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