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.
December 9th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
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!
December 10th, 2007 at 9:14 am
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.
December 10th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
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
December 11th, 2007 at 11:32 am
That’s a fantastic idea – and I love that you keep copies of all the letters.