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Huntsville Weekend Roundup December 8-10
Find our top picks below or check out our full event calendar for even more family fun!. This post is updated weekly with current family-friendly events and republished on a monthly basis. 2023 Holiday Happenings Guide. We’ve rounded up everything you need to to make your holidays merry and bright!...
The Best Huntsville and Tennessee Valley Neighborhoods for Christmas Lights
Gas up the car, pour up some hot cocoa in thermoses and hit the road – our much-anticipated list of Huntsville & North Alabama Christmas Lights is back by popular demand! The minute the Thanksgiving leftovers are gone we start putting together the ULTIMATE list of local home and neighborhood Christmas light displays in Huntsville so your family can enjoy them.
Christmas & Holiday Plays, Pageants, and Special Events in Huntsville and Beyond (Coming Soon!)
It’s a great time to catch some Christmas shows in Huntsville with your family! Here you’ll find holiday pageants, plays, and special events happening in the Rocket City. Some of these are free and some require tickets, but they are all sure to put you in the Holiday mood!
Bridge Street Hosting Festive Holiday Events for Families
For my kids the holidays are all about Santa, hot chocolate, and snow. For me it’s more about the music, Christmas lights, and snow. There is one place each holiday season that provides almost everything on both our lists – snow in Alabama is still rare enough to be a novelty. Bridge Street Town Center lights its giant Christmas tree each year around mid-November and if you aren’t already in the holiday mood by then, these FREE family-friendly events will get you there.
The Night We Lost Santa
Every once in a while we read a post that brings us to our knees. Something that humbles us, scares us, makes us declare, “THIS! This is what it feels like to be a parent!” We are quite fortunate to have Miss Zoot as a guest writer and hope you’ll go visit her site soon and often.
How to Create a Book Advent Calendar for Kids
It seems that everywhere I shop or click these days, I see a new idea for an Advent calendar: 24 days of cheese, wine, chocolate, even cosmetics. Young or old, we all get caught up in counting down to Christmas. So this year, I’m making a calendar out of my favorite things – books! A Book Advent Calendar is a great way to shift the focus toward experiences rather than things.
Nights of Santa at Earlyworks Offers Enchanting Holiday Memories for Kids
The magic of the season is returning to EarlyWorks during their Nights of Santa event just for kids! From December 12 through December 23, families are invited to step into a holiday wonderland, right here in Huntsville! Children will get to meet Santa and enjoy an immersive holiday experience all in Downtown Huntsville.
Wonderland Under Warrior: Santa’s Underground Workshop at Rickwood Caverns
Tradition and holiday go together like cookies and milk. Each year, like many other families in North Alabama, our family indulges in our favorite annual traditions, but every once in a while something new is put in our path to tempt our curious, adventure-craving hearts. This year, Santa’s Underground Workshop: Wonderland Under Warrior at Rickwood Caverns State Park in Warrior, AL proved just the sort of new-to-us merry adventure we love most: a combination of nature’s spectacle and the pageantry of holiday razzle dazzle. We enjoyed our visit to Rickwood Caverns earlier this year and seize this opportunity to go back during Christmas!
Give a Flood of Books This Christmas!
There’s an old holiday tradition in Iceland called Jolabokaflod and it’s something we think Huntsville should start embracing ASAP. This national custom translates to “Yule book flood”, and it’s celebrated by exchanging books and spending the evening reading them on Christmas Eve. How perfect is that???
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