Writing to Santa
We’re a bit behind this year so my kids have just written their letters to Santa. This was something I did every year as a kid and now my kids do it.
It personalises the whole thing and is fun and exciting - I can even justify it as writing practice seeing as the older kids have written letters at school or for homework this year!
I take a copy of their letters - photocopy or scan it - as their messages and spelling can be so creative I don’t want to loose them when we mail the letters to Santa. Their letters go into their scrapbooking albums (when I says their, I mean mine about them!) opposite the letters they receive from Santa to reinforce their memories later on.
I wish my mum had kept copies of the my old letters - I think it would be quite amusing to read them and they will make an interesting piece of history.
PS I probably should say my kids LOVE getting letters back from Santa, too. Love Santa has helped us with this for the last 4 years - coming back for this year is how I foudn this blog, lol!
Comment by michelle - 9 December , 2007 12:34 pm
It’s great you and your kids enjoy writing to Santa, Michelle - Santa loves getting and reading the letters, too.
And we’re very pleased to have brought smiles to your kids’ faces over the last few years.
Comment by Santa's Elf - 10 December , 2007 9:14 am
One of my kids wrote “Not getting,not alloud, but want badly: Tamagotchie”
Also requested was “money = $10.99″ (not for any specific item to buy, it just seems like a good amount to ask for apparently!)
Amused us no end
Comment by PreciousWater - 10 December , 2007 12:53 pm
That’s a fantastic idea - and I love that you keep copies of all the letters.
Comment by MissieK - 11 December , 2007 11:32 am