It’s officially time to start getting festive. Our Christmas tree is up and indoor decorations are done. With all these bucket list items getting crossed off, we had to do another… write a letter to Santa.
I mean.. there’s less than a month until Christmas, we HAD to make sure he knew what Mila wanted this year.
The letter to Santa is very important in the eyes of kids who believe in him. When Mila realized that Santa was going to see her letter, she had that look Ralphie did in A Christmas Story.
It was all very official business.
After brainstorming her thoughts for the letter out loud, she decided it was time to write. Since Mila only knows how to spell her name at the moment, I got to help her out a little in the writing and spelling part of this.
Her letter to Santa states:
“Dear Santa,
How do you do? Thank you for giving me Christmas presents. I would like a big doctor thing.
Thanks, Mila”
She’s a lady that knows what she want! Hopefully she’ll actually become a doctor one day since that’s the only thing she wants at the moment. Besides becoming a mommy like me… her words.
Anyways, I wanted to share this big moment because there’s a lot of learning going on in this simple letter.
Not only did she practice her writing skills and can prove she can remember and write her name, she drafted and wrote a letter! That’s pretty big for a three year old. Just because she didn’t physically write it, doesn’t mean there wasn’t any thought or work put into it.
It also showed her emotional intelligence with the thank you’s and asking Santa how he was doing.
These are all social skills that are all important to learn… simply by just writing a fun letter to Santa! Learning really is everywhere you look.
Fingers crossed Santa gets her letter in time. She used special stamps to help it travel quickly.
I’ll keep you all updated on if he does.
You can find the ‘Letter to Santa’ template at The Letter Vee. Some of the other stamps come from Three Little Crumbsnatchers, she also has the cutest Christmas activities you can print out for free. I’ll be posting them this December, so keep your eyes peeled.
Does your child or did they write letters to Santa? I’m thinking of recording Mila too. I think it would be cute to look back on. Let me know in the comments if you think that’s a fun idea or not.
Grey Skies & Rainbow Highs 
I think that wiring letters is a lost art in our society. I enjoy writing and writing letters is included in this. I hope to pass this on to my children as well so the older ones have pen pals in which they send snail mail letters. We have not ever written Santa but we do make a hand written list of things we are thankful for at Christmas and things we are looking forward to- this can be gifts, people, or events. It is a fun time.
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Love this idea. I love writing letters to people and do so often. I hope I can pass that to my daughter. Christmastime is such a fun and magical time.
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We don’t do Santa in our house, as in our daughter knows it’s make-believe, so I don’t try to build it up unless she asks. So far she has shown no interest in letters or seeing Santa at the mall.
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I can completely understand that! I love how everyone does it differently.
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So cute! My kids have outgrown Santa. I miss these days.
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Aww. It’s a cute stage. I know it doesn’t last forever so I’m soaking it up.
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Her little signature is the cutest!!! We love Santa letters in our house.
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Aww, thank you! She’s doing so good with her writing.
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This is so sweet! She did a great job 🙂 I always love doing things like this with my kids.
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Thank you so much. She’s so compassionate. These types of things are so much fun to do.
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This is precious! I love her signature too. So sweet.
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Aww, thank you. I love how she writes her name.
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This is such a great activity. They learn letter writing and polite behavior as well as to be thankful and considerate by writing to Santa.
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Yes! I always want to teach her this type of behavior.
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