Festival of Trees

The annual Festival of Trees includes a full two days of activities showcasing local talent and providing a dazzling display of decorated trees on November 22 & 23, 2025.

Decorate a Christmas tree in the theme of your choice!

Click here to register your tree.

Download 2025 Schedule

Download 2025 Schedule

How To Register Your Tree

Decorate a Christmas tree in the theme of your choice! Please limit tree size (real or artificial) to approximately 2 meters (6 ft.) in diameter.
Trees MUST be registered by November 16, 2024 – (unregistered trees can not be set up due to pre-planning for space that takes place by volunteers).
Entry fee is a non-perishable item for the Food Bank and one item for a silent auction (min value $10).
Set up for tree decorating will be Friday in St. Peter’s Lions Hall, beginning at 2:00pm. Electrical hook-ups will be provided. All setup must be complete by 8:00pm on Friday.
Trees must remain in place until after presentation of awards at 2pm. Tear down for all trees occurs between 2:30 and 3:30pm.
Register by November 6, 2024 to qualify for an early bird prize.
If the online form isn’t working for you, please contact us at info@visitstpeters.com.

Register Your Tree!

Festival of Trees Schedule – Saturday Nov. 22nd

Saturday 9am – 6:30pm • St. Peter’s Lions Hall

Festival Doors Open at 9am

9am – 10:30am
Family Pancake Breakfast with a visit from Santa Claus!

9am – 6:30pm
New to You Table

10:30am – 12pm
Picture Taking with Santa ($5 / picture)

11:30am – 1pm
Card Making – Making a card for local Villa residents

11:30am
Santa’s Favorite Cookie of the Year Contest

12pm
Holiday Movie Time

1pm – 3pm
Petting Zoo (weather permitting)

5pm
Official Tree Lighting & Christmas Storytime

5:30pm – 6:30pm
Musical Entertainment

7:00pm
Holly Jolly Trivia at the Inn!
$40 / team. To register, call 902-631-2746.

*Canteen service with WAFFLE BAR available Saturday from 11am – 2pm and 5pm – 6:30pm, and on Sunday from 11:30am – 2pm.

Festival of Trees Schedule – Sunday Nov. 23rd

Sunday 10:30am – 1pm • St. Peter’s Lions Hall
Festival Doors Open at 10:30am

10:30am
Jingle Bell Fun Walk! Wear your best holiday sweater and hat. Pets are welcome! Please bring a donation for Secret Santa!

11:30am – 1pm
Cookie Decorating & Crafts
Picture Taking with Santa & Mrs. Claus

1pm Closing
“Best Tree” Presentations
Reindeer Hunt Awarded
Gingerbread House Awarded
Prize Draws
Silent Auction Awarded

Things to do and see all weekend!

View display of Christmas Trees
Vote for your Favorite Tree
Vote for your Favorite Gingerbread House
Hunt for Santa’s Reindeer (Saturday only)
Have Tea / Lunch with Friends
Participate in the Silent Auction

All events free of charge unless otherwise noted! Goodwill Offering & Foodbank Donations are encouraged.

Festival of Trees Gallery

About the Festival of Trees

Many communities celebrate the Christmas season, but none quite in the way that we have done for decades with our annual Festival of Trees! Individuals, businesses, and organizations come together in our Village to create a beautiful holiday event for all ages.

The people who founded Festival of Trees in 1997 are very much the heart of this event. Eva and Doug Landry, and the team that they assembled, had a vision – a dazzling display of Christmas trees that people would come from all around to see.

Decades later we are still gathering together on Saturday and Sunday to appreciate the trees, but also to appreciate each other.

Festival of Trees was designed to support our local small businesses, and to create an experience for people in our community that’s affordable and fun. There’s no admission, we provide a free breakfast with Santa, pictures with Santa are only $5, lots of free activities, and even entering a tree only costs you a donation to the food bank and our silent auction. So we encourage you to please remember to support local businesses during the holiday shopping season!

To the volunteers who make this event possible each year – thank you!!!!