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Christmas for Toddlers

Two moms writing through the same milestones you are: what we tried, what worked for a while, and what we had to change. The stories we make are for the same moments.

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Editorial title card. Eyebrow reads Christmas For Toddlers. Title reads How to Explain Christmas to a 2 Year Old. Soft color wash background in the FableFleet brand palette. Finn the fox is curled up in the bottom-right corner of the card.

How to Explain Christmas to a 2 Year Old (And What They Will Actually Get)

You explain Christmas to a two year old the way you explain anything at that age: not as an idea, but as a few things that happen, said the same way every time. Most two year olds will not understand the holiday, but they will understand the lights, the tree, the waiting and the presents, and that is enough. Here is a short script in their words, a Santa approach for families who do Santa and families who do not, how to pick one or two traditions worth repeating, and how to keep December from overwhelming a toddler.

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  • Editorial title card. Eyebrow reads Christmas For Toddlers. Title reads A Christmas Eve Box for a Toddler. Soft color wash background in the FableFleet brand palette. Finn the fox peeks in from the right edge of the card.

    A Christmas Eve Box for a Toddler: What Is Worth Putting In It

    A Christmas Eve box for a toddler works best with four things in it: new pyjamas, one book, something calm to do together, and a snack to leave out. Keep it small, open it straight after dinner, and let it start the bedtime routine instead of adding to the excitement. Here is what to put in, what to leave out, how to pick something calm to watch, how many presents a two year old actually needs, and how to keep Christmas Eve from tipping over.

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  • Editorial title card. Eyebrow reads Christmas For Toddlers. Title reads Christmas Gifts for Grandchildren Who Live Far Away. Soft color wash background in the FableFleet brand palette. Finn the fox sits in the bottom-right corner of the card.

    Christmas Gifts for Grandchildren Who Live Far Away (That Still Feel Like You)

    The Christmas gift that works best from far away is one with you in it: your voice, your face, the name your grandchild calls you, something they can play again in January when you are not there. For a toddler that matters more than the size of the box. Here are the ideas that hold up at a distance, what to ask the parents before you buy, how to make the Christmas video call work, and what still arrives on time when the post office has stopped promising anything.

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A grandmother reaching a tin down from a high kitchen shelf while a child watches from below with their head tipped back

The story for this milestone

A weekend at Grandma's, and the grandparent your child gets to know

A personalized story about a weekend at a grandparent's house: the tin on the high shelf, the slow Saturday, the story about their own parent as a child, and three buttons carried home. A 2.5 minute storybook film.

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We make it from the details you choose. Your child, by name, in every scene.