Christmas films for sensitive 4 yo

[SecondhandTable]

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?

[mamabluestar]

Arthur Christmas is a lovely animated film

[Findyourneutralspace]

The Snowman

[rosydreams]

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

[Happyelfjokeday]

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

[GettingStuffed]

If you can find it Gotta catch Santa Claus

[bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza]

Muppet Christmas carol is a favourite here.

[Goldendoodlemum]

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

Arthur Christmas is lovely. Or the Santa clause.

[bluesky45]

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]

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

[SecondhandTable]

@bluesky45

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!

[FunWithFlags81]

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]

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

[IDontDrinkTea]

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

[GoodOnPaper]

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]

The cbeebies panto A Christmas Carol is great!

[Carolenarua]

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

[louderthan]

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

[ItsNotReallyChaos]

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]

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]

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

[Laquila]

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]

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

[ruralwanderer]

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]

Definitely Robin Robin.

[elevenplusdilemma]

@frenchnoodle

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.