Paste everyone’s names and print one questionnaire per person with their name, the budget, the exchange date and who to return it to — plus the rules sheet and a sign-up checklist built from the same details. Free, in your browser, no sign-up.
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A good Secret Santa question is one the giver can shop with. These are the ones in the maker, in three sets — tick the ones you want and add two of your own. The starred ones are ticked by default.
Office exchanges need different questions: the coffee order, something that would make the desk or the workday better, a lunch spot nearby and whether candles and lotions are welcome — and no clothing sizes. Print two forms per page and cut along the dashed line, so a team of 20 needs 10 sheets. Each half-form keeps the name, the group, the budget and the exchange date at the top and “Please return this to … by …” at the bottom.
Start with the questionnaire: the favorite store, snack and the “Please, no…” line beat any generic list. When the form comes back thin, these are safe starting points for the most common limits.
Choose “Kids & classroom”: the questions switch to favorite animal, character, toy, book and “I like to…”, and the last one is a box to draw a wished-for gift, so children who are not reading yet can still answer. Ages 4 to 6 fill it in with a grown-up; from about 7 most kids can do it on their own in class. Teachers usually keep the limit at $5 to $10, send the form home with the date it is due and ask families to skip food if anyone in the class has an allergy (the allergy line is on every form).
The rules sheet repeats the key details in a box at the top (budget, exchange date and time, place, forms due, organizer) and then lists seven rules written with them: the spending limit, keeping the name secret, returning the questionnaire to the organizer by the date, reading it before shopping and skipping the “Please, no…” line, writing only the recipient’s name on the tag, bringing the gift to the place and time, and telling the organizer — not your person — if you can’t come. Tick the guessing round to add an eighth.
With no names typed in, the last page is a blank sign-up sheet with 18 numbered rows: name, a “don’t pair me with” column for partners and siblings (so the draw can skip them) and boxes for “form in” and “gift in”. Once you paste the names it turns into a checklist with everyone already listed, 30 to a page, so the organizer can tick forms and gifts as they come in.
Put the details after a # in the address and this page opens with the worksheet already filled in — handy for a class newsletter, a bookmark or a link from a chat assistant. The part after # stays in your browser; it is never sent to our server.
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#names= the people playing#preset= family, office or kids#title= the group nameCombine several with & (for example #title=…&words=…). Separate list items with |.
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The useful ones are the ones that turn into a gift: favorite colors, snacks and drinks, hobbies, a store or coffee shop for a gift card, sizes, allergies, a “please, no…” line for things they don’t want, and a short wish list within the budget. The maker starts with ten of these for families or coworkers (nine for kids) and lets you swap any of them or add two of your own.
Choose “Coworkers”: the questions switch to coffee order, something for the desk, a lunch spot near work and whether scents are welcome, and skip clothing sizes. Paste the team’s names (up to 60), add the budget, the exchange date and who collects the forms, and print two forms per page to save paper. The rules sheet and the checklist come from the same details.
No — it makes the paperwork. Draw names however your group likes (from a hat works well with the checklist’s “don’t pair me with” column), then hand each person the questionnaire their Secret Santa needs. Nothing about who drew whom is stored here.
No. The forms are drawn in your browser and the names you type are never sent to a server. The calendar file is created on your device. Your last settings are remembered only in this browser.