The home-made giant Santa that adorns their mailbox each December that was stolen from the entrance of their 3000-acre property between Werris Creek and Breeza last Friday has been returned.

The giant Santa, made by the family using a metal frame and a flat-bar spine, stuffed with Dorper wool from their property, has decorated in a different Christmas theme each year for almost a decade.

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He was once decorated as though he was shearing sheep, and after a flood one year, was on a motorbike pulling a raft towing sheep.

This year, Santa was sitting atop an old washing machine, as though he was coming out of a present to symbolise the family’s “surprisingly good harvest”.

The Moore family, including the children aged 14, 12, 10 and five, had only had this year’s Santa out for about 24 hours before he was stolen between 12am and 6am last Friday.

The incident was reported to police, but it also sparked a huge social media search for the stolen Santa.

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Mother Erin Moore told The Leader last Tuesday the family was hoping for a Christmas miracle.

And this morning, that’s exactly what happened.

“My daughter Pip rode down this morning and found him,” Mrs Moore said.

“She was in tears.

“She was happy to have him back.”