santa photos

any tips on getting your 2 year old to sit for a santa photo? took her last week and she screamed the place down. wouldnt go near him. but i really want a photo, we have one from the year before and last year.

Nope not me sorry. Once my kids hit 2 they didn't want to know either. So I just didn't bother anymore. Now we create our own Christmas photos instead with the 3 kids all together.

I was anticipating us having the same problems so i have been telling her about Santa and she has been watching animated movies with santa in them so when i ask if she is going to have her pic taken with santa she says yes - so hopefully she will but then again...

The first year she was 7 months old and she sat and had her pic taken (she normally wouldn't go to anyone then). Last year she wouldn't have her pic taken - screamed and cried so i ended up having her on my knee sat next to santa.

GL

eta - my dd is only 4 months older than yours.

dont know if it works yet as I am in the process of doing myself with my 2 yr old....


But everytime I take her to the shops I show her santa and on the weekend she draged me over to him, and when I noticed it he wasnt busy ( small shops this happens ) we went in there and santa had a chat with her and was making her laugh.... So what I hope will happen is that she want see his as something to be affaid off...

I pushed my DS on santa and even now he isnt keen... Dont push her just let her warm up to him and see if she does it on her own...

It all depends on the child DD1 has NEVER been afraid of him she is just more confordent than my other two...

HTH

When my kids got scared I would leave and come back. Last year I think we did the santa thing about 5 times before I got a photo (which I had to be in)
This year, we looked at the old photos, read books and talked about santa... when Santa came to our shopping mall my kids were happy to have a photo (my 4 year old ran to him and jumped on his knee :lol:)

I had the same issue with DS.
What i did was went with mum to get them done. Go early when there is no one else around so makes it a quick process too. DS didnt see Santa the whole time... didnt tell him what we were doing at all.. was sitting in the stroller facing the other way. Mum got DD out and get her to Santa to hold. DS still oblivious. I picked him up with his back towards santa and walked over and sat down with DS on my lap. Didnt say anything to him, didnt tell him what we were doing. I had to be in the photo and that was fine but he didnt see santa until later he turned around. He was ok as he was on my lap and the ladies were great in getting both kids to smile.
So maybe you being in the photo might be an idea.. dont tell them whats happening at all and act normal as if nothings going on?

Best of luck.

Oh man, I'm still trying to work it out! My DD (2 in Feb) LOVES Santa. Is obsessed by the Jolly man! She waves to him, gets absolutely gobsmacked whenever she sees him in person, blows him kisses, talks about him non stop, HAS to watch him on DVD 3 times a day minimum, talks about him to no end, has to be read a Santa story at bedtime and so on and so on... but come to getting a photo done and forget it!!! :rolleyes: Tried for 15 minutes, she was happy for Mummy to stand near him with her in arms and "talk" but as soon as I suggest a photo (even on Mummy's knee), she gets very distressed! :rolleyes:

Ooooh I was FULLY prepared to NOT have a photo this year as Oskar is 20 months and well, as you all know what that seems to mean with most of them at that age huh!!! Well, knock me down with a feather, last week we got a photo with Santa!

Here's how it happened..... a VERY lovely Santa told me right at the start when Oskar would want to go up but get half way and drag me away...lol... just to keep on bringing him to say hi each time we were at the shops. A couple of times the Santa actually came to him in his pram and said hi and did a high 5 with me and then Oskar. The first Santa told me that a lot of kids, not all, will after going and seeing Santa eventually be happy for a photo. Well, it worked for us!! I did also show him the photo he had done with Santa last year and he has a book which both DH and I know ALL the words to, but it all seems to have worked. He didn't smile, but did sit there quite contently on his own :)

Personally i wouldn't force it... i actually find it a bit ironic that mum's warn of "stranger danger" yet happily plop their child on an strange old man's lap who sometimes gives out lollies (again we teach not to take sweets from strangers) and expect them to smile!

We tried it the first year and my DS wasn't too happy, he's never been big on touching anyone but family, and i was fine with that, we did it more for the family than anything else, but now i just take a nice picture of the boys in christmas outfits in the backyard or similar and post it with handmade cards ("made" by my ds) to relatives.