Here are just a few of the family-friendly festive events planned for this weekend. <\/p>\n
\u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S MORNING NEWS EXPRESS PODCAST ON WDBO<\/a><\/p>\n A local holiday favorite, the Council 101\u2019s Festival of the Trees kicks off Saturday at the Orlando Museum of Art. <\/p>\n According to their website<\/a>, \u201cGuests will be surrounded by dazzling displays including more than 50 designer-decorated trees, festive wreaths, gingerbread creations, holiday vignettes, and tabletop displays. Visitors can shop in the Holiday Boutique, stroll Santa Claus Lane, enjoy live entertainment scheduled daily, and dine in the Festival Caf\u00e9. On weekends, Santa Claus will be on hand for photos and meet-and-greets from 10 a.m.\u20135 p.m. New events include creative holiday workshops and Holiday Home Tour.\u201d<\/p>\n The Orlando Science Center is getting into the holiday spirit by decorating the dinosaurs! Kicking off this week, it\u2019s Dinos in Lights Holiday Show – Playing through January 6 – Orlando Science Center<\/a>. Each family-friendly show lasts 30 minutes and promises a wintry surprise at the end. <\/p>\n And Santa\u2019s Workshop Experience returns to ICON Park with free carousel rides and holiday cheer. Organizers<\/a> say it\u2019s a great time to meet Santa, snap photos and enjoy exclusive attraction discounts.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and traffic app. And click here<\/a> to subscribe to our daily 3 Big Things newsletter.<\/p>\n \u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are just a few of the family-friendly festive events planned for this weekend. \u25b6 LISTEN TO ORLANDO\u2019S…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6029,6030,147,30731,30730,28,2889,139,141,140,5597],"class_list":["post-47212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-580am","tag-am580","tag-central-florida","tag-events-this-weekend","tag-festive","tag-florida","tag-holiday","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-wdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}