Getting ready for Santa's visit: the stocking, the cookies and the carrots
Your child plans the stocking, the cookies and the carrots, and Santa writes their house first on tonight's route.
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Recorded live with our test child. Santa's words change with every call.
What Santa does
Santa is in the stable planning tonight's route, reindeer stamping around him. They are a bit grumpy.
Last year some houses had no carrots, and Rudolph flew the whole night hungry. The reindeer want to know which houses will have something ready.
He asks what your child will put out for the reindeer, what for Santa himself, and where the stocking will hang.
Then he shouts it to the reindeer: carrots at this house! They jingle with joy, and Santa writes the house on the route map in big letters, first stop.
What you fill in beforehand
What your family puts out and where the stocking hangs. Santa repeats it word for word, which children find astonishing.
Parents ask
- When is the best moment for this call?
- The days before Christmas Eve, when the stocking goes up. In the Netherlands families also use it for the shoe on 5 December.
- Does Santa ask for our address?
- Never. Santa is instructed not to ask for an address or street. He talks about the house as the child describes it.
- We do not do stockings. Does the story still work?
- Yes. Write what you do put out in the note, and Santa plans the welcome around that.
Two tips
- Put the stocking in view of the camera. Santa will spot it.
- Let your child decide what the reindeer get. Ownership makes the evening itself more exciting.
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