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Christmas story for toddlers: a snowman for Father Christmas
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It had snowed all night at the North Pole. In the morning, everything was white. The roofs. The trees. The fence. Even the reindeer had white snow hats.
Pip the elf pressed his nose against the window.
"Father Christmas!" he called. "It's perfect snow! Shall we build a snowman?"
"What a good idea," said Father Christmas.
A big ball
They put on their boots. They put on their scarves. Father Christmas put on his red mittens.
Outside, the snow went crunch, crunch, crunch.
Pip made a little snowball. He rolled it through the snow. Roll, roll, roll. The snowball grew bigger. And bigger. And BIGGER.
"Help!" laughed Pip. "It's bigger than me!"
Father Christmas helped him push. That was the snowman's tummy.
A middle ball and a head
Then they rolled a middle ball. Roll, roll, roll. Father Christmas lifted it on top of the big one. Oof.
Then Pip rolled a small ball for the head. He was just tall enough to put it on top, standing on his tiptoes.
"Now he needs a face," said Pip.
The face
Pip found two dark pebbles for the eyes.
Father Christmas fetched a carrot from the kitchen for the nose.
Pip made a smile out of little pine cones. A big, round, happy smile.
"And he needs a beard," said Pip. He patted lots and lots of snow under the smile. A big, fluffy, white beard.
"And a tummy," said Father Christmas. He patted more snow on the front. A big, round tummy.
Who does it look like?
Pip took off his own scarf and wrapped it round the snowman's neck. Father Christmas put his spare red hat on the snowman's head.
They took three steps back. They looked at the snowman.
A big round tummy. A white fluffy beard. A red hat. Rosy pebble eyes. And a big happy smile.
Pip looked at the snowman. Then he looked at Father Christmas. Then he looked at the snowman again.
"Father Christmas," said Pip, "he looks just like you!"
Father Christmas laughed. "Ho, ho, ho! He does! He's my snow twin!"
And the snowman just smiled.
Inside
Their noses were red and their toes were cold. So they went inside for warm milk.
Every now and then, Pip looked out of the window.
"Goodnight, snow Father Christmas," he whispered at bedtime.
And outside, under the stars, the snowman smiled his big pine cone smile.
Things to do together
- What did Pip and Father Christmas use for the snowman's face?
- Who did the snowman look like?
- If you built a snowman, who would it look like?
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