10 Christmas Movies You Can Watch with the Kids

Elf

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Elves are supposed to be really small, right? Not the one in this movie. He’s a human-sized elf who ends up wreaking havoc on the North Pole before he’s sent to the U.S. to find out who he really is.

Polar Express

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Take a rollicking train ride to the North Pole with our young hero, who learns a slew of lessons along the way. Tom Hanks voices six characters in this one, including the young hero boy, Scrooge, and Santa Claus himself.

Arthur Christmas

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Santa's clumsy son Arthur has less than two hours to find a lost gift that was meant for a little girl.

Miracle on 34th Street

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Whether you go for the original from 1947 or the remake from 1994, the tale remains timeless. A lawyer is out to prove a nice old man who claims to be Santa really is Mr. Claus.

Prep & Landing

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Prep and Landing refers to Santa's elite unit of elves, and you’ll three TV shorts in the series. Any one of the Prep & Landing adventures is primed to give you and your kids a big kick.

Shrek the Halls

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If your kids love Shrek and his pals, they'll love the take the Shrek crew has on Christmas traditions.

The Santa Clause

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Tim Allen stars as a man who does the unthinkable on Christmas Eve: he accidentally kills Santa. And now he has to take Santa's place.

A Christmas Carol

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This 2009 animated take on the Charles Dickens’ classic is particularly memorable, thanks to Jim Carrey voicing Scrooge and the three Christmas ghosts.

The Nightmare before Christmas

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Halloween is awesome. Christmas is fab. But the two don’t always mesh. The Halloween Town king finds this out when he tries to bring Christmas into his home.