Zoo Lights
Zoo Lights is at the Houston Zoo which transforms into a Zoo Winter Wonderland. The Houston Zoo has displays of more than 2,000,000 of colorful lights and festive holiday music. You can sip on hot chocolate while you stroll around the Houston Zoo with twinkling lights, a Holiday train village, Holiday Grove with animal theme lanterns and glowing flowers, hanging pollinator garden with glowing butterflies and flowers, Coca-Cola Bear, Santa’s workshop and life sized animated animal sculptures. Runs November 18th through January 8th from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. https://ticket.houstonzoo.org/zoolights
Magical Winter Lights
Magical Winter Lights is at Houston Raceway Park in Baytown Texas. You can explore Worlds of magical wonder with over 100 lighted world globes, prehistoric animals, and magical lanterns. The festival is the largest holiday light festival in Houston and the largest lantern festival of its kind to take place in the U.S. The festival has a seven themed areas representing The Kingdom, The Village, The Dino, Houston, The Space, The Ice, and The Sea. The time is December 1st through January 1st. From 5 to 10. https://magicalwinterlights.com/
Festival of Lights
Festival of Lights is at Moody Gardens with an Iceland Rain forest Holiday. Moody Gardens has a one million light display with animation and sound-enhancement during the festival. There is an outdoor ice skating rink, train rides, live entertainment, and ad 100 foot arctic slide. A skilled team of master ice carvers have carved a one mile trail for your journey through the rain forests of the world to see monkeys, beautiful birds, incredible butterflies, colorful orchids and so many wonderful creatures. A 100 foot ice slide takes you from the tree tops through to the forest floor, ancient ruins and rivers edge to show you the most incredible Iceland rain forest. The time is November 29th through January 7th. https://www.festival-of-light.com/festival-of-lights-galveston/
Santa’s Wonderland
Santa’s Wonderland is a Texas Christmas experience located in College Station. They have Santa’s hay ride tours, limo carriage rides, and lighted train rides journeying through the magical light filled adventure inside Santa’s Wonderland. They have live music, a wonderland winery, and 10,000 square feet of shopping, nightly Texas snow, a food village and cozy campfires. Children can see Santa, visit a giant Texas sized snow globe, slide down a mountain slide and ride a toboggan chute. They are open till Dec 30th. https://www.santas-wonderland.com/
Galaxy Lights
Galaxy Lights is at the Space Center at NASA in Houston Texas. The event is from November 12th through January 1st from 6 to 10. You can experience two high-tech kinetic light shows where dozens of suspended lights move in precise choreographed sequences to music above the Main Plaza. This year, go on a journey through the solar system in the new Deep Space Backyard. You can walk underneath the stars and take your photo among large displays of astronauts exploring space.
At Galaxy Lights you can watch a new crystal fireworks experience. The crystal fireworks come to life on a dazzling 40-foot-tall cascading light display composed of different colors of the galaxy. This is one of only two crystal fireworks displays in the world. There is a 200 foot LED light tunnel made of more than 250,000 lights synchronized to festive holiday music. Explore our solar system through massive models of each planet along the path and aster-etched acrylic silhouette sculptures depicting different constellations. https://spacecenter.org/galaxy-lights
Dickens on the Strand
Dickens on the Strand is in Galveston. The annual Dickens on the Strand is a Victorian Holiday festival that recreates characters from the Dickens novel. You can dress up to for the festival celebration. Parades, strolling carolers, bagpipers, jugglers, costumed vendors and live entertainment fill the strand with sights and smells that take you back to the Victorian time. The time is December 2nd through December 4th. https://www.galvestonhistory.org/events/dickens-on-the-strand
Holiday at Discovery Green
Holiday at Discovery Green has a 7716 square of Tickets are priced at $17 per person and include a skate rental. . Outdoor ice skating rink, magical holiday lights, decorations, holiday concerts and movies. You can enjoy a holiday movie under the stars every Thursday evening or explore the park and Solstice Art Installation You can anticipate a number of themed skate nights and even an opportunity to hit the ice with Santa The event is every Saturday night in November and December. https://www.discoverygreen.com/
Old Town Spring Christmas
Old Town Spring Christmas. The annual Home for the Holidays returns in historic Old Town Spring which features a spectacular display of holiday lights, 100 different stores, entertainment and photos with Santa every weekend. https://oldtownspringshopping.com/christmas-in-old-town-spring/
The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker. The traditional magical Christmas ballet is performing at the Hobby Center for the performing Arts in downtown Houston. The dates are December 3rd through December 27th. https://houston.ticketsales.com/brown-theatre
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol is performing at the Alley Theater with a retelling of a Charles Dickens classic story. Scrooge goes through three ghostly spirits that visit him on Christmas Eve. The date is December 1st through December 30th. https://tickets-center.com/search/Hubbard-Stage-Alley
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Trans-Siberian Orchestra is December 29th at 3:30 and 8:00 p.m. at the Toyota Center Houston. Trans-Siberian Orchestra is an American rock band founded in 1993 by producer, composer and lyricist Paul O Neil. http://toyota.centerhouston.org/performers/trans-siberian-orchestra
Polar Express
Polar Express is in Palestine Texas. You will enjoy a magical train ride on a 25 mile journey through the Piney w Woods of East Texas. The magical story comes to life when the train departs the depot to the North Pole. Your children will hear the music from Polar Express while being served hot chocolate and cookies. They will also be read the story Polar Express. At the North Pole Santa greets all the children and gives them the first gift of Christmas a silver sleigh bell. The silver sleigh bell can only be heard by those who believe. Christmas carols are sung on the way back to the depot. You will enjoy the magical train ride of Polar Express. The dates are November 17th through December 27th. https://texasstaterailroad.net/home/events/polar-express/
