Do It Yourself and Other Educational Chimney and Fire Safety Articles

This is one of funniest questions asked by kids during the Christmas season. How does Santa fit down the chimney? Santa Claus, also known as Jolly old Saint Nick, flies around on a sleigh driven by reindeer, delivering gifts and special toys to children on Christmas Eve. He is magical because he is really fat but is able to use strange powers to fit down the narrowest of chimneys. Kids wonder a lot about his movement and how he could possibly fit down a chimney?

According to Christmas folklore, Santa often goes from house to house to deliver presents. After landing on the roof, he climbs down the chimney and leaves unique gifts for children to find in the morning. He will enter each house through the fireplace and leave toys and candy canes for all children who have been good and are fast asleep in bed. Then he will eat any cookies and milk if you leave it out for him and climb up the chimney to make his exit.

Does Santa have the capacity to fit into a chimney? Santa has the unusual power to compress his body into a tiny size before fitting down through the chimney.

What about kids that don’t have chimneys in their homes? Santa uses magic to make himself and also objects move around.  He enters the houses without chimneys through magic by simply creating one temporarily and climbing inside.  The chimney and fireplace disappear when he leaves but the toys stay!