend, and if you would prefer, you can have everyone who writes their name on a slip of paper to also list five items, within the price range, that they would like to receive as Christmas gifts from their secret Santa.
The amount that will be spent on the gift should be agreed upon by everyone in the group. If some of the group can afford to spend fifty dollars on the Christmas gift, and the rest can only afford thirty dollars per gift; set the amount accordingly.
You do not want to disallow someone from participating simply because they can not afford to. Keep the amount reasonable so that everyone can participate. If this is for a classroom, keep the cost to under five dollars per Christmas gift.
Secret Santa is done all the time at Christmas. Christmas gifts given can be placed on a large table with the recipient's name only on the gift tag; for complete anonymity. If you want to you could also make a small game out of the giving by having each recipient take five guesses as to who gave the gift to them. Or you could even have each person hold onto the gift that they bought and sit in a circle. Then they can take turns presenting each gift to the person whose name they drew. Either way you want to do it is perfectly acceptable and fun.
The Christmas gifts given using a secret Santa can be either bought from the preferred gift list, as written by the recipient on the same slip of paper as their name; or you can buy something unique; something personalized; or buy a gag gift. Either way your group wants to do it should be decided upon from the beginning. If you wanted to go with gag gifts, make sure to set up some boundaries. Remember, what could be funny to one, may be upsetting to another.
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