{"id":91997,"date":"2025-12-17T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/91997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:54:09","slug":"clay-mugs-sweets-with-santa-5-dallas-fort-worth-area-events-to-attend-dec-19-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/91997\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay mugs, sweets with Santa: 5 Dallas-Fort Worth area events to attend Dec. 19-21"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeed something to do this weekend? Here are five events happening in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth area Dec. 19-21. This list is not comprehensive.<\/p>\n

1. Sweets with Santa in Southlake<\/p>\n

Visit the EECU Southlake Financial Center for sweet treats, hot cocoa, festive balloon art, holiday crafts and games for children, and a special appearance from Santa.<\/p>\n

Dec. 19, 1-3 p.m.Free (admission)1460 W. Southlake Blvd., SouthlakeFacebook: EECU<\/a>2. Family story time in McKinney<\/p>\n

Attend story time in McKinney at the Old Settlers Recreation Center. Each week features a new theme with three picture book read-alouds, interactive songs, movement activities and bubble time.<\/p>\n

3. Clay Mugs Workshop in Denton<\/p>\n

Wildflower Art Studio is hosting an introductory pottery workshop. Students will learn basic slab-building clay techniques. Each student will create and glaze a handmade clay mug.<\/p>\n

4. Santa’s Village in Richardson<\/p>\n

Huffhines Park has transformed into a holiday village, each colorful building offering children a fun activity and a visit with Santa. Attendees can also enjoy live performances, holiday photo ops and warm up with a cup of hot chocolate or a snack.<\/p>\n

5. ‘The Nutcracker’ in Fort Worth<\/p>\n

See the Texas Ballet Theater\u2019s performance of \u201cThe Nutcracker” at the Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Need something to do this weekend? Here are five events happening in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth area…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43231,43234,43232,43227,43228,116,118,117,43230,43229,43226,43233,43235],"class_list":["post-91997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-christmas-events-in-dallas-fort-worth-area","tag-december-events-near-denton-mckinney-southlake","tag-dfw-holiday-activities-for-families","tag-dfw-weekend-events-december-2025","tag-family-friendly-events-dfw-this-weekend","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-free-weekend-events-dfw-december","tag-holiday-events-in-north-texas-december","tag-things-to-do-in-dallas-fort-worth-dec-19-21","tag-weekend-event-guide-dallas-fort-worth","tag-what-to-do-in-dfw-this-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}