The Experience
Santa welcomes a small number of families each year. Children enter through his little Elf Door, find their names on the Nice List, and share an unhurried hour inside his cottage workshop.
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You're Invited2026 Season
Where childhood imagination feels real enough to touch.
A private hour with Santa — quietly captured, and kept forever as heirloom art.
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Santa's Enchanted Workshop
The Most Enchanted Experience Awaits
Santa welcomes only a small number of families each year, before the season grows busy — a private, unhurried hour inside his cottage workshop.
From the moment you arrive, every part of the visit is personal — beginning before you ever step through the door — and quietly captured as heirloom artwork your family keeps for years to come.
Step Into the Full ExperienceAmong the grand oak trees sits a cottage Santa has returned to for nearly four centuries.
Whether that is true, only Santa knows.
I wanted to create a place that would be as meaningful for parents as it was for children.
Because the moments we share become the memories we treasure.
Sharon BentonCreator of Santa's Enchanted Workshop
Now in its tenth season
Read her storyAfter your visit, you return for a private viewing where your child's story is told through artist-selected imagery — preserving not simply how it looked, but how it felt.
Gallery-framed wall art of your visit
Your child’s visit, retold and named
A curated collection of matted prints
Heirloom bound keepsakes
Ten seasons of welcoming families into the workshop.
It’s not just a photo shoot with amazing images but an entire experience of Santa and the North Pole with just your family.Elyssa Lakich
Our experience with Santa’s Enchanted Workshop was magical from the start. It immediately renewed our oldest son’s belief in Santa.Kerri Pomarolli
Truly a special one hour long encounter with Santa that my daughter still talks about.Hillary Planje
The photos are heirloom quality! They will be passed down for generations.Diana Finn
We have been twice and each time created new magic and memories for not only the kids but us as parents as well.Shabnam Aghabbi
A commissioned art experience — your unhurried hour with Santa, and the heirloom artwork you keep. Here's exactly how it comes together, in three simple steps.
$295 for your first child · $55 for each additional child
$300, applied as credit toward your artwork
Collections from $895 — with your $300 already applied
You only ever pay toward two things — your hour with Santa, and the keepsakes you choose to keep.
Come early, while the season is still quiet.
Visiting earlier lets you relax into the experience — and receive your artwork in time to display at home, prepare your Christmas cards, and choose meaningful gifts. Availability is limited and preferred dates fill quickly. Santa opens the workshop October 10, 2026.
Book Your VisitP.S. — come early, while the cocoa's still warm.
It is a private, immersive Christmas experience designed around storytelling, interaction, and meaningful time together with Santa. Photography is part of preserving the experience, but the heart of the visit is the time your family spends inside Santa’s world.
Rather than a brief encounter, families spend meaningful time with Santa through stories, traditions, laughter, and shared experiences designed to feel real and memorable.
Families spend one full hour with Santa inside his cottage workshop — plenty of time for stories, traditions, exploration, and meaningful interaction.
Yes. Santa’s Enchanted Workshop is a commissioned art experience. Artwork collections begin with an $895 minimum, and your $300 deposit is applied toward it.
Santa begins welcoming families on October 10, 2026. Because only a limited number of visits are available each year, early booking is encouraged.
Planning your family's visit, or wondering how the day works? Break the seal and send a note to the workshop. Santa keeps busy this time of year — so Sharon reads every letter herself, and will reach out to answer your questions and help plan your visit.
A Note to the North Pole
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Santa welcomes a small number of families each year. Children enter through his little Elf Door, find their names on the Nice List, and share an unhurried hour inside his cottage workshop.
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Nestled among grand oak trees sits a cottage Santa has returned to for nearly four centuries — where trains travel overhead and Christmas settles softly into every corner.
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A commissioned art experience. From a personal consultation to a private viewing, your visit becomes heirloom artwork — preserving not simply how it looked, but how it felt.
Learn MoreSanta welcomes only a small number of families each season. When you're ready, the door opens at golden hour — and the rest of the story is yours to keep.
Book Your VisitCome early, while the cocoa's still warm.