The Portable North Pole - PNP: A Personalized Video Message from Santa

The Portable North Pole, also known as the PNP, website is a great experience for kids. It sends a personalized message to your inbox from Santa that includes a video with information that you have uploaded to the site. Our girls were so excited to get the personalized message, they could hardly stand it! Here's how it works!

• Go to the PNPand prepare a new message.
• The site gives you the choice of choosing a message for a toddler, children, or grown-ups.
• Click on the appropriate sized gingerbread man to get started.
• Older children are taken to different parts of the North Pole before Santa goes back to his shop.
• Younger children have a shorter, more concise video.

• The next screen allows you to enter information about the child you are making the message for: child's name, eye color, hair color, etc.
• If this is their first PNP message, Santa will welcome them.
• Click "enter"

• Next, answer a few questions about the child you are sending the message to.
• Santa will include this information in what he says to them. E.g., it sounds like you have worked really hard this year saying please and thank you. Remember, to always listen to your parents.

• This is where the fun begins!  Add photos of your child and special events that have occurred this year.
• Santa will have a special book that he looks into with pictures of your child. He will have a picture and descriptors next to it, hair color, eye color, favorite food, etc.
• Then, there will be a section with special things that have happened this year. My sister just had a baby, so in my niece's video I added a picture with her and her sister. Santa mentioned a new addition in her family.
• These personal touches make the video very realistic.

• Your next step for the video is to tell Santa what your child wants for Christmas.
• You can even add photos of what they are going to get.
• Categorize the gift and click "next".
• This information will also be shown in his special book.

• Lastly, tell Santa where your child lives.
• He will look at his map and point to it. This demonstrates that he knows where to visit on Christmas Eve.
• This step will also ask you personal information, like where to send the email from Santa.
• It's really great getting the email, especially because it says it's from Santa on the email.
• There is one more step that confirms your information and allows you to edit, if need be. Click on the pencil icon to edit your information.
• You can now preview the video that will be sent. You can also copy the link to send out to others.