Master Guide to December Holiday Fun in Houston
As soon as the cold weather arrives, our thoughts naturally turn to the holiday season! We prepare for it for weeks, if not months. Here is your master guide to the holidays! Our normal big list may be reduced due to COVID for 2020, but see below for some new options!
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Christmas in the Country at Dewberry Farm
We open our Christmas Lights and Cut your own Christmas trees on November 27 (dates and hours vary)! At Dewberry Farm, we take Christmas serious. Providing over 1 million lights on our Christmas Trail of Lights ride, your family is bound to create new memories and want to come back every year. Our light show is dazzled with lights, sparkles, stars and candles, wreaths, elves, and trees. Bring the family out and experience Christmas lights like you never have before. Dewberry Farm will be transformed into a whimsical Christmas Village, with twinkling lights, garland, ribbons and tinsel. Hop a wagon for a merry ride across the prairie to see the magic of over one million lights set to music! Shop at the Country Store! Visit Santa and our Giant Snow Globe for photos ops. Indulge in sweet treats and Christmas goodies! Enjoy 30+ attractions … including the Dewville Express Train, all included in the price of admission!
Drive-Thru Holiday Lights, Events, and Activities
Upcoming events you can experience from the safety of your car!The COVID pandemic has generated many restrictions on holiday activities, but in the midst of difficulties often spring wonderful ideas and human ingenuity. To accommodate social distancing requirements, organizations around the country have planned drive-thru experiences... most are light displays, but other experiences have emerged as well. Click here for our list of local drive-through activities!
Subscriptions Boxes: Gifts That Keep on Giving
Send thoughtful choices to the ones you love near and far, and plan some excellent expected surprises for your own family in the months to come. KidsOutAndAbout has put together of some of our favorite choices with a range for all different ages and interests.
Santa Sightings
Where can your kids visit with Santa? At plenty of places around our area! We also show you Breakfasts with Santa (and sometimes, Breakfast with the Grinch!). (Get your tickets early, because those Breakfasts with Santa tend to sell out early.)
FREE holiday events
You think you can't get anything free anymore? Nonsense! Here are a bunch of free holiday events (listed day by day) coming up in our area.
Chanukah
Hanukkah begins in the evening of December 10, 2020 and ends December 18, 2020.
Kwanzaa
Kwanzaa is celebrated December 26-January 1 each year.
Lightbulb Day
Lightbulb Day is celebrated on the Winter Solstice, on or about December 21.
Holiday concerts and performances
There are lots of special concerts and shows... and some of them are free!
