Dear Santa, if you bring presents, bring-batteries

Children's funniest Christmas wish lists revealed

December 16, 2014

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Not asking much: A highlight is the letter asking for 5ft-long hair, a real elf and 'most of the presents for me

Children’s funniest Christmas wish lists revealed

With Christmas Day just around the corner, children around the world have industriously been compiling gift wishlists.

But it seems there is no such thing as the average letter to Santa, as blog list25.com has revealed in a top-25 selection of the most hilarious missives.

Varying from the mundane to pure fantasy, each one demonstrates just how enchanted children are by the Christmas season.

Humble demands: In a list of the 25 funniest Santa letters, young Claire reveals her brother's bad habits while requesting binders and hole punchers by way of Christmas gifts — Humble demands: In a list of the 25 funniest Santa letters, young Claire reveals her brother’s bad habits while requesting binders and hole punchers by way of Christmas gifts

Highlights include the more practically-focused notes. One youngster’s letter reads: ‘I am worried that my mummy’s house does not have a big enough chimney.’

Another instructs Santa to ‘please text my dad – he has my whole list.’