Discover Christmas events and activities the whole family will enjoy! Updated January 16, 2008. Links: HOME :: Latest News :: Christmas Activities Del Mar Holiday Lights :: Griffith Park Christmas Activities :: Hollywood Santa Parade :: Knott's Christmas 2007 :: SeaWorld Christmas :: Disney: Disneyland Christmas 2007 :: Disney Christmas Parade :: Disney Holiday Parade, pt 2 :: Disney Fireworks & Snow :: Santa's Beach Blast :: Santa's Reindeer Roundup :: Small World Holiday :: Haunted Mansion pics :: Haunted Mansion, pt 2 :: Other Activities: SoCal Christmas Activities :: Christmas Activities Calendar 2007 :: Seasonal Family Fun :: Stores: Michaels Craft Stores :: Party America :: Party City/Los Angeles :: Party City/other So Cal :: Year-round costume stores :: New Years: Countdown to New Years 2007 :: Disney New Years Eve :: Rose Parade 2007 :: Knotts Praise Celebration ::

Christmas Events and Activities

Southern California is full of fun holiday attractions!

Cute Christmas elf from Griffith Park's Train Ride to Santa holiday event

On this page, you'll discover fun family Christmas events in Southern California, along with holiday activities you might enjoy both here in SoCal...or elsewhere, as well.

This page has 2 parts:

1.) Christmas events, celebrations, and activity pages on THIS website

2.) Resources from OTHER websites on which you'll find terrific ideas for Christmas fun!

Speaking of Christmas fun...here's a cute little holiday game in the widget to your right.

You'll help some friendly penguins rescue other cute little animals from sinking into the snow! You simply use the arrows on your keyboard to help the penguins move their "fireman" style trampoline under the poor creatures who are otherwise doomed!

Christmas Events & Attractions pages on THIS website

Find info about theme park holiday celebrations, SoCal boat parades, holiday lighting displays, and more!

Picture: Daisy Duck in her holiday finery rides in the Disneyland Christmas Parade

You'll find the following pages on this website to help get you headed to Christmas events---

Christmas Activities Calendar 2007: Find Southern California Christmas events & activities by the DATE on which you want some fun. You'll find info about holiday activities as diverse as: family Christmas movies, Christmas light displays, Christmas parades, and holiday events at Southern California's zoos, parks and Children's museums.

Seasonal Family Fun: Do you like to attend live holiday performances? You'll find information on this page about such Christmas events as Nutcracker Ballet performances, the popular Disney on Ice skating shows, and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" live at San Diego's Old Globe Theater. Or, do you prefer the spectacular nighttime boat paradesof Southern California...all aglow with thousands of colorful lights? You'll find a list of the most popular Christmas boat parades in SoCal here, along with links for further information. Would you like to take a whirl on a seasonal ice skating rink? Here's a list of temporary ice rinks where you can have some active fun with your children during the Christmas school vacation time!

Disneyland holiday pages: There are a number of pages on this website which have pictures & info about various Disneyland Resort Christmas attractions. (Both the original Disneyland theme park and its newer "sister" park, Disney's California Adventure are included.) The list of available topics include the following: (1) Disneyland Christmas Events 2007; (2) Disneyland Christmas Parade; (3) Disneyland Holiday Parade, pt 2; (4) Disney Fireworks & Snow; (5) Santa's Reindeer Roundup; (6) It's a Small World ride---Holiday version; (7) Holiday Haunted Mansion pics, part 1; (8) Holiday Haunted Mansion pictures, pt 2; (9) Santa's Beach Blast Pictures

Griffith Park Christmas Activities: Pictures and information about the Griffith Park-DWP Holiday Lights display and the Train Ride to Santa Claus at Travel Town

Del Mar Holiday Lights: See photos of just a few of the many Christmas lights on display at the Del Mar Fairgrounds' Holiday of Lights!

Hollywood Santa Parade (Note: this event is now over for 2007; it was held on Sunday, November 25th.)

Knott's Christmas Events 2007: Information about the Knott's "Merry" Farm holiday season events, including the Snoopy Ice Skating show, the Christmas Crafts Festival, and the Toys for Tots "free admission with a toy" days.

SeaWorld Christmas Pictures: See photos of SeaWorld's holiday events, including the popular nighttime Shamu Holiday Show!

Southern California Christmas decorations & Santa costumes

Picture: Santa Snoopy! Cute Peanuts character, Snoopy the dog, dons his Santa Claus costume for the Christmas holidays

Here are some pages on this website which can help you find the Southern California stores where you can find Christmas crafts supplies, Christmas decorations & partyware, and Santa costumes--

Michaels Craft Stores ::

Party America ::

Party City/Los Angeles ::

Party City/other So Cal ::

Year-round costume stores ::

New Years Eve Events

Countdown to New Years 2007: List of Southern California holiday events and activities between 12/26/07 and January 2, 2007 (including family-friendly New Year's Eve celebrations)

Disney New Years Eve

Rose Parade 2007 ::

Christmas events & activities--

Resources you'll enjoy on other good Christmas websites

In the following sections, you'll find a list of websites with Christmas information that was quite interesting and worth the time to visit.

Christmas Crafts, Coloring, and Fun

1.) Christmas coloring, online games, crafts music, recipes, and a heap 'o fun are what you'll find at the www.Merry-Christmas.com website. Test your knowledge with Christmas-themed trivia games; play "Elf vs Santa" tic tac toe with friends & family; write an email to Santa. This cute site has plenty to keep kids and their parents amused for quite some time!

2.) Christmas jokes, Holiday games & jigsaw puzzles, Christmas stories are some of the fun you'll enjoy on Greg's Christmas Page. This website is yet another source of Christmas activities that will turn your computer into a seasonal "fun center!" Use the next link to check out the family Christmas activities on Greg's Christmas Page.

3.) Christmas Crafts: Enjoy making some Christmas crafts projects to help decorate your home for the holiday season. The How-to-Arts-and-Crafts.com website gives you photos of how your finished project will look...AND pictures to guide you during the various steps of the project, too! Here's a link to this cute website's Christmas crafts section.

Picture: Cute Snowmen dance along the route of the Disneyland Christmas parade in Anaheim, California

4.) Christmas crafts & recipes on the Disney family website: Disney sponsors a magazine about family activities called Family Fun. Its on-line version is full of seasonal crafts ideas, recipes and printable games...all of which can either be done by kids or would be done by adults for children's parties. In addition to printed instructions with pictures, some holiday crafts and Christmas cooking projects even have videos which show your how to do these fun activities step by step. Here's a link to the Christmas page of the FamilFun.Go.com website.

5.) Holiday crafts and recipes for the whole family: If you don't have young kids at home, you might prefer Christmas crafts & recipe ideas on a website where toddlers, preschoolers and tweens aren't the emphasis. If so, you'll want to check out the array of fun Christmas arts and crafts, recipes, and other holiday fun on the Christmas pages of the Reader's Digest website. (If you DO have young kids at home...don't worry. Yes, Reader's Digest will have ideas for you as a part of their holiday section.)

Cristmas Attractions and Events

Picture: Santa Claus appears at the end of Disneyland's holiday parade, called A Christmas Fantasy

In this section, you'll find Christmas activities, attractions, and community resources that will help you enjoy the holidays---

1.) Where to find Christmas Trees---Obviously, there's going to be a Christmas tree lot at half of the grocery stores in town! At times, it may seem like you're "tripping over them," as the old saying goes. On the following website, you'll discover where you can find Christmas tree lots which actually SPECIALIZE in Christmas trees! The name of the website is "PickYourOwnChristmasTree.com" although most of the tree lots listed on the site actually sell pre-cut Christmas trees. The important thing, however, is that you'll find tree specialists which pride themselves on investigating the best Christmas tree farms, and deliver "real" Christmas trees of a quality that makes people want to pass by their corner store and make a special trip to the lot year after year.

You don't have to be a Southern Californian to enjoy this website! You'll find listings for every state of the USA and every province of Canada! Whether you're in Arizona or Alberta, Texas or Toronto, you're sure to find a quality Christmas tree lot that's conveniently located nearby. Use the next link to see the Christmas Tree lot locator website!

2.) California Christmas Calendar: If you're looking for a comprehensive Christmas events calendar which covers the ENTIRE state of California...not just SoCal events...then you'll want to look through the www.BeachCalifornia.com website. The events calendar is remarkably large, and covers many cities throughout southern, central and Northern California, as well. Furthermore, the calendar is maintained 12 months of the year; after discovering it, you'll surely want to return again and again.

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