圣诞节英语小报三年级【20篇】

i like christmas, it is just like our spring festival.

maybe the spring festival is much more important and interesting than christmas, but i like christmas day better. because we can spend time with our friends and classmates during christmas. when it is snowy,

christmas becomes much more lovely, just like in fairytales. i can imagine i am in a fairytale, the girl who sold the matches is my friend, the ugly duck becoming more and more beautiful and so on. what a beautiful place! so we can also call christmas “snowy lovely day.”

on christmas day, shops are red and green. there are so many christmas cards, christmas hats, christmas dolls and many colourful things. so shops look very beautiful. we can give a card or a doll to our friends and say “merry christmas.” by the way, i think studying can also become much more interesting.

我喜欢圣诞节,它就像我们的春节。

也许春节比圣诞节更重要和有趣的,但我更喜欢圣诞节。因为我们可以花时间与我们的朋友和同学在圣诞节期间。当它下雪的,

圣诞节变得更加可爱,就像在童话。我可以想象我在童话中,卖火柴的女孩是我的朋友,丑陋的鸭子越来越漂亮等等。一个美丽的地方!所以我们也可以叫圣诞“雪可爱的一天。”

在圣诞节,商店是红色和绿色。有很多圣诞卡,圣诞帽、圣诞娃娃和许多五颜六色的东西。所以商店看起来很漂亮。我们可以给我们的朋友和一个卡或一个娃娃说“圣诞快乐。“顺便说一下,我觉得学习也可以变得更有趣。

christmas is coming

i like christmas, it is just like our spring festival.

maybe the spring festival is much more important and interesting than christmas, but i like christmas day better. because we can spend time with our friends and classmates during christmas. when it is snowy,

christmas becomes much more lovely, just like in fairytales. i can imagine i am in a fairytale, the girl who sold the matches is my friend, the ugly duck becoming more and more beautiful and so on. what a beautiful place! so we can also call christmas “snowy lovely day.”

on christmas day, shops are red and green. there are so many christmas cards, christmas hats, christmas dolls and many colourful things. so shops look very beautiful. we can give a card or a doll to our friends and say “merry christmas.” by the way, i think studying can also become much more interesting.

christmas is coming, it also means a new year will come. let’s study harder to welcome the new year!

liu hua is my best friend. she is less tall than i, but of stronger constitution. she looks more like a boy than a girl and is strong willed. at college, we spent a lot of time together reading, talking,singing and laughing. whenever we were together we feel happy and carefree.

we have much in common regarding ow education, background, interests and hobbies. we often help each other andlearn from each other. once,when she was in the hospital for an operation on her appendix, i took care of her in every way possible, which made xiang song (the young teacher who shared the ward with her) envy our friendship. when i was preparing for put graduate exams, she did the cooking and urged others to help me. after graduation we parted. she went to argentine. i was still in ustc. we promised to meet in the united states. so we both worked hard at our lessons.

true friendship lasts a long time. hard work is rewarding and three years later, we me again. true to our word, we met at the place where we promised to see each other the united states of america. i received an asslstantship in ncsu and she earned enough money in argentine to support herself and work her way through college.

刘华是我最好的朋友。她个子没我高。但比我结实。她的样子看上去与其说是女孩不如说是男孩，她意志坚强。在大学，我们一起度过了许多时光，在一起看书、谈天、欢笑。

我们在所受的教育、家庭背景、兴趣、爱好等方面有很多共同之处。我们经常互相学习、互相帮助。有一次，她住院开阑尾，我想方设法照顾她。这使项松(同病房的年轻女教师)羡慕我们的友谊。当我准备考研究生时，她做饭，并敦促别人帮助我。毕业后，我们分手了。她去了阿根廷，我仍在中国科技大学。我们曾相约在美国相见，因此我们都在发奋读书。

真正的友谊地久天长。艰苦奋斗是值得的，三年后我们又相遇了。我们如愿以偿地相会在彼此相约的地方美国。我获得北卡州立大学的助教金，而她在阿根廷挣了足够钱供自己到美国来读书。

A month ago, the golden child English cram school held a Christmas activities.

We just out of college to the golden boy of fifth grade classes, an enter a door to see is full of balloons, came into the classroom after see the seats are filled, so we had to stand to participate in the activities.

After 15 minutes of waiting, finally to 4 o clock, we began the first part: you like me to guess. Teacher asked several of the students go to guess, a minute, sun Dai Xu and Sun Hongsen (is our fifth grade) guess most, each had a big box.

The second part is a turnip squat, game six people, playing two innings, but didnt call me.

Next to the third step is to answer the question, I heard there are a lot of people complain about the teacher back to us, dont call us. This bureau the teacher finally told me that I easily right topic, get a big box.

This Christmas activities not only did I received many gifts, also received a lot of knowledge. Christmas activity is fun.

一个月前，金童英语补习班举行了圣诞节活动。

我们五年级刚出校门就飞奔到金童补习班，一进门看到到处都是气球，进教室后看到座位上都坐满人了，我们只好站着参加活动。

等了十五分钟后，终于到四点钟了，我们开始了第一个环节：你来比划我来猜。老师叫了几个同学上去猜，一分钟时间，孙戴旭和孙洪森(都是我们五年级的)猜的最多，每人得了一个大礼盒。

第二个环节是萝卜蹲，一局六人，玩两局，可是没叫我。

第三个环节是回答问题，我听到旁边有许多人在抱怨老师背对着我们，根本不叫我们。这局老师终于叫我了，我很轻松的答对了题，得到了一个大礼盒。

这个圣诞节活动我不仅获得了许多礼物，还获得了许多知识。圣诞活动真好玩。

Christmas is a time for miracles

Christmas is a time for miracles.It is also a time when the dull things of daily life and the forecast of human hature gives way to a spiritual awakening.Allow me to share with you one truly wonder of Christmas.

Our miracle story comes from an incident that occurred in Flanders, Belgium, at the dawn of World War I. On December 24th ,1914, German and English troops faced each other from the relative safety of their ditches across which no mans land lying between them. Suddenly, the silence was broken, not by gunfire, but by the strains of Silent Night arising from the German position. It wasnt long before the English troops responded with a Yuletide hymn of their own. Then an amazing sight surprised the eyes of the English soldiers. A German soldier holding a small tree arranged with lighted candles began to walk across the land toward the English lines. This miraculous scene occasioned the declaration of a truce followed by English and German troops greeting one another, exchanging small gifts and singing songs of Christmas. Word of this incredible phenomenon reached the High Command of both sides.

On Christmas Day, both armies moved from their positions to engage in the killing of war at other battlefields. However, on Christmas Eve 1914 on a field in Flanders, there was Peace on Earth.

Christmas is a truly amazing phenomenon. The day and season perpetuate a miraculous, historical event as an annual presence that challenges an often rough, cruel, and egotistical creature -- the human being -- to become open and amenable to their Creators vision. The great miracle of Christmas continues in the performance of humane acts, moral honesty, and in the spiritual awareness of millions struggling to lead a life of grace.

The name of Christmas is short for “Christ Mass”. Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. In 4th century is a holiday for the church. By the 12th century, Christmas had become the most important religious festival in Europe. In 19th century, two Christmas customs became popular-decorating Christmas trees and sending Christmas cards to relatives and friends. Many well-known Christmas songs were written during this period.

For most people who celebrate Christmas, this is a special holiday for gathering of family and friends, enjoying delicious foods, and giving gifts. A traditional Christmas dinner in American includes stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes and so on. One of the most important Christmas traditions is receiving gifts from Santa Claus. Today, Santa Claus brings presents to children in many countries, including the Unites States, Canada, Great Britain and Australia

Water is the source of life. Human can not do without water, animals, plants cannot survive without water. We every day to drink water, water, not only we need water, the fish in the water, the crops of the fields, the trees on the hill, and so on all need water. Some people may think so: water is to burn forever, love how how waste waste, this idea is wrong, we should change the idea.

I listen to mama said, in our city the creek, at the time of their small river on the bottom, they often catch fish in the river, catch shrimp, game play, but now is full of rubbish, into a dry river.

Water had a close relationship with each one of us, if there is no water, crops cant grow, we have no food to eat and vegetables, we wash hands, wash dishes, laundry every day... A moment also can not do without water. We cant live without water. Since the water effect, we should save water, form the good habit of saving water, do people go to close the tap, dont throw the rubbish into the river... Keep water clean.

For all of us have a good living environment, let us together hand in hand together, starts from me, start from now, sets up the idea of saving water, protecting water, take good care of water is to take care of ourselves.

In order to our better future, we all work together!

水是生命的源泉。人类离不开水，动物、植物也离不开水。我们每天要喝水、用水，不光我们需要水，水里的鱼儿、田里的庄稼、山上的树木等等都需要水。有的人可能这么想：水是永远用不完，爱怎么浪费就怎么浪费，这种想法是不对的，我们应该改变这种想法。

我听妈妈说，在我们城里的这条小河，在她们小的时候河里清澈见底，她们经常在河水里捉鱼、捉虾、游戏玩耍，可是到了现在却到处是垃圾，成了一条干枯的小河。

水与我们每一个人都关系密切，如果没有水，农作物就无法生长，我们就没有吃的粮食和蔬菜了，我们每天洗手、洗菜、洗衣…一刻也离不开水。如果没有水，我们就不能生存。既然水的作用那么大，我们就应该节约用水，从小养成节约用水的好习惯，做到人走关好水龙头、不把垃圾扔到河里…使水能够保持干净。

为了我们大家有一个良好的生活环境，让我们一起携手起来，从我做起，从现在做起，树立起节水、护水的观念，爱护水就是爱护我们自己。

为了我们美好的未来，我们大家一起努力吧!

December 25th is Christmas day, the school held a Christmas activities. Our first point group, and we have the moonlight, ice, wind could also day team and so on. 12 lets go to the cross, a search for a needle in a haystack, have a look at the picture story telling, you are not, than hand painting feet, with pink world, amoeba, hair styling... Among them I like the hairstyle design this. Because I like to help others to hair.

12月25日是圣诞节，学校举办了圣诞节活动。我们先分了组，有月光队，有冰风队，还有望天队等等。有12关让我们去闯，有大海捞针，有看图说故事，有你型不型，有比手画脚，有粉的世界，有变形虫，发型设计……其中我最喜欢发型设计这一关。因为我最喜欢帮别人绑头发了。

And Christmas arrived a few days, schools, roads, home everywhere have the atmosphere of Christmas. Although I dont like Christmas, but because of the atmosphere, I also happy.

Its not on Saturday, we are in the classroom layout, you look Liu Jing, Wang Xiaoyuan are decorated with Christmas trees, this is a green Christmas tree, more than 2 meters high, although the tree is false, but still very beautiful, we will be a little Santa Claus, all kinds of candy are hung on the Christmas tree. Of course the most important thing is that our New Year wishes, his desire to write in a small bag, hang on the Christmas tree, wish the wish can be realized at an early date.

Decorated Christmas tree, we will again a bit of Santa Claus sticker stick on the glass window, looked at the Santa Claus we also happy smiling face.

Everything will be decorated, we went home, looking forward to Sundays party in the heart, it must be very exciting.

还有几天圣诞节就到了，学校里、道路上、家里到处有圣诞节的气氛。我虽然不是很喜欢圣诞节，但因为有了这样的气氛，我也高兴的过起来。

这不周六的时候，我们在教室里布置着，你看刘敬、王晓园正在装饰着圣诞树，这是一棵绿色的圣诞树，有2米多高，虽然这棵树是假的，但仍旧很漂亮，我们将小小的圣诞老人、各种糖果都挂在圣诞树上。当然最重要的是我们的新年心愿，将自己的心愿写好放在小小的布袋之中，挂在圣诞树上，祝愿着心愿可以早日实现。

圣诞树布置好后，我们又将一些圣诞老人的贴纸粘在窗子玻璃上，看着圣诞老人微笑的面孔我们也高兴起来。

将一切都布置好了，我们回家了，心中期待周日的联欢会，那一定十分精彩。

我们班的英语课总是笑料百出，最近英语课的语法讲的是关于第三人称单数的问题，上课时常简单的说“三单”，没有想到一个简单的语法知识也能在我们班闹出笑话。

先问一个：SHE是三单还是非三单？那位同学愣了一下响亮回答：非三单。全班哄堂大笑，那位同学害羞的坐下。老师再次耐心的讲了一遍正确答案，并详细解释三单和非三单的差别后，又叫另一个同学站起来回答：Mary后面接do还是dose？那同学不假思索的回答：do。老师还没有反应过来，全班又开始大笑，那位同学尴尬的坐下。老师都讲过好多遍了，不知道他们的脑袋是否短路了。

老师接下来复习以前讲过的语法：Like+Ving形式，这也是讲过很多次的东西。老师点后排的一位同学回答：Like+V_什么形式。他前排的一个同学回头用口型告诉他，他竟然不想别人说的对不对，就响亮的回答+原形，全班又炸开锅。过来几分钟后，老师再次点名问他同一个问题Like+V_什么形式，他想了一下，回答：原...啊不，ing形式。脑袋总算开窍了，可还是受到了全体大笑的“奖励”... ...

我们班的英语课总是在搞笑中度过，想想辛苦的是老师，一个超级简单的问题也要反反复复说好多次。

My favorite person is my mom, she fuck broken heart for my growth. She up very early every morning to cook for me, also send me to school, very hard, I must repay my mother.

Remember once, my mother and I to the set to buy vegetables, and we bought lots of food, my mother bought my special love to eat the food. As to go back home, my mother suddenly say good pain, the original mother accidentally put foot sprain, I hurried to hold the mother go. We walked for a long time, the weather suddenly turned into a cloudy day, it looks like its going to rain, but we are far away from home, so I helped mother to under the roof, I hurried home to fetch the umbrellas, under the rain when I come back up. I open the umbrella for her mother, holding the mother walked slowly home.

Due to the mothers foot sprain, mother every day to me, every night to give mother wash feet. I want to be a filial mothers boy.

我最爱的人就是我的妈，她为了我的成长操碎了心。她每天早晨很早就起来给我做饭，还要送我去上学，非常辛苦，我一定要报答我的妈妈。

记得有一次，我和妈妈到集上去买菜，我们买了许许多多的菜，妈妈买的都是我特别爱吃的菜。正当要回家的时候，妈妈突然说好疼，原来妈妈一不小心把脚扭伤了，我急忙扶着妈妈走。我们走了一段时间，突然天气变成了阴天，看样子要下雨，可是我们离家还很远，于是，我把妈妈扶到了屋檐底下，我急忙跑回家去拿雨伞，等我回来的时候雨就下了起来。我给妈妈撑开雨伞，扶着妈妈慢慢地走回了家。

由于妈妈的脚扭伤了，我每天给妈妈做好吃的，还每天晚上给妈妈洗脚。我要做一个孝顺妈妈的好孩子。

I have a beautiful home .It is big and tidy. In my home, there are two bedrooms, a living room, a study, a bathroom and a kitchen. My father often stays in the living room. He watches Tv there. My mother often stays in the kitchen. She cooks there and she cooks well. And I often study in the study. There are many books in my study. I like reading very much.

Dear Mr. Wang,

Hello!

Recently, our class held the "Beautiful Christmas Chorus Competition" activity, I was unable to participate in the school recitation team recording activity, so I feel very sorry.

Remember Monday, you asked the students: "these days there are two festivals - Christmas and New Years Day, which holiday do you want to celebrate? We happen to coincide with the selection of "Christmas", of course, this is also my favorite holiday, it can be seen that we love Christmas in particular. Although, the festival chose my favorite, but when the team leader, not so gratified. You let the students recommend, but for some reason, the students did not choose me. I think, if you can recommend yourself first, then let the students vote on it. Because only let the students recommend or vote, the recommended students may not want to be, while the equivalent students like me, but may not have the opportunity, do you think I said reasonable?

Teacher, in fact, this is a small matter, the most regrettable is not able to spend Christmas with my classmates. How I envied bu Qingyang the other day for his successful participation in the party! Do you know? That afternoon, during the rehearsal of the recitation team, we were absent-minded, dejected and extremely sad.

Teacher, in fact, I understand your work, you are also for our good, I just want to talk with you about my heart.

merry

The work is smooth

Song Yuxuan

I dont remember how many examinations Ive taken since I began my schooling. Truth to tell, I dont like examinations at all. I dare say that, in fact, no student likes examinations.

We often hear people say “Examinations are teachers magic weapon”, so most of us may think it is our teachers who give us students so many examinations. But I dont think so. Almost all of them have once been students before they became teachers. We dont like examinations, and neither do our teachers, which may be reasonably concluded. Whats more,the more examinations we take, the more time will be taken from our teachers and the more troubles our teachers have to take.

It is the system in our country, I think, that gives us students so many examinations. If there were no entrance examinations, and all the students could go up to the higher grades without competition, there would not be so many examinations in primary and middle schools. So it is important and necessary to reform the entrance system. Only in this way can examinations be GREatly reduced, and then all the students will be happier.

Firstly， studying abroad is the best way to learn a language.there is no better and more effective way to learn a language than to imersed in a culture that speaks the language.

Secondly,studying abroad allows you to get to another culture firstt hand.Culture difference are more than just language food and personal habits.Student who experience culture difference personally can come to truely understand the real difference.

Thirdly,studying abroad can give you the opportunity to travel and make friend around the world,and broaden your horizon.

首先,出国留学是学习一门语言的最好方法。没有更好、更有效的方法来学习一门语言的文化比imersed说话的语言。

其次,出国留学可以让你进入另一种文化firstt手。文化差异不仅仅是食物和个人习惯的语言。学生亲自体验文化差异可以来真正理解真正的区别。

第三,出国留学可以给你机会旅游,让世界各地的朋友,并拓宽你的视野。

Working is important.We work to support our family and to promote ourselves.Therefore in order to prove his ability, someone work with all his might.

工作很重要。我们工作是为了养家糊口，也是为了自我发展。有的人为了更好地证明自己，就拼命地工作。

But the result might be that he probably lost many precious things,such as health and his family.So working is not everything of ones life.Besides working, we should enjoy life more and pay attention to our health.

到头来却有可能失去很多东西，比如健康、家庭。因此工作绝不是生命的全部。除了工作，我们还要学会享受生活，珍视身体。

Christmas Day

圣诞节

Christmas Day is the biggest festival in the western countries.It is on December 25, the birthday of Jesus Christ.Before the festival, every family will buy a Christmas tree, and put it in the middle of the living-room. And their houses look more soft and beautiful.

圣诞节是西方国家最盛大的节日。节日在12月25日，是耶稣基督的生日。节日前，每个家庭都要买一颗圣诞树，放在起居室的中央，这样他们家看起来又温馨又漂亮。

On Christmas Eve, children always hang up their Christmas stockings and hope Father Christmas will come to put presents in them. In fact, their parents put the presents in their stockings.

在平安夜，孩子们总是把圣诞袜挂起来，希望圣诞老人会把礼物放到里面，实际上把礼物放到袜里面的是他们的父母。

How interesting it is! On Christmas Day, people say "Merry Christmas" to each other.

你说有趣不有趣! 在圣诞节那天，人们互相祝贺“圣诞快乐”。

我的家乡在六朝古都南京，南京是个风景优美的大都市。

My hometown is in the ancient capital of Nanjing, Nanjing is a beautiful city.

南京有许多名胜古迹和风景区，比如：梅花山、夫子庙、雨花台、珍珠泉、玄武湖、中山陵……其中最吸引人的就是梅花山和夫子庙了。

There are many places of historic interest and scenic beauty and scenic areas, such as: Nanjing, Yuhuatai, plum hill, Confucius temple, Xuanwu Lake, Dr. Sun Yat-sens Mausoleum, Pearl spring...... One of the most attractive is the Plum Blossom Hill and Confucius temple.

春天一到，梅花山上的梅花就一朵接着一朵的开放了，它们张开粉红色的笑脸，好像在欢迎来自四面八方的客人哩。这时候，梅花山上人山人海、观者如堵，好像一幅美丽的图画。

In the spring, Plum Blossom Hill plum then a flower open, they open the pink face, seemed to welcome guests from all sides. At this time, the Plum Blossom Hill, Spectators stood round like a wall. huge crowds of people, like a beautiful picture.

一到休息日，夫子庙就人声鼎沸，人一走进去，就感觉挤得快要透不过气来了。每年春节这儿都会举办花灯展览，有荷花灯、兔子灯、狮子灯等各种各样的花灯。

A rest day, Confucius temple is Jaleo, people walked in, feel the squeeze to breathe. The annual Spring Festival will be held here lantern exhibition, lotus lamp, lamp, lamp rabbit lion and a variety of lanterns.

如果你不信的话，可以来我的家乡做客哦!

If you dont believe me, you can come to visit my hometown!

the longing summer vacation is approaching, it is the best part of the school year for me. i cannot let the holidays elapse (逝去) meaninglessly, my vacation should be a phase (时期、阶段) of harvest. the events in my plan should give me a sense of infinite potential.

the following plan may reveal the intensity of my desire to travel, work and study in this vacation. in the first few days i want to climb mount hua shan with several friends to refresh ourselves. then i tend to visit relatives, senior school teachers and former classmates(老同学). besides, to find out the best ways to cultivate my abilities, i will find a part time job and conduct some social investigation.

in short, i want to do interesting things in the summer vacation. whatever i do, the goal is the same: to get necessary experience, acquire knowledge and broaden my horizons. though the six week vacation will pass away at lightning speed, its influence is bound to last long.

I have a happy family.They are my father, my mother, my grandma and me. I like my mother very much.

My mothe is a tall woman.She has black hair.Two eyes.A pair of glasses.A small nose.And a small mouth in head. She like wear skirt. So she is a customer.My is a cook,too.She cook delicious dinner everyday .This is my mother.

The original Santa Claus, St. Nicholas, was born in the ancient southeastern Turkish town of Lycia early in the fourth century. His generosity was legend, and he was particularly fond of children. We know this primarily through Roman accounts of his patronage of youth, which eventually led to his becoming the patron saint of children. Throughout the Middle Ages, and well beyond, he was referred to by many names none of them Santa Claus.

Children today would not at all recognize the St. Nick who brought gifts to European children hundreds of years ago except perhaps for his cascading white beard. He made his rounds in full red-and-white bishops robes, complete with twin peaked miter and crooked crozier. He was pulled by no fleet footed reindeer, but coaxed in indolent donkey. And he arrived not late on Christmas Eve, but on his Christian feast day, December 6. The gifts he left beside the hearth were usually small: fruit, nuts, hard candies, wood and clay figurines.

During the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century, St. Nicholas was banished from most European countries. Replacing him were more secular figures, who in general were not at center stage at that point in history..The Dutch kept the St. Nicholas tradition alive. As the "protector of sailors," St. Nicholas graced the prow of the first Dutch ship that arrived in America. And the first church built in New York City was named after him. The Dutch brought with them to the New World two Christmas items that were quickly Americanized.

In sixteenth century Holland, children placed wooden shoes by the hearth the night of St. Nicholass arrival. The shoes were filled with straw, a meal for the saints gift laden donkey. In return, Nicholas would insert a small treat into each clog. In America, the shoe was replaced with the stocking, hung by the chimney.

The Dutch spelled St. Nicholas "Saint Nikolass," which in the New World became "Sinterklass". later changed to "Santa Claus".

Much of modern day Santa Claus lore, including the reindeer drawn sleigh, originated in America. Dr. Clement Clarke Moore composed "The Night Before Christmas" in 1822, to read to his children on Christmas Eve. The poem might have remained privately in the Moore family if a friend had not mailed a copy of it (without authorial attribution) to a newspaper and became part of the Santa legend.

It was in America that Santa put on weight. The rosy-cheeked, roly-poly Santa is credited to the influential nineteenth-century cartoonist Thomas Nast. From 1863 until 1886, Nast created a series of Christmas drawings for Harpers Weekly. These drawings, executed over twenty years, exhibit a gradual evolution in Santa from the pudgy, diminutive, elf-like creature of Dr. Moores immortal poem to the bearded, potbellied, life-size bell ringer familiar on street corners across America today. Nasts cartoons also showed the world how Santa spent his entire year constructing toys, checking on childrens behavior, reading their requests for special gifts. His images were incorporated into the Santa lore.

Santa is known throughout the world in many different names, such as:

Saint Nikolaas (Sinter Klaas), from the Dutch Father Christmas, from the English Kris Kringle, from the Germans Befana, from the Italians Bobouschka, from the Russians (a grand motherly figure instead of a male)

圣诞老人的传说在数千年前的斯堪的纳维亚半岛即出现。北欧神话中司智慧，艺术，诗词，战争的奥丁神，寒冬时节，骑上他那八脚马坐骑驰骋于天涯海角，惩恶扬善，分发礼物。与此同时，其子雷神着红衣以闪电为武器与冰雪诸神昏天黑地恶战一场，最终战胜寒冷。据异教传说，圣诞老人为奥丁神后裔。也有传说称圣诞老人由圣·尼古拉而来，所以圣诞老人也称St.Nicholas.因这些故事大多弘扬基督精神，其出处，故事情节大多被淡忘，然而圣诞老人却永驻人们精神世界。

每年圣诞日，圣诞老人骑在白羊星座上，圣童手持圣诞树降临人间，随着世事变迁，作家和艺术家开始把圣诞老人描述成我们今日熟悉的着红装，留白胡子的形象。同时不同的国度和文化对圣诞老人也有了不同的解释。在德国，传说他扮成圣童把坚果和苹果放在孩子们鞋里。他乘双轮马车四处漫游，观察人们的行为，尤其是小孩，如果表现好，将会得到苹果、坚果、糖等诸多奖品。坏孩子则得一鞭子。家长们灵机一动纷纷采用此传说来鼓励孩子们听话。大大超过了新年，成为一个全民的节日。圣诞老人已经成为圣诞节最受喜爱的象征和传统。他赶 着驯鹿，拉着装满玩具和礼物的雪橇挨家挨户给每个孩子送礼物的快乐老精灵的形象已深深地留在人们的记忆中。

11世纪末来自意大利的宗教士兵将Nicholas圣人的遗物带回意大利，并在港口城市Bari建造了一座教堂来纪念他。很快世界各地的基督教徒纷至沓来朝圣这位圣人。这些朝圣者将圣人Nicholas的故事带回他们的本土，所以有关圣诞老人的传说在各个国家都各具特色。

12世纪欧洲出现了圣人Nicholas纪念日，以互赠礼物和慈善活动为主。德国、法国、荷兰则将12月6日作为宗教纪念日，给孩子和穷人们赠送礼物。

荷兰殖民者来到美洲时，将他们的Sintirklass主教也带了去，Sintirklass身着红袈裟，骑着一匹白马。Sintirklass的美国形象后来逐渐演变成一个快乐的老精灵。起初美国作家华盛顿.欧文在他的喜剧《纽约的历史》中将他描述成一个又圆又胖的荷兰老人。1823年，诗人Clement Moore在他的诗歌《St.Nicholas印象》中继续将Sintirklass/Saint Nicholas的形象戏剧化，这就是各位在本篇开头看到的圣诞老人。

19世纪60年代卡通制作者Thomas Nash画了一幅胖胖的、慈祥的圣诞老人作为《Harper的一周》的插图。这个圣诞老人的形象开始深深地扎根于美国人民的脑海中。随着时间的推移，圣诞老人的形象传回欧洲，传到南美洲，传遍世界各地。

许多国家都保存了他们自己有关圣诞老人的风俗和传说。在荷兰的传说中，圣诞老人Sintirklass还带了一个叫Black Peter的助手，乘着一艘船于12月6日来到。他带着一本大书，书中描述了所有荷兰小孩在过去一年中的表现。表现好的小孩就送礼物给他们，不好的小孩便让他的助手带走。

德国的圣诞老人也带着一个叫做Knecht Ruprecht、Krampus或Pelzebock的助手，肩上背着个装着礼物的大袋子，手上拿着一根棍子。好孩子可收到他的礼物，顽皮的孩子却要给教训几棍子。

意大利的圣诞老人叫La Befana ;法国的圣诞老人叫Father Christmas或Pere Noel ;瑞士的圣诞老人叫Christkindl或Christ Child;斯勘的纳维亚地区的圣诞人叫julenisse 或 juletomte ;而英国的圣诞老人和法国一样也叫Father Christmas(圣诞之父)，他的形象比其它圣诞老人更庄严，更清瘦一些。北美的圣诞老人便是乘着驯鹿拉的雪橇来给孩子们送礼物的。