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The merry folks at Fisher Price have Christmas thoroughly covered with not one, but several different Christmas themed play sets.  We, of course, chose to test two of them during our Fisher Price Little People Christmas reviews and gathered some fantastic information for parents to use in their holiday shopping decisions.

We supplied the group of one to five year old children who participated in our Fisher Price Little People Christmas review process with both sets to play with.  As we watched, we could feel the Christmas anticipation in the room growing perceptibly.  Simply acting out some of the Christmas preparation activities in pretend play get kids in the mood for the Christmas season.

One of the play sets we tested is the Fisher Price Little People Christmas Village, and it includes tiny Little People versions of Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, and one of the elves.  The set also includes Santa’s sleigh and a huge wrapped gift to put in the back, a Little People reindeer, a Christmas tree, and a highly decorated and colorful Clause house at the North Pole.  Kids can reenact the excitement of Christmas Eve and all the hustle and bustle Santa has to contend with on his biggest night of the year.  This set has several pieces that kids love to play with, and since there are four characters, up to four kids can play at once, each with their own characters, without any conflict.

The other Christmas themed Little People play set is the Fisher Price Little People Christmas On Main Street set.  This set includes many pieces, including several different stores, a city street lantern style lamp, six Little People shoppers, a sled to carry a very large wrapped package, and several little gifts for the shoppers to carry around.  There are a few other pieces included as well.  Kids love this one because they could pretend to be Christmas shopping, and kids acted out buying the presents they wanted for themselves.  They were twice as excited about Christmas as they were before when play time was over.

Kids love Christmas more than any other holiday because of the presents they receive, and these Fisher Price Little People Christmas play sets both reflect this spirit of the gift giving season.  This is the time of the year when kids get super excited and start counting the days until that one magical day of the year when Santa brings items from their wish list while they sleep, and friends and family get together to exchange lots of presents around a highly decorated Christmas tree.  While the part adults probably enjoy most is the food and the getting together with extended family they may not see all year, kids are undeniably drawn to Christmas festivities by the promise of lots of goodies wrapped in brightly colored paper.  The Fisher Price Little People Christmas sets help to fuel this excitement, and we recommend them both to families who wish to encourage this excitement in their little Christmas fans.