Celebrate December Kansas City Style

Dec. 6: Mitten Tree Day

Read The Mitten Tree as a family and participate in a local mitten tree or start one of your own. Simply choose a public tree in your community that you can decorate with mittens, gloves and scarves for those in need of warmth in our city.

Dec. 9: Christmas Card Day

Take a tour of the FREE Hallmark Visitors Center to learn the history of Hallmark and discover how Christmas cards are manufactured. Then, pop over next door to Kaleidoscope where you can attend a FREE family session and design your own cards with supplies from Crayola and Hallmark.

Dec. 14: International Monkey Day

Visit the Kansas City Zoo and watch monkeys play in their indoor exhibits in the Tropics and Discovery Barn. Blue monkeys, Mona monkeys, Saki monkeys, squirrel monkeys and their pals, the golden lion tamarin and white-cheeked gibbon, are playfully entertaining year-round.

Dec. 24: Egg Nog Day

You can enjoy egg nog all season long at Sheridan’s and Sheridan’s Unforked (multiple locations), where they serve a decadent egg nog shake throughout the holidays.

Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve

Celebrate with the kids before midnight at Science City’s annual Noon Year’s Eve event. This is a safe, fun and educational destination to ring in the New Year with your whole family! The favorite is the 6:00 balloon drop featuring more than 2,500 balloons!