Santa's New Hat 🎅🎩 Premium Kids Christmas Story

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[00:02:35] Winnie the Warthog of Heavenly Hats, hat shop in the Heart of Sleepy Forest,

[00:02:40] generally gets excited about pretty much everything.

[00:02:45] Since she's usually wearing some sort of elaborate headpiece,

[00:02:49] perhaps a hat that looks exactly like a cupcake or a bluebird or even a small train,

[00:02:56] whenever she's excited, the thing on her head wobbles around as if it's come to life.

[00:03:03] One of the times of year that excites her more than any other is Christmas.

[00:03:08] And one of the things that excites her above all else is the possibility of making Christmas hats.

[00:03:15] For months, she's been driving Patrick the Peacock round the bend and up the wall

[00:03:21] by making teeny tiny snowmen to wear on her head and miniature Christmas trees,

[00:03:27] complete with decorations, of course,

[00:03:30] and beautifully wrapped presents with ribbons that sparkle and wave

[00:03:35] as she bounces up and down with excitement.

[00:03:39] Patrick loves Christmas too, of course,

[00:03:43] but he isn't quite so mad for it as Winnie.

[00:03:46] Well, nobody is.

[00:03:50] And since Winnie now has heavenly hats to share her love of all things hat and all things Christmas,

[00:03:57] she has reached a new level of excitement about the window display.

[00:04:05] Every evening, she comes up with new ideas that she shares with Patrick,

[00:04:11] drawing diagrams and waving her little arms around to show exactly what she means.

[00:04:17] And Patrick just smiles and nods,

[00:04:21] safe in the knowledge that come the following morning,

[00:04:25] she'll have a whole new idea in place.

[00:04:29] Eventually, Winnie had come up with so many ideas,

[00:04:33] she had no idea where to start

[00:04:36] and sat staring into the fireplace from the snug comfort of her armchair,

[00:04:42] leaving it to Patrick to bring her ideas to life.

[00:04:46] When they were finished,

[00:04:48] the animals of Sleepy Forest were treated

[00:04:51] to an absolutely beautiful display in the shop window

[00:04:55] that had them quite forgetting

[00:04:57] they were supposed to be doing anything else at all.

[00:05:01] A little steam train chugged around a root

[00:05:04] and all the carriages wore different kinds of hats.

[00:05:09] So bowler hats and top hats

[00:05:12] and wedding hats and woolly hats

[00:05:15] rocked gently behind the bright red engine

[00:05:18] as it made its way round the track.

[00:05:22] Hat boxes were piled high to create homes and shops

[00:05:26] and tower blocks in the imaginary city Patrick had created in the window.

[00:05:32] The best part?

[00:05:34] The thing that made animals stop and stare?

[00:05:39] Through all this chaos,

[00:05:41] a flamingo solemnly strutted back and forth.

[00:05:46] He was a friend of Patrick's from way back when

[00:05:49] and more often than not could be found working as a server

[00:05:54] on the Salty Wallop Express train.

[00:05:56] But he'd decided to take a break over the Christmas period.

[00:06:01] Trains got so terribly busy at that time of year

[00:06:04] and had written to Patrick asking for suggestions,

[00:06:09] which is a very quick explanation for the very random presence

[00:06:13] of a flamingo striding across the tracks,

[00:06:17] carefully picking up and placing his feet

[00:06:21] so as not to knock over the hat carriages of the train

[00:06:25] or the hat boxes that made up the town.

[00:06:29] And while he walked and strode and strutted,

[00:06:34] the flamingo constantly changed hats,

[00:06:38] reaching up to hooks that hung down from the very top of the window

[00:06:43] and held hats at the end of invisible threads

[00:06:47] so they seemed to float in the sky.

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