Since we have a large family and many of the family members are watching the pennies we have decided to have a secret santa this year - children all get gifts as usual but each adult only has to buy for one other adult. I'm organising this, so today I'm deorating tags - the idea is that we each pull out a decorated tag with the recipient's name already on it. These will be put in envelopes to ensure secrecy.
We're then having a "grand draw" at a games night hosted by one of the family in October, so until then we can concentrate on buying for the children. If this works out well we intend continuing every year.