Scarsdale Kids Mail 500 Letters to Santa

Santa was in big demand this week in Scarsdale. Kids had deposited a record 500 letters in four mailboxes placed around the Village and he had to collect them, read them and figure out how to fulfill so many Christmas wishes.

The mail was generated in response to the Scarsdale Recreation Department’s Letters to Santa program, and busy elves at the Recreation Department sent responses from Santa to 450 of the 500 letters that included return addresses.

What do kids want this year? Electronic games, dolls, fart blasters, Lego, Air Pods, speakers, slime, remote control trucks, skates, squishmallows, drones, stuffies, make-up and more.

A nine year-old boy said, “I’ve been pretty good this year except I got banned from video games but I know better now.” What did he want from Santa? “Some kind of video game.”

Some looked beyond the material and asked for things that cannot be wrapped up in a box.

One girl asked to “be a smarter kid, to be more successful, to be prettier, to have a best friend, to know if anyone has a crush on her and requested “lots of snow days.” She also wrote a quiz for Santa, “to see if you real,” asking if he knew her favorite color, favorite animal, her favorite sport and the name of her first friend.

Another wrote, “My only Christmas wish is to achieve my goals and have a wonderful new year with my loved ones.”

A six year-old boy decided to interview Santa, before submitting his list for a remote control airplane and a remote control garbage truck for his little brother.

He asked:

1. How did you become Santa?
2. Where did you get your reindeers?
3. How do you go down the chimney
4. Where did you get your sleigh?

A recent immigrant told St. Nick, “U.S. is a new country for me, and everything is new to me too, like new home, new school and new fried also English.But I’m push myself very hard. I made new friend, I join in the school band. I am very excited. I will working harder in 2026. He asked for a German Shepherd puppy and basketball shoes."

A generous soul from Drake Road asked for a puppy but ended her note saying, “But also I would really like for the kids who can’t have presents to have extra toys on Christmas.”
And one who said “I am too old for toys,” asked for world peace, and said. “I hope that all kids, no matter what religion, even if they’re atheist, has a positive holiday season although it might not be perfect.”

From the sampling of letters we read, it’s clear we’re raising some very good kids in Scarsdale. Let’s hope they all find what they want under the tree.

Merry merry.