You leave snacks for Santa, so why not leave some snacks for his reindeer too? Reindeer chow is corn-based wildlife feed formulated especially for Santa’s magic reindeer. For about $5 a can, it’s a fun and inexpensive way to promote your kids’ belief in Santa.
In today’s modern world, where many commonly accepted beliefs are questioned every day and we encourage our children to question everything, is it healthy for kids to be raised to believe in Santa? This debate seems to come up each year at Christmas, and is also present at other times of the year, when other mythical characters like the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy come to visit. There is no one right or wrong answer — it all depends on the child’s belief, as well as the parents. This article written by a psychotherapist supports that point, offering both pros and cons for encouraging a child’s belief in Santa Claus. It’s some interesting food for thought. What do you think? Is it wrong to teach our children about Santa? Or is it simply a life lesson about the spirit of the holiday season?
If your kids demand visual proof that Santa is real, here’s a video you can show them. It shows footage that North Pole explorers claim to have found during the 1940s, where some other explorers spotted a man in a red suit with white trim, walking in the snow. Check it out and see what you think:
Like Santa, we all have a lot to do during the Christmas holidays, which can often lead to stressful days and nights, where you’re left wondering how on earth you’ll ever get all of this stuff done. If you need help resolving all of your Christmas stress before it even begins, check out the Christmas Stress blog. This week, they’ve found a great plan for the next few months, to keep your Christmas enjoyable.
Letters from Santa seem to be one of the most popular ways to prove that Santa is real — because they allow him to develop a one-on-one personal relationship with the child by responding to their letter. There are dozens of web sites that offer to send letters from Santa to your child, but the Instaletter concept is pretty unique because you can print the letter yourself.
Basically, you pay a monthly subscription fee, and you have access to print unlimited letters for as many children as you want. You can send them to all of your grandchildren, nieces and nephews, or even all of the kids in the neighborhood, without paying for each individual letter. It can get pricey to send multiple letters on sites where you pay to have the letter printed and sent, so this is nice for the budget conscious.
They’ve also started to add options to print letters from other mythical characters, like Cupid, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and Drax Dracula. Each letter is personalized to your child, because you create it yourself online. You can print as many copies as you want, so you can have one to send and one to stick into a scrapbook or keep in a memory box.
You can also earn money by referring your family and friends to the site. Through Instaletter’s affiliate program, you’ll earn $5 for each referral, each time they make a monthly subscription payment. If you refer one person, and they remain a member for one year, you’ll earn $60. Not too shabby.
If you don’t have a chimney at your house, one of the first things your child will say when he or she starts to question Santa Claus will likely be, “But how does he get in?” Why, his magic key, of course!
Santa’s magic key is available in many different incarnations, but all of them serve the same purpose – letting Santa into your house safely on Christmas Eve.
Most of the magic keys come with a poem explaining its use, and how Santa’s magic is able to make the special skeleton key fit into any door.
They typically aren’t too expensive, and range in price from about $7 to $15. Some come with keepsake boxes, and the keys are also available in several different colors, with gold-tone being the most popular.
All your kids have to do is make sure Santa’s magic key has been set out for him on Christmas Eve, so he can get in to deliver all of the presents. When Santa’s finished with the key, he can leave it on the coffee table for you to put away for next year.
In this delightful video, kids are sharing their stories about Santa’s visits to their house. Some have seen him after he came down the chimney, while others stole glances at him eating milk and cookies or ran into him at the supermarket.
You can keep your kids occupied during the busy Christmas season and prove the existence of Santa at the same time with the North Pole Times web site–Santa’s Official Newsletter. This web site chock full of Christmas activities and fun articles written by the elves and Santa himself is being featured this week at the Online Christmas Activities blog.
If you have a child with a very scientific mind, you may be finding it much more difficult to prove Santa exists if your child is asking questions about the physics of Santa’s Christmas Eve travel. There’s even a chain e-mail that’s been going around for several years attempting to disprove Santa’s existence by the laws of physics. However, there is another web site out there that takes on that e-mail and provides answers for the questions it raises. To put it simply, Santa just needs advanced technology to help him defy the laws of physics. Check out the Scientific Proof of Santa web page for all of the technical details–it’s actually very interesting.
Proving that Santa Claus visited your house is one of the best ways to give your children more reasons to believe in Santa. There many ways you could do this, using simple things that you have around the house or with one of the commercially available kits containing evidence of Santa’s visit. Here are some simple suggestions:
What are your own ideas for setting a perfect scene on Christmas morning so that your children are absolutely certain Santa has visited them? Feel free to leave them in the comments section to help other parents trying to help their children find reasons to believe in Santa.