Enjoy arts and crafts, hands-on activities, carriage rides, train rides, puppet shows and musical entertainment evoking days long ago. Admission is free. Peoria Holidaze Peoria Sports Complex, 83rd Ave. Kids will make a beeline for Elf Playland and Kris Krafter's Korner. Santa wouldn't miss this for the world.
Admission is free.
This is no neighborhood block party. It's 150,000 or more Valley residents and visitors ringing in the New Year together in what has become one of the largest outdoor New Year's Eve celebrations in the country. So there, Times Square. The event is put on by Tostitos, and one of its main purposes is to officially welcome the two Fiesta Bowl football teams and their fans to Tempe. The city blocks off downtown streets and clears the way for live entertainment from nationally known bands, food and beverage booths, kiddie rides and fireworks displays.