Everyone knows Santa’s sleigh is predominantly pulled by his reindeer, but not everyone can remember their names!
As well as the 8 named in the ‘A Visit from St Nicholas’, there are other reindeer in stories about Santa:
- Rudolph – the unusual red-nosed reindeer helps guide the sleigh on particularly dark and foggy nights
- Olive – “olive the other reindeer shouted out with glee”
- Chet – the reindeer in training in “The Santa Clause II”
- Cupid – the reindeer who falls in love with Private (the penguin) in “Merry Madagascar”
Can you add any more?
And you may not know that the original story included Dunder (which became Donder then Donner) and Blixem (later Bliksem then the German Blitzen).
Santa just smiles when asked the names of his reindeer and lets us remember the poem…
Olive the reindeer is funny!
I agree with Emily – Olive is very funny! And Cupid is cute in Madagascar.
Me to Wendy
I like Rudolph the best
Rudolph is pretty special 🙂
Deer’s are my favourite animal to see, last year we gave the reindeers some treats.
Rudolph is my favourite deer out of all of them. I really have a list of things that I want for Christmas. I will have more treats maybe again on Christmas this year, please answer my card for Christmas day. How do you fly you’r sled around Christmas is it so hard to fly the sled.
Well done on giving the reindeer treats, Brianna – I hope they were healthy treats 🙂 Make sure you write a nice letter to Santa – you can give him your list and ask about the sleigh, and maybe even wish him a Merry Christmas, too!
i love rudolp i remember when he was just a little boy i feed my boys ever year and i make santa cookies andmilk or pumpkin pie i feed all the reindeers there my boys