To ask what you you tell your children about how Santa gets in when you don’t have a chimney?

[Faerie87]

We never had a chimney at our childhood home and my dad always use to tell me that when you don’t have a chimney, then Father Christmas takes some roof tiles off the roof and gets in the attic and then comes through the hatch in the attic!

I remember one year when there was a really bad storm on Christmas Eve we lost some roof tiles and our attic door was blown open! It was very memorable!

What do other people tell their kids or what did your parents tell you?

Magic key - although one year we couldn’t find it on Christmas Eve to leave out but it turns out the elves had picked up it early to save Santa time that year!

We live in a flat so we leave a magic key out for him too. I really should get Father Christmas an extra one cut so he can just hang on to it.

We have a chimney but, instead of a fireplace, there's a radiator. So he goes down the chimney, unscrews the radiator from the wall and then, on leaving, screws it back on to the wall

Magic

@Flobalob, I burst out laughing at your radiator explanation.

He has a Skelton key

Bevelino - my kids have never questioned it! Now age 8 and just turned 10! But mild SEN so maybe that's why.

Santa creates his own magic chimney to climb down (like in Santa Claus the Movie). And then it vanishes when he leaves.

Your children must all be impressed with your Santa knowledge, whenever ds asked I said I didn't know, nobody knew really and we used to come up with some ideas of how he might together. It saved me having to remember details I had previously told him.

Santa has a magic key that can open any door (but only on Christmas eve) of course.

This is what I used to tell ds every year when he asked how Santa could get down the chimney when there was a gas fire in the way.

Santa is in fact a wizard. He bewitches the present to make them feather light and has an undetectable extension charm on his sack.

He puts spells on the reindeer to make them fly, uses a time turner to make enable him to travel all over the world in one night and apparates into houses without chimneys.

We're Harry Potter fans

My mum used to tell me she leaves a key out for Santa. We have 2 wood burners and my DS (3.5years) told me the other day that the Elves would come down the narrow flues so either someone has told him that or he's being creative!

If they ask how gravity works what do you tell them?

We had a “magic key” we put out on Christmas Eve.

What goes up must come down, simple answer really for small children. For older children a more detailed explanation of gravity or tell them to Google it.

Just say you don't know. He just does.

always been a magic key for me. My mum still hangs it out even though no one believes in santa anymore. Thinking back, I do wonder why i never tested out if it worked when i was younger!

Through the window!!

@JacquettaW I like yours even more than mine. I am also a massive potterhead. Wonders if it is too late to change the story when DS is nearly 9.