Every Friday, ThurstonTalk brings you a highlight of weekend events. Our diligent Editing team pulls together this list from our packed event calendar that includes even more things to do around Thurston County. This time of year, it’s especially fun to make the list because the choices of family-friendly holiday events is so long. Explore what Thurston County has to offer you and your family this weekend. Bring along some holiday cheer. Mix up the tradition with some new activities. Regardless, enjoy the weekend and the holiday season. Cheers!
- Drive our Christmas lights tour. Get a map here.
- See Santa arrive on his firehouse sleigh. Get details on which fire stations Santa is visiting here.
- Give a waste-free gift this holiday season. Find our list of experiences here.
- Keep the out-of-town visitors entertained with this list of activities.
- Shop downtown Olympia all weekend and skip the parking meters. Parking is free through December 24.
- Craft an ornament at Hands On Children’s Museum on Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.
- Watch the Dancing Lights boat at Percival Landing every evening through Christmas at 7:00 p.m. Get more information here.
- Enjoy a holiday classic with Ballet Northwest’s Nutcracker playing throughout the weekend. Showtime information can be found here or at olytix.org.
- Add Harlequin Production’s Stardust to your weekend list. Get more show information here.
- Greet the holiday season with cookies and cheer at Oly Lightstravaganza or the Lights at Ken Lake. Find details about the cool light shows in the links.
- Give a gift early and take the family to see Olympia Family Theater’s “How the Slug Stole Solstice.”
- Take a break from Jingle Bells and don your best attire for the BiblioBall at the Olympia Timberland Library. Get details on this free family friendly night out here.
- Catch Bret Michaels (Poison lead singer) at the Lucky Eagle Casino on Saturday night. Get ticket information here.
- Take a short drive to Alderbrook and sip hot cocoa with Santa while touring Hood Canal. Find information on this unique activity here.
- Light up Christmas Island in Maytown. Learn the history of this life-size nativity scene here.
- Celebrate Winter Solstice on Sunday at the South Sound Estuarium in downtown Olympia.
- Sign up the kids for a winter break camp around Thurston County. Get a list of ideas here.
- Add a festive highlight to your front porch with a wreath making class at The Barn Nursery.
- Shop small businesses for holiday gifts. Great ideas are included in this article.
- Visit an open house event this weekend. Click here to see the list of VanDorm Realty’s open houses.
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