Christmas Events and Activities
Southern California is full of fun holiday attractions!
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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!
You'll find the following pages on this website to help get you headed to Christmas events---
* Christmas Activities Calendar: 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 spectacular nighttime Christmas boat parades of Southern California...all aglow with thousands of colorful lights? You'll find a list of the most popular Christmas boat parades in SoCal on the Seasonal Family Fun page, along with info about other holiday fun, as well. Would you like to take a whirl on a seasonal outdoor ice skating rink? You'll also find a list of temporary ice rinks where you can have some active fun with your kids during 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 Attractions; (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; and (10) Disney's Electrical Parade, which performs selected dates during the Disney California Adventure Park's holiday celebration.
* 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 and the Pantages Theater's 2009 production of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
* Knott's Christmas Events: 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!
* Legoland's Christmas Events are terrific fun for families with toddlers, preschoolers and young children. Discover the decorations and activities you'll enjoy this holiday season at Legoland on this photo-filled page of our blog!
* Grinchmas at Universal Studios Hollywood is a can't-miss event for Dr. Seuss-lovers. Families will have fun enjoying its whimsical decor...and playing in snow, even though the weather is sunny and warm!
Southern California Christmas decorations & Santa costumes
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:
Party store locations in Southern California:
Christmas Costume pages:
2.) Elf, Reindeer, Snowman & Victorian Caroler costumes
3.) Santa & Mrs. Claus costumes
Note: There are also two Thanksgiving Costume pages on this site: Pilgrim Costumes, which also features Native American costumes, as well, gives you tips on sewing a Thanksgiving pageant costume for men, women, boys or girls. But what about your pet? Fido will look terrific in his new No-Sew Turkey Costume for Pets! page. Mom, Dad and the kids can make it together...because it's a project meant specially for beginners!
New Years Eve Events
* Knott's Praise Celebration and Knott's Christmas attractions, pt 2
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
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.
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: The Reader's Digest website is another place you can look for a wide range of holiday ideas, including crafts, recipes, gift wrapping, etc. If you're a Christmas do-it-yourself lover, you'll want to check out the array of fun Christmas arts and crafts, recipes, and more on the Christmas pages of the Reader's Digest website.
Cristmas Attractions and Events
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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