Santa Claus facts
Around Christmas, all of us get busy doing various things to celebrate the festival. Some of the most popular things which we do at this time include decorating the house, making Christmas ornaments, buying gifts and many other such works. In between all this, if you can manage to find out some of the Santa Claus facts, it will be a good thing for you. Kids will have lots of questions about Santa Claus and if you have these facts handy, you can at least answer some of them without any hassles.
Santa Claus facts for kids
Organize a Santa Claus facts game for kids. Santa Claus is a very popular figure with kids, and they will surely love to test their, skills about the knowledge they have of him. You can arrange some questions about Santa; make the questions really simple, if your participants are very young kids. However, if you have older kids and adults taking part in the Santa Claus trivia quiz, you can include some pf tough questions as well. Give out prizes to the winners; you can also give small gifts to all the kids who take part in the quiz.
Random Santa Claus facts
- Due to the different time zones prevailing in the world, Santa’s Christmas day lasts for 31 hours
- So, statistically speaking Santa is traveling at 650 miles per second, or 3,000 times the speed of sound
- Santa Claus draws up a ‘nice & naughty’ list based on which he gets gifts for children
- If on an average each child’s gift weighs 2 pounds, the total weight which the sleigh carries is 321,300 tons plus the weight of an obese Santa
- The Santa Claus in Finland receives over 8 million letters from kids of more than 150 countries, every year
- Children in Britain burn their letters to Santa, believing that it would be magically transported to the North Pole by the breeze
- Postal workers and other volunteer’s answers the letters, written by kids to Santa
- Santa Claus is modeled on the benevolent Saint Nicholas, who is the patron saint to many groups of people and many countries as well
- Reindeers use their antlers to break through the snow cover, during the winters
- Santa is known by different names, some of the common ones are Sinter Klaas, Père Noël and Father Christmas
- Santa’s lives in North Pole where it snows perpetually with Mrs. Claus and the elves
Funny Santa Claus facts
Surprise your friends at Christmas with your humor, by telling them some of the funny Santa Claus facts. Try to find out some of the uncommon facts; everybody knows about the common ones. Santa Claus facts and trivia contain many interesting things, which you must not be aware of. If you think, you know all that has to be known about Santa Claus, go ahead and take one of the quizzes online. By the end of the quiz, you will know your skills, whether you know it all or you have to enhance it.
