Christmas is a time for excitement and wonder, especially for kids. They have the biggest and boldest dreams and truly believe in the magic of Santa, elves, and reindeer. As adults, we know too well how hard it can be to find the perfect gifts for the little humans in our lives — the list of toys can be endless and their curiosity boundless. But what about when their requests leave you scratching your head, to say the least? Their fervid imaginations can lead to some pretty unusual gift requests, making us wonder how kids can be this weird.
Just ask any parent who has had to deal with children wishing for a real-life dinosaur or a pet unicorn for Christmas. It’s an absolute joy to see their faces light up with excitement when they open their Christmas presents, but how do you even deal with… this?
If you’re ready to be amazed and amused by the weirdest things kids asked for Christmas, check out these funny Christmas stories that people shared on AskReddit. From hot dogs to a coffee maker, a horse’s head to a divorce, it seems that some kids have pretty wild ideas about what the perfect present should be like. This list of weird Christmas gifts is sure to leave you laughing and feeling nostalgic for the days when your own holiday wish list was just as imaginative and absurd!
#1
"My uncle was a Santa and he told me that one year a kid asked for a coffee maker because he wanted to start his own Starbucks coffee stand instead of a lemonade stand. Apparently business was not very good as a lemonade stand but he noticed a lot of adults drink coffee, so he'd make coffee."
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158points
#2
"I have been a Mrs. Claus for the last few years and I always ask the kids what they want while we do our crafts. My favorite was this 4-5-year-old girl that told me she wanted 'one of those loud horns'. She made a gesture like she was using those canned air horns and she made a little horn sound. She said she wants to use it to wake up her baby brother when he naps in the daytime so he 'knows what it's like.'"
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152points
#3
"One year my brother asked for a dustpan. This was well in advance of Christmas and everyone assumed he would just forget it and move on, but as a joke one of his presents was in fact a shiny new dustpan complete with the little mini-broom. Of course, there were also the typical toys you'd expect a 5-year-old to enjoy, but he wasn't particularly interested in those. Instead, he spent most of the next week or so sweeping things into his dustpan."
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148points
#4
"I asked my 6-year-old student what he would like from Santa and he said being able to take more naps."
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147points
#5
"My brother once asked for a 'tiny broken thing', when Santa looked to my mother for guidance she explained he likes fixing things."
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135points
#6
"My mum found an old Christmas wish list I'd written to Santa when I was 5. I'd asked for all 101 of the Dalmatians."
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132points
#7
"Well, my son walks up to Santa, refuses to sit on his lap but instead takes his hand, stares him dead in the eye and says: 'I want one of your elves. He’ll live with me and grant my every wish. If I don’t like him, you can have him back next Christmas.'"
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121points
#8
"After waiting two hours in line my daughter asked Santa for a hot dog."
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114points
#9
"According to my parents, when I was in kindergarten I asked one of the teachers (who was dressed as Santa) for an orange. Just one, simple orange. Later on, the teachers asked my parents if our economic situation is ok or not."
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113points
#10
"I asked Santa to grab a toy I had accidentally thrown on the roof since he was up there already. My dad was not thrilled with that request."
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108points
#11
"I remember one Christmas I asked for a microwave for my uncle because he broke his."
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106points
#12
"Yesterday the big sister asked for a pet mouse, the little sister asked for a snake."
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105points
#13
"My 4-year-old daughter asked for hand sanitizer. Later confessed to me it was because everyone in her class was full of germs."
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97points
#14
"Once my sister asked Santa if she could have a horse's head and an ice cream cone. She explained that she was gonna paint the ice cream cone the color of the horse, stick it on, mount the horse's head to the wall, and tell her friends she killed a unicorn."
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96points
#15
"My daughter asked for pancakes one year. It was very cute. But then I had to get up and make pancakes on Christmas morning instead of being lazy."
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95points
#16
"When I was like 9 I wrote a goodbye letter to my parents telling them Santa was going to pick me up and take me to the North Pole. I sat out in our car and waited on Santa to show up and take me away. The dumbest thing about this was that it was the middle of the summer."
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95points
#17
"When I was 3 years old, the mall Santa asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I gave him a PERFECTLY reasonable answer: purple."
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95points
#18
"One time my 4-year-old sister asked for her rights back. She had no idea what it meant and it made the family laugh."
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95points
#19
"I overheard mammy saying to son just outside Santa's grotto, 'You can't ask for a time machine, they are just too big for the elves to build.'"
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94points