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Christmas is a special time of year, one full of memories and traditions. Children love the traditions such as Santa Claus, letters to Santa, the North Pole, reindeer, elves and all the other wonderful things that come with Christmas time. Although the holiday is mostly about children, adults can enjoy Christmas too. A fun way for adults to enjoy Christmas too, is to write a letter from Santa to their children, or children in their neighborhood.

A great way to spend family time together at Christmas is to spend an evening writing letters to Santa, and also writing a letter from Santa for each child. Each child can write their own letter and decorate it the way they want. Using paper, markers, stickers and other decor, each child can make their letter to Santa beautiful. Once they have finished writing the letters to Santa, help the children put the paper in an envelope and address the letter to Santa, with a North Pole postmark. After the children have gone to bed, you can start a letter from Santa to the child.

If you are a teacher, this could be a great class activity around Christmas time as well. The children would love to write letters to Santa, and also get a letter from Santa. This might take more time to write a letter from Santa for each child, but it is worth it when you see the smiles on their faces. They would love to take these home and show their parents, and siblings as well as their friends. Their Santa letters will be a treasured possession.

If you don’t have time to write a letter from Santa yourself, you can send the letter your child wrote to a specific address, for Santa, and you will get a letter back. It depends where you live, which address to use, but there are some towns up North that need work, so the people will write a letter from Santa for each letter they receive. To find those addresses, you can use Google and search “letter from Santa address”. That will give you an option of where to send a letter to Santa from your children.

You could also just send a letter from Santa to your whole family, if that is easier. The children will still love reading and enjoying that letter, even if it is to the whole family. The letter from Santa could include things to do better, such as treat your family members with respect, or save your money! Your children might not like to hear these pieces of advice, but coming from Santa Claus might soften the blow.

The more personalized the letter from Santa, the more each child will enjoy reading it and the more they will treasure it. If you include their name and some things going on in their lives, your child will be very excited. Also, if you could answer some of the questions they asked on their letter to Santa. That will help them feel like the letter really came from Santa, and that he took time to read their letter. They will feel special and loved from Santa, and their Christmas will be more magical, and so will yours! Your Children Will Love Getting a Letter From Santa

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Many people wait until at least Halloween before they start thinking about Christmas, but not yours truly. I love Christmas. Although I have to admit that I’m happy to move onto other things right after the holiday is over; by May I’m ready to give it another go. It’s about that time that I start looking around the Internet to see if I can find any new Christmas images to expand my already large collection. That puts me ahead of the game when I start creating my handmade Christmas cards in the autumn. Because of that I don’t have to search for images when I’m ready to begin; I can just move right onto being creative and building the cards. Since that’s a lot of work in itself, I’m always happy to have image searching out of the way.

One aspect I do leave until right before Christmas, though, is creating Santa Claus letters 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. After that, they’re 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 to get letters from St. Nick before they’ve even had Thanksgiving turkey! But it does bring me joy to watch them tear open those letters from Santa. Because I make them myself, I’m able to put in details to promote the illusion that the letters really come from him. If they have toys on their Christmas lists, “Santa” lets them think that they’ll only get them if they behave well. If there’s a lot of figthing between brothers and sisters around the time the letters are sent, I also say they must get along with everyone in the house if they want their Christmas presents. Nothing like some good, old fashioned pressure from Santa Claus to get kids to mind!

And I still can’t rest even after I get my holiday cards and letters from Santa mailed. I always make handmade New Year cards for select friends and family members, along with a custom e-mail New Years greeting for the rest. For those I dip into my collection of new year clipart. I make the handmade versions pretty elaborate, 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 you have a printer that will accommodate photo paper, you can print the images on different stock from the cards, and trim them down and then paste them to the front of the cards.
• Lovely specialty and metallic papers are available that can be cut slightly larger than the image size and used to frame the artwork. These can be found at discount stores such as Target, or at craft stores.
• Glitter glue that comes in “pens” are great for adding shine to images. Just don’t use too much! If you do, the cards will not only look cheesy, they will also warp.