Your child’s name, the nice things they did and up to five wishes, turned into a letter to Santa ready to color and mail. Add a Christmas wish list, or switch to a reply letter from Santa for Christmas morning. Free, in your browser, no sign-up.
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Prefer to write by hand? These blank pages print on US Letter paper with holly in the corners to color. Use the maker above to have the name, the nice things and the wishes typed in.
“Dear Santa,” with lines for the name and age, check boxes for the nice things your child did, five numbered wishes and a box to draw a picture.
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Ten numbered lines, each with a little present to color, and a box at the bottom to draw the gift they want most.
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A reply “from the desk of Santa Claus” with lines for the child’s name and three good things they did this year, signed by Santa.
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An official-looking certificate with a seal and signature lines for Santa and the Head Elf, saying your child is on the Nice List.
⬇ Download PDFThe hardest line for most children is the one about being good. These are the 20 nice things in the maker; read them aloud and let your child pick the ones that are true this year, then tick up to six. Specific beats general: “I helped my brother with his shoes” tells Santa more than “I was good”.
Tick “Christmas wish list” in the maker to add a second page: the wishes your child typed fill the first lines, and the rest stay blank for later ideas. Each line has a small present to color, and the box at the bottom is for drawing the gift they want most, which helps grown-ups tell “a toy car” from the exact one in the catalog. Grandparents asking for ideas? Print one copy per family.
Switch the maker to “Reply from Santa (for parents)”. The letter is written to your child by name, lists the good things you tick (“You helped at home”, “You were brave at the doctor”), adds your own message if you write one and ends with Santa’s signature and a P.S. from the reindeer. Print it on cream paper, fold it into an envelope and leave it by the cookie plate on Christmas Eve.
A one-page certificate that says your child is on Santa’s Nice List for this year, with a gold seal to color and lines for Santa’s and the Head Elf’s signatures. Tick “Nice List certificate” in the maker to print it with the name typed in, or download the blank one above and write it by hand.
In the United States, the Postal Service runs USPS Operation Santa: letters to Santa can be posted on the program’s website, where people adopt a letter and send a gift. What USPS says to do:
USPS is clear that there is no guarantee a letter will be adopted or that a gift will arrive, so it is worth telling your child that the letter reaches the North Pole either way. Sources: USPS announcement of September 14, 2026 and USPS Operation Santa: how to write a letter.
Put the details after a # in the address and this page opens with the worksheet already filled in — handy for a class newsletter, a bookmark or a link from a chat assistant. The part after # stays in your browser; it is never sent to our server.
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#name= the child’s name#age= the age#wishes= up to five wishes#mode= reply, for the letter from SantaCombine several with & (for example #title=…&words=…). Separate list items with |.
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Three short parts work best: who they are (name and age), a few nice things they did this year, and what they would love for Christmas, ending with a thank-you and their name. Young children can pick the nice things from the list above and dictate their wishes; older kids can add a question for Santa or a drawing.
In the United States, USPS Operation Santa takes letters addressed to Santa Claus, 123 Elf Rd., North Pole, 88888. The program asks for the child’s full name and return address in the upper left corner of the envelope and a First-Class stamp in the upper right, and the letter should stay flat (no glitter or glued-on objects). In 2026, letters must be postmarked by December 5 to be eligible for adoption, and USPS says there is no guarantee a letter will be adopted.
Choose “Reply from Santa” in the maker, type your child’s name, tick what they did this year and, if you like, add a personal message. The letter comes out signed by Santa with a P.S. from the reindeer, ready to slip into an envelope on Christmas Eve. Add the Nice List certificate for an extra page.
From about 3 to 10. Children 3 to 4 dictate their wishes and draw in the picture box; 5 to 6 trace or copy the words a grown-up writes; 7 and up write the letter themselves and choose their own nice things. Older kids who no longer write to Santa often like filling in the reply letter for a younger sibling.
No. Everything is drawn in your browser, and the name, wishes and message you type are never sent to a server. Your last letter is remembered only in this browser so you can come back to it. There is no account, no watermark and no fee.
¿En español? Carta a Santa Claus y a los Reyes Magos.