Santa Interviews: Mrs. Kidwell's Kindergarten Class

NATHAN BATES

Q: How much does Santa Claus weigh?

A: (laughs, shrugs) I don't know!

Q: Can you take a guess?

A: (laughs) He's like 50!

Q: What's Santa's favorite thing to eat?

A: Cookies and milk! Chocolate chip cookies!

Q: Do you know any of his reindeer's names?

A: I know one is Rudolph!

Q: What's special about Rudolph?

A: Cuz his nose lights up! But I don't know why it does.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A Sonic and a Sonic 2 and a Sonic ring.

Q: You really like Sonic! Why?

A: Cuz he's fast and he turns into a ball and he rolls around!

ANISTON FELLOWS

Q: Do you know how much Santa weighs?

A: (shrugs) I don't know.

Q: Ok. Do you know who helps Santa make all the toys?

A: (eyes light up) The elves!

Q: How big are elves?

A: (holds her hands apart about 6 inches) Like that big!

Q: How do they get the presents to you?

A: They fly!

Q: Cool! Does anyone else know how to fly?

A: The reindeer!

Q: Do you know any of their names?

A: Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer... but I don't know the rest.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: (huge smile) A horse!

Q: A real horse or a toy one?

A: Toy! A brown one!

Q: You've really thought about this! Do you know what you'll name it?

A: Keela!

ELLIE BOWEN

Q: How much does Santa weigh?

A: (thinks long and hard) Like a million!

Q: How come he weighs so much?

A: Cuz he eats a lot of chocolate chip cookies! (rubs her belly and licks her lips)

Q: Who pulls Santa's sleigh?

A: The reindeer. There's that one....umm....his name....umm....Rudolph!

Q: How does Santa get into your house to give you presents?

A: He just walks in.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A Barbie House!

Q: What color house?

A: Pink! For my three Barbies!

CHARLEE WIRTH

Q: How does Santa get into your house to bring presents?

A: He comes through the chimney.

Q: Is there a fire in the chimney when he comes down?

A: (shakes her head laughing) No!

Q: How much do you think Santa weighs?

A: (laughs and shrugs)

Q: Is Santa skinny or chubby?

A: He's chubby!

Q: Who is Santa married to?

A: Mrs. Claus!

Q: Where do they live?

A: At the North Pole.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: (huge smile) A cry baby!

Q: What's a cry baby?

A: So, like, you put a binkie in and when you take it out of their mouth they cry.

Q: So you want a baby that cries a lot? That sounds horrible!

A: No, well...(thinks about it for a second)... I'm gonna keep the binkie in.

ASA DUVELIUS

Q: How much does Santa Claus weigh?

A: (distracted by voice recorder) um I like...I like...I want a yo-yo from Santa!

Q: What color yo-yo?

A: GREEeen and white!

Q: Are you good at the yo-yo?

A: YEAH! Oh, and he weighs (notices when he talks louder the recorder flashes) TEN INCHES TALL!

Q: How does he get into your house to deliver presents?

A: Cuz, he ummm... (tapping his finger on his chin) ummm...he can go through my chimney.

Q: Who helps Santa make the presents?

A: His friends, the elves.

Q: How big are they?

A: THREE inches TALL! (laughing at the recorder)

Q: Where does Santa live?

A: He lives at...at he lives (getting very excited watching the voice recorder lights bounce)... at New York City and he's coming to MONTANA!

Q: Does Santa drive here from New York City?

A: No he drives in to a...he can't drive...he drives his reindeer sled...and it FLIES in the AIR!

HENRY WHITE

Q: How tall is Santa Claus?

A: Probably about, this big (stands up and puts his hand over his head)...maybe?

Q: So, when you stand up, he's....

A: (jumps) Well, no, a little bit bigger than that.

Q: How much does he weigh?

A: 500 pounds!

Q: Is that a lot?

A: That's a lot a lot!

Q: How'd his tummy get so big?

A: Uh...uh...uh probably from eating so much.

Q: Do he have a favorite thing to eat?

A: I do not...welll...no...probably all the Christmas stuff he eats!

Q: Do you know his reindeers names?

A: Dancer, Prancer, Blitzen and I don't know the rest.

Q: Do you know which one has the red nose?

A: Yeah Rudolph (rolls his eyes) but he's not my favorite.

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: I only want three things. A Star Wars Destroyer from Star Wars, a fake coin silver, and a fake coin gold.

Q: You must really like coins.

A: I like them because they are fake and you can buy stuff.

AALIYAH RODRIGUEZ

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: (whispers) New toys.

Q: Toys! What kind of toys?

A: (big smile) Horseys.

Q: What color horse?

A: A white one.

Q: White horses are pretty. Do you know its name?

A: (huge smile) Snowflake.

Q: You've thought a lot about this! Does Snowflake like warm weather or cold weather?

A: She likes the cold.

Q: Where does Santa live?

A: (shrugs and shakes head)

Q: Do you have a favorite Christmas cookie?

A: The creamies.

Q: Those sound good. What are those?

A: You put the creamies on the cookies, the sugar cookies.

ELOISE OSTRANDER

Q: Elves..how tall are they?

A: uh...umm...I don't know!

Q: How much do you think they weigh?

A: 10

Q: How does Santa get the presents to your house?

A: He uses his sleigh!

Q: Does his sleigh have a motor?

A: (shakes head giggling) No! With the reindeer!

Q: Do you know their names?

A: Rudolph... (thinks for a bit) that's the only one I know.

Q: Everyone seems to know Rudolph. What's so special about him?

A: He has a red nose!!

Q: But when I get a cold I get a red nose. Why's his special?

A: His nose glows in the dark!

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: (big smile) A unicorn toy.

Q: What color do you want the unicorn to be?

A: A blue unicorn. I want sparkles on my blue unicorn, like on my dress (pats her sparkly pink princess dress)

JAMES WEBER

Q: Would you like to talk about Santa Claus?

A: Why?

Q: Because we're getting ready for Christmas! Do you like Christmas?

A: I like Christmas. I've got an elf on the shelf named Pillow.

Q: What's the Elf on the Shelf?

A: He makes sure you're being good for Santa! But if you don't be good for him...guess what? (very excited) You will get coal from Santa!

Q: Have you ever gotten coal from Santa?

A: Yes. (smiles devilishly)Q: Why did you get coal from Santa?

A: Because I was being a bad, bad boy. But I will get presents this year because I've been a good boy. (smiles big)

Q: Do you know how much Santa weighs?

A: At the North Pole he weighs fifty ten hours! (excited)

Q: Fifty ten hours! Is that a lot?

A: Yep. So he uses his magic to come out of nowhere. He goes in your fire thingy but there's no fire in there because we don't want to burn Santa. Cuz if you burn Santa then he will not give you presents and he will give you coal out of a door!

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: Three presents! A race car, a Sonic stuffie, and a Venom costume!

FLINT BRIAN

Q: What does Santa look like?

A: (thinking) He's red!

Q: Do you know how much he weighs?

A: I don't think I know.

Q: Do you know any of his reindeers?

A: Rudolph! He has a red nose! He flies in the sky and leads the others with his nose.

Q: How does Santa get in your house?

A: Magic!

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: (excited) Army guys!

Q: Big ones or little ones?

A: The little green ones!

BRAXTON LEWIS

Q: What's Santa look like?

A: (shrugs)

Q: What does an elf look like?

A: (shrugs)

Q: How about a reindeer?

A: (shrugs)

Q: How about a Christmas tree?

A: Green!! We put stars on it!

Q: What do you want for Christmas this year?

A: A robot game where the robots fight each other!