As Amelia Bedelia helps Mrs. Rogers prepare for Christmas, she bakes a date cake with a calendar in it and stuffs the children's stockings with turkey stuffing.

Petey and Jean love to draw monsters. They create Oko, a frightening monster who escapes from the sheet of paper and disappears into their house. All they need to do now is create a nice monster that eats bad ones. So they draw a nice monster named Kriss with three legs, four arms and ten mouths to eat the bad monster. The plan works and they decide to keep Kriss as the family's new pet monster. For Christmas, Jean & Peter go on vacation to the mountains...