Three versions: coworkers, family, kids. Fill it in right here and print it, or print it blank for everyone. Each one fits on a single page.
For coworkers who know each other at work and not much beyond it. Nothing too personal, all of it useful.
Budget: ____________ Exchange date: ____________
For family and friends: the in-laws, cousins and grandparents who want to get you something you’ll keep.
Budget: ____________ Exchange date: ____________
For a class or a cousins’ exchange. Kids fill it in themselves with a grown-up’s help.
Budget: ____________ Exchange date: ____________
The Secret Santa generator on this site draws names and gives every person a short version of this form (three ideas, colors, treats, sizes, hobbies, "please no", allergies). Only the person who drew them sees the answers, and they can update them any time. Free, and nobody needs an account.
If the answers come in first, the organizer can pass each sheet to whoever draws that name. Collected after, it still works; it just takes a second round of chasing.
One idea becomes an order; three gives the Santa a choice and keeps a little surprise. "Under the budget" in the question stops people listing things nobody can buy.
Most gift regret is a mug, a candle or a joke gift. A single line for what someone has plenty of saves more bad gifts than any other question.
Food and bath gifts are the default when people run out of ideas, so the allergy line protects the person most likely to get them.
Enough to rule things out and point at a few things in. The most useful questions are favorite treats, what someone is into lately, sizes, what they already have too much of, allergies and scents, and three concrete ideas under the budget. Fifteen questions is plenty; long forms come back half empty.
Print this page with Print (each version prints on one page), or fill it in on screen and print or save it as a PDF. If you draw names on our Secret Santa generator, every person gets this wish list built in, and only their Santa sees the answers.
The answers have to have a name on them, or the Santa can't use them. What stays secret is who is buying for whom. Collect the sheets yourself and hand each one only to the person who drew that name, or use the online generator, which does that automatically.