Please nothing w/ scary characters or themes, or relatively un-scary ones if possible....my kids (mostly DS) get scared by everything in Disney movies (including the cat in Cinderella which is really not that scary...) and other movies so I'm looking for some feel goods.
Obviously there are the classic Frosty & Rudolph stuff on TV adn DS is obsessed w/ his "Thomas Christmas" episodes but any good one with some of hte more contemporary characters & whatnot? We do movie night once a week w/ all of us so something MH & I can tolerate too LOL. I hope to do holiday themed movies for movie night for several weeks during Nov/Dec...
Re: Good holiday movies for 3 yr olds?
Agree with PP on Charlie Brown. There's also a Halloween one. (The Great Pumpkin).
I love the Santa Claus movies with Tim Allen. Mickey and the Muppets have Christmas Carol movies. Madagascar isn't really a Christmas movie, but it's funny anyway.
The Miracle is 34th Street is hard for me to stomach but I don't think there's anything scary in it. Pixar has a few holiday themed shorts.
We watch:
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
The Grinch
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph and Frosty
Mickey's Christmas Carol
The Polar Express (DD likes it, but I find it super annoying)
my read shelf:
My girls love Strawberry Shortcake "movies" - Strawberry Shortcake Berry Merry Christmas is about 45 minutes so not quite feature-film length. There's Caillou's Holiday Movie (much as I am annoyed by Caillou, he is loved by my toddlers.)
For real movies, there's Santa Buddies and Santa Buddies 2, and The Santa Claus with Tim Allen, although that one could be a bit frightening, I think.