This is the third year the site has been offering their amazing free videos, and they’ve added some new features this year. They’re now offering messages for specific user categories (toddlers, young kids or adults), more personalization according to each person’s profile and an application for iPhone, iPod and iPad.

This is also the first year Portable North Pole.tv will be allowing you to purchase a permanent copy of the video. (Right now, the site is still saying this feature will be available soon.) There’s no obligation to buy a copy, and if you choose not to, you will still get the same high-quality video with all the personalization features the site offers.

This is one site you won’t want to miss. Visit Portable North Pole.tv to check it out.

How cold is it at the North Pole?
During winter, the temperature at the North Pole averages from about -45 to -15 degrees Fahrenheit (-43 to -26 degrees Celsius). During summer, the temperature climbs up to a cool 32 degrees Fahrenheit (0 degrees Celsius).

If it’s noon in Tokyo, what time is it at the North Pole?
Good question. In most places on Earth, local time is determined by longitude and time of day is more-or-less synchronized to the position of the sun in the sky (for example, at midday the sun is roughly at its highest). But this method of determining time doesn’t work at the North Pole, where the sun rises and sets only once per year, and all lines of longitude (hence all time zones) converge. So there is no assigned time zone at the North Pole. (Is this why Santa can defy time and fly all around the world in a single night?)

Does the sun still rise in the east and set in the west at the North Pole?
When the sun is visible in the polar sky (during the summer months), it appears to move in a clockwise circle above the horizon. The sun rises only once and sets once every YEAR at the North Pole.

Other than Santa’s Village, what other buildings are there at the North Pole?
The South Pole has some permanent scientific outposts, but the North Pole has no permanent structures. That’s because it’s in the middle of the Arctic Ocean and is surrounded by water that is and sea ice that is always shifting.

What animals live at the North Pole?
Other than Santa’s reindeer, very few animals have ever been sighted near the North Pole. The few that have been spotted near the top of the earth include the ringed seal and Arctic foxes, as well as birds such as the Black-legged Kittiwake, the Snow Bunting, and the Northern Fulmar.

Is Santa’s North Pole the only North Pole?
In addition to the geographic North Pole, which is the northernmost point on Earth, there is also a Magnetic North Pole, as well as cities named North Pole in Alaska, New York, Idaho and Oklahoma.

Remember the scene in How the Grinch Stole Christmas where the Whos hold hands in a circle and sing? The title of that song is “Fahoo Forays,” and if that doesn’t make any sense to you, it’s because the words are made up. Dr. Seuss invented some of the words of the song and tried to make them sound like classical Latin. Seuss was so successful that some people thought it was real Latin and wrote the studio to ask for a translation.

In A Year Without A Santa Claus, if you look closely when the little girl is writing the word Christmas with a crayon during the Blue Christmas song, you’ll notice that the letters seem to appear before she actually writes them.

The Grinch has blue eyes – but only after his heart grows while he’s standing on the top of Mt. Crumpet. Before that, his eyes are red.

June Foray, who was the voice of little Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, was also the voice of the teacher in Frosty the Snowman and the drummer boy’s mother in The Little Drummer Boy.

In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Hermey is the only elf who doesn’t have pointy ears.

- The only time Lucy ever calls Charlie Brown just “Charlie” in a Peanuts special is just before she discusses the commercialization of Christmas in A Charlie Brown Christmas. Thereafter, she always calls him Charlie Brown .

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons cocoa
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup chopped nuts

Directions:
Mix butter, sugar, cocoa and milk in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly, then boil for one minute. Remove from heat and stir in the rest of the ingredients. Drop by teaspoon onto wax paper and let sit for 30 – 60 minutes to harden.

Then pack a few treats in a sandwich bag and attach this reindeer poop poem:

Santa’s got a special gift
He’s bringing just for you.
Just a little something extra,
And it comes from Rudolph, too!

He knows that you’ve been naughty
Instead of being nice.
Once again you’re on the bad list
And he’s checked it over twice.

Santa hopes this little poem
Doesn’t throw you for a loop.
All you’re getting this year
Is a bunch of reindeer poop!

There are other variations of the poem, too, such as this reindeer poop poem and recipe.

If you’re in a hurry and don’t want to bake, you can also make reindeer poop by simply filling the bags with malted milk balls, Milk Duds or some other type of chocolate candy that is small and round. Happy holidays and have fun!

 
Materials for Clothespin Reindeer
- 3 clothespins (the old-fashioned kind work best)
- 2 googly eyes
- 1 red pom pom
- glue
- optional: red ribbon
 
Directions for Making a Clothespin Reindeer
1. Glue the first two clothespins on top of each other to make the body.2. Glue the third clothespin upside down on top of the others to make the head and antlers.

3. Glue the googly eyes and pom pom on the top clothespin to make the eyes and nose.
 
4. Optional: If you’d like to use your clothespin reindeer as a Christmas ornament, tie a red ribbon around the neck and make a loop at the top to hang it on your tree.
 
That’s it. You’re done!

Where do you find flying reindeer?
Wherever you left them

Which one of Santa’s reindeer has the worst manners?
“Rude-”olph

Why do reindeer fly over mountains?
Because they can’t fly under them

What do reindeer hang on their Christmas trees?
“Horn”-aments

Where do reindeer like to stop for ice cream?
“Deery” Queen

How does Rudolph know when Christmas Eve is coming?
He looks at a calen-”deer”

Which reindeer has the cleanest antlers?
Comet

What’s the difference between a biscuit and a reindeer?
You can dunk a biscuit in your tea

What does a reindeer say before he tells you a joke?
“This one is going to sleigh you.”