I expect that come Christmas Eve your kids will be rather excited. To them, the 24th December has many more hours than the standard twenty four, and that time runs slower than at any other day of the year. The TV is showing non-stop Christmas: Christmas movies, Christmas specials, Christmas music on every single channel. Well this fantastic website might give your little ones something else to focus on for the day…

The NORAD Santa Tracker is a website developed by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, which tracks and plots the position of Santa Clause on Christmas Eve as he travels across the globe delivering presents to millions of children. A map of the world with Santa’s position is updated every five minutes so children can see how close he is (it also provides a little leverage to parents to persuade excited offspring to go to bed before he arrives!) You can even track him in 3D using Google Earth.

The NORAD Santa Tracker will be operational from midnight Wednesday night and throughout Christmas Eve. In the meantime, there is a countdown page with lots of games to play, and a nice little movie below which explains the site a little further.

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