Funny Christmas story for toddlers: the foggy glasses

3 min read · For: Ages 3–5

Father Christmas 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, Father Christmas 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 Father Christmas. "I can't see a thing. Only clouds."

A very strange hat

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

"There's my other hat," said Father Christmas, 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 Father Christmas. Snowdrop jumped off his head and curled up in her basket, looking very offended.

Good morning, Pip

Father Christmas 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 Father Christmas. "A bun. Just what I fancy."

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

"Father Christmas, no!" called a little voice. "That's my ball of wool!"

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

"Father Christmas," giggled Pip, "your glasses are all steamed up."

"I thought so," said Father Christmas. "Everything looks like snow."

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

Father Christmas blinked.

There was the kitchen. There was the table, with the ball of yellow wool 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 Father Christmas. "Now I can see everything again. And do you know what I can see best of all?"

"What?" asked Pip.

"You," said Father Christmas. "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 Father Christmas.

And this time, Father Christmas 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 Father Christmas think he could see? Which one was the funniest?