Proof that Father Christmas has been - apart from the presents, I mean

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Last year at dd’s house we naturally left out some carrots for the reindeer, in a dish outside. (FC’s tot of brandy and mince pie were in the kitchen.)
In the morning, when I went with little Gdcs to check that the carrots were gone, would you believe it, there were some very messy, chewed up morsels of carrot strewn around the dish!

So of course there were tut-tut, ‘What a mess!’ type comments, followed by, ‘But at least they didn’t pooh in the garden!’

Any more useful proofs?

Since mine were toddlers FC has been extremely messy, he drops trails of chocolate coins all over the place and leaves the tree lights on.

Now they are older I really wish I hadn't started the tradition of leaving the stockings on the bed, it's a nightmare!

They know the truth at 11&9 but still get caught up in it all over Christmas.

Snowy footprints leading up to the tree (even better if you have a fireplace and they can go from the fireplace to the tree.

We try and leave things every year, driving license, lost button etc.

Foot prints from chimney to tree, half eaten mince pie and half drunk glass of milk.

My DM used to get fancy paper and write a nice letter from Santa to say thank you for the food and drink and wrap it up and tie it in red ribbon

Half eaten mince pie and carrot, empty milk glass and the stockings and presents in this house.

Last year Santa left a trail of chocolate coins from the stocking down to the tree, left a note next to the mince pie to say thank you for the snack, the magic Santa key we left outside the front door was left back on the table and Rudolph had left a large bell with the red ribbon on in the garden followed by a large messy trail of glitter.

did far too many things and now can’t think of anything new for this year

The doorframe into the living room is blocked off with wrapping paper, letting everyone know Santa had been and gone. The kids then have to burst through the paper.

He leaves a trail of magic glitter around the house. It’s very annoying and I wish he would cleanup after himself

I'm liking these ideas. He puts crackers and chocolates in the tree here but I do fancy the idea of some more accidental evidence.

Justmuddlingalong genius idea which I am well and truly stealing from you this year. Thank you

Boot foot prints In the snow coming In from the front door. Santa has to come in the front door as we don’t have a chimney. He also leaves blasted glitter when he is going up the stairs.

You should put horse poo from the local stables on the back garden!

DD has a fireplace in her bedroom and her stocking get left in there, along with the port and cookie for Father Christmas. We put paper down around the fireplace "to protect the carpet" from Santa's sooty footprints.

Baby sister next door doesn't get anything special (her stocking is left outside her door in the hall) but this is the last year we'll get away with that, so will have to think of something for next year! No fireplace in her room though. Santa might drop a button in there instead.

When I was little my dad used to leave abit of cotton wool on the fire grate and then pretend that santa had lost some of his beard when coming down the chimney!.... Of course now as an adult it doesn't make sense whatsoever but I used to love it. We've carried on the tradition with my DS.

Santa has left the child's Christmas list that was sent to the North pole by mistake once. It was when they were little and didn't have a huge, long list, so everything was scored off by Santa, but he must have dropped it when he went back up the chimney.

We used to put the presents under the tree (wjen the DC were in bed) and tape wrapping paper over the doorway to the front room for the DC to burst through.

We put a small fibre optic tree on a timer in the hall so they knew when "He;s Been" and they could open their stockings . (Fibre Optic tree was an old one from when DS was a toddler )

I had an Ikea tea set that DD liked to make Magic Tea and Toast ( styed hot) with a tint milk jug, sugar bowl, tiny cutlery and glasses of orange juice .
The Reindeer in our house were given pistachio nuts and left the shells .

Whole mince pie and drink both gone. Just a few crumbs on plate. If he only ate half I'd be disappointed he didn't like it!

We also put out carrots for the reindeer (gnawed ends only remain in the morning, complete with bite marks!) and a bucket of water, which is always nearly empty on Christmas Day. Flying is thirsty work for everyone!

MIL used to leave glitter footprints. The mess!

We chomp up the carrots and leave them on the front garden
Mince pie crumbs on the plate
Glitter in the fireplace.
Last year ds wanted a watch and drew a picture of one on his list. Amazingly one of the elves coloured in the picture exactly the same colours as the watch he got and left it in his stocking!

We cover the living room doorway with wrapping paper, the kids love ripping through it- OH wants to leave the door closed behind the wrapping paper when they're old enough to find it funny 🙈

My dad always left his welly in the fireplace, I always thought it was Father Christmas' boot 😊

Snowy footprints from the fire to the tree. Half eaten mince pie, half drunk milk. Lost button. He leaves a letter replying to our thank you letter on Christmas Eve

@klinghoffer

My dad always left his welly in the fireplace, I always thought it was Father Christmas' boot 😊

I keep misreading "welly" and it's very disturbing!

@SirSamuelVimes omg 🤣 ruined all my childhood memories forever