The Christmas Tree That Wasn’t a Tree
Hat Business: Fun Stories for Kids
Ruby Kay
5.0 • 783 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Ruby and Hat are feeling extra festive… until Ruby decides to give her Christmas tree a big drink of water. But something’s not right this tree doesn’t soak anything up. It doesn’t drop needles. It doesn’t even smell like a tree. Join Ruby and Hat for a funny, festive Aussie adventure as they uncover why this tree won’t behave like a real one and learn the simple joy of keeping traditions in your own special way even if your tree is a little bit… plastic.
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| 0:00.0 | Hat, my Christmas tree is not drinking the water. |
| 0:05.0 | Ruby, this could be the start of a festive tragedy or a comedy of errors, possibly both. |
| 0:12.0 | Oh, oh, oh! |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to Hat Business and welcome to our silly season series, Merry Hatmas! |
| 0:22.6 | Are you ready, kids? Ruby has sprinkled tinsel all over everything. |
| 0:28.6 | But I put the whole watering can on it! |
| 0:33.6 | Yes, and yet it hasn't grown a single needle, not one, suspicious. |
| 0:40.1 | How, why's it not real? |
| 0:42.3 | Because this is a fake Christmas tree, not alive, not thirsty, not a fan of singing carols. |
| 0:50.6 | So all this time, I've been trying to water plastic? |
| 0:59.0 | Yes, and also very eco-friendly because real trees can't all move into your lounge room. |
| 1:05.0 | Some stay in forests, happily growing. |
| 1:08.0 | Forests like a whole Christmas tree city. |
| 1:12.1 | Exactly. |
| 1:13.4 | Up north, there's a forest full of real Christmas trees, |
| 1:16.3 | and they have very strict rules. |
| 1:18.1 | You can't just chop them down like cheeky Auntie Neer did one year. |
| 1:21.3 | Timber! |
| 1:23.3 | Cheeky Ony Neyer! |
| 1:26.7 | Ha, can we go see real Christmas trees? |
| 1:30.5 | Maginarily, yes. |
| 1:32.3 | Let's put on our Santa hats and journey north |
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