Can you feel the Christmas magic yet? No doubt the kids can and are getting ready to write that all-important letter to Santa and Christmas list! With this in mind, we thought we’d put together a quick post to highlight all our free letter to Santa and Christmas list templates. So, if your child is writing his or her Christmas correspondence to that magical man at the North pole this week, perhaps these will come in handy:
Multiple Choice Letter to Santa
Christmas List and Letter to Father Christmas
Letter to Santa and Christmas List Template
My Christmas Wishlist
A Picture for Santa
Printable Christmas List
Need a Reply?
If your child has written a letter and/or Christmas list, or drawn a picture for Santa, you may be looking for a reply. Obviously, we have to keep it general, but we’ve created the following resources to help you out:
If the Christmas clock is ticking and your little one is dragging his or her heels about getting that Christmas List written, this little reminder from Father Christmas may just do the trick. Good luck and have a very merry Christmas – ho, ho, ho! x
Santa Claus or Father Christmas?
Many of our letters to Santa Claus are also available as letters to Father Christmas. This is because we know that people in different families and places call him by different names. In the UK, we find the preference is for “Father Christmas”, in the USA it’s “Santa”.
We’re sorry that we haven’t managed to provide two versions of absolutely every resource – we’ve had a lot to do and have been short on time. However, if there is an alternative version of any of our letters, you’ll be able to see a note and a link underneath it.
Not long now until that spooky time of year – so we’ve collected a few of our favourite Halloween printables together below. Some are popular every year, others are new additions. Whatever you’re doing on the 31st of October, we hope you have a frighteningly good time!
Best Halloween Costume
Halloween Ghosts and Cat
Printable Ghosts
Good Spelling (Pink)
Paper Doll: Halloween Witch
Bemused Ghost
Happy Halloween Bunting
Halloween Bunting
Cupcake Wrappers: Spiders
Cupcake Wrappers: Halloween Party
Blank Witch Certificate
Halloween Note from Santa Claus
Halloween Award for Brushing Your Teeth
Halloween Pumpkin
Happy Ever After
Man-Eating Plant Paper Basket
Witchy Chore Chart
Monster Chore Chart
Monstrously Good Marks
Monster mix
Halloween Party Invitation
Pumpkin Patch
Candy Corn
Black Cat
Scarecrow Party Bag
Scary Hand and Pumpkin
White Cat
Witch and Cauldron
Happy Halloween Frog Notepaper
Halloween Frog Envelope
Frog Paper Basket
Vampire Bat Paper Basket
No Trick or Treat Posters
Trick or treating is great fun but it’s fine not to want to take part. You don’t need to give your reasons to opt out but one of the best ways to let trick or treaters know it’s not for you is to put a light-hearted notice up in your window. Here are a few which might help you out.
No Trick or Treat Halloween Poster
No Trick or Treat Happy Halloween Poster
No Trick or Treat Poster
No Trick or Treat Poster (Black and White)
If you’re looking for some simple paper decorations to hang around the house, you might also like our Halloween ghosts:
Oooo! And before you go, you might like to create some decorative jars full of spooky potion ingredients. If so, why not make use of our Witch’s Pantry Potion Labels. It’s a great way to get your house looking just like a witch’s hovel!
Autumn is upon us (in the UK anyway) and so is the time of harvest. In fact, did you know that the Old English word “haerfest” actually means “autumn”? Yes, indeed, and for those of you looking for some harvest festival printables for your children to help celebrate, we’ve assembled ours below.
When is Harvest Festival 2023 (UK)?
Harvest Festival is celebrated on the nearest Sunday to the Harvest Moon (that’s the full moon nearest to the September equinox). This year in the United Kingdom, the Harvest Moon will shine down upon us on Friday 29 September. So that means the 2023 Harvest Festival Feast will fall on Sunday 1 October.
This year’s autumn equinox is actually a couple of days before that on Saturday 23 September 2023, and harvest-themed church services can take place throughout September and October.
As harvest celebrations in general take place over several days, it doesn’t really matter when you have yours. Traditionally though, it was never held after Michaelmas Day on the 29th September, because that’s when the church decided that the Harvest Festival period should officially end. The idea was that all the crops had to be brought in before St Michael’s Mass and that parishes would then gather in their churches to give thanks. These days, dates are not as strict.
Corn Dolly Twist
Also, it’s worth remembering that traditions surrounding bringing in the harvest predate Christianity by a loooong chalk, in the UK going back to at least Saxon times. Some of the very old traditions are feasting, dancing and playing games. Making corn dollies was also popular, which were carefully kept in people’s homes as a tribute to the Spirit of the Corn or Goddess of the Grain, in the hope that he or she would make sure there was a good harvest the following year. Not all corn dollies were made in the shape of a doll mind you, some were woven to look like bells, crosses, knots, spirals and animals such as hares and horses. Different parts of the country often had their own corn dolly traditions.
All in all, Harvest Festival time was a chance to come together and have fun, to be thankful for whatever the land had supplied, and to lift people’s spirits and put them in a positive frame of mind, ready to get through the winter.
After all that of course, we’re in the run up to Halloween…
Happy Harvest Festival Colouring Page
Colouring Cornucopia
Harvest Festival Bunting
Autumn Leaves Bunting
Count the Ears of Wheat
Autumn Fairy Paper Doll
Scarecrow Party Bag
Blank Harvest or Thanksgiving Note
Blank Harvest or Thanksgiving Note
Thanksgiving or Harvest Bunting
Green & Red Oak Leaves
Brown & Yellow Oak Leaves
Van Gogh “Sunflowers”
Van Gogh “Girl in White”
Cornucopia
Autumn Leaves
If you’re having your own Harvest Festival celebration at your home, church or school, you might like our free printable poster:
The Midnight Messenger – Fairyland’s Newspaper! (Summer Issue)
Hello dear visitors! By popular demand, we’ve uploaded a summer issue of our Fairyland newspaper, the Midnight Messenger, for you to print for your child. Although the world is finally recovering from the pandemic, we especially hope it will help entertain those of you having to self-isolate thanks to catching Covid-19.
In this issue you can find out what’s been happening at Christmas House, where the Easter Bunny has been on holiday and what the Tooth Fairy’s been up to as of late. As always, our thanks to Leone Betts for all her hard work putting it together and for allowing us to make it free on this site.
Are you looking for the previous issue? It’s here.
What is the Midnight Messenger?
The Midnight Messenger is the newspaper which gets delivered all around the magical world – read by everyone from Santa and his elves to the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and every other magical personality you can think of. And this summer, your child can read it too!
We’ve uploaded it as a PDF. Just click here or on the picture below to download or view it. It’s completely free. We hope it makes you and your little ones smile.
P. S.
If you enjoy this resource, please consider telling others. Our site survives because of people like you using it. Thanks x
More About the Midnight Messenger:
For those of you after more information about our Fairyland newspaper, it was first created in 2003 by L A Betts. It was early days for our site and as we didn’t have many visitors back then, after a couple of years we retired it. However, it carried on being delivered every month to magical folk of course, and has often mentioned in our other creations, such as the Father Christmas letters.
The Midnight Messenger is normally in black and white, but special issues like the one for Easter, are in colour. It regularly features news from well-known parts of the magical world, like Father Christmas’s house in the North Pole, and features many familiar characters such as Jack Frost, the Sandman and the Tooth Fairy. But it also features new characters your child won’t have heard of, such as the Worrying Witch, the Fortune-Telling Toad and all sorts of goblins, fairies and elves.
It’s always hard to know what people want more of, but if we sense the Midnight Messenger is popular, we’ll consider adding further issues to our site.
Although dwindling in popularity compared to Halloween, the 5th of November is still celebrated in many parts of the UK. We’ve created a handful of printables with this in mind and whether it’s “Bonfire Night”, “Guy Fawkes Night” or “Fireworks Night” in your house, we hope you find them useful.
Guy Fawkes Mask
Fiery Guy Fawkes Mask
Fireworks Guy Fawkes Mask
Lacy Guy Fawkes Mask
Bonfire Safety Poster
Fireworks Safety Poster
Fireworks Safety Poster
Bonfire Party Hat
5th November Party Hat
Guy Fawkes Night Hat
Remember, Remember Scrolls
If you’re looking for a printable version of that famous Guy Fawkes Night chant, ours are below. They’re a great way to add to the 5th of November decorations.
Guy Fawkes Night Chant
Remember Remember Rhyme
Orange Circles
Butterscotch Circles
Bats
We hope you have a roaring good time on Bonfire Night, but remember to be careful… fireworks can be as hot as dragon’s breath, and you wouldn’t go too near a dragon, would you? x
You may think it’s a way off but before you know it, it’ll be that time a year again!
Sure, it’s an inner groan from those of us who dread the Christmas shopping but on the children front, it’s hard not to smile when you think of the upcoming magic. We’ve been doing this long enough to know that right this minute there are children out there wondering if they’ve been good enough (and if not trying to do better rather hurriedly!) for a certain someone to bring presents this year.
It’s a great time, therefore, to encourage your little ones to use their imaginations… Far up in the North Pole the Christmas clock is ticking; the elves have started to wrap up their presents, the reindeer have begun getting into shape for the long journey on Christmas Eve, and the Nice List is sparkling into life. Will your little one’s name magically appear on it?
With this in mind and for all those who just can’t wait, here are our five favourite free early Christmas printables. In our house, we use them to build excitement early on, so that by the time Christmas rolls around, our children can almost hear the sleigh bells. We hope you and yours enjoy them too.
If your child has been good, it’s never too early to let them know they’re on the nice list! As well as being a printable image you can write on, this one also comes as an editable PDF, which means you can just hit the appropriate button (underneath the main image) and type straight onto the certificate.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Check out the rest of our Christmas certificates here.
Our before Christmas letters have long been popular with anyone who wants to find out what magical things have been going on at the North Pole. A Kitchen Full of Reindeer is one of our favourites and it’s completely free from this site. (Check our Terms of Use.) It’s a magical, funny letter, telling the story of how all the reindeer have ended up causing havoc in Santa’s kitchen.
Oh – and if you’re folding/rolling up your letter and want the back to look pretty, you can always print one of our Christmassy letter-back designs on the other side.
We hope you enjoy our letters, but please remember they are only for personal use – it’s not legal to sell then or use them for any other commercial purposes. Their copyright remains with the author.
This is a great note for anyone who wants to let their children know that a couple of Santa’s elves are popping by (in secret of course) to see if they’re being good. Use it as early as you like to encourage good behaviour and for extra effect, print and fold a little envelope from Santa to put it in.
Your child will need a mirror to read this top-secret message – but that’s all part of the magic.
This cute note is a great reward for a child who has been good all year. It’s such a great feeling to know the elves have noticed!
Looking for more letters from the elves? Try this page of our site.
Along with the rest of the resources on this page, we really hope this note helps you create a little extra magic for your loved ones this Christmas. x
Now that spring is on the way (at least in here in the northern hemisphere), maybe it’s time to get active. Or perhaps you’ve been struck by a sudden need to clear away the cobwebs and spring clean the house. Either way, if you’re hoping to enthuse the kids, you could try rewarding them with one of these fun certificates. If schoolwork is more your child’s thing, there are a couple of certificates for that too. Everyone likes to see their efforts recognised, just print them out and stick the to the wall or fridge.
Bike Riding AwardMini-Monster CertificateAward for a Ship-Shape Cabin (Ready to personalise)Editable Horse Riding Certificate TemplateLearning to Swim (No name needed)Learning to Swim (Ready to Personalise)Learning to Read (Ready to Personalise)Learning to Ride a Bike (Ready to personalise)Monstrously Good StudentScarily Good SchoolworkFairy Certificate of TidinessSafe Socks AwardLearning to Swim
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Brave as a DragonStrong as a DragonFairy Certificate of Achievement
With the summer underway, (at least in the northern hemisphere – apologies to those elsewhere!), we thought we’d post a short list of our most popular summer printables. We hope you find them useful:
Thank You for Having Me to Stay During the Summer Holidays
Thank You for the Pocket Money
Thank You for Feeding My Pet
Thank You for a Lovely Day Out
Thank You for Babysitting Me
Thank You for My Birthday Present
BEST FROM THE WEB:
For anyone looking for more lovely summery resources, here are a few of our favourites from around the internet:
Printable Masks – This site has a great collection of masks to keep the kids entertained this summer, or indeed at any other time of year.
Hidden Pictures – This selection of charming pictures with things hidden all over them is great for keeping children busy over the summer. Like hide-and-seek on the page! They can also be coloured in for extra fun.
The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee is coming up and celebrations are taking place throughout the UK between 2nd to 5th June 2022. It commemorates her being on the throne for seventy years, which is the longest of any British monarch, and no doubt there’ll be street parties aplenty.
If you’re having a street party and want it to look extra pretty, you might like to make some of these cute paper baskets and fill them with treats such as sweets, raisins and peanuts or popcorn.
Platinum Jubilee Paper Basket
Platinum Jubilee Paper Basket
Printable Basket – Spring Flowers
Floral Printable Basket
Printable Flowery Paper Basket
Printable Flowery Paper Basket
Roses Paper Basket
British Flag Paper Basket
UK Flag Paper Basket
Oh and don’t forget our free Platinum Jubilee Poster:
Jubilee Poster
Jubilee Paper Chains
Paper chains can be an especially good way to get the children involved in the Jubilee celebrations. Just print, cut out and glue the ends together.