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📖 Christmas stories for toddlers and preschoolers

Short and gentle, with lots of repetition and a happy ending: these Christmas stories are just right for little listeners aged 3 to 5. Most take less than five minutes to read aloud.

Christmas story for toddlers: a snowman for SantaA short Christmas story for toddlers aged 2 to 4. Santa and Pip the elf build a snowman together, and it looks surprisingly like someone they know. Short Christmas story for toddlers: counting the lightsA short counting story for toddlers aged 2 to 4. Zoe and her dad go for an evening walk and count the Christmas lights on their street, from one to ten. Christmas bedtime story: goodnight, reindeerA calm bedtime story for toddlers. Santa walks through the stable with his lantern and says goodnight to every reindeer, with a refrain to say together. Pip and the Case of the Missing Cookies: a Santa storySomeone is sneaking Mrs. Claus's Christmas cookies! A funny read-aloud mystery with Pip the elf for kids ages 3-8, perfect for Christmas Eve. Pip and the Runaway Letter: a Santa bedtime storyA cozy read-aloud Christmas story for kids ages 3-8. One letter to Santa blows away, and Pip the elf follows it all over the North Pole. Christmas story for toddlers: Santa's hot cocoaA short Christmas story about sharing for toddlers and preschoolers. Santa makes a big mug of hot cocoa and gets some unexpected visitors at his door. Funny Christmas story for toddlers: the foggy glassesA short, funny Christmas story for toddlers. Santa comes in from the cold, his glasses fog up, and suddenly everything looks very wrong indeed. Santa and the Reindeer With the Hiccups (Funny Kids Story)A silly Christmas Eve story for kids ages 3-8. Santa's youngest reindeer can't stop hiccuping, and Pip the elf tries every cure in the book. Santa can't sleep: a Christmas bedtime storyA calm Christmas bedtime story for kids aged 3 to 8. Pip the elf helps Santa fall asleep, with a gentle breathing game your child can join in with. Christmas story for preschoolers: Santa has a coldA funny, gentle Christmas story for preschoolers. Santa has a cold, and with every sneeze something flies across the house. The elves look after him. Funny Christmas story: Santa learns to ice skateA funny Christmas story for kids up to age 8. Santa wants to learn to ice skate on the frozen lake, and he lands on his bottom again and again. Christmas story for kids: Santa's lost mittenA funny, warm Christmas story to read aloud to kids aged 3 to 8. Santa has lost one of his mittens, and Pip the elf helps him look everywhere for it. Christmas story for toddlers: Santa's slippersA short Christmas story for toddlers aged 2 to 4. In his warm, fuzzy slippers, Santa shuffles through his little house and says good morning to everyone. Funny Christmas story: the elf who wrapped himself upA funny Christmas story for kids up to age 8. Tam is the fastest gift wrapper in Santa's workshop, until one day he accidentally wraps up himself. Winter story for toddlers: the little bird in the snowA short winter story to read aloud to kids aged 2 to 4. Amara sees a little red bird in the snow and makes a Christmas tree full of treats for the birds. Funny Christmas story: the sleigh that would not goA funny Christmas story for kids up to age 8. On the test run, Santa's sleigh refuses to move an inch, and everyone at the North Pole tries to help. Short Christmas story: the smallest elf in the workshopA short Christmas story for toddlers and preschoolers about Mo, the smallest elf in Santa's workshop. Because sometimes being small is very useful.