- Last day to participate in $1,000 to Explore Great Bend Contest
- Great Bend Cookie Contest: Stop in at Rosewood Furniture Gallery (1607 Main) and get your cookie box to taste the various cookies at different businesses and vote for your favorite
- Visit Santas Around the World and see 24 life sized Santas (1223 Main) Opens after parade
- Living Nativity Portraits: 4-8 pm Jack Kilby Square provided by Foundry Methodist Church
- Home for the Holidays Parade: 5:30 pm down Main St.
- Annual Lighting of Mayor’s Tree: 6:15 pm Jack Kilby Square, Mayor Joe Andrasek
- Horse drawn carriage and wagon rides provided by Rosewood Services until 8 pm
- Free train rides provided by the City of Great Bend
- Free hot dogs, hot chocolate, funnel cakes
- Tell Santa your wishlist (1223 Main)
- Free Ice Skating
- Announcement of Cookie Contest, Parade, and Explore Great Bend Winners!
- Light the Square! 6:30 pm, Jack Kilby Square
- River of Life Church Craft & Bake Sale (9 am-3:30 pm, 1219 Main St.) 30
- Dilly & Doc’s Holiday Pop-Up Market (10 am-4 pm, 1119 Main St.) 30
