101 Ideas for Holiday Family Fun in Brooklyn 2024

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Santa Sightings

Multiple Dates starting Nov 21, 2024	Photos With Santa - Kings Plaza
Multiple Dates starting Nov 29, 2024	Selfies with Santa - Winter Garden at Brookfield Place
Dec 8, 2024	Breakfast with Santa - Snyder Ave, Brooklyn
Multiple Days Starting Nov 29, 2024	Breakfast with Santa - Stella 34 Trattoria
Multiple Dates starting Nov 30, 2024	Santa Fun Cruise with Kids Activities
Nov 25 and Dec 2, 2024	Pet Photo with Santa Nights - Kings Plaza
Dec 7, 2024	Cookies with Santa 2024 - FourFiveSix
Dec 7, 2024	Marine Park Alliance Presents: Festival of Lights - Santa in the Park!
Dec 14, 2024	New York, New York SantaCon 2024

Light Displays

Nov 9, 2024	Tree Arrival Family Festivities - Rockefeller Center
Nov 9-Dec 30, 2024 (Wed-Sun)	The Village at Anne Ellen - Manalapan, NJ
Multiple Dates starting Nov 22 - Jan 5, 2025	Lightscape! - Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Select dates Nov 22 - Jan 5, 2025	Holiday Lights 2024 - Bronx Zoo
Nov 26, 2024	Downtown Brooklyn Gets Lit!
Multiple dates starting Nov 30, 2024	Tour: The Dyker Heights Christmas Light Tour 2024
Dec 4, 2024	Tree Lighting - Rockefeller Center
Dec 8, 2024	Holiday Tree Lighting - Carl Schurz Park
Dec 11, 2024	The Dumbo Holiday Tree Lighting

Holiday Theatre

Sept 7, 2024 - Jan 5, 2025	The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show - Duke on 42nd Street
Multiple Dates Nov 23 - Dec 29, 2024	Yuletide Factory - The New Victory Theater
Multiple Dates Dec 4, 2024- Jan 5, 2025	Annie Revival - Theatre at Madison Square Garden
Dec 7, 2024	Yuletide Factory: Sensory-Friendly
Multiple dates starting Nov 8, 2024	Christmas Spectacular Starring The Radio City Rockettes
Multiple dates starting Nov 29, 2024	George Balanchine's The Nutcracker®
Multiple Dates Nov 26 - Dec 29, 2024	A Christmas Carol at the Merchant’s House: Charles Dickens in New York, 1867
Dec 6, 7, 8, 2024	Works & Process: Peter & the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev with Isaac Mizrahi
Dec 21,2024	Holiday Spectacular - Brooklyn Music School
Dec 14, 2024	GRAND KYIV BALLET PRESENTS: THE NUTCRACKER - Kings Theatre
Dec 14, 2024	O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi at Queens County Farm Museum
Dec 23, 2024	Hip Hop Nutcracker - Kings Theatre

Holiday Concerts

Nov 24, 2024	JENNIFER HUDSON'S THE GIFT OF LOVE: AN INTIMATE LIVE EXPERIENCE - Kings Theatre
Nov 26, 2024	Pentatonix - Madison Square Garden
Dec 11-14, 2024	Handel’s Messiah - New York Philharmonic
Dec 15, 2024	Works & Process: Rotunda Holiday Concert: Charles Turner & Uptown Swing with Jasmine Rice LaBeija - Guggenheim
Dec 18-19, 2024	Andrea Bocelli - Madison Square Garden
Dec 19-22, 2024	Elf in Concert - New York Philharmonic
Dec 20 - 21, 2024	The New York Pops - Merry and Bright - Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Nov 25, 2024	14th Annual Christmas in New York
Dec 26, 2024	New York Holiday Singers Christmas Carols - CMOM
Dec 6 & 8, 2024	Concert: A Chanticleer Christmas
Dec 14-15, 2024	A Cantori Holiday
Dec 18, 2024	Candlelight: Holiday Jazz and Soul Classics feat. Ella Fitzgerald
Dec 19, 2024	Candlelight: Holiday Carols on Strings
Dec 20-21, 2024	A Community Christmas - The Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph
Dec 21, 2024	Holiday Spectacular - Brooklyn Music School
Dec 14, 2024	Candlelight: Holiday Special featuring “The Nutcracker” and More at Church of the Heavenly Rest
Dec 20-21, 2024	Candlelight: Holiday Special Featuring “The Nutcracker” & More - St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church
Dec 22 & 26 2024	Broadway Sings Mariah Carey: A Holiday Spectacular - The Cutting Room, NYC
Select dates and locations starting Dec 12, 2024	Pipes of Christmas Concert
Dec 8, 2024	Vienna Boys Choir - Christmas in Vienna - Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Dec 18, 2024	Candlelight: Holiday Soul and Jazz Classics
Dec 19 & 20, 2024	Candlelight: Holiday Carols on Strings

Christmas Tree Experience

Tree Fields Open Nov 22, 2024	Anne Ellen Christmas Tree Farm - Manalapan, NJ
	Christmas Tree Brooklyn Delivery
	Brooklyn Christmas Tree
	Brooklyn Terminal Market

Ice Skating

	Bryant Park
	LeFrak Center at Lakeside Prospect Park Brooklyn
	Riverbank State Park Ice Rink
	Roebling Rink - Brooklyn Bridge Park
	Sky Skate at Edge - Hudson Yards
	The Rink at Brookfield Place
	The Rink at Rockefeller Center
	Wollman Rink - Central Park

Hanukkah

Dec 8, 2024	Marine Park Alliance Presents: Festival of Lights - Chanukah - Carmine Carro Community Center
Dec 11, 2024	Hanukkah Menorah Crafting Workshop - The Craft Studio
Dec 15, 2024	Hanukkah Family Day - The Jewish Museum
Dec 15, 2024	Chanukah Interactive Musical Show for Families - JCC Manhattan
Dec 17, 2024	Chanukah on the Lower East Side: A Century of Change - Essex Market
Dec 21 & 22, 2024	Hanukkah Celebration - CMOM
Dec 25, 2024	Winter Concert: Celebrate Chanukah with Jazzukkah! - Museum at Eldridge Street
Dec 25, 2024	Chanukah Dinner & Celebration - Chabad Lubavitch of Manhattan Beach
Dec 25, 2024	Lighting of Brooklyn's Largest Menorah
Dec 25, 2024	Menorah Lighting - Hudson Yards
Dec 25, 2024	Chabad Lubavitch of Riverdale Giant Menorah Lighting
Dec 29, 2024	5th night, Chanukah Children’s festival @ Holocaust Park

Get Moving for The Holidays

Nov 28, 2024	Prospect Park Track Club Turkey Trot
Nov 28, 2024	Prospect Park Stroller Walk
Nov 29, 2024	Post Turkey Day Walking Tour - Green-Wood Cemetary
Nov 29, 2024	Prospect Park Wellness Walk
Dec 15, 2024	NYC Holiday Half, 10K, 5K

Hands On Holidays

Nov 20, 2024	Thanksgiving Centerpiece Workshop - The Craft Studio
Nov 21, 2024	Teen DIY: Thankful Greeting Cards - Borough Park Library
Dec 10, 2024	Paint the Holidays: Star/Snowflake - Walt Whitman Library
Dec 13, 2024	Kids Night Out Winter Wonderland! - 92nd Street Y
Dec 13, 2024	Gingerbread House Workshop (w/Pizza!) - The Craft Studio
Dec 14, 2024	Holiday Origami Ornament Making - Salt Marsh Nature Center (in Marine Park)
Dec 17, 2024	Grab & Go Craft @Talea: Gingerbread Finger Puppet
Multiple Dates Dec 23 - Jan 3, 2025	Day Off School Drop Off Mini Camps! at The Craft Studio
Dec 23, 2024	Kids Create : Clay Christmas Tree - Rugby Library, Meeting Room
Dec 24, 2024	Grab & Go Craft @Talea: Upcycle Wreath
Dec 24 & 26, 2024	Christmas Celebration - CMOM

Shopping & Craft Fairs

Multiple dates Nov 25 - Dec 30, 2024	Holiday Market Pop-up - Industry City
Dec 1, 8, 15, 2024	Astoria Holiday Market - Astoria Armory
Dec 7, 8, 14, 15, 21,22, 2024	Holiday Pop-Up: Dumbo
Dec 7 - 8, 2024	Brooklyn Navy Yard’s 7th Annual Wallabout Holiday Market
Dec 7, 2024	DUMBO Shop The Studios
Dec 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 2024	Holiday Pop-Up: Boerum Hill
Dec 8, 2024	YES Holiday Market - House of Yes

New Year's Fun

Dec 30 - 31, 2024	Countdown to New Year’s Celebration! - CMOM
Dec 31, 2024	CMOM’S New Year's Eve Ball Drop & Dance Party
Dec 31. 2024	Fireworks in Central Park

Miscellaneous

Opening Oct 25, 2024	Winter Village at Bryant Park
Multiple dates Nov 8 - Jan 12, 2025	Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake-Off - Museum of The City of New York
Select Dates Nov 16 - Jan 20, 2025	Holiday Train Show - New York Botanical Garden
Nov 22, 2024	Friendsgiving Kids Night Out -92nd Street Y
Nov 23, 2024	Free Book Giveaway presented by Brooklyn Book Bodega
Multiple Dates Starting Nov 30, 2024	Holiday Cruises 2024
Multiple dates Dec 1 - 20, 2024	Celebrate the Holidays with Cultures from Around the World - CMOM
Dec 14, 2024	'Twas the Night Before Christmas - Central Library Brooklyn
Dec 20, 2024	Kid's Christmas Party & Toy Giveaway
Dec 26 - 29, 2024	Celebrate Kwanzaa - Brooklyn Children's Museum
Dec 27, 2024	Family Celebration - CMOM
Dec 28-29, 2024	Kwanzaa Celebration - CMOM

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