A birthday call from Santa: the candles at the North Pole
Santa calls on your child's birthday; the North Pole candles light one by one as your child counts their age.
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Recorded live with our test child. Santa's words change with every call.
What Santa does
It is your child's birthday and Mrs Claus baked a cake so tall the elves need a ladder. Santa sings a line of happy birthday.
The candles are North Pole candles: they only light when the birthday child counts their years and makes a wish that is not a present.
He asks how old your child is today and counts along, one candle lighting per number. Then: what are you doing to celebrate, who is coming?
He asks for a wish that is not a present. Then all candles blaze at once, the reindeer sing the last line badly, and the elves cheer.
What you fill in beforehand
The age, the cake, and who is coming to the party. Santa gets the details right, which is the whole trick.
Parents ask
- Can Santa call on a birthday outside December?
- Yes. Santa is available all year. A summer birthday call surprises children even more.
- Can several children join the call?
- Santa talks to one child at a time best. For a party, let the birthday child call and the guests watch.
- Will Santa sing?
- One line at the start and the reindeer finish badly at the end. It is meant to be funny.
Two tips
- Call before the cake, so the real candles come after Santa's.
- Write the cake theme in the note. Santa will describe Mrs Claus's version of it.
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