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Christmas films for sensitive 4 yo

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SecondhandTable · 03/12/2022 10:45

Can anyone recommend any Christmas films that my sensitive 4 yo might enjoy? She's loving everything Christmas at the moment and she can sit and concentrate on a film fine, but she is very sensitive to any sad or remotely scary themes/scenes. She even gets on edge by intense music in scenes for example! She loves the CBeebies Night Before Christmas which she saw in the cinema last year, is there anything else around that is very light hearted for preschool aged kids?

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mamabluestar · 03/12/2022 10:51

Arthur Christmas is a lovely animated film

Findyourneutralspace · 03/12/2022 10:52

The Snowman

rosydreams · 03/12/2022 10:56

Arthur christmas ,mickeys once upon a christmas,father christmas by raymond briggs

Happyelfjokeday · 03/12/2022 11:07

There’s an Elf on the Shelf one on Netflix?

GettingStuffed · 03/12/2022 15:03

If you can find it Gotta catch Santa Claus

bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza · 03/12/2022 15:06

Muppet Christmas carol is a favourite here.

Goldendoodlemum · 03/12/2022 15:10

Muppet Christmas Carol scared the crap out of me as a child!

Arthur Christmas is lovely. Or the Santa clause.

bluesky45 · 03/12/2022 15:11

I'd be wary of the Grinch. We watched the new(ish) Benedict cumberbatch one last year with a similar sounding child and he cried because he felt so sorry for the Grinch. There's a bit when it shows him as a child looking out of the window at lots of happy families and then his own tree with no gifts under it and my Ds was in tears over it.. having previously been scared of the Grinch!

AnotherCountryMummy · 03/12/2022 15:18

If you have Netflix, Christmas on Mistletoe Farm might be worth a go!

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SecondhandTable · 03/12/2022 15:43

bluesky45 · 03/12/2022 15:11

I'd be wary of the Grinch. We watched the new(ish) Benedict cumberbatch one last year with a similar sounding child and he cried because he felt so sorry for the Grinch. There's a bit when it shows him as a child looking out of the window at lots of happy families and then his own tree with no gifts under it and my Ds was in tears over it.. having previously been scared of the Grinch!

Don't worry, my DC is scared of images of the Grinch she's seen in shops etc so definitely won't be going there! That is also the kind of thing that could upset my DC!

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FunWithFlags81 · 03/12/2022 16:02

Robin Robin on Netflix?

What about the Christmas episodes of their usual programmes? I know there is a gabbys dollshouse, octonauts, creature cases and action pack all on Netflix

Underanothersky · 03/12/2022 16:05

If you want something religious there is a really lovely nativity story called The Three Wise Men on amazon prime

IDontDrinkTea · 03/12/2022 16:06

We’ve been watching Xmas episodes of shows she likes, like gabbys dollhouse, Chico Bon Bon, octonauts etc

GoodOnPaper · 03/12/2022 16:10

As someone with also very sensitive DD, older and less so now!, Arthur Christmas is good but you might want to fast forward the bit with the lions when Arthur and Grandad are flying round the world. The rest was ok tho!

lucysnowe2 · 03/12/2022 16:13

The cbeebies panto A Christmas Carol is great!

Carolenarua · 03/12/2022 23:01

"Angela's Christmas"on Netflix, short sweet and Christmasy!

louderthan · 04/12/2022 00:48

Absolutely NOT The Snowman!! The ending is heart-wrenching.

ItsNotReallyChaos · 04/12/2022 01:03

DD and I watched Muppet Christmas Carol this evening. The third ghost is really scary! DD who is 5 and not particularly sensitive wasn’t that keen.

Stickman is Christmassy and not too threatening, but only half an hour.

RainbowCrayons · 04/12/2022 03:36

Stickman is great, frozen is snowy but not christmassy as such. The snowman is lovely but you might need to judge if you need to turn it off when the little boy goes to bed after his adventures and miss him waking up the next day. The snow dog sort of redeems it too, the snowman can come back next time it snows. Raymond Briggs also does Father Christmas where he goes on holiday. It's nostalgic without the trauma.

Pennecrayon · 04/12/2022 08:08

We watch all the Nativity films here on repeat. I like that they’re festive but not focused on Father Christmas.

Laquila · 04/12/2022 08:12

Festive episodes of Shaun the Sheep or Tummy Time

My youngest used to like an animated film called The Star, based on the nativity - I think it's on Netflix. It was quite gentle.

frenchnoodle · 04/12/2022 08:15

A word of warning my 7 year old cried at the ending of the snowman, because he melted.

ruralwanderer · 04/12/2022 08:17

My two (3 and 5) keep re-watching The Star on Amazon Prime, it's the nativity as told by the animals involved and rather cute.

MrsBrandonspiano · 04/12/2022 08:19

Definitely Robin Robin.

elevenplusdilemma · 04/12/2022 08:20

frenchnoodle · 04/12/2022 08:15

A word of warning my 7 year old cried at the ending of the snowman, because he melted.

I'm 43 and I cry at the end. Every. Bloody. Time.