Fun Holiday Events in Chadds Ford!

Share your favorite festive winter activities around town

🎀 This is a special annual edition to request your help with a community collaboration. Let’s round up all the best festive, holiday events in Chadds Ford and the Brandywine Valley. ❄️ Share your favorite local holiday activities and brag about how your favorite small-business neighbors are bringing joy to the season. 📢

Here’s the ask:

Share your recommendations for fun holiday experiences in our local Chadds Ford area.

• Do you have a favorite holiday event around town?

• Do you want to tell everyone about a special drink or a fantastic dessert from a local business that is only available around the holidays?

• Do you want to brag about a small business hosting a festive event that would light up an afternoon or evening?

• Do you know a nearby hiking path that is especially magical in the snow (weather willing)? ❄️

• Do you know a great place to see holiday lights?

• Do you have a friend who bakes amazing holiday desserts to sell to the community?

As we approach the holidays, I’d love for you to share your favorite hyperlocal holiday tips, events, spaces, etc. They don’t need to be precisely in Chadds Ford, but the closer, the better!

We can all search online for “holiday things to do in Chadds Ford.” But I’m confident that our little community of readers has better ideas than Gemini AI or ChatGPT. Prove me right! 💛

Here are a few ideas to get you started (some well-known and some hidden gems). I can’t wait to see what you offer.

Please don’t be shy. Shout from the rooftops about the amazing things you and our neighbors hatch up for the holidays.

Chadds Ford Township Residents Association Holiday Tree Lighting

We’ll start with the most local, community-building event of the season. And it’s free! The Chadds Ford Township Residents Association hosts their annual Holiday Tree Lighting event on Saturday, December 6, from 5-7 pm. Details on the flyer below!

A few classic hyperlocal holiday events:

• A Longwood Christmas

• Brandywine Museum of Art events (head to their special Holiday Events page for details on each one)

  • Annual Holiday Critter Sale | Thurs Nov 20 – Sun Nov 23 from 9:30 am to 5 pm at Brandywine Museum of Art (online shop if you can’t make it in person)
  • Breakfast with the Trains at Brandywine | Nov 23 from 8:30 – 10 am (also Dec 20 and Jan 3)
  • Polar Express Read Aloud – Pajama Night | Fri. Dec 3 at 6:30 – 8 pm
  • Children’s Holiday Party | Wed. Dec 10 from 5:30 – 7:30 pm
• Breakfast with Santa & Mrs. Claus | Sun. Dec 14 at 9 am at Harvest in Glen Mills

Chadds Ford holiday-inspired snacks, goodies, and activities:

• House-made syrups for holiday drinks at Chadds Ford Coffee House | Gingerbread, sugar cookie, maple sage, vanilla cardamom, and golden milk. ☕
• Holiday Music Class with Miss Brooke | Sun. Dec 7 at 10 am at Concord Township Community Center (45 Thornton Rd, Glen Mills), ideal for 4 months to 4 years old
• Winter Crafts Session | Sun. Dec 7 from 1- 3:30 pm at Uniquely You (owned by CF resident, Sharon Berry)
• Winter Wonderland Kids Yoga | Sat. Dec 13 from 10:30 – 11:30 am at The Yoga Space
• Winter Wonderland Grown Up & Me Yoga | Sat. Dec 13 from 9:30 – 10:15 am at The Yoga Space
• Gingerbread House Decorating | Sat. Dec 13 from 12 – 3 pm at The Annex at Oso Sweet

Other holiday events and activities around town:

• Hagley’s Gingerbread House Contest | Register by Nov 21; submit by Nov 23 (details on the site)

• Kennett Holiday Light Parade | Sat Nov. 22 at 6 pm (Insider Guide from Kennett Collaborative)

• Holiday Market at Terrain | Sat. Nov 22 from 11 am – 4 pm at Terrain in Glen Mills

• Yuletide Winterthur | holiday decorations, displays, and more! (Nov 22 – Jan 4)

• Wreath-making workshops | Nov 28 – Dec 14 at Renegade Flower Farm, see the website for details about time slots to sign up

• Christmas Tree Sale Fundraiser | Nov 28 – Dec 5, Fri/Sat/Sun at Northbrook Marketplace (benefits the Unionville-Chadds Ford HS Mountain Biking Club)
• Mt. Cuba Holiday Workshops:
  • Wreath making
  • Winter containers
  • Pyrography
  • Holiday arrangements
• Holiday Artisan Market | Sat. Dec 6 at Tyler Arboretum
• Snowflake Stroll at Glen Eagle Square | Sat. Dec 6 from 2 – 5 pm
• Holiday Wreath Workshop | Sun. Dec 7 at Penns Wood Winery
• Cookies with Santa | Fri Dec 12 at 6 pm at Brandywine Creek State Park
• Winter Family Fun Day | Sat. Dec 13 from 11 am – 1 pm at Rachel Kohl Community Library (crafts, decorate cookies, and more for the whole family)

• Chriskindlmarkt | in West Chester, over 100 vendors: Sat. Dec 13 from 11 am – 6 pm

• Kennett Square Holiday Village Market | at The Creamery (Dec 6, 7, 13, 14)

• Build Your Own Menorah | Sun. Dec 21 at 11 am at Home Depot Concordville

• Holiday Nights at Hagley Museum and Library

• West Chester Railroad holiday train

Feeling extra ambitious? Here’s a list of the best Holiday Markets in Philadelphia from City Cast Philly. And a list of places to find Santa around Kennett Square.

Tell me what else to add to this list!