Christmas in Dallas: 2025 Family Events & Activities
Christmas in Dallas is a special time of year, with plenty of festive activities & events all month long to help you get into the holiday spirit!
Whether you are looking to start new family Christmas traditions or partake in old ones, browse our interactive map & calendar for Dallas Christmas events, holiday light displays and kid-friendly Christmas shows near you. Find out where you can go ice skating or cut your own Christmas tree, too, for even more seasonal family fun.
What are your family's favorite things to do for Christmas in Dallas? Like & review your picks below, and add any that are still missing!
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Dallas Zoo Lights
Dallas Zoo Lights features more than two million lights twinkling across most of the Zoo, larger-than-life glowing lanterns, elaborate holiday-themed displays, visits to Santa’s Workshop, photo ops. and festive holiday drinks and snacks for adults and kids.
Dallas, TX5:30-9pm
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Christmas at Gaylord Texan
Christmas at Gaylord Texan offers a holiday showplace like no other as you wind your way through the larger-than-life sculptures, zoom down thrilling frozen slides, and traverse awe-inspiring tunnels. Escape to Gaylord Texan to enjoy the splendor of the holiday season.
Grapevine, TX
Classic Christmas Alpine Adventure
PRMavens said: The beloved immersive holiday experience is back and bigger than ever! Coca-Cola's Classic Christmas transforms Dallas Midtown (formerly Valley View Mall, off LBJ Freeway & Montfort Dr.) into Santa's cozy mountain hideaway from November 21 – December 28, 2025. Explore 90,000 square feet of dazzling light displays featuring millions of twinkling lights and immersive holiday scenes. Lace up for alpine ice skating under the stars on real outdoor ice, then grab an inner tube for the bigger and more thrilling Slip N Slide Summit—complete with Black Diamond lanes for daredevils and gentler beginner slopes. Live music, Christmas karaoke, ugly sweater contests, and festive programming keep the energy high all evening. Fuel up with refreshing Coca-Cola products, hot cocoa, holiday cocktails, and themed treats at the Trailside station. Visit ClassicChristmas.com for showtimes, pricing, ticketing, and more information.
Dallas, TX
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Grand Prairie - Prairie Lights
Prairie Lights is the premier holiday light park in Texas, located at Lynn Creek Park on Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prairie, Texas. Prairie Lights features a state-of-the-art light tunnel, a reimagined magical walk-through forest, captivating animated light displays, carnival rides, photo opportunities with Santa, holiday shopping, and more!
Grand Prairie, TX
Home for the Holidays (Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra)
Get ready to sing-along to classic Christmas carols, hum holiday tunes, and snag a photo with Santa at Home for the Holidays.
Fort Worth, TX7:30pm
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Dallas Theater Center - A Christmas Carol
The classic holiday story of Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol comes to life at the Wyly Theatre this Christmas season. Follow the grouchy Scrooge, as he learns the true meaning of Christmas. You'll be fully immersed in this re-imagined production, with ghosts flying above your head and popping out of the floor, and snow falling from the sky. The production is filled with traditional Christmas music as well as new music, plus joyful, fun choreography!
Dallas, TX
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Mainstay Farm Park - Christmas Adventure
Mainstay Farm’s Christmas Adventure is only 30 minutes from Fort Worth and under an hour from Dallas! Enjoy the ultimate holiday experience featuring Visits with Santa, a train ride, 30+ attractions, St. Nick's Village, and festive photo ops!
Cleburne, TX
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Yesterland Farm - Christmas Carnival
At Yesterland Farm, you'll find a wagon train ride around the farm, pictures with Santa and other Christmas photo ops, a variety of amazement rides, a petting zoo, and more!
Canton, TX
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Fort Worth Stockyards - Christmas in the Stockyards
A holiday celebration that’s bigger and brighter than ever before! Ring in the holidays at the annual Christmas in the Stockyards, featuring festive activities such as the holiday ice rink, sounds of the season, photos with Cowboy Santa, story time with Mrs. Claus, reindeer games, a matinee rodeo, the Ultimate Bull Fighters World Finals and a spectacular Christmas Parade!
Fort Worth, TX11am-8pm
Santa's Village at Huffhines Park
Santa's Village is set up like a real village, but on a child-size scale. You'll find little "dwellings" like Santa's Fire Station, Santa's Symphony Hall, Mrs. Claus's Bakery, and many more! Holiday-themed performances from local choirs, dance groups, and musicians will take place on Prancer's Stage each night.
Richardson, TX
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Dallas Holiday Parade
Join the city in this outdoor celebration while watching marching bands, floats, and musical performances. It's a great tradition for the whole family to enjoy!
Dallas, TX9am
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Klyde Warren Park - Tree Lighting Celebration
A festive day of activities and entertainment, photos with Santa, story time with Mrs. Claus, face painting, crafts, games, and a special show at the Nancy Best Fountain! The day celebrates the holidays with a performance of The Nutcracker, music by DJ Richy Smart, a visit from Santa’s friends Frosty and Rudolph, and Klyde Warren Park’s annual lighting of the Mayor’s Tree.
Dallas, TX4-7pm
Merry Night Market in Uptown Dallas
PRMavens said: Uptown Dallas, Inc. invites the community to celebrate the season at the first-ever Merry Night Market on Friday, December 12, 2025, from 6–9 p.m. at Griggs Park (2200 Hugo Street, Dallas, TX 75204). Free and open to the public, the market transforms the park into a sparkling winter wonderland with more than 30 local vendors offering handmade goods, holiday décor, unique gifts, artisan items, and the Holiday Cartoon Corner featuring nostalgic holiday favorites, sponsored by Central Market. Guests can also enjoy seasonal bites and beverages from onsite food vendors, including favorites such as Apples by V and The Thursday Bakery, while taking in festive live entertainment beneath a beautifully lit tent. Adding to the community spirit, students from the William B. Travis Academy TAG program are selling warm drinks throughout the evening to raise funds.
Dallas, TX6-9pm
Holidays at the Heard
Holiday lights and décor will accentuate a lovely half-mile Heard nature trail. Your family will be enchanted by this nighttime hike through the woods.
McKinney, TX6-9pm
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NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet!
Dancing along side the full international professional cast in this version of The Nutcracker are local Dallas children!
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Nash Farm - Prairie Christmas
Help the farmhands decorate for Christmas and make an ornament to take home.
Grapevine, TX10am-12pm
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American Girl Dallas - Holiday Events
American Girl has so many fun holiday events taking place this Christmas season! You can join them for Holiday Cookie Decorating, Santa Brunch, and Holiday Teatime. Events range in cost and length.
Dallas, TX
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Santa's Country Christmas
Join Santa at his Country Christmas in Seagoville! You'll drive in your own car through over 2.5 million lights with different holiday themes. The drive takes about 40 minutes to complete- and your kids will be in awe the entire ride!
Seagoville, TX6-10pm
The Star District - Cowboys Christmas Extravaganza
Cowboys Christmas Extravaganza is an exhilarating 20-minute show full of game day excitement and Christmas cheer! The event kicks off with the lighting of The Star’s 67-foot Christmas tree by a Dallas Cowboys alumni, followed by performances from the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Dallas Cowboys Rhythm and Blue, Cowboys Rookie Squad, Rowdy, and a special appearance by Santa Claus.
Frisco, TX6pm
Dallas Children's Theatre - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Fill your heart with music, merriment, and warmth, as you remember the true meaning of this holiday season with Charlie Brown and the rest of the Peanuts Gang! The holidays wouldn’t be the same without this Charles Schulz classic and a live jazz trio.
Dallas, TXCasa Manana Theatre - The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: The Musical
Join Molly and her mom on a magical treasure hunt through New York City! With Christmas parodies of today’s most popular songs, this yuletide spectacular is guaranteed to put you in the holiday spirit. This show is suitable for all audiences.
Fort Worth, TX
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Fort Worth Parade of Lights
Get into the holiday spirit at Fort Worth's Parade of Lights! The parade will travel through downtown, with over 100 floats lit up in the Christmas spirit. Santa will bring up the end of the parade, in a float made especially for him!
Fort Worth, TX6pm
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Texas Ballet Theater - The Nutcracker
Since its first performance in 1892, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker has evoked the wonder and joy of the holiday season. You will want to make Ben Stevenson’s spectacular production of this perennial favorite part of your holiday tradition.
Dallas, TX
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Great Wolf Lodge - Snowland
Snowland, Great Wolf Lodge's annual holiday celebration, is an immersive winter wonderland filled with special seasonal events, winter activities, crafts, visits with Santa Claus, and more.
Grapevine, TXGalleria Dallas - Illumination Celebration
From the iconic 95-foot-tall Christmas tree to SNOWDAY, an immersive photo experience, the holiday celebration at Galleria Dallas is spectacular. Festivities span the season with live entertainment, holiday skate shows, and daily snow.
Dallas, TX
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Six Flags Over Texas - Holiday in the Park
Experience enchanting holiday magic for the entire family at Holiday in the Park! Featuring musical shows, twinkling lights, holiday treats, Santa, and much more at Six Flags Over Texas.
Arlington, TXPrimary photo: Dallas Arboretum
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