Ethan, grade three

Over the years we’ve asked Chippewa Valley third-graders to ponder the season’s greatest questions, including “What does Santa do all day?” Here are some of the most creative peeks that young writers have given us into the personal planner of Jolly Old St. Nicholas.

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, 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, Sherman 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, Manz Elementary

Olivia, grade three

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, Putnam Heights 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, Locust Lane 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, 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, Locust Lane Elementary

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

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, Manz 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, Locust Lane Elementary