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What Local Kids Think Santa Does

what area third graders think Santa does at the North Pole each day

by Carly
 
by Carly

Santa wakes up and has breakfast (I don’t know what he eats.) He flufs up all his pillows and he straightens out the sheets. And after his bed is made, he gets to work on toys. Then he checks his “naghty/nice” list of all the girls and boys. And there are some other things he told me not to tell. Anyways I don’t remember them very well. Then he wraps up all the toys, and he sends them on their way. To where they’re stored til’ Christmas Eve and that’s all I have to say.

– Riley, Locust Lane Elementary

He wakes up and sits up in his bed and says, “Ho ho ho.” Then he gets out of bed and takes his Santa PJs that he gave to himself for Christmas. He walks out to his elves that have very pointy ears and says, “How are your ears today?” Every day he says “Put your ears up and listen” and he gives them all a new assignment or toy to make. Then he goes to his wife’s room and says “Ho ho ho” cause that is her alarm so she does not sleep all day. Then he has to go get all his reindeer – even Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer – so he can go to the mall and see what toys boys and girls want. Then he hooks up all his reindeer and sneaks into the mall so nobody sees him. When he gets off his sleigh he decides to smeel the reindeers mouth and they stink so he gives them a mouthwash. Then he cheeks on his elves. They where all in bed, so he knows that he was late for bed. He says “Ho ho ho I think it’s time to go get my PJs on.” So he gets in bed and goes to sleep. The next day he does the same thing over again.

– Josie Weiss, Manz Elementary

Mr. Claus gathers the coal for the kids who aren’t being not so good. ... “Hey Mrs. Claws bring me some milk and cookies!” Santa says. “OK dear,” Mrs. Claws says. “Elves wants some, too! They’re doing hard work! Yes they are! Skateboard, bel-t rake, wave master! It’s a frightening thing, OK! Hurry hurry! Jump on the sleigh, common guys. Go reindeers go! Up, up, and away! Here we go! Stephen’s house! Jacob’s house! Mason’s house! Tanner’s house. Hooray hooray! I see the sun! Get back to the North Pole.”

– Mason Bauer, Manz Elementary

I think Santa goes to the store and buys all the presents for all the children, then wraps them up. Then he goes home drinks hot cocoa and waches the snow.
– Zoe Barger, Sherman Elementary

Santa woke up in the morning and he feel out of bed. He ran to the kitchen and ate sausage, bacon, and eggs. He got into his sleigh and his elves loded the bag and put it in his sleigh. He headed towards China. His little dog named Snowie came with. Snowie was letting his ears get blown bake by the wind. He got to the first house. He feel down the chimney and found chocolate chip cookies and hot coco. He went to their tree, put down their presents as quit as can be. He went home to relax for a wile. All of a sudin, the phone rang. He answard, “Hellow who is this?” “It’s the Ester Bunny.” “What do you want?” “I just wanted to talk!” “Oh. I half to eat dinner.” “Well bye,” said the Ester Bunny.

– Maya Buell, Putnam Heights Elementary

9:30 Santa plays with the fish 9:40 He sends presents to bad kids 10:00 Then he fly with the ducks 10:50 Then he eats green bread 11:00 Then he eats sugar plums before he eats green bread 2:00 He plays video games with the ducks 2:15 Then he plays with his food 2:30 Then he breaks his drum 2:50 He plays football with his wife 3:00 Then he eats ducks with his wife 3:30 Then he sings with the ducks 3:55 Then he plays hide and seek with his wife 4:00 Then he does a trick on his wife 5:30 He wears socks with the reindeers 7:00 Then he trips on his pillow 7:30 Then he says goodbye to the ducks

– Kou Her, Manz Elementary

Once in December Santa woke up and ate breakfast. This is what he had: 4 sausages, 7 gigantic cinammon rolls, 17 strips of bacon, and 15 cups of coffee because yout know how he has to stay awake and be hipper all thrue the day. After he takes his reindeer on a walk. Truly his reindeer pull him on a sled. Boy, would that be hard. Then he gets home and tells his elves to “work work work” because today is a week from Christmas. I truly don’t think that’s fair telling his elves to work wile he gets to relax. I mean, isn’t it? Then he takes his reindeer out to play including him and they all ride sleds. Dancer trampled over Prancer and Prancer fell on top of Cupid and it looked really funny. I don’t know how Santa did it, but he got all of the reindeer to fit into a tobagin and they all stayed on. Once we all got homee Santa and I had a magnifisent lunch. This is what we had: 7 tacos, 4 cokes, 2 ham and calamari. I gave my calamari to Santa. I don’t like calamari. After we watched a movie, and made a soundtrack. Not to be mean or anything but he is a horrible singer. I can’t believe that we got our song published. It’s called Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Cool, isn’t it? Once we got home we all pitched in at dinner. Cupid cut the onion wich dropped a couple of teardrops into the dish wich led to all of the other dishes because he rubbed his eyes while he was cutting so he ran to the sink and washed his eyes out. This is what we ate: an amazing lo main dish with 3 cokes. After dinner I packed my bags and that was that.

– Kiersten Wille, Putnam Heights

The day started when Santa’s alarm woke him up. “Ring ring ring.” So he jumped out of bed and went for a run to loose some pounds for about half hour. He runs around the penguin’s hut 20 times. After his long run he picks three elves for weights for one minute. After the minute was over he went to his bedroom to see if his suit still fits him. He was jumping up and down and shouting “It fits! It fits!” So Mrs Claus said, “What are you shouting for?” “I’m shouting because my suit for Christmas fits.” But Mrs Claus said “Well stop shouting.” So Santa took off his Christmas suit and went downstairs to bake some cookies for the guests. While he was waiting for the cookies to be done, he set up the Christmas tree. Santa forgot all about the cookies by the time he looked at them they were burnt! So Santa called Mrs Claus ran downstairs. “What happened to the cookies?” “They got burnt,” Santa said. “I told you not to make cookies,” said Mrs Claus. His guests ate dinner but it was time for dessert. Mrs Claus said “Oh my! I forgot to make cookies. So now we have burnt cookies for dessert.” The guests all said “These cookies are awful.” So they left.

– Olivia, Locust Lane Elementary


by Ethan
 
by Ethan

 

At 10:01 Santa wakes up and drinks black tea for a second then feeds the reindeer. At 10:03 then cleans the stalls for a minute. Then he plays the Wii at 7. At 7:02 he sends money to bad boys and bad girls. In the afternoon at 2:30 he sends toys and money to really good kids. At 2:34 he eat cookies with Mrs Claus, elves, and reindeer then sends dogs to good kids at 3. 3:01 he puts on his pajamas and goes to sleep in his bed with Mrs Claus.

– Zaj Moua, Manz Elementary

One day Santa got up and said “I want a cookie for breakfast!” So he went in the kitchen and then a brown thing ran across the floor. He said “It’s a rat!!!” He called the exterminator and they come and they caught what Santa thought was a mouse. But it was cookie and it was rolling around all that time. He picked it up and Santa almost ate it, but then the cookie said, “Don’t eat me!!!” And then Santa fainted. Then he got up and said “I am going to bed so I am not crazy anymore.”

– Tyler N, Locust Lane Elementary

After that Santa Claus would go and clean all of the reindeer because the day before that they had Christmas and got dirty in glops of mud. Rudolph the red nose reindeer said, “Mud! I love mud! I like splashing in dirty mud! So see? Oh no, it’s time to go to bed already. So good nappy nappy. Zzzzzzzzz!”

– Ellie N, Locust Lane Elementary

Then he counts and names off the reindeer. Rudolph, Donner, and all the others. ... Then he will go home and watch his favorite show on his 164-inch flatscreen TV. ... Then he will get home, get dessert, and play with his pet walrus named Fluffy. Then he practices his ho-ho-hoing. ... He gets coal for the bad kids, says “Goodbye” to Mrs Claus and Fluffy, then gets his iPod Touch.

– Mitchell Voller, Putnam Heights

“Let’s make some coconut cookies for the elves,” said Mrs Claus. “That’s a good idea,” said Santa, “and maybe some corn cookies too.” Bang bang. There was a knock at the door. Santa opened the door. It was Rudolph. “There’s snow,” said Rudolph. Sure enuf, there was snow falling.
– Leah Lillge, Putnam Heights Elementary

Santa wakes up in the morning, look at the calendar, and says “It’s December 1st! The annual snowball fight’s today! I have got to win this year because Santa Claus has never won, but not this year because I’m going to dominate! You’ve got to be ready for this day or you can die! I better get ready. I’m going to have two omelletes, a jug of coffee, and a waffle with nutella.” Then he packs up and goes off to the snowball fight. His componants were the candy cane man, the yetti, and the abominable snowman. On his team there was Rudolph, the boogeyman, and then Santa.

– Alex Krajewski, Putnam Heights

I think Santa wakes up and eats some cookies. Then he wakes up the elves. Next he wakes up Mrs. Claus. He makes some gingerbread coffee (yum) and he reads the North Pole News. He washes his sleigh (shiny). He gives his reindeer some carrots. Next he shovels the driveway. “Oh man, this is hard,” he says. He eats some more cookies. Next he practices going down the chimney (wheeeeeeeee!). Finally, he eats some chicken, ice cream, and another cookie. When he finishes his cookie he crawls into bed. The End... Until the next day (oh, brother.)

– Bridget Handley, Lakeshore Elementary

Santa goes to wake up the elves. He wakes them all up even the hardest ones – Sleepy, Snorer, and Rusle. (They call him that because he is a restless sleeper.) Then they all get to work. Ten elves make army men: Sneezy, Tufersten, Green, My Army, Blacky, and Blue (the twins), Nester, and New (he is a new elf), Oldy (he’s old), and Whirl (he likes to spin). Ten elves work on Teddy Bears and Horses (wooden ones): Teddy, Candy and Cane (more twins), Angel, Soffy, Leaf, Chrismas, Apple, Cookies, and Web. Five elves work on Ducks: Laby, Liby, Lucky, Lily, and Tink. Then Santa thought he would check on the reindeer. The ones he loves are: Skipper, Jet, Magic, and Rainbow.

– Samantha, Lakeshore Elementary


by Jan
 
by Jan

When he wakes up he puts on his slippers and goes down the stairs. He says hi to all the elves. Then he goes to Hollymart to get some green, red, and white clothes. Then he pays the little elf and then he leaves. Then he might go to Santaville Park. He probably sits on the bench and watches all of the kid elves play.

– Tierra Jean Bundy, Manz Elementary

The alarm bell rang. “Oh it is time to go make sume toys.” Ring ring. “Let’s go elves! It is time. We don’t got all day! Well, we do, but let’s get a move on. Where’s Rudolph? I have to feed him. I got mint ice cream, Rudolph. You don’t need to eat all of it.” “Yes I do.” “No you don’t.” “Yes I do.” “No you don’t. We can do this all day!” And they did. The end.

– Ethan V. , Locust Lane Elementary

On a typical day at the North Pole I think Santa would go shopping for wood, hammers, nails, and beat up toys for his elves to fix up so they look good as new. (By the way, Santa had a cookie for breakfast.) “All the kids will love these toys when they are finished,” said Santa. Then when he was done shopping he had 100,000,050 beat up toys. (He already had 90,000 at home.) So when he got home he gave all those toys to the elves and they started to work and all the toys looked good as new. Christmas was good that year and I bet Santa is doing all the same stuff that I told you – and the elves, too.

– Anthony K, Locust Lane Elementary

I would start with steak and ice cream and cake for a dessert. In the morning when the party starts I will make oatmeal. At night I will serve chicken and mashed potatoes. Maybe I’ll grill cheese bugers. For Christmas I would bake cookies with the red reindeer on them. And have popovers and citty coktales with cherrys and the mane meal will be terky.

– Collin Ludvik, Sherman Elementary

I would serve mash potatoes, gravy, steak, chicken and dumplings for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, All Saints Day, and President’s Day. The drinks would be sparkling apple and milk. Dessert would be a two-foot tall marble cake, chocolate cake, and five king-size Hershey’s candy bars and snowman rolls. Mmmmmmmm.
– Sebastian, Lakeshore Elementary

What area third graders would serve for the holiday dinner If I was in charge of making a holiday dinner I would make turkey. I make turkey by putting it in the crocke pot for a couple of days. Then my dad cuts for light meat and dark meat. He puts it all on a plate on the table. We do this every Thanksgiving. Do you know what else I’ll make? It’s going to be delicious whatever I make! I will make potatoes and I will put them in his machine and the machine will mix it up. Then I mash it up and put it in a bowl. Then the potatoes are done. Next I should make stuffing. How I serve it is that my dad makes it and I put on all the seasoning on it and stuff. The last thing to make is chicken. I make chicken that I have in my freezer, then I put it in my crocke pot for some days and I’m done making a delicious meal.

– Taylor, Locust Lane Elementary

On a typical day at the North Pole I think Santa would go shopping for wood, hammers, nails, and beat up toys for his elves to fix up so they look good as new. (By the way, Santa had a cookie for breakfast.) “All the kids will love these toys when they are finished,” said Santa. Then when he was done shopping he had 100,000,050 beat up toys. (He already had 90,000 at home.) So when he got home he gave all those toys to the elves and they started to work and all the toys looked good as new. Christmas was good that year and I bet Santa is doing all the same stuff that I told you – and the elves, too.

– Anthony K, Locust Lane Elementary