On our invitations include a note to bring a gift of a specific price range if you would like to participate in the gift exchange.  I do this so someone doesn’t bring a 25 dollar gift and leave with one which cost 5 dollars. As guests with gifts for the exchange arrive for the party, we place a numbered sticker on each gift.  We also place a paper with a corresponding number into a Christmas stocking.  To separate the girls’ gifts from the boys’ gifts, we put different stickers on them, for example the gifts brought by girls get a snowman sticker and the gifts brought by boys get a…