Dearest Santa, I would like . . .
Editor’s note: These letters to Santa Claus were intercepted by The Mirror on their way to the North Pole. The letters are verbatim, whenever possible. Some younger children were aided by teachers or parents in writing their letters, while many other children wrote their own letters.
Dear Santa,
I want a computer for cherismas. Are stokings are haging by the dining room. Cherish Gomer
Dear Santa,
I wuold like a whiketoke. I hope you like the ceookes that we mand. Love Sarah Wetta
Dear Santa,
I watt a sag. I watt a gok. I hav bin gud. John Smith
Dear Santa,
I want a 4 weler. I want a game. I have been very good. I want som good. I want a puppy. I want som game boy games. I want some fome. I want a gokart. I want a c.d. Kelsie Lumley
Dear Santa,
I would like a skooter. And a laptop. And I realy want a dirt bike. And I realy realy realy want a pupy. And I would also like a gocarte. P.S. I have bin realy good. Megan Hummelgaard.
Dear Santa,
I have been very good may I plis can I have an x box and a playsashin and ninjuset maebe a chestset a dert bike and a street losh bord siy borg city and gooze. Mike Fare
Dear Santa,
Here are the thangs that I want
Drum.
Cotencandey macker.
Snow cone macker.
Clowes.
Bookbag.
I have ben good.
Have you ben good?
Tara Jo Gergick
Dear Santa,
I want a DVD play ples. What is your favoriten coler? Qur saocks are haning by the sares. And I want more parsaldolls ples. Love, Tresia Frecks
Dear Santa,
I want a pack of pokemon cratds please. And I want pokemon gam. Jake Spencer
Dear Santa,
I want a moersicl.
I want some jerzy.
I want a new bick.
I want a jrum.
I want a gatar.
I want a miker fon.
I want a speker.
Love Tyler Newman
Dear Santa,
I have been a good boy. I want a rase trak and I want gooz. I want stirfom and I want poke/mone. Kody Campbell
Dear Santa,
I want a drit bike a pack of pokemon crads I want a pokemon batelstateum I want a cuppoel pokemon gameboy games oh and I have ben good. Taylor Treichel
Dear Santa,
Santa I like a toy car. I wuld like a toy trok. Can you pring me a gocar. Can you pring me a snke. I gant a horse. I gant a mlkentrok. Tony Juarez
Dear Santa,
I want a pack of pokemon cratds please. And I want pokemon gam. Jake Spencer
Dear Santa,
I would like a race trak. And I would like a coputer and a priter. And I would like a new pare of jenes. Have I bine good? And I would like a DVD player. And I would like a fuse shrt. Love, Rebekah Adcox
Dear Santa,
I want a dirtbike for Christmas. I want a lago shark. I want a lago life on mars set. Payton Vermeesch
Dear Santa,
I want an amarekan doll that has something of my famely. Emily Vaughn
Dear Santa,
I have been a very good boy. This is what I would like for you to bring me. Maybe a new computer game that would help me with my school work, some pokemon cards, a bike, and anything Scooby do. Jeff Dietrich
Dear Santa,
These are the presents I would like. I want 20 packs of poke/mon cards. Harry poter for Gameboy Advance. A Harry potter coin. The for Harry potter books. A Laptop. A Game boy advance cristal version. Tyler Basso
Dear Santa,
I would like a lot of pok/emon cards Plaes. I would like a pet snake for Christmas Plaes. Can you bring me a Harry Potter coin Plaes. Would you plaes give me more play stashin. Could you try to give me plaes more game boy games. Tyler Bartholomew
To: Santa
From: Matthew Richardson
I want remote control Tony Hawk. The remote control car jacknife. The red white black blue bionicals and the beasts. The Harry Potter casting Stone game. The Harry Potter remote control quidditch game. Some new playstation games like razor Free sytle, Harry Potter and Driver 2. New wrestlers. Team transport car toys for mini cars. Tech Deck course and Decks complete. And a xbox.
Dear Santa,
What I want for Christmas is rollingshoes and a CD player and a CD 98 degrees and socks and a dress. Love, Dena Espeland
Dear Santa,
My name is Harlan and I’m 4. I’ve been very good. Please bring me doctor Barbie and the Extremely Goofy movie.
Thank you. Harlan
Dear Santa,
How are you? I’m fine!
This Christmas I would like things that go in an aquarium for my Dads house and for my moms house I want a aquarium big enough for a Vail chamaleon and 60 bucks for me to spend! Thank you so much! I don’t know what I would do without you! Good luck on all of your trips!
P.S. Say hi to your reindeer, elfs and Mrs. Claus.
P.S.S. Do you like my writing and do you know if I am a good girl or a bad girl? Tell me on Christmas!
From, Kimberly Bainter
Dear Santa,
How are your Reindeer? I hope you are having a good day and winter. How do you think I was? I think I was good. I help my Nana and Papa and my Mom and Dad and my brothers. I would like Army stuff, a new video game, Green Bay Packers football and helmet and some WWF wrestlers. I think Nan would like some yarn to sew. Nana and Papa have been good too. Papa likes to read books. Could you bring him one? Tony was good and so was Andrew. They like hunting stuff, they need new hunting clothes. I hope you can go to Nana’s house. She makes good meatballs! Love Thomas
P.S. I will leave you cookies and milk.
Dear Santa,
Thank you for my toys last year. I really would like to have a Barbie nutcracker doll and the Prince nutcracker dolls and the Barbie nutcracker horse. I really want to have a toy that squeaks, cries and laughs, just like my baby sister. Santa, I would like a toy that rides a bike that squeaks and hops. I would like to have a doll that rolls down the hill and talks. I would like to have a dolly that has no hair, but she can grow hair. I would like the sleep beauty dolly, sleeping beauty movie and Ariel Barbie doll. I leave cookies out for you they will be right on the front table. I love you and can’t wait until you come. Hailey.
Dear Santa,
I’m one year old now. My sister and I are very excited about Christmas. We can’t wait until you come. I would like to have a car that’s plastic that I can ride in. I would like to have a baby doll. My sister and I love you very much.
Gracie.
Dear Santa,
My name is Eric Tate. I have been good this year. Please can you bring me some presents?
1. Thomas the train
2. A Teddy Bear
3. A real live kitten
4. Remote control car
5. A new trampoline
Thank you for being my friend. Whatever you bring me I know I will like it.
Love, Eric
P.S. Guess what? I just lost my first tooth.
Dear Santa Claus,
I might get some candy if I get a toy. I have been good all year. I got a baby brother this year. I have been nice to him. I love him.
I want a bow and arrows like Robin Hood and a hat like his and shirt and pants and shoes. I would like a green tow truck like the one at school. I would like a toy Spiderman like Simone has, and another Batman. And the Robin Moore. How about a spaceman skeleton with a helmet. Some toy Indians and a Scooby Doo movie Here’s a picture for you, Santa. I like the color purple. I like toys and candy. Thank you for the Christmas last year, and the pirate ship. I really liked our Christmas tree.
Thank you.
Love, Will Smith
Dear Santa Claus,
This is my first Christmas. My mommy is writing my letter for me. I’ll be 10 months, almost 11 months old by Christmas Day. Mommy says I’ve been very, very good. I’ve been trying to walk so I want toys I can walk with and lollipops!
Thank you.
Love, Ronnie Smith
Dear Santa,
I have been good. I have worked real hard at school. Please bring me
1. Jurassic Park Dino Corral
2. Bionicle Mauka Kane-ra
3. monsters Inc. Headquars Playset
4. WWT Signature coll Series
5. Pokemon Interactive Trainers
6. KNEX Screamin’ Serpenl Roller Coaster
I will have cookies and milk waiting.
Love, Dylan Matthew Haufler
Dear Santa,
I have been very good this year. Please bring me a radio.
Love, Shannon Haufler
Dear Santa Claus,
Hello! My name is Shelby and I am 7 years old and I live in Tonganoxie. I have been a very, very good girl this year. My mom said that you couldn’t bring me everything in the Christmas Wish Book, so I reduced my list down to ten things that I would like to have this year. They are: Mary Kate and Ashley dolls, Barbie Cash Register, Dr. Barbie and Kelly, Barbie Nutcracker movie and doll, Shrinky Dinks, a bathrobe, slippers, a Barbie trunk with wheels, Shake It Nails and Puppy Magic.
I will leave you some milk and cookies, Santa. Hopefully, you will get to them before my dog does.
Love, Shelby Pitts
Dear Santa,
Please may I have Harry Potters levitating ball game, Skaners game by Radica, Harry Poter potions class kit, Hotwheels Fireball set and a Hotwheels Cyborg set.
Love, Devin
P.S. have a safe trip. Merry Christmas! And also a Playstion game Sheep Raidar. You might find it at Toys ‘u’r us.
Dear Santa:
How have you been this year. Did you go anywhere on your summer vacation? We went to Chicago last summer. Could you bring me a remote controlled snake, a Batman, and a boys race car. I hope you come to our house. I will leave milk and cookies by the fireplace for you and some carrots for the reindeer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Megan Ebbert
Dear Santa:
How are you feeling? How is Rudolph the red nosed reindeer? I saw a reindeer with my class on Friday on a field trip. I also saw one of your helpers on the field trip. I want a Jam & Glam Barbie, a Polly studio and a little Polly with clothes. Please come to our house. Have a Merry Christmas!
Love from the best little girl in the world,
Katherine Ebbert
Laura’s Christmas list
1. cloths
2. cherleting suit
3. crystal that is green
4. computer with priter
5. TV like in the lifing rome
6. inhaler
7. candey
8. Sark toth on a nonist
9. No more fiting enywere
10. jakit
11. soks
Dear Santa,
I have ben realy good and this is what I want for Christmas. Rad 4.0 Monster Patrol and a Playstation 2. WWF Smack Down for Playstation 2. Your Friend, Weston Jones
Dear Santa,
How is Mrs. Claus? Please bring me a jack-in-the-box for Christmas. I like pink and blue. Have a safe trip when you give out toys. Love, Ashley Thurston
Dear Santa,
How is Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer? What is your favorite color? My favorite colors are blue and yellow. I love you a lot. Please bring me a cobra snake remote control toy for Christmas. Love, Colton Timm
Dear Santa,
I love snow. How much snow do you have at the North Pole? I want a remote control space ship for Christmas. I will take it in the front yard. Love, Jeffery Stauch
Dear Santa,
I like to play in the snow. Do you like snow? I want you to bring me a pick-up remote control and a monster truck for Christmas. Love, Wade Stephens
Dear Santa,
I would like to know how hold Rudolph is. I am six years old. I would like that new rescue hero toy for Christmas. I have been good. Love, Tyler Wehmery
Dear Santa,
I can spell Santa. Please bring me a water baby for Christmas. I have been good three days at school. Love, Kenna Bradley
Dear Santa,
I want some presents. I want an alien car and a Pokemon toy. Love, Klinton Counts
Dear Santa,
Are you ready for Christmas? Have you put the toys in the bag? I would like a Polly Studio and a Barbie. I have been kind of good this year. Love, Kate Ebbert
Dear Santa,
How are the reindeer? Have they been good? I would like a Ken doll this year. I have been good this year all the time. Love, Megan Ebbert
Dear Santa,
How are the reindeer. Rudolph is my favorite reindeer. Please bring me a Barbie and a Barbie house for Christmas. Love, Hannah Heeter
Dear Santa,
Do you play in the snow? Snow is fun. Please bring me an army guy for Christmas. My brother is bad, but I am good. Love, Zack Garner
Dear Santa,
How is Mrs. Claus? I taught my little sister how to count to 10 in the car the other day. Please bring me a Harry Potter Electronic Castle deluxe edition. Love, Nettie Larson
Dear Santa,
Do you have our presents? I would like new gloves and a dinosaur for Christmas. Love, Dylan Olson
Dear Santa,
How are you doing at the North Pole? I love you. Please bring me a Slithering Jake, the RC snake, and a cotton candy machine for Christmas. I also want a Barbie thing that makes real cookies and cakes that you can really eat for real. Love, Madelyn Lewis.
Dear Santa,
How are you? I love you. Please bring me a Barbie and cupcakes for Christmas. Love, Dany Koontz
Dear Santa,
How is Mrs. Santa. How are the elves doing? Please bring me a box of crayons and a plastic telephone. That’s easy to make. Love, Lisa Laub
Dear Santa,
Hah are you Sata? Today triy to git the toys. Thes is the sec letr. Braden Abramovitz
Dear Santa,
I would like a Gof got. A sgrt sum nowsos. A pair of tevy. A sosmagp agamu asedy satuy hwe or you saeduyihop. Youiikemy coose. Madison Tanking
Dear Santa,
How are you doing for Christmas I woud like a brand new blue color paintball guy with blue shot bullits. And I want an x box nintendo and a stereo and some big kid bibs. Tanner Smith
Dear Santa,
How have you been? I wunt a gameboy. I am going to leve you cookes milk fefernuts and I wunt a game for it. I wunt the mleneum parrty cd. Lauren Hughest
Dear Santa,
Santa Haw are you? I im fin. Haw is Duner? I like a shrat. Alvin Cox
Dear Santa,
May I pleas have a toy kerej that can fit in with my little sister. Santa I am goin too giv you sum chookes for Christmas and I am going too be a good girl for my mom and dad. And I am going too be nice too my sister for Christmas. Love, Sidney Grinter
Dear Santa,
I want a ice cream maker I saw in a magasen. And something I don t know the name of. I want a new video game and a new computer. Lindsey Truesdell
Dear Santa,
Mikle jasin moketrol skateborde. Dominic Pitts
Dear Santa,
How have you been Santa? Thanks for the toys that you gave me last year. I’ve been good. I hope you like my cookies and milk. I hope you like my tree and my stocking. See you in eighteen days. I hope you like my card. Rachel Sparks
Dear Santa,
I don’t know what I want for Christmas. And I will leave milk and cookies for you. And I’ve been a good boy. From Grant Rahjes
Dear Santa,
I want the inlin skas for Christmas and a Barbie for Christmas to santue I will leve you sum cookies for christmas. From Shelby Pitts
Dear Santa,
How are you? I want more cd. I am going to leve you cookies milk fefemuts and I want a gameboy and game for it. Beth Krivjansky
Dear Santa,
A gameboy and a dog a fowoll a cor A new paltballgon. A new bad sad. Colin Bennett
Dear Santa,
Bring me a lot of presents. I want a monster-truk and a little pupy and a CD that is cold NickleBack. Austin B.
Dear Santa,
I would like a dirt bike. I would like a cd player. I would like a cd. I would like a gocart. I would like some pokemon cards. I will levae you some milk and cookie. Derek Lingo
Dear Santa,
I want a cd player and new pokemon cards. And a gocart. Austin Leach
Dear Santa,
Plase all I want is a CD. Dream Street. I will give you some cookies. Clair Lenn Mckay
Dear Santa,
How are you doing with the clothse and the toys and I am going to give you some cookse. I wont a scoder and make up to. Megan Berry
Dear Santa,
Santa I would like to get my threewillers fixed. I’d also like some new cd’s and have a merry Chrismas. Tyler Freeman
Dear Santa,
How are you doing, Santa? How’s Rudolph? I would like Pokemon MewTwo Returns. That’s a new movie. I also want a tape recorder. Love, Chris Hancock
Dear Santa,
I love you, Santa. Please bring me a bike. I like purple. I also want a Ken doll. Love, Paige Peel
Dear Santa,
We are going to have a Christmas party at school. Can you come? Please bring me a raptor that has a scratch on it and makes noise. They are at Wal-Mart. Love, Rich Miller
Dear Santa,
I love you, Santa. Do you have any show at the North Pole? I want a laptop that can open and close for Christmas. Love, Joseph Bray
Dear Santa,
How are your reindeer? What do you feed them? Please bring me a computer and one Barbie doll for Christmas. My Mom has my list. Love, Morgan Oroke
Dear Santa,
How is Rudolph doing? Please bring me a Play Station 2 and a laptop for me for Christmas. I am good. Love, Cole Holloway
Dear Santa,
I love you. Please bring me a Barbie and a game for Christmas. Love, Larissa Willburn
Dear Santa,
How are the reindeer? Please bring me a big girl bike for Christmas. I like pink. Love, Brayleigh Lloyd
Dear Santa,
How do the elves make toys? Please bring me a bike and some roller blades for Christmas. I also need a new helmet because I can’t find mine. Love, Taylor Norton
Dear Santa,
How are you? Please bring me a black fish and a toy car for Christmas. Love, Zac Jones
Dear Santa,
How are you doing? Please bring me a Barbie play cell phone and a puppy for Christmas. Love, Shelby Burke
Dear Santa,
Do you have the presents ready? Please bring me a hot wheels car like the one in commercials where the robot eats the car and throws it in the slime ditch. Love, Nate Allenbrand
Dear Santa,
I wish I could live at the North Pole. I would play in the snow. Please bring me a computer and a pony for Christmas. Love, Shelby Fatherley
Dear Santa,
How are the reindeer. I want a Barbie car for Christmas. Love, Abigail Torres
Dear Santa,
How are your reindeer? Please bring me a Dragon Fly and a big train for Christmas. Love, Justin Salmon
Dear Santa,
Hi! Is Rudolph there? Please bring me a real puppy and a Rocko-Soko robot for Christmas. Love, Karrington Johnson
Dear Santa,
This christmas I only wan’t ten thing’s. American dall. And a puppy dog. And a new par of jeane’s plea’s . I have bene a litl bad this year so it is ok. From Makayla Leslie
Dear Santa,
I would like a Rain bow art set. I want a cat can I have shoe skats. PLES Love Courtney Bunch
Dear Santa,
How are you I wont a kittin and I wont a puppy and I wont goozs and I wont a bike and I wont some skatshoos. Aubrey Drozinski
Dear Santa,
How are you? For Christmas I want something for my brother, a gameboy, battel tops, a football jersey. A Dream Street C.D. Your friend, Ben Williams
Dear Santa,
This is my Christmas list I would like a bask ball gole. I want a cat. I want a knew bike. a knew woch plese. love Niki Beggs
Dear Santa,
I want a rad 4.0 and a Palystashin 2 WWF Smack Down for Palystain 2 I have ben reie good. Yor frind Weston Jones
Dear Santa,
What is it like to live at the north pole? Do you make a lot of snowman and snowdogs and snowcats and snowbirds? I would like a puppy for Chirstmas. I also want a Nintindo Game Cube with ten games. I would help your elvs make toys. Please tell Roudough to come to my house first! Your Friend Dane Erickson
Dear Santa,
I would love to live with you how is it at the Northpole are you make alote of toys are your ealfs ok are you good if I lived with you I would help you make toys and help diliver presents I have been good. Love, Bobby Edmonds
Dear Santa,
This Christmas I went a puppy and a scooter, and a scatbord, iv bin good. Heath Moore
Dear Santa,
I want a rabbit pochy cat brd a cputer with a tiprter my sistr that wus atadebar a cd pias, swith brasis aretanr. Breanne Hiatt
Dear Santa,
This Christmas I wan’t a parit because I like pets.I wan’t a pug for Christmas. and mabbey some pares of close.puchey for Christmas. yore frend Darien
Dear Santa,
For Christmas I want the Grench movie. And Shrek. And a DvD player. A boom box. C.D. Ihave ben verey good. Yor firnend Beth Jobst
Dear Santa,
I want a dirt bike and a spidr.
love joe Beach
Dear Santa,
How are you? For Christmas I Want the Game Cube, the Shrek Movie, the remocantrol dirtbike, playstaison 2 an da set of dreby cars. Gabe Sosman-Bernhardt
Dear Santa,
I wued like a Baretny tuer bus.
A gam bay. A god in skooter
A stooft dolfin. A know bike.
A ball. Chelsie Hallgrimson
Dear Santa,
I want a dog and a toy car please and same money please and a moster trok and a football. Rheed Bartels
Dear Santa,
His is what I would like for Christmas
Anotbook and a pen.
A new bike.
A drie.
Aburtyfly palow.
And a new par of roolerskie.
I just need to say one moor thing
I have bene good.
Love Maggie Gripka
Dear Santa,
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Dear Santa,
Nice to met Santa how are you filing I want the Gamecuber and I want the Harrypotter and and want a dirt bike. Austin Sinkrad
Dear Santa,
I what a toy what goot a lot of cande and a toy is a mocol trol car and a lot of car.
Ray Flick