The home video release of the 2016 Sesame Street Christmas special, Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas, was released on October 10, 2017. Bonus features include the full-length video A Sesame Street Christmas Carol, two Christmas-themed shorts previously premiered online - "Twas a Night Before Cookie" and "Elmo's Christmas Song," a downloadable ebook based on the special and six bonus shorts from the Sesame Studios YouTube channel.