Twelve sheets · print and hand over a pencil.
Every one is a free PDF sized for US Letter, with writing rules set generously for a child's hand. Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for.
How these work
These are the sheets a child writes to Santa on, which is a different thing from the letter that comes back. They are PDFs rather than Word documents on purpose: a six-year-old fills one in with a pencil, so what matters is that the ruled lines land in the same place on every printer, not that the file can be edited. If you want the reply, the letter from Santa templates come in Microsoft Word and Google Docs so you can type into them.
The prompt in the drawing boxes does not print
Five of the sheets have a large box to draw in, and on screen each one carries a faint prompt — draw your picture here, trace your hand here, draw a map of your house. That text sits on a screen-only layer inside the PDF, so it shows while you are choosing a sheet and vanishes when the page prints. The child gets a clean, empty box rather than a printed instruction sitting in the middle of their drawing.
Cheap to print, and fine in black and white
There is no background colour on any sheet and nothing runs to the paper edge, so you do not need borderless printing and a page costs about what a plain page costs. They hold up printed in greyscale too, if the colour cartridge has run dry — which, in the third week of December, it usually has. Everything sits inside a quarter-inch margin, so no printer clips the candy edge along the top.
Which sheet for which age
- Preschool and kindergarten — Draw a Picture, or How Big I Am Now. Mostly a big box and two or three blanks, so a child who is not writing sentences yet can still finish one.
- Early school — My Wish List, Have I Been Good?, Counting Down. Short ruled lines and numbered rows, which is about the right amount of writing.
- Older children — Just Two Things, A Map to My House, Reindeer Snack Order. These ask for a reason or a set of directions rather than a list.
- A whole family or a classroom — From All of Us gives three siblings their own panel on one sheet, and This Is My Family has room to draw everyone at home.
Mail to the North Pole is worth printing alongside whichever sheet you choose — it is an envelope face with the North Pole address already on it and a box for the child to draw their own stamp, which is usually the part they remember.
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Updated through July 2026.