Just 8 more days until Christmas! And as if your calendar is not full enough with ugly sweater parties, cookie exchanges and shopping parties, Borror has a list of even MORE fun ways to celebrate the season! So get out your jingle bells and get ready to Ho Ho GO have some holiday fun!
Holiday Events
Chanukkah Celebration, December 20, 2014
Easton Town Center Town Square
Chabad of Columbus presents a special menorah lighting. It’s a family party with sufganiot, dreidels, raffle prizes, music, dancing and refreshments!
Dickens of a Christmas – Through December 21, 2014
Ohio History Center/Ohio Village, 800 E 17th Ave Columbus, 43211
Capture the spirit of Christmas Past at Ohio Village, our recreated 19th-century community in Columbus, where Charles Dickens’ festive and enduring vision of Christmas come to life.
A Merry Retelling of A Christmas Carol – Through December 21, 2014
Vern Riffe Center for Government and the Arts, 77 South High Street, Columbus, 43215
This 21st century retelling of the yuletide classic delights audiences with merriment, redemption and song.
New Albany Symphony: Holiday Spectacular – December 21, 2014
Jeanne B. McCoy Community Center for the Arts, 100 W. Dublin-Granville Road, New Albany 43054
Enjoy the heartwarming songs and traditions that make this the Most Wonderful Time of the Year,
Columbus Children’s Theatre: The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Through December 21, 2014
Columbus Children’s Theatre, 512 Park St. Columbus, 43215
A couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids, probably the most inventively awful kids in history!
Family Gingerbread House Decorating –Through December 23, 2014
Young Chefs Academy, 425 Beecher Road, Gahanna, 43230
Enter our holiday kitchen with lights, music, decorations and candyland station – with frosting white as snow!
Holiday Carriage Rides – Through December 23, 2014
Easton Town Center
What better way to enjoy the magic of Christmas at Easton than in a horse-drawn carriage!
Family Fun: Kwanzaa! – December 26, 2014
Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Learn more about the Kwanzaa holiday through seasonal crafts and samples of celebratory food. At 11am & 2pm, Tony West and the Amani Dancers use traditional drums, music and dance to celebrate Kwanzaa and African heritage.
First Night Columbus -December 31, 2012
Downtown Columbus
First Night Columbus, Central Ohio’s award-winning New Year’s Eve celebration is a community-oriented, family-friendly, alcohol-free event.
Christmas Displays
Holiday Tours on Capitol Square – Through December 31. Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Ohio Statehouse at Broad and High streets, Columbus
Step back in time with a guided tour of the 1861 Statehouse and see holiday decorations as they were in Victorian times
Columbus Commons – Through January 1, 2015
Columbus Commons is dazzling from dusk until to 11pm. Be sure tag your pics hashtag #CCHolidayLights on Facebook (Columbus Commons), Twitter (@ColumbusCommons) and Instagram (ColumbusCommons), and enter to win a $25 gift card to Milestone 229.
Merry & Bright: Holidays at the Conservatory – Through January 4, 2015
Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, 1777 E. Broad St., Columbus, 43203
Celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with an elegant display of poinsettias, seasonal foliage and twinkling lights, and a charming gingerbread competition.
The Huntington Holiday Train at Columbus Metropolitan Library – Through January 4, 2015
Columbus Metropolitan Library – Main Library, 96 S. Grant Ave., Columbus, 43215
Stop in to Main Library to see the Huntington Holiday Train! This incredible 600-square-foot display features five trains running on nearly 300 feet of track.
Wildlights at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium – Through January 05 2015
Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, 4850 W. Powell Rd., Powell 43065
Brighten your holiday season with more than three million twinkling lights, activities for children, Santa Claus and a variety of festive activities for the family.
Grand Illumination – Through January 13, 2015
Bicentennial Park/Downtown Columbus
Celebrate the season as Downtown Columbus comes alive during the holidays.