Join Santa and watch dozens of decorated trees auction off at the O'Christmas Trees Gala Dinner & Auction.
Community Hanukkah Celebration
Come celebrate the Festival of Lights during one of the largest community Hanukkah Celebrations in Seattle. Anyone who wants to come is invited. Events include, arts and crafts, festive food and music. Stroum Jewish Community Center; 3801 Mercer Way.
Stanwood puts on a holiday light display each year called The Lights of Christmas. Enjoy spectacular light displays, music, pony rides and train rides. Starts early December.
The Mary Bridge Festival of Trees is organized by community volunteers and benefits the Children's Hospital and Health Center. Enjoy decorated trees, shopping and more at the Greater Tacoma Convention & Trade Center. Those in the Tacoma area can take the Light Rail as it stops directly out front of the new convention center.
The whole family will enjoy a crisp winter stroll through the Civic Campus gardens. Enjoy musical entertainment, ride a lighted train (free), explore teen art, discover gingerbread displays, hear local choirs sing, and make crafts at Santa's Workshop.
Holiday Tree Lighting on Mercer Island
The community tree lighting ceremony is at Mercerdale Park. Afterward head to the Firehouse at the North Fire Station for photos with Santa, storytelling, yummy treats, and live music.
Join in a community sing-along, and Bothell's annual lighting of the tree. Santa will be there too and enjoy hayrides.
Bainbridge Island Christmas in the Country
Go on a free driving tour through historic homes, farms, and nonprofits hosting authors, musicians, and artists. Enjoy pony rides, crafts, food, and get your photo taken with Santa.
Ivar's Clam Lights Illumination
Gather along the waterfront at Gene Coulon Beach Memorial Park in Renton for the lighting of the clams. Ivar's turns the park into a spectacular winter wonderland with bright lights, covered wagon rides, community sing-alongs, and there will even be a special appearance from Ivar's famous clams. Ivar's Clam Lights are on display through the New Year. Gene Coulon Beach Park is located at 1201 Lake Washington Blvd. North in Renton.
Annual Festival of Chimes & Lights
Port Orchard hosts its annual event downtown with a Holiday Pooch and Purr Parade, hay rides, tree lighting, and of course, Santa.
Brier Traditional Tree Lighting
Join Brier for carols, cookies, hot chocolate, candy canes, and lighting of their community Christmas tree. Santa will be there too.
Burien offers horse and carriage rides, photos with Santa, hayrides, store specials, Christmas Bazaar at St. Elizabeth Episcopal Church, pottery sale, and more.
Bring the kids down to welcome Santa. The jolly old elf will arrive on a fire engine and Santa will be there to welcome kids.
Sinterklass and Lighted Christmas Parade
Lynden's patron saint of the Dutch, Sinterklass, arrives for storytelling and folk songs. There's a parade too in downtown Lynden.
Phinney Neighborhood Winter Festival and Crafts Fair
The Phinney Ridge Neighborhood offers their Winter Festival with craft booths, live entertainment, a quilt raffle, bake sale, and more.
The new Town Square Park in Kent hosts entertainment, a holiday bazaar, shopping, and more.
Holiday Breakfast and Santa Photos at Woodland Park Zoo
The Woodland Park Zoo's Rain Forest Food Pavilion offers a buffet breakfast and a mini-performance of The Nutcracker.
Redmond celebrates the holidays with food, music, an art exhibit, kids' crafts, holiday tree lighting, and more.
This has been a holiday tradition in the Seattle area since 1941. Come experience the dazzling site of floating Christmas lights. Decorated boats sail around Lake Union and the Puget Sound.
Seattle Parks and Recreation teams up with the Green Lake Community Center Advisory Council to present the Pathway of Lights where you can watch Green Lake light up.
Santa is on hand for a 2-1/2 hour tour of Seattle's best Christmas lights.
Bring your kids. Seattle's Imagine Children's Museum hosts a funfest exclusively for your children, featuring dinner with the elves, Santa's Workshop, and Mrs. Kringle's Kitchen.
Come celebrate the Wright brothers' very first flight. Santa arrives by helicopter and then he and Mrs. Claus greet children in the Great Gallery. The Seattle Lutheran Bell Choir sings and the Boeing Employees' Orchestra of Flight plays too.
Pioneer Square Historic Holidays
This four day festival includes ice sculpting displays, holiday lighting in the park at Pioneer Square, crafts from the past, music, and more.