Mama Bear Ugly Christmas Sweater Bear Hug Christmas Baby Cub

The smaller bear has pressed its whole face into the bigger bear’s chest, one tiny arm hooked around her side, while her long patterned scarf trails down past both of them. It is a hug caught mid-squeeze. Around the two of them, a ring of cream snowflakes and little pine trees closes in like the edge of a snow globe.

A Mama Bear Ugly Christmas Sweater With a Cub Tucked Under Her Chin

Our Mama Bear Ugly Christmas Sweater shows a polar bear mother holding her cub inside a round medallion, set on a black sweater with cream Fair Isle patterning. It suits a mom who spends every December with a small person attached to her leg, and a grandma who has always been the first lap anyone climbs into. A new mother in her first holiday season fits the picture too. The bear on the sweater is doing exactly what she does all day.

The pattern keeps going well past the circle. Rows of pine trees march across the chest and hem, snowflake bursts sit at the shoulders, and zigzag bands run down the sleeves and sides, with wrapped gift boxes tucked between the trees. Two more gift boxes rest at the bears’ feet, one on each side of the medallion. Cream on black stays crisp. The busy holiday pattern ends up looking like a classic ugly Christmas sweater rather than a loud one, and it is hard to miss across a crowded room.

Polar Bear Hug Christmas, Spelled Out in Blocky Letters Beneath the Bears

The words sit in two stacked lines under the hug, with a small heart below them, and the lettering has the chunky shape of a sweater pattern. Polar Bear Hug Christmas says what the picture already shows, which makes this an easy sweater to wear to a family dinner or an office party and have people smile before you explain anything. It also gives the cub something to be: the small one in your own family. Put the sweater on a mother at the tree on Christmas morning, and the scene on her chest starts to match the one happening around her.

Can a dad or an aunt wear this polar bear hug sweater as well?

The Polar Bear Hug Christmas sweater is suitable for men and women, so a dad hugging his kids or an aunt who is everyone’s favorite can wear it as easily as a mom can.

The little heart under the lettering is easy to miss at first, and usually the cub is the one who finds it.