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Your Holiday “Must” Do List

Puppet Show, Sock Skating, Holiday Carolers, Play-size Igloo, Holiday Cards for Soldiers, Elf Workshop Crafts


The Holidays are Happening Every Day at Stepping Stones
Museum for Children

Slip and slide on our new sock skating rink, climb inside our play-size igloo, pose for photos at all of our spectacular wintery scenes, enjoy holiday caroling, dancing snow people, festive train rides and so much more. Each day is unlike the next!

Special Activities and Performances

Create Cards of Thanks for Our Soldiers

Monday – Friday, November 12 – 30
10:15 – 11:45 am
Saturdays, November 17 and 24
11:00 am – noon

Russian Folk Songs and Dances
with Evrika Learning Center

Sunday, December 2
11:00 am

Letters to Santa Claus and
Elf Workshop Holiday Crafts

Monday, December 3 – Friday, December 7
10:15 – 11:45 am

Get Into It! FREE  
Tree and Courtyard Lighting Ceremony

Thursday, December 6
5:00 – 8:00 pm
Lighting at 5:45 pm

Elf Workshop Holiday Crafts

Saturday, December 8
11:00 am – noon

Peter and the Wolf by the National Marionette Theatre

Saturday, December 8
2:00 pm

Dreidel Games and 

Elf Workshop Holiday Crafts

Monday, December 10 – Friday, December 14
10:15 – 11:45 am

The Frog Prince and Other Tales 

Final Performance

Wednesday, December 12
11:00 am

Elf Workshop Holiday Crafts

Saturday, December 15
11:00 am – noon

Holiday Handbell Performance

Saturday, December 15
2:00 pm

North Pole Comes to Stepping Stones

Monday, December 17 – Friday, December 21
10:30 – 11:30 am and 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Meet Santa Claus and friends, take your own photos and make your own, limited-edition 2012 BooZoo holiday ornament.

Vacation Week: Celebrate Russia

Wednesday, December 26 –
Friday, December 28
and Monday, December 31
10:30 – 11:30 am and 3:00 – 4:00 pm
Each day brings a new hands-on craft activity that explores Russian culture. Space is limited, on a first-come, first-served basis. Materials fee may apply.



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