Wooden Santa Hat Fairy House – Christmas Small World Toy

How Santa Got His Red Hat

Santa Claus did not always dress in red. Early pictures of Santa and Father Christmas show robes in many colours, green among them. The illustrator Thomas Nast drew him for Harper's Weekly from 1863 onwards, and over the following decades the red suit and the hat with white fur trim became the picture most of us know.

Here the famous hat has become a home of its own, with a pom-pom for a chimney and its fur brim pulled down over the front door.

The set includes:

• Santa Hat Fairy House
• Removable wooden door

Build a winter scene with the Elf Hat Fairy House, the Gingerbread House and the Wooden Santa with Christmas Bag.

Santa Hat Fairy House

Height × Width × Depth: 20.0 × 14.0 × 4.2 cm (7.9 × 5.5 × 1.7 in)

Removable Door

Height × Width × Depth: 5.6 × 2.8 × 2.5 cm (2.2 × 1.1 × 1.0 in)

Solid ash wood. The house and its removable door are each shaped from solid ash and hand-sanded smooth. Hand-painted with water-based paints in multiple layers, olive oil finish. The door and the back of the house are left in natural ash. No plastics, no solvent-based finishes, no MDF, no veneers. Made in conformity with the European toy safety standard EN 71. Small variations in colour and grain are a natural characteristic of handmade production — not defects. Each piece is unique.

Santa's hat, turned into a house.

A house shaped like Santa's hat invites children to imagine who might live inside while Santa is busy. Opening and closing the door, placing figures at the windows and setting up a North Pole scene develops fine motor control, spatial thinking and storytelling.

Inspired by Montessori and Waldorf principles, the Santa Hat Fairy House is an open-ended play piece in natural wood. It can be Santa's workshop, a home for his helpers or a stop on the Christmas Eve route, and it brightens a shelf or nature table when play is over.

Shaped from solid ash and finished by hand, it is made to return every Christmas for years, sturdy enough for daily play and distinctive enough to become a family keepsake.