Ten Best Kids Christmas Movies

The following movies are for varies age ranges from the youngest of children to the oldest.

The Grinch Starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch is a wonderful adaptation of Dr Seuss' book "How the Grinch stole Christmas". It has a good morale to it and the characters are wonderful.
It is about a green hairy Grinch that is mean and nasty and he hates Christmas. He lives on top of a mountain away from all the Whos of Who-ville. The Whos of Who-ville love Christmas and celebrate it big. He plots to ruin Christmas for them and on Christmas eve he dresses up as Santa and makes his poor little dog pull his sleigh as his reindeer down to the village. He goes from house to house stealing all the food and presents so there is nothing left not even enough for a mouse. He makes it back up his mountain and waits for the morning to hear the people cry and be upset about Christmas being ruined. But to his disappointment he hears joyful singing coming from the village. He then realized that Christmas was not about the material things it was about the people and loved ones. His cold shriveled heart grew that day and he changed and became a nicer Grinch.

The Muppet Christmas Carol is a Jim Henson version of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Ebenezer Scrooge is played by Michael Caine and Bob Crachit by Kermit the Frog. The story line is basically the same Scrooge is a mean miser who is visited by his old partners played by Statler and Woldorf. They tell him he will be visited by three ghost The ghost of Christmas present, Christmas past, and Christmas yet to come. He goes with each of the ghost and see what each want him to see and realizes he needs to change his ways or he will end up as the ghost of Christmas yet to come has shown. This movie shows us how we all affect the people around us with everything we do whether it is good or bad. It has a good message for children.

Prancer is about a hurt Reindeer a little girl named Jessica finds and believes is one of Santa's Reindeer. She takes him home and tries to help him get better. Jessica does not have many friends only the old town veterinarian, the town recluse and her brother Steve. Things start going wrong when her father finds out and sells the Reindeer to the media. Eventually, after many things happen between father and daughter and the town folk. Jessica is able to get Prancer well enough to be freed to fly back to Santa at the North Pole.

Its a Very Merry Muppet Christmas in this story it follows a similar path as Its a Wonderful Life. With the Muppet Theater falling into financial ruin the Muppet's are looking to Kermit to solve the problems. Seeing that Kermit is discouraged and feeling hopeless he is sent a guardian angel ( David Arquette). The Guardian Angel shows Kermit how important and loved he is and how it would be in the world without him. There are many twist and comical turns but in the end they are able to save the Muppet Theater. Everybody will enjoy this movie with the musical numbers and jokes no matter if you are new to the Muppet's or older and grew up with them long ago.

Santa Claus is a great movie to answer kids questions about how Santa gets down chimneys. How his reindeer fly and how he became Santa. The movie has Santa and his elves working in his workshop when one named Patch creates a machine that is able to make toys super fast but it makes them so fast the toys break easier. Upset about what happened with the toys Patch leaves the North Pole. Patch starts working with a toymaker he doesn't know is crooked. At first things are good but the man is greedy and comes up with a plot to frame Patch with a crime and he and his partner get away with the money. His plot is spoiled and Santa saves his elf and Christmas.

Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas is about Jack Skellington the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town. Jack is usually very happy with his life but he has become bored and while out wondering in the woods he stumbles across some trees with doors. On each door they have pictures of where they lead to. The door with a brightly decorated green tree caught Jacks curiosity, he entered the door. When Jack returned to Halloween town he was excited and held a town meeting to tell everyone about everything he saw in this new world. Everyone was so excited about it they were going to have their own Christmas and Jack was going to be "Sandy Claws". There was much preparing and they went to Christmas town and delivered Christmas everything went wrong from there. Just when you think there is no hope Jack comes to the rescue and Christmas is saved and Jack the "Pumpkin King" is back.

The Santa Clause is about Scot Klein played by Tim Allen and his son Charlie. On Christmas eve they hear something outside and they go to see what it is. They startle Santa and he falls off the roof, disappears and only his clothes remains laying in the snow. Scott searches his pockets to find a name and finds a card that says to put the outfit on, climb in the sleigh and the Reindeer will know what to do. Charlie kind of helps him decide to do it and the reindeer take him from rooftop to rooftop delivering toys. when they are done they return to the North Pole and Scott receives the shock of a lifetime. He has become Santa Clause. His son is happy, his ex-wife thinks he is crazy and his co-workers are concerned about his changes in appearances. It all comes out on the next Christmas eve when his ex-wife has to face that he really is Santa and he rides off on his sled to deliver toys to all the good little boys and girls. There is also a part 2 & 3.

All I Want for Christmas is an adorable movie about a brother and sister who's parents are divorced and all they want is for them to get back together for Christmas. Hallie the little sister still believes in Santa goes and asks him to bring her parents back together for Christmas. Ethan her older brother doesn't believe in Santa any more comes up plans of his own to get the two together. The movie is cute and shows the love children have for their parents. I had a little trouble finding this one in the town I live but was able to get it with no trouble on the Internet.

Jack Frost This movie I saw a couple of years ago for the first time and my son loved it. He now watches it every year. It is about a man named Jack Frost with a son named Charlie. Jack is a musician and is killed in a car accident and his spirit comes back one year later in a snowman Charlie has made. Jack feeling like he has missed so much time with his son, even when he was alive, tries to make it all up with him. Things don't go to well and a few days before Christmas he has to flee with his son to their cabin in the Mountains to stay cold so he doesn't melt. Worried about Charlie his mother goes to the cabin and finds him. On Christmas eve Jack becomes human so he can say his good byes before returning to the after life.

Home Alone is about a boy named Kevin who is the youngest in the family and the trouble maker. The family is going on a trip for Christmas with the extended family and everyone is staying at their house so it is crowded and Kevin is being extra "left out". As usual he gets in trouble and is sent to the attic bedroom to sleep. In the commotion of sleeping in on the morning of their flight they forget to go upstairs and get Kevin. When he wakes he realizes he is alone and at first he likes it but eventually gets lonely and scared. His mother realizes it when they are up in the air flying and there is nothing that can be done until they land Then she does everything from bribing elder couples for their plane seats to hitching rides with Polka players in the back of moving trucks. Meanwhile Kevin has his hands full with two burglars trying to rob the house while the owners are away. He puts the two burglars through all kinds of toucher defending his home. When he wakes up the next morning, Christmas morning, his mother arrives home shortly followed by the rest of the family.