🎄Make memories.
🎄Enjoy holiday time with your kids.
🎄Do it for FREE!
Across the US many national chain stores and restaurants offer free seasonal family fun. Every family can use a little budget-friendly holiday cheer and these free-for-kids events definitely fit the bill. Make crafts that your kids can give as gifts or use to decorate the house, get pictures with Santa, and lots more without spending any money at all.
Free Pictures With Santa at Cabela’s and Bass Pro Shops
Visit Bass Pro Shops and Cabelas for a free professional 4×6 printed photo with Santa! You’ll also be able to mail your wishlist, do some crafts, and new this year you’ll even receive a shareable video link of your visit with Santa. How cool is that?
Check it all out and get the details.
You’ll want to hop on and register right away to reserve your spot.
Kidding Around® Visits Santa at Bass Pro Shops
Get Ready for the Holidays with a FREE Countdown Project
Kids can visit Lowes Home Improvement stores for a festive FREE holiday countdown chalkboard project. Sign up in advance!
Make a FREE Holiday Countdown Chalkboard at the Lowes Kids Workshop on November 14th, 2024.
Get all the details: Kidding Around® Visits the Lowes Kids Workshops.
Make a Cocoa Ornament Free at Home Depot
Kids can make an ornament to decorate your family tree or give as a gift! Each month the Home Depot offers a FREE Kids Workshop. On November 30th, 2024 the free project is a fun cocoa ornament. It’s best to register in advance for these Home Depot events!
Make a Free Cocoa Ornament at Home Depot, on November 30th, 2024.
Get all the details! Kidding Around® Goes to the Kids Workshops at Home Depot.
Make a Snow Globe at Home Depot
December 7th, 2024 the Home Depot project is a snow globe, which would be a totally awesome way for kids to make a gift for someone special. These projects are totally free and we love visiting each month.
Make a Free Snow Globe at Home Depot, on December 7th, 2024.
Get all the details! Kidding Around® Goes to the Kids Workshops at Home Depot.
Free LEGO® Snowman Kit
JCPenny offers a free kids’ craft event each month. To celebrate the holidays, December’s craft is a super cute Snowman LEGO® kit. You’ll get all the pieces and everything you need to build your snowman. How fun is that?
Get all the details about the FREE LEGO® Snowman kit at JCPenny.
December 14th, 2024 at 11am
Kidding Around® Share the JCPenny Kids Zone Crafts
Make a Spinning Snowflake Ornament
The Lowes Kids Workshop event in December is an ornament perfect for gifting! Grandma is going to love this one! Kids can make a spinning snowflake ornament on December 14th, 2024 for free. Sign up in advance!
Make a Spinning Snowflake Ornament at Lowes Home Improvement Store on December 14th, 2024.
Get all the details: Kidding Around® Visits the Lowes Kids Workshops.
Free Holiday Moves at NCG Cinemas
11 December days with free Christmas movies at NCG movie theater? If that doesn’t put a little jingle in your step this season, we’re not sure what will. See the following movies free at NCG Cinemas in December 2024!
- December 6th – 8th, 2024: Wonka (2023)
- December 13th – 15th, 2024: Grinch (2018)
- December 20th – 24th, 2024: The Polar Express (2004)
Get all the details: NCG Free Holiday Movies Details on Kidding Around.
Bonus: Cheap Holiday Movies at Regal Cinemas
For just $5, you can watch a holiday movie at Regal Cinemas’ annual Holiday Classics promotion. For 2024, you can catch Elf, A Christmas Story, The Polar Express, or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation on select dates throughout December.
Here’s the Regal Holiday Classics schedule:
December 1st, 2024: Elf
December 7th, 2024: Elf
December 8th, 2024: A Christmas Story
December 14th, 2024: Elf
December 15th, 2024: The Polar Express
December 21st, 2024: Elf
December 22nd, 2024: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
