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🎄✨ CHRISTMAS AT APPLEGATE: OPENING WEEKEND ✨🎄📅 Friday, November 27 & Saturday, November 28, 2026
📍 Applegate Farms MO
Christmas is coming to Applegate! ❤️💚
Join us Thanksgiving weekend as we officially kick off the Christmas season with the opening of our WALK-THROUGH CHRISTMAS LIGHTS, Christmas movies under the stars, warm treats, fire pits, family fun — and a Saturday night full of ridiculous REINDEER GAMES!
✨ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 — LIGHT UP APPLEGATE ✨
Christmas at Applegate officially begins on BLACK FRIDAY!
🎄 Walk through the farm transformed with Christmas lights
🔥 Gather around the fire pits
☕ Hot cocoa & warm drinks
🍎 Hot apple cider
🥐 Applegate baked goods & cinnamon rolls
📸 Christmas photo opportunities
🎶 Christmas music throughout the farm
🌟 LIGHT UP APPLEGATE COUNTDOWN
We’ll gather together for the official countdown and light up Applegate for the very first time this Christmas season!
Then grab a blanket, settle in and stay for our first Christmas movie of the year.
🎬 FRIDAY NIGHT CHRISTMAS MOVIE: THE POLAR EXPRESS
Movie admission is separate from Christmas Lights admission.
🦌 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 — APPLEGATE REINDEER GAMES! 🦌
Do you have what it takes to join Santa’s team?
Saturday night, the farm turns into REINDEER TRAINING CAMP!
Kids and families can take on a collection of silly Christmas challenges, including:
🦌 Rudolph Relay
🛷 Sleigh-Pull Race
🎁 Present Stack Race
❄️ Snowball Toss
🍭 Candy Cane Hunt
🔴 Reindeer Ring Toss
🎄 Christmas Obstacle Course
🥕 Make Your Own Reindeer Food
🏅 Reindeer Training Academy
Complete your training and earn your place among Applegate’s newest Certified Reindeer Trainers!
🔔🍑 THE JINGLE BOOTY CHALLENGE 🍑🔔
Oh yes. We’re doing it.
A box full of jingle bells.
Strapped to your backside.
The mission?
GET. THEM. OUT.
No hands. Shake, wiggle, jump, dance — whatever it takes!
Jingle Booty will have LIMITED REGISTRATION, timed qualifying rounds and a final championship showdown.
🏆 FASTEST JINGLE BOOTY WINS $50 CASH!
Spectators are highly encouraged. 😂
🎬 SATURDAY NIGHT CHRISTMAS MOVIE: ELF
After Reindeer Games, grab your blankets and chairs and settle in for one of our favorite Christmas movies.
✨ CHRISTMAS LIGHTS ADMISSION
🎟️ Opening Weekend/Reindeer Games: $10 per person
👶 Ages 2 & under FREE
Saturday admission includes the walkthrough Christmas Lights and Reindeer Games.
🎬 Christmas movies are $5 per person and require separate admission.
🍿 CONCESSIONS AVAILABLE
We’ll have Christmas treats and warm drinks available for purchase throughout the weekend, including hot cocoa, cider, Applegate baked goods and more.
🎄 AND THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING…
Opening Weekend kicks off more than a MONTH of Christmas at Applegate!
Our walkthrough Christmas Lights will remain open EVERY NIGHT through DECEMBER 31.
After opening weekend, watch for:
🎨 Limited-Ticket Christmas Craft Night
🏡 Louisiana Christmas Home Tour
🏠 Great Applegate Gingerbread House Competition
🎁 Community White Elephant Gift Swap
🎅 Santa & the Reindeer
⭐ Live Nativity
🎄 Old-World European Christmas Market
🍪 The Great Applegate Cookie Swap
💚 Grinches & Griswolds at Applegate
🥂 Applegate After Dark — New Year’s Eve
✨ And the final midnight countdown when we TURN OUT THE LIGHTS on Christmas 2026!
Come make Christmas memories with us.
Because Christmas at Applegate isn’t something you just drive past.
You walk through it. ❤️🎄
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