Five-year-old Hanna Lambrecht plopped in the snow outside the Kenosha Public Museum and wiggled her arms back and forth.

“She’s making the snow angel, and I’m just trying to help her back up,” said her sister, Alicia, 8, as Hanna struggled to get herself and her snowsuit going in one direction.

The two girls were among a crowd of nearly 200 at the museum Saturday afternoon to hear some funky, holiday soul music, meet Santa Claus and catch the seventh annual Christmas tree lighting.

With the temperature a frigid 24 degrees, Alicia said their mom and dad were a few feet inside behind the glass doors.

That’s where most people gathered to hear the Soul Sliders run through some bluesy renditions of holiday favorites like, “Merry Christmas, Baby,” and “Jingle Bells,” in front of the museum’s large picture window while model trains went round and round a Christmas village track.

Jackie Bell, 14, swirled a candy-cane lollipop and said the music, snow and atmosphere were the perfect combination. She got the lollipop, she said, in her boot this morning — a gift from St. Nicholas.

“It’s fun to check everything out,” she said. “I was already in the Christmas spirit, but this makes it better.”

Mayor Keith Bosman, a red sweater wrapped tight around his neck, said this was one of the better perks of the job.

“It’s better than getting yelled at,” he said. “We’re just waiting for Santa. He’s coming on the trolley because I don’t think they have a chimney here.”

With no Santa in sight, the Soul Sliders broke into an impromptu “White Christmas” while Helena Limon, 5, swayed back and forth and sung along, like she did to every other song.

“I know it ’cause I listen to the radio,” she said.

Her mom, Janel, brought her and her brother, Alex, 7, down to meet the man of the hour and said she hoped one of them would get picked to light the Christmas tree.

A few minutes later, said man of the hour, burst through the museum door with a hearty, “Ho! Ho! Ho!” and ringing bells.

No fake beard with elastic ties here. It looked like the museum spared no expenses in getting the real you-know-who from you-know-where.

“Helena! It looks like the real one!” Janel shouted. “It’s really him!”

And you could tell it really was the real Santa, ’cause he said so.

“Kenosha’s always been a special city for me,” he told the Kenosha News. “There are some very fine people here, and I visited years and years ago during a blizzard. Thought I was going to be stuck, but they helped me out.”

With the reindeer still resting, he said the elves — union elves for the record — got him to Kenosha for the big day.

While kids’ faces really were aglow, one grumpy guy in black still practiced his best scowl.

Dressed in Old English garb, he said his name was Ebenezer Scrooge, but looked suspiciously like Lou Rugani from WLIP radio.

“I’m here as the loyal opposition,” he said. “God bless us everyone. Do you know who said that?”

Tiny Tim?

“No! I did!” he roared. “Read the book! That little brat gets all the credit!”

Try as he might, Scrooge couldn’t take the fun out of the tree lighting. Alex Limon did get the honors, along with Zach Koepke, 11.

“It felt pretty good!” Zach said after finishing the job. “We pretty much do this every year, when it’s cold or even when it’s a snowstorm. We never miss it.”

Then he looked back on his work, as lights of red, green, yellow and blue twinkled in the twilight.