Christmas holiday access, indicator, and mementos key method and apparatus

A holiday key entertainment system, the holiday key entertainment system comprising:

• a holiday key having a translucent plastic shell in a form of an oversized key, the shell defining a completely encapsulated interior space, an illumination source contained within the interior space, and an audio recording and playback apparatus contained within the interior space;
• and
• a book comprising a book cover, a plurality of pages, and a binding used for assembling the book cover and the plurality of pages,
• wherein the book presents a story describing the following activities:
• illuminating the holiday key,
• placing the illuminated holiday key on an exterior of a residence, and
• deactivating the illumination at some point during the night, indicating a holiday persona visited the residence;
• and
• an arrangement integrating a key storing section with the book, wherein the key storage section is of a size and shape to removably hold the holiday key.

A holiday key entertainment system, the holiday key entertainment system comprising:

• a holiday key having a plastic shell in a form of an oversized key wherein the oversized holiday key is adorned with at least one decorative holiday feature, the decorative feature being selected from a group comprising:
• a) a holiday image,
• b) a character image,
• c) a cartoon character image,
• d) a holiday character image,
• e) a ribbon,
• f) an indicia presenting a year,
• g) a holding and displaying a picture,
• h) a puppet character;
• a story presentation media, the presentation media comprising at least one of a digital storage device, an audio-video format, a book, a video cassette, a video compact disc (VCD), and a digital video disc (DVD), the story presentation media presenting a story describing the following activities:
• placing the holiday key on an exterior of a residence, and
• changing a feature of the holiday key at some point during the night, Indicating a holiday persona visited the residence;
• and
• a story presentation media integrated with a key storing section, wherein said key storing section is of a size and shape for storing the holiday key;
• and
• wherein the plastic shell defining an encapsulated interior space, the translucent plastic shell further defines an encapsulated interior space containing at least one of the following contained within the interior space:
• a) an illumination source, and
• b) a recording device.