Free Personalized Santa Letter

Christmas is fast approaching, and with it, your child's anticipation and excitement grow. Give your child something to ease the eagerness and impatience by creating a free, personalized Santa letter made out especially for your child. You can use this free sample letter and instructions for Microsoft Word to make a printable letter your child will treasure.

Start by selecting background stationery on which to print your personalized Santa letter. Click here for a large selection of free stationery templates for Microsoft Word. Download the template of your choice and it will open as a new Word document. If you want to print your personalized Santa letter on special printer paper, simply open a new, blank Word document.

Copy and paste the sample Santa letter below onto the template or blank document. You do not have to copy the asterisks as these are simply there as a guide. Once you have pasted the letter into Word, follow the directions listed after the sample letter in order to personalize and print your child's Santa letter.

Sample Santa Letter
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Dear child,

It will not be long until I load up my sleigh. Soon, the reindeer and I will take off from the North Pole on my Christmas Eve journey around the world. It is a long trip, but I am certainly looking forward to visiting you in hometown, child.

My elves have been watching you through my magic snow globe. They tell me that you have been a very good gender this year and that you even achievement. I am very proud of you. Keep up the good work and remind sibling to keep being a good sibgen, too.

Well, Child, I am sure you know that I have lots of work to do to get ready for my Christmas Eve journey. I need to go check on production in the elf workshop. I saw them making a wish. I think it may have had your name on it!

I will be in Hometown early on Christmas Eve night, so be sure to get into bed and fall to sleep as fast as you can. You know I cannot come in to bring your presents if you are still awake! Oh, and instead of leaving me cookies, would you mind leaving an apple or a carrot for the reindeer? They get very tired and hungry on the journey and they would certainly appreciate a nice snack.

Remember; keep on being such a good gender! The elves and I are watching! Merry Christmas! HO HO HO!

Love,

Santa Claus

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Personalized Letter Instructions

1. In the Word document, press Ctrl+H to open the Replace dialog.

2. Type child into the Find What box. Type your child's first name into the Replace With box. Click the Replace All button. Click Yes and then click OK.

3. Type hometown into the Find What box. Type your town's name into the Replace With box. Click the Replace All button. Click Yes and then click OK.

4. Type achievement into the Find What box. Type something your child has recently accomplished, such "gotten an A in class" or "learned to ride a bike with no training wheels." You can type as many words as you need into the Replace With box. Click the Replace All button. Click Yes and then click OK.

5. Type gender into the Find What box. Type your child's gender (girl or boy) into the Replace With box. Click the Replace All button. Click Yes and then click OK.

6. Type sibling into the Find What box. Type the name of your child's sibling or best friend into the Replace With box. Click the Replace All button. Click Yes and then click OK.

7. Type sibgen into the Find What box. Type the gender (boy or girl) of your child's sibling or best friend mentioned in the previous step into the Replace With box. Click the Replace All button. Click Yes and then click OK.

8. Type wish into the Find What box. Type a gift your child is hoping for into the Replace With box. Click the Replace All button. Click Yes and then click OK.

9. Close the Find and Replace box.

10. Press Ctrl+A to select the entire page. Right-click the text and select Font.

11. Choose Bradley Hand or another font that resembles handwriting. Change the font size to 12 and select red or another Christmas-y color.

12. Print your free, personalized Santa letter and mail or present it to your child.

If you want an authentic-looking personalized Santa letter, send it to the North Pole for a special postmark. Put the personalized Santa letter into an envelope addressed to your child with proper postage. Place this envelope inside a larger envelope, box, Priority Mailer or Express Mail package. Mail this package to:

North Pole Christmas Cancellation
Postmaster
5400 Mail Trail
Fairbanks AK99709-9998

You can send several Santa letters together, but make sure each of the Santa letters have proper postage and that the larger envelope or package has postage as well. Send the package off to the North Pole Postmaster, who will kindly open the package, postmark the personalized Santa Letters with a special North Pole postmark and mail them back to your children. To ensure Christmas delivery, the North Pole Postmaster must receive the Santa letters no later than December 12.