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101 Ideas for Holiday Family Fun in the Hudson Valley - 2022

KidsOutAndAbout is the Hudson Valley's online guide to everything for kids, teens, and families!  The activities we've listed here are confirmed for this year, but many require reserving ahead of time, and please keep in mind that events could be canceled... so click through to make arrangements. Enjoy the holidays!

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Santa Sightings

Multiple Days Starting Nov 17, 2022

(Reservations are strongly recommended)

Photos with Santa - Cross County Shopping Center

Multiple Days Starting Nov 18, 2022

Catskill Mountain Railroad Polar Express

Multiple Days Starting Nov 18, 2022

Santa at Palisades Center Mall

Multiple Days Starting Nov 21, 2022

Santa Photos at Ridge Hill

Multiple Days Starting Nov 25, 2022

Photos with Santa at Jefferson Valley Mall

Nov 27, 2022

Holiday Celebration With Santa - Walkway Over the Hudson

Dec 3, 2022

SINTERKLAAS FESTIVAL DAY IN RHINEBECK

Dec 3 and 10, 2022

Visit Santa at Boscobel

Dec 17, 2022 Drive By Santa Event - White Plains

 

Dine with Santa

Dec 4, 2022 Beekman Fire Company Cookies with Santa Event
Dec 4, 11, 18, 2022 SANTA BRUNCH at The Thayer Hotel

Old-Time Christmas

Multiple Dates starting Nov 18, 2022

Twilight Tours at Boscobel

Saturdays and Sundays Nov 19 - Dec 17, 2022

Holiday House Tours - Boscobel

Nov 25, 26, 2022

Thanksgiving at the Farm - Farmers' Museum

Multiple Dates Starting Nov 25, 2022

Christmas by Candlelight 2022 - Old Sturbridge Village

Multiple Dates starting Nov 25, 2022

Holiday House Tours - Locust Grove

Multiple Dates starting Nov 25, 2022

A Gilded Age Christmas - STAATSBURGH STATE HISTORIC SITE

Multiple Days Nov 28 - Dec 30, 2022

Holiday Classic Mansion Tours at Lyndhurst

Dec 1-16, 2022

SANTA CLAUS LETTERS - Lewisboro

Multiple days starting Dec 2, 2022

Holiday Boutique at Philipsburg Manor

December 2, 3, 2022

Holiday Lantern Tours at the Farmers' Museum

Dec 3, 2022 

Carmel NY's Holiday on The Lake

Dec 3, 2022

Hudson's WINTER WALK

Dec 4, 2022

Holiday Traditions for Children at Clermont

Multiple Dates starting Dec 10, 2022

Mount Gulian Holiday Tours

Dec 10, 11, 2022 Christmas in Museum Village


Light Displays

Multiple Dates begining Nov 11, 2022 - Jan 8, 2023

Illuminate the Farm at Queens County Farm Museum

Multiple dates begining Nov 18 - Jan 8, 2023

Holiday Lights 2022 - Bronx Zoo

Multiple Dates starting Nov 18 - Jan 14, 2023

NYBG GLOW- New York Botanical Gardens

Nov 19, 2022

Christmas Tree Lighting at Cross County Shopping Center

Nov 20, 2022

The Lighting of Ridge Hill

Multiple Dates Starting Nov 21, 2022

Origami Holiday Tree - American Museum of Natural History

Multiple Dates begining Nov 25 - Dec 25, 2022

The Wonderland of Lights- Rhinebeck

Multiple Dates begining Nov 25 - Jan 1, 2023

Peace, Love & Lights - Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Weekends starting Nov 25 - Dec 30, 2022

Winterfest and the Tunnel of Lights at the CT Trolley Museum

 

Multiple dates beginning Nov 25, 2022

Westchester's Winter Wonderland Drive-Thru Light Show Experience

Nov 26, 2022

LaGrange Holiday Festival of Lights Parade

Dec 2, 2022

Parade of Lights - Millbrook, NY

Dec 2, 2022

Tree Lighting - Holiday Lights of Nyack

Dec 2, 2022

Mt. Kisco Chamber presents: Holiday Tree Lighting

Multiple days starting Dec 2, 2022

Holiday Lights on the Farm - Muscoot Farm

Dec 3, 2022

Holiday Electric Lights Parade and Tree Lighting - Yorktown

Dec 3, 2022 (registration required)

Union Vale Grand Illumination at Trymor Park 

Dec 10, 2022

Yorktown First Annual Holiday Tree Lighting - John C Hart Memorial Library

Dec 11, 2022

City Lights, Bright Holiday Nights-Tree Lighting - White Plains

Holiday Theatre

Nov 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 2022

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella at Yorktown Stage

Nov 26, 2022

World Ballet Series: Nutcracker at Paramount Hudson Valley

Nov. 26, Dec 3, and Dec 16, 2022

The Nutcracker by the New Paltz Ballet at Rocking Horse Ranch Resort

Dec 3, 2022

"INTO THE LIGHT" (EXCERPTED PREVIEWS) AT SINTERKLAAS

Multiple Days Starting Dec 4, 2022

Dickens's 'Christmas Carol' at The Old Dutch Church

Dec 10, 2022

"INTO THE LIGHT" (FULL SHOW!) AT ROSENDALE THEATRE

Dec 18, 2022

The Nutcracker Performed by New York Theatre Ballet at Tarrytown Music Hall

Dec 16, 17, 18, 2022

Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ - The Farmers' Museum

Dec 16, 17, 18, 2022

A Christmas Carol at Fisher Center

Dec 17, 2022

O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi at Queens County Farm Museum

 

Holiday Concerts

Dec 3, 2022

The Laurie Berkner Band - A Holiday Celebration Concert - Tarrytown Music Hall

Dec 9, 2022

Judy Collins - Holiday & Hits at Tarrytown Music Hall

Dec 10, 2022

Calmus: Christmas A Cappella at Caramoor

Dec 10, 2022

Cherish the Ladies “A Celtic Christmas” - Tarrytown Music Hall

Dec 11, 2022

Reggie Harris - Family Event at Caramoor

Dec 14, 2022

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas - MJN Convention Center

Dec 15, 2022

The Glenn Miller Orchestra - In the Christmas Mood - Tarrytown Music Hall

Dec 16, 2022

The Vienna Boys Choir - Christmas in Vienna at Tarrytown Music Hall

Dec 21, 2022

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year at WPPAC

Dec 17, 2022

Jessica Lynn – A Very Merry Country Christmas - Paramount Hudson Valley

 

Christmas Tree Experience

 

Battenfeld Christmas Tree Farm

 

Country Christmas on the Farm at Manza Family Farm

 

Emmerich Tree Farm

Opening Day is Nov 25, 2022

Pierson's Farm

  Abel's Trees
 

Primrose Hill Farm

 

Evergreen Farm

Opening Day is Nov 25, 2022

BJ's Christmas Tree Farm

Opening Day is Nov 25, 2022

Wright Family Farm

Opening Day is Nov 26, 2022

Wilkens Fruit and Fir Farm

 

Ice Skating

Opening Day Nov  5, 2022

Ice skating at Bear Mountain Rink

Multiple dates Starting Nov 20, 2022

Ridge Hill on Ice

Multiple dates Starting Nov 19, 2022 

POP-UP ICE SKATING RINK at Cross County Center

 

IceTime Sports Complex Public Skate

 

McCann Ice Arena Public Skate

 

Hanukkah

Dec 18, 2022

Chanukah Menorah Lighting- Bedford

Dec 18, 2022

Menorah Lighting - Carmel, NY

Dec 18, 2022

Chanukah Menorah Lighting - Pound Ridge

Dec 18, 2022

Chanukah Candlelighting & Storytelling at Congregation Emanuel of the Hudson Valley

Dec 18, 2022

Lighting of the Menorah - Village of Millbrook

 

Shopping & Craft Fairs & Festivals

Nov 12-13, 2022

Holiday House and Shop at Old Austerlitz

Nov 12-13, 2022

Holiday Market at Greenburgh Nature Center

Nov 19, 20, 2022

Christkindlmarkt presented by Germania of Poughkeepsie

Multiple Dates Starting Nov 19, 2022

Holiday Food Truck Market - Cross County Center

Nov 25, 26, 27, 2022

Hudson Valley Art Market at Locust Grove

Nov 26, 27, 2022

Annual Holiday Market at Bethel Woods

Dec 3, 2022

Winter Craft Fair!- MJN Convention Center

Nov 26, 27, 2022

Indoor Craft Fair- Samascott's Garden Market

Dec 9, 10, 11, 2022

White Plains WinterFest Downtown Holiday Market

Dec 10, 11, 2022

Nyack Holiday Gift Fair

Dec 10, 2022

Holiday Market at Powder Ridge

 

New Year's Eve

Dec 31, 2022

White Plains New Year’s Eve Family Spectacular

Dec 31, 2022

New Year's Eve Torchlight Parade at Ski Sundown

Dec 31 - Jan 1, 2023

Ring in the New Year at Rocking Horse Ranch Resort

Jan 1, 2023

First Day Hike at Sam’s Point

Jan 1, 2023

First Day Hike - Rockefeller State Park Preserve

Jan 1, 2023

First Day Hike - Staatsburgh State Historic Site

Jan 1, 2023

First Day Hike - Minnewaska State Park Preserve

Jan 1, 2023

First Day Hike - Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park

Jan 1, 2023

First Day Hike - Olana State Historic Site

Jan 1, 2023

First Day Hike - Little Stony Point- Hudson Highlands State Park

Jan 1, 2023

First Day Hike - John Jay Homestead

Jan 1, 2023

Croton Dam Hike - Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park

 

Miscellaneous

Weekends starting Nov 12, 2022

Holiday Train Show - Greenburgh Nature Center

Nov 20, 2022

Turkey Tales at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum

Multiple Dates starting Nov 25, 2022

Holiday Bricktacular! - LEGOLAND Discovery Center Westchester

Nov 25, 26, 27, 2022 Holiday Kick-Off - Hudson River Museum
Starting Nov 26, 2022

HOLIDAYS ON THE HILL TRAIN SHOW at Lasdon Park

Nov 26 - Dec 14, 2022

North Pole Mail - LaGrange

Dec 3, 2022

Holiday Craft-Making for Kids - Clinton Community Library

Dec 10, 2022

Decorating Gingerbread Houses - Clinton Community Library

Dec 10, 2022

A Partridge in a Pear Tree: Bird Seed Ornament Workshop - Clermont

Dec 17, 2022

Cocoa Around the World at Muscoot Farm

Dec 18, 2022

Winter Solstice Celebration - Muscoot Farm

Dec 12, 2022

Hot Cocoa Party - Goshen Public Library

Dec 17, 2022

Crafty Kids Holiday Party at Clermont

Dec 17, 2022

Frosty & Friends - Mt Kisco Chamber of Commerce

Dec 17, 2022

Beary Merry Holiday - Trailside Museum and Zoo

Dec 27, 2022

Annual Cookie Burner Stroll at Albany Pine Bush

 


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