Just for Fun

Are the little ones eager to send the year's wish list to Santa? Create a memorable Santa letter--and print it, too--with this online Santa letter generator from Scott products.

Choose from one of three colorful templates, then personalize the letter with your child's name, age and favorite reindeer. If you're comfortable sharing an e-mail address, Santa will send a message back to your child!

Print A Letter To Santa

The Internet's best-loved sock monkey is in the holiday kitchen today, making fruitcake--and this Web photo set could convert even the most adamant fruitcake-refuser. It's holiday fun with a twist:

Hi Monkey Makes Fruitcake

Bonus Printable: Make a Hi Monkey Ornament

The humor is perhaps bit too dark for the small fry, but grown-up fans of Jack O'Lantern will enjoy this YouTube comedy video. Think twice before you carve that smiling face:

The Life and Death of a Pumpkin

On the 9th day of Christmas, my good friend gave to me ... a virtual holiday sweater? Create your own with MyHolidaySweater.com, part of the OfficeMax.com "Spread the Cheer" campaign.

Choose a design, color, and pattern, then go crazy with embellishments to create your one-of-a-kind holiday sweater.

While you're there, roll the mouse over the OfficeMax.com tab in the lower right part of the screen for more seasonal links. You can elf yourself, shoot your eye out or shake a snow globe. Fun!

My Holiday Sweater

The S-Man's coming soon! Track his progress around the world on Christmas Eve with NORAD's Santa Cam:

Track Santa with NORAD

Nothing separates the seasonal sheep from the holiday goats like fruitcake. Either you love it or you hate it, and there's no middle ground.

So if you're one of the few, the proud, the fruitcake fans, do we have a blog for you. It's all things fruitcake, with reviews, photos and links:

Mondo Fruitcake Blog

Even Christmas-lovers can have an invitation to which they'd like to "just say no!" Whether it's a neighbor's noisy open house or an old buddy's beer bash, here's help: an online holiday party excuse generator.

Use the friendly interactive snowman to help you find the words; you can even e-mail the RSVP to the hapless host! Just in time--and just for fun:

Holiday Party Excuse Generator

It's a Christmas Countdown of a different color: a crafts countdown for kids, from FamilyFun.com! With a different free printable craft for each day in December, children can have fun preparing for Christmas, too.

Projects include coloring pages, ornaments, gifts and decorations. Get 'em now:

Countdown to Christmas

It's the Big Day! To keep little trick-or-treaters occupied while they wait for darkness to fall, check out this site from NationalGeographic.com.

You'll find Halloween word games, cards, costume ideas, trivia quizzes and other kid-friendly features:

Halloween Fun for Kids