Funny Christmas story for toddlers: the foggy glasses

3 min read · For: Ages 3–5

Santa has a pair of glasses. Round glasses with thin golden rims. He wears them when he reads letters, and when he looks for very tiny screws in the workshop.

One cold morning, Santa had been outside for a long, long time. He had shovelled snow. He had brushed the reindeer. His nose was red and his glasses were icy cold.

Then he came inside, into the warm kitchen.

And what happened to his glasses?

Pfff. The glasses went all white. All foggy. As if a little cloud had come to sit on his nose.

"Oh dear," said Santa. "I can't see a thing. Only clouds."

A very strange hat

Santa wanted to hang up his hat. He felt around. On the chair lay something white and soft.

"There's my other hat," said Santa, and he put it on his head.

"Miaow!" said the hat.

It was not a hat. It was Snowdrop, the white cat.

"Oops, sorry, Snowdrop," said Santa. Snowdrop jumped off his head and curled up in her basket, looking very offended.

Good morning, Pip

Santa walked on carefully. In the corner he saw something green and tall, with a point at the top.

"Good morning, Pip," he said kindly. "My, how tall you've grown."

The green thing said nothing at all.

It was not Pip. It was the coat stand, with Pip's green coat hanging on it.

A lovely bun

On the table lay something round. Something yellow and soft.

"Mmm," said Santa. "A bun. Just what I feel like."

He picked it up. He lifted it to his mouth. He opened his mouth very, very wide...

"Santa, no!" called a little voice. "That's my ball of yarn!"

There stood Pip. The real Pip. He had a knitting needle in his hand and he was laughing so hard that his hat bell jingled.

Pip helps

"Santa," giggled Pip, "your glasses are all steamed up."

"I thought so," said Santa. "Everything looks like snow."

Pip climbed onto a chair. Very carefully, he took the glasses off Santa's nose. He rubbed the lenses clean with the tip of his hat. Rub, rub, rub. Then he put the glasses back on.

Santa blinked.

There was the kitchen. There was the table, with the ball of yellow yarn on it. There was the coat stand, with the green coat. There was Snowdrop, in her basket. And there was Pip, with his rosy cheeks and his hat with the bell.

"There we are," said Santa. "Now I can see everything again. And do you know what I can see best of all?"

"What?" asked Pip.

"You," said Santa. "My very best glasses cleaner."

He gave Snowdrop a stroke to say sorry. Snowdrop purred. And Pip made two real buns, one for himself and one for Santa.

And this time, Santa ate his bun with his glasses on his nose.

Things to do together

Does someone in your home wear glasses? What happens when they come in from the cold?
Breathe on a cold window. What do you see?
What did Santa think he could see? Which one was the funniest?