Meanwhile, at the workshop…
The elves are busy. Scroll down for the season's full report.
Countdown to tracking night
Every Christmas Eve, Santa flies. Here's how long the reindeer have left to train:
It's December: the big trackers are live
Each December, NORAD runs its famous Santa tracker with radar maps and flight updates on the big night. It's free, it's official, and it's a family tradition of its own.
Flight practice
Laps over the aurora every night this week.
Ornament duty
The elves paint a few thousand baubles a day. No two alike, they insist.
Cookie research
Quality control is taken extremely seriously here.
Nice list updates
Filed daily. Being kind to your siblings counts double in summer.
An honest note for grown-ups
This page is our own designed North Pole watch: the countdown is real math to Christmas Eve, and the workshop reports are seasonal fun we write ourselves. When the official December trackers go live, we link you straight to NORAD rather than pretending to have our own radar. Kids deserve the good stuff.