Santa letters, Santa letters! What’s a parent to do? It seems like our children were just sending Santa letters, and here it is, Christmas time again! Well, don’t stress, things will be easier this year when I tell you a secret that will take the stress out of writing Santa letters this Christmas.

Don’t your children just love the ritual of writing their Santa letters at Christmas time? Mine do! We set aside a day to write their Santa letters. The glitter, markers, Christmas stickers, and colored paper all come out when we’re ready to write the Santa letters. We put on the Christmas music to get in the Christmas spirit. My children thinks this makes for better Santa letters. The sugar cookies we eat helps us write better Santa letters too! I help my children decide what to say in their Santa letters. They ask questions like, “What do your reindeer eat?”, “Does Rudolph really have a nose that glows?”, and “What’s the North Pole like”? Then they decorate their Santa letter and sign their name. I’ve taught them how to address the letter to Santa Claus at the North Pole, and away it goes!

Now comes the hard part for children…the waiting. The children wait and wait, hoping their Santa letters get to Santa Claus. They hope they’re on Santa Claus good list, and above ALL, they hope they get Santa letters in return! This is where the stress comes in for parents. Who wants to mess with trying to write Santa letters to their children? Not me! I never know what to say or what to do to make the Santa letters look authentic. And, do you realize it’s impossible to find a postmark from the North Pole? No, I quit trying to write Santa letters to my children, because I found a much BETTER way to get my children their Santa letters!

Here comes the part where I let you in on a secret about Santa letters that will relieve you from all that stress at Christmas time! I’m talking about the next best invention since the cell phone…WEBSITES that write your Santa letters for you!! How is that for a clever idea? Yes, it’s true that YOU can create personalized Santa letters from your computer. Beautiful, creative, personalized Santa letters are at your fingertips. These Santa letters will look so authentic, you might even think they came from the North Pole! Just google “Santa letters,” or “Santa Claus letter” and you’re on your way to creating perfect Santa letters your children will cherish forever. Add personalized information for each child, sign the Santa letters, “Love Santa”, and you’re done! Their eyes will light up when they see their Santa letters in the mailbox. Pure JOY!

Give yourself, and your children, a very “Merry Christmas” by sending your personalized Santa letters today!

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Santa letters are a favorite tradition that I share with my children. Each Christmas season I sit down with my children and make sure they write letters to Santa Claus. This is a fun activity that encourages them to reflect on the year and what they’d like to receive from the North Pole that year. While simply writing letters to Santa is a great Christmas memory in itself, a few years ago I began ordering personalized Santa letters that my children then get in reply.

The wonderful part about Santa letters arriving in the mail is really just how excited the children get about hearing back from Santa. If your children are like mine, they get excited just to get a let in the mail, but when the letter comes postmarked from the North Pole and is addressed directly to them, and signed by Mr. Claus, they absolutely beam.

I think Santa letters are a very good object lesson for being courteous and answering letters and correspondence from other relatives. I tell my children that it was because they took the time to thank Santa for what he brought them last year and wrote him a personalized note – this is the reason they get a personalized letter back before Christmas. Then I remind them how excited and happy they were to get their Santa letters and encourage them to pay it forward when another relative in the family was kind enough to write them. “Don’t you want to make Aunt Joan feel as loved and appreciated as you did when you got your letter from Santa in the mail?” is something I’ve been known to say.

Santa letters are also a really simple, relatively inexpensive way to make your children feel that Santa cares about their Christmas wishes. It give the child the sense that Santa wants to wish them a Merry Christmas and enjoy the Christmas season beyond the gift-frenzy of Christmas day. Santa letters are also a good way to prep a child if their is something they’ve asked Santa for that won’t likely be under the Christmas tree come Christmas morning. In this regard, Santa letters can be a blessing, as it both keep the magic of Santa alive for your child, but also lets them down gently if their Christmas wish list is a little longer than what Santa’s workshop will be able to deliver. You can also ask “Santa” to remind your children about the true meaning of the Christmas season and the pleasure they can get, as he does, from doing good deeds during Christmas – or any time of the year.

For this reason, if you are looking into Santa letters, I highly recommend ordering Santa letters that are personalized to your child. Some Santa letters are form letters, but children are smart and can sniff out the prefabrication behind such form Santa letters. I also put in the extra effort to find Santa letters that are handwritten and are sent from the North Pole via North Pole, Alaska. You can be sure that looking for the North Pole postmark is one of the first things your child will look for with one of the Santa letters arrives!

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The majority of people wait until at least October to begin thinking about Christmas, but not yours truly. That’s because I love Christmas. Though I do admit I’m quite happy to take a break right after the holiday is over; by May I’m ready to give it another go. It’s about that time that I begin scouring the Internet to see if I can find any new Christmas tree clip art to expand my already large collection. That puts me ahead of the game when I start creating handmade holiday cards in the autumn. That way I don’t have to search for images when I’m ready to begin; I can just start creating the cards. Since that’s a lot of work in itself, I’m glad to have the images already on my hard drive.

One aspect I do leave until right before Christmas, though, is the creation of free Santa letterhead for the kids in my family. These can’t be mailed until the beginning of December because they actually have to be sent to a post office located at the North Pole for a postmark. They’re then mailed to the kids in stamped, addressed envelopes I provide. That process only takes 10 days to a few weeks, so I don’t want to mail them too early. Children get excited enough about Christmas without any help; they don’t need letters from Santa before Thanksgiving! But it is gratifying to see how much they enjoy getting custom letters from Santa. Because I make them myself, I can insert personal details to promote the illusion that the letters really come from him. If they have toys they’ve been wanting, “Santa” lets them think that they’ll only get them if they behave well. If they’ve been fighting with their siblings at the time the letters are mailed, I also include that they have to get along with everyone in the family if they want their Christmas presents. Nothing like some good, old fashioned pressure from Santa to get kids to mind!

Once my handmade holiday cards and Santa letters are in the mail, I still can’t rest. I always make handmade New Year cards for select friends and family members, as well as an electronic greeting for everyone else. When I make those, I pick from my collection of New Year cards. I get quite elaborate with the handmade versions, since I don’t have to make that many. They’re a lot of fun to make and I love creating them.

If you’d like to make your own holiday cards, here are some tips:

• Use pre-cut, pre-folded cards from the stationary store, or on the thickest card stock that will go through your printer.
• If your printer will take photo paper, you can print the images separately from the cards, and cut them out and paste them onto the card fronts.
• There are lovely metallic and specialty papers that you can use to frame the images by cutting pieces slightly larger than the artwork. These can be found at discount stores such as Walmart, or at craft stores.
• Glitter glue pens are great for adding shine to images. But don’t get carried away with it! If you do, the cards will not only look cheesy, they will also warp.