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Christmas Activity Checklist

December 21, 2019

It’s hard to believe that there are only a few days left until Christmas! Most kids are off of school so we’ve compiled a list of fun, free activities to help get you in the Christmas spirit!

Decorate Christmas Tree

Hopefully this is already done, but you could think about making some hand crafted ornaments. Pinterest has a ton of cute ideas like the clothespin reindeer pictured below!

make your own ornament

Walk (or drive) to Christmas lights

There are so many places offering drive through Christmas lights – like the Holiday in Lights and Christmas Nights of Lights! And if you don’t want to spend money, how about just walking or driving through your neighborhood. It is so beautiful this time of year and it’s always nice to see sparkling lights to get you in the mood for Christmas!

Christmas movie marathon

Ladies, you know what I’m talking about…. how about some Hallmark channel?! Or even classics like The Grinch, Polar Express, and Elf make for great Christmas memories!

movies

Bake cookies

Who doesn’t love the smell and taste of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies?! Be sure to leave some cookies out for Santa and carrots for his reindeer!

Here at EnterTRAINment Junction we wish you and your family a very merry Christmas! If you haven’t seen our beautiful Christmas trains, remember there’s still time! Our FREE Christmas train display will be up until January 2nd!

christmas display .

Did you know?

Our highest mountain on display is over 16 feet tall.

Our Train Journey uses 1,968 gallons of scenic colored dirt and grasses costing over $26,000

Our mountains are carved out of 58,000 square feet of spray foam!

We have over 2 miles of G track with 1 mile hidden inside mountains.

There are over 100 scratch built bridges and trestles modeled after real-life structures.

Over 130 talented craftsmen volunteered over 200,000 man-hours to create our display.

EnterTRAINment Junction was conceived in 2003, train construction began in June of 2007 and opened for business in August of 2008.

The entire display is built to be historically accurate showing railroads in 3 distinct time periods.

Opening for business in August 2008, we’ve continuously added more to layouts each month.

Over 1,800 gallons of water is used with 3 storage tanks for waterfalls and rivers.

The control panels that operate each track have over 20,000 solder joints with 8,000 lines of programming to operate multiple trains on the same track.

The walkway through our exhibit is 850 feet long.

Our train display is 25,000 sq. ft. – about ½ of a football field.

Each tunnel leads you into a new time period through your journey.

Our scale is ½” = 1 ft. So, a 6 ft person in life is modeled as a 3” person in our display.

We have hidden 10 dinosaurs in our display – can you find them all?

All of our volunteers leave a personal touch on the items they work on – you can even see a photo of some in their buildings!

The seats in our museum are from Dayton train station from 1900.

We’ve had visitors from all 50 states and 37 countries!

We recently added a Bates Motel to our display – have you spotted it yet?

The tilt in our tilt room is 25 degrees.

During construction, we had to dig into the ground to build the Ames Room.

When you take a picture with flash on a camera of the steamboat, you’ll hear thunder after like it was a flash of lightning.

During your journey, we simulate night and day with 15 minutes of daytime followed by 5 minutes of night.

The switchback line has 2 trains. The one going up the hill has no logs and the train going downhill are fully loaded with logs.

The Coney Island amusement park display is a replica of Cincinnati’s Coney Island as it looked in 1965 – complete with working rides.