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Kid Stories: A Day in the Life of Santa

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

Chad Kron
 
Chad Kron, Locust Lane

First Santa wakes up and eats breakfast. Then he gets himself a cup of coffee and he sits on the couch and watches TV for a few minutes. Once he’s fully awake he grabs a sled and goes outside. He finds the tallest hill there and runs up to it. He slides down and snow flies in his face. Then after an hour or so he goes back inside and gives himself a cup of hot cocoa. Next he makes himself a lunch. Usually he makes turkey sandwiches. Then he looks through his spy camera that picks up naughty kids. If he thinks it’s naughty enough he’ll press a red button. Then all his spies will set up a trap to catch them. Then he presses a yellow button. The floor opens and he slides down a pole. Underground his reindeer are practicing flying. Then he goes into a secret room and goes to bed for an hour. He plays on the computer, and then goes to bed at 11:52. Lucky! – Devyn Luer, Lakeshore

“Santa missed lunch and breakfast, then he ate one of the back-up reindeer. Some of the reindeer got so mad that they started a snowball fight.” – Vincent Trapani, Manz Elementary

Santa goes to the park and after that he went to the store and bought a whole bunch of bananas. He went home and had a party. He had a ball! He said that was the best party in the whole world. Then he said to himself, “I miss delivering presents to all the kids. How I miss them!” – Tiarah Beamon, Lakeshore

First he gets up in his huge ice block house and goes and makes himself candy cane oatmeal and Christmas pop tarts. He sits down and eats. Then he goes and gets dressed in his regular clothes. He does not want anyone to notice him. (He is very secret.) He hops on his sleigh, rides to Wal-Mart, and goes inside. He buys hundreds, thousands, and millions, maybe even trillions. But that is only on very special occasions. Then he goes and flies over Target and buys hundreds, thousands, maybe even a million – but on special occasions. Then he packs at the places and flies away. He counts how many toys. Then he has supper and goes to bed. – Soren Miller, Lakeshore

Carson Schick,
 
Carson Schick, Lakeshore

Santa wakes up. Now he feeds the reindeer bacon, scrambled eggs, and Christmas trees. Santa takes a shower and washes his big tummy. And then he goes to bed. But he breaks his bed. The next day he makes a big cheeseburger and eats it all. Then he goes and exercises. Now he buys a new bed and sits on it to see if he is too big, but he is not. – Carson Schick, Lakeshore

3:00 in the morning, I wake up in my pajamas which are pretty big. I take off my pajamas and put on my day clothes. I get out of my room and wake up the elves with an alarm. When I wake them up most of them are happy. Status: JJJJJJJJLJJLLJJ. I ask the unhappy elves why they are unhappy. One says I had a bad dream. The others say the same thing. – Tyeler Tibbetts, Lakeshore

Santa wakes up and eats breakfast. He demands his wife to make chocolate chip cookies. Then he demands the elves to make presents for Christmas Eve. He talks on the phone with the reindeer. Santa takes a long shower and sings in the shower. He takes a trip. He gives nice children nice presents. Santa goes to present school. He is nice to little and big kids. He gives them good presents and some people give some presents. He plays with the reindeer all day. Santa watches over kids. I like Santa. He is nice to me. He gives me good and awesome presents and toys. I love Santa. I believe in Santa because he gives people presents all over the world. – Josie Dallas, Lakeshore

I think on a typical day Santa looks at his globe all day and sees if we are good all year. And sees if we get presents or not. I think all he eats for breakfast, lunch, and dinner is milk and cookies. – Max, Sherman

Nicole Franson,
 
Nicole Franson, Locust Lane

On a typical day, Santa trains his reindeer. And he lost 10 pounds. Then his wife made 100 cookies and Santa got back 100 pounds. Now he weighs 170 pounds. He works on all the toys and he makes snowmen, too. He roasts marshmallows in the snow. They are a little too cold for a marshmallow. He goes ice fishing too. He catches walleye, northern, and bass. They like bass the most. They invite their friends for a fish fry. Their friends say, “It is good, but would be better with ketchup.” – Devin Pestka, Locust Lane

The day starts when Santa’s alarm clock goes off “Beep Beep!!” Santa has a little pad by his bed because he falls out of bed a lot because he’s so chubby. This morning he didn’t. Santa said “Yes I’m losing weight.” So he started brake dancing. Then Mrs. Closs walked in and said “What the heck are you doing?” Santa said “Sellabrating because I finiley lost one pond.” Mrs Closs said “We should sellabrate with cookies.” Santa said “Yes I get cookies!” When the cookies were done Santa chomped all 30 cookies in less then 10 seconds. When he was done he ran into his bathroom and hurried. Believe me, I talked to an elf and it was not pretty. – Chad Kron, Locust Lane

Santa wakes up and has some brakefast. The he gets drest. He plays some bolce ball he scors 126 points in all. That’s alout of points. Then Santa played football he scored 200 touchdowns. He played hakey with the elfs the elfs scored 20 and Santa scored 40. He had a snack and it was cookies. Then the unthinkaball hapen. He turned in to Super Santa. – Tristan Colonna, Locust Lane


Grace H., Locust Lane
 
Grace H., Locust Lane

One day Santa said “I can’t fit in my cloth any more.” Mrs. Closs said “What are you yelling for, Santa?” Santa ran 7 mile. Untell he got to the toy shop. There were no toys. The elf’s got to work. Boom, boom, thump, thump. Santa said “What are there a lot of noise’s?” Mrs. Closs said “What are you doing out here?” “Where making toys,” said an elf. Mrs. Closs said “OK.” Santa said “I need 10,000 toys before Chritmas.” An elf said, “Wow.” Mrs. Closs said, “Were are the marshmallows?” Santa said, “Aahhhhh.” That why you way 104 pounds. I can fite in my cloth. That’s why it is Santa’s best day. – Peter Xiong, Locust Lane

When Santa get up he gets some cereal and starts to work on getting our presents made. He probably dose that for a long time. Then Santa gets his dinner and goes to sleep. And gets ready for a new day. – Erin S., Locust Lane

One day at the North Pole Santa sleept the whole day. The next day he got out of bed and fell down the stairs and rolled in the kichen. Then asked if there were any coockies. They said you get a lot tomorrow because it is Christmas. The next day he flew off and came back and said “There were no cookies!” And went to bed. – Mason Voeltz, Locust Lane

Tyeler Tibbetts, Lakeshore
 
Tyeler Tibbetts, Lakeshore
When it is 5am in the morning he wakes up his elves and yells at them. He says “Start making toys for the kids before I POUR ICE COLD WATER ON YOU!!!!!” Then he makes hot cocoa to drink. At 11:30 he eats lunch. He has Subway, grilled cheese, and hot cocoa. At 1:00 he polishes his sleigh. Then he shovels up the reindeer poop. Then he has a snowball fight with his elves. After that he makes a snowman with Mrs. Claus. Then he goes and checks on his penguins. On Christmas he gets up at 8:00 at night to deliver presents to the kids. He gets there by riding in a red enormous sleigh being pulled by flying reindeer. When he is done he goes back to the north pole and yells at his elves to “GO TO BED.” Then he puts on his pajamas and then goes to bed. 
– Chewy Ruff Gutarri, Manz

Santa gets up at 6:00am. For his beard he puts on growing cream. Next he watches Biggest Gainer instead of Biggest Loser. Now, it’s 8:00am. Then, he practices sleigh riding for the next five hours. Then he always forgets to help the penguins. So, he goes to help them but as usual, the seals ask him to help build dens. He has to refuse because he didn’t bring his shovel. So he walks over to the penguins. He stomps on the ice, but unfortunately he always falls in. So the penguins pull him out. Now it’s 6:00. He gets home at 6:30. He drink hots cocoa, and goes to sleep.
 – Benjamin Young, Manz

Santa gets up at 7:25am. At 8:00 he has a cookie and hot chocolate from Swiss Miss. That’s his breakfast. At 9:50 he yells so hard at the elves he almost squeaks to his elves to work harder. At 10:00 he plays with the reindeer for a small amount of time. After that at 10:05 Mrs. Claus and Santa start making presents. Then he polishes and puts 1 coat of paint on his sleigh. Then at 11:30 he has a brownie and some milk. After that he watches TV at 12:00. Then at 1:00 he reads letters from little boys and girls and writes letters himself. At 3:30 he watches iCarly on TV. At 4:00 he plays with his reindeer and his elves. At 6:00 he has hot chocolate from Swiss Miss and has spagetti for dinner. Then he watches iCarly at 7:00 and falls asleep after reading more letters. The end.
 – Jada, Manz

Santa wakes up at 1:00 in the morning. He wakes up to go the gym. But first, he has to put on a mask. So he rode his sleigh to Gold’s Gym. When he got in nobody said ... “Hey! It’s Santa Claus.” Santa walked down a deep hallway. Bam! Santa pushed the door open. He walked around the gym one time. Santa came back to where he started. He bent down to grab his gym-bag, when he heard a loud high-pitched laugh. It came out like this: hee-hee ha ho. “Oh great!” thought Santa. Santa picked up the bag and unzipped it. The elf spring out like a kangaroo. “Go get in my sleigh, little elf!” yelled Santa. When Santa arrived back at the factory, he yelled at the elves to make more toys. Santa had missed lunch and breakfast, then he ate one of the back-up reindeer. Some of the back-up reindeer got so mad that they started a snowball fight. Santa got so cold after the snowball fight he went in to brush his teeth. He grabbed the toothpaste and put it on his brush. He turned on the water, got it on his brush, then shut it off. Puttch! He spit the water out because had accidentally put wasabi on it. So Santa got his melatonin (sleeping medicine). Then he went to the reindeer and filled them up with monster and coca-cola. Then he suddenly felt a weakening in his body. And he fell to the ground sleeping and snoring loudly! The end.
 – Vincent Trapani, Manz