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🎄✨ TIDINGS AND TRADITIONS AT APPLEGATE — WEEKEND 3 ✨🎄📅 Friday, December 11 & Saturday, December 12, 2026
📍 Applegate Farms MO
This may be the most magical weekend of Christmas at Applegate. ❤️
Friday night is about laughter, gingerbread and gifts.
Saturday night, we’re transforming the farm into an OLD-WORLD CHRISTMAS, complete with a European Christmas Market, Santa and his reindeer, a live Nativity, Christmas carolers and a lantern-lit walk beneath the Christmas lights.
Two very different nights.
One very special Christmas weekend.
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🏠🎁 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11
GINGERBREAD & GIFTS
Christmas gets competitive Friday night with…
🏠 THE GREAT APPLEGATE GINGERBREAD HOUSE COMPETITION!
Build your creation AT HOME and bring it to Applegate to compete!
Traditional gingerbread cottage?
Christmas castle?
Farmhouse?
Barn?
Entire Christmas village?
Completely ridiculous gingerbread creation that barely survived the car ride?
We want to see it. 😂
COMPETITION DIVISIONS:
🍭 Kids — 12 & under
🎄 Teens — 13–17
❤️ Adults
👨👩👧👦 Families/Teams
And we’ll have special awards including:
🏆 Best Overall
🎨 Most Creative
🍎 Most Applegate
😂 Funniest
❤️ People’s Choice
Entry into the Gingerbread House Competition is FREE with Friday admission.
🏠 Gingerbread House Arrival: 5:00–6:00 PM
🏆 Judging begins around 6:30 PM
❤️ People’s Choice voting throughout the evening
Advance registration is encouraged so we know how much display space we’ll need.
And we’re keeping the gingerbread houses on display Saturday so our Old-World Christmas visitors can enjoy them too!
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🎁 7:00 PM — COMMUNITY WHITE ELEPHANT GIFT SWAP
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without at least one gift that makes everybody ask:
“Who brought THAT?” 😂
Bring one wrapped, family-friendly gift valued at $15 or less and join our Community White Elephant Gift Swap.
Funny gifts.
Useful gifts.
Weird gifts.
The gift everyone tries to steal.
It’s all fair game.
Participation is completely optional, and advance signup is encouraged.
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✨ FRIDAY EVENING ALSO INCLUDES:
🎄 Walk-through Christmas Lights
🔥 Fire pits
☕ Hot cocoa, cider & coffee
🥐 Applegate cinnamon rolls & baked goods
🎶 Christmas music
📸 Christmas photo opportunities
And then…
🎬 8:00 PM — FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE: HOME ALONE
Bring your blankets and chairs and settle in after Gingerbread & Gifts.
🎟️ Friday Admission: $10 per person
👶 Ages 2 & under FREE
🎬 Movie Admission: $5 per person — separate admission
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🎅🦌⭐ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12
OLD-WORLD CHRISTMAS AT APPLEGATE
Saturday night, we’re slowing Christmas down.
Imagine glowing market stalls.
Christmas music drifting through the farm.
Hot cocoa.
Firelight.
Handmade gifts.
Santa.
Reindeer.
A living Nativity.
Carolers singing beneath the Christmas lights.
And families carrying lanterns together through the farm.
For one evening, we’re creating an Old-World Christmas at Applegate.
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🎄 4:00–9:00 PM — EUROPEAN CHRISTMAS MARKET
Wander through a Christmas market inspired by the traditional holiday markets of Europe.
We’re inviting artisans, makers, growers, bakers and craftspeople to fill Applegate with beautiful things made by hand.
Look for things like:
🪵 Woodworking
🏺 Pottery
🕯️ Candles
🧶 Knitted & crocheted goods
🎄 Handmade ornaments
🌿 Wreaths & greenery
🧼 Handmade soaps
🎨 Art
🧸 Handmade gifts & toys
🍪 Baked goods
🍬 Christmas candy
🥜 Roasted nuts
🥨 European-inspired foods & treats
☕ Hot chocolate & cider
…and more.
We want this to feel different from an ordinary vendor fair.
We’re looking for handmade, artisan, farm-made, vintage and food vendors that add to the atmosphere of an old-fashioned Christmas market.
🚫 No MLM/direct-sales vendors for this particular market, please.
🎟️ Artisan/Vendor Booth Fee: $65
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🎅🦌 4:30–8:00 PM — MEET SANTA & HIS REINDEER
Santa is coming to Applegate…
And he’s bringing the reindeer. ❤️
Visit Santa.
Tell him what’s on your Christmas list.
Write a letter to Santa.
Meet the reindeer.
And take your own Christmas pictures.
🎅 Santa visits are included with admission.
🦌 Reindeer encounters are included with admission.
Families are welcome to take their own photographs.
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⭐ LIVE NATIVITY
Among all the lights, presents, food and excitement, we also want to leave room for the story at the heart of Christmas.
Join us for a simple and beautiful Live Nativity featuring animals from Applegate Farms.
There will be THREE scheduled presentations:
⭐ 6:00 PM
⭐ 7:00 PM
⭐ 8:00 PM
Each presentation will last approximately 15–20 minutes, giving families plenty of time before and afterward to visit Santa, meet the reindeer, shop the market and explore the Christmas Lights.
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🎶✨ CHRISTMAS CAROLERS
This is one of the pieces we’re most excited about.
Throughout Saturday evening, Christmas carolers will help fill the farm with the songs that have been part of Christmas for generations.
We’re hoping to welcome local churches, school groups, musicians and community singers throughout the evening.
You may hear them near the market.
Around the fires.
Along the Christmas Lights.
And they’ll have a very special role at the end of the evening…
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🏮✨ THE APPLEGATE CHRISTMAS LANTERN WALK
At approximately 8:15 PM, following our final Live Nativity presentation, we’ll gather for something we hope becomes an Applegate Christmas tradition.
Guests will take an LED lantern or candle and join us for a lantern-lit procession through part of the Christmas Lights.
Children.
Parents.
Grandparents.
Friends.
Neighbors.
All walking together beneath the lights while Christmas carolers lead us through the farm.
There’s no competition.
There’s no additional ticket.
There’s nowhere we’re trying to hurry everyone to.
It’s simply a few minutes to slow down, walk together and experience Christmas. ❤️
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🔥 THROUGHOUT SATURDAY EVENING
✨ Walk-through Christmas Lights
🎄 European Christmas Market
🎅 Santa
🦌 Reindeer
⭐ Live Nativity
🎶 Christmas carolers
🏮 Lantern Walk
🔥 Fire pits
☕ Hot cocoa, cider & coffee
🥐 Applegate baked goods & cinnamon rolls
🍴 Food & Christmas treats
📸 Christmas photo opportunities
Then, after the Lantern Walk…
🎬 APPROX. 8:30 PM — SATURDAY NIGHT MOVIE: THE SANTA CLAUSE
Bring your blankets and chairs and finish Old-World Christmas with a Christmas movie under the stars.
🎬 Movie Admission: $5 per person — separate admission
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🎟️ SATURDAY OLD-WORLD CHRISTMAS ADMISSION
🎫 $20 per person — ADVANCE
🎫 $25 per person — AT THE GATE
👶 Ages 2 & under FREE
Your Saturday admission includes:
✨ Walk-through Christmas Lights
🎄 European Christmas Market
🎅 Santa visit
🦌 Reindeer encounter
⭐ Live Nativity presentations
🎶 Christmas carolers
🏮 Applegate Christmas Lantern Walk
🔥 Fire pits & Christmas atmosphere
Food, drinks, vendor purchases and movie admission are separate.
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✨🎄 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS CONTINUE EVERY NIGHT!
Our walk-through Christmas Lights remain open EVERY NIGHT THROUGH DECEMBER 31.
And after this beautiful, traditional weekend…
Well…
Christmas at Applegate gets a little less dignified. 😂
🍪 Friday, December 18 — THE GREAT APPLEGATE COOKIE SWAP
💚🎄 Saturday, December 19 — GRINCHES & GRISWOLDS AT APPLEGATE
And finally…
🥂 December 31 — APPLEGATE AFTER DARK: NEW YEAR’S EVE
Live music.
Yard games.
Applegate After Dark bar, subject to appropriate licensing.
Christmas Lights.
And as midnight approaches, we’ll gather together for the final countdown of 2026.
At midnight, as we welcome 2027…
✨ EVERY CHRISTMAS LIGHT AT APPLEGATE WILL GO DARK TOGETHER. ✨
Christmas at Applegate will officially be over for another year.
But first…
Come spend an Old-World Christmas with us. ❤️🎄
CHRISTMAS AT APPLEGATE
✨ November 27–December 31, 2026 ✨
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