Christmas on the Coast
Enjoy a fun and festive day of Christmas celebrations on Sunday 8 December, 11am–3pm.
Check out the awesome Christmas floats and wave to Santa as he parades from Paraparaumu College to Mazengarb Reserve.
After the parade, enjoy a festival of food trucks, cool games and live entertainment. Visit Santa in his Grotto, or have a blast in the bounce zone!
Join the fun
Get ready for Christmas on the Coast on Sunday, 8 December!
Join us for the Christmas float parade starting at 11am from Paraparaumu College, followed by a fun-filled festival at Mazengarb Reserve. Enjoy tasty food trucks, cool games, and awesome entertainment for everyone. You can also snap a photo with Santa in his grotto or have a blast in the bounce zone.
Entry is free, but feel free to bring a can for the local food bank if you want to help out.
Host a stall
Like to host a stall at the festival? Connect with your local community and show off your mahi at the same time! It’s free to have a stall in the festival.
We’re inviting all businesses, big and small, to join the Christmas on the Coast festival. Think ‘old school fair’ games, think ‘Christmas’, think ‘whānau’.
The festival is a free, back-to-basics event for everyone. It starts at 12 noon on Sunday 8 December, right after the float parade, and ends at 3pm. Qualified first aiders will be onsite and can be reached through a marshal.
There’s no rain date; we’ll decide the night before if the weather is bad, and will contact stallholders.
Spaces are limited, and applications close 5pm, Monday 2 December. Register your interest in having a stall.
All stallholders need to accept and follow our terms and conditions:
- Manage your own stall area, including providing a sunshade, like a marquee, if needed.
- The festival is a free, family-friendly event. Activities should be free unless raising funds for charity.
- The entrance to Mazengarb Reserve closes to traffic at 10.45am on Sunday 8 December. Make sure all your gear is delivered and your vehicles are parked in the designated area by then.
- The festival ends at 3pm. Keep your stall open until the end.
- We aim for a sustainable event. Use recyclable, reusable, or compostable materials. There will be designated waste areas on site.
- Remove all items from your area after pack-down, and take your rubbish with you.
Join the parade
Want to join in the fun and have a float in the parade? We’d love to hear from you!
The Kāpiti Christmas on the Coast float parade starts at 11am on Sunday 8 December 2024. It will leave from Paraparaumu College and travel down Mazengarb Road to Mazengarb Reserve, where the the festival will take place.
Qualified first aiders will be onsite and can be contacted through a marshal.
Ready to register your float? Register your interest in being a part of the parade! Applications close 5pm, Monday 2 December.
Your parade entry must be safe for everyone. You’ll need to follow these rules:
- Secure all loose props on your float.
- Floats must be less than 4 metres high and 3 metres wide.
- Vehicles must have a current WOF and registration, be driven by a licensed driver, and move at walking speed (no more than 5 kilometres/hour).
- Watch out for walking and cycling groups.
- Electrical equipment and special effects must be handled by a competent person and always monitored.
- All participants, especially kids, need to be supervised. We recommend having someone walk on each side of the float for safety.
- Children should not sit near the edge of the float, and should walk far from each float if on the ground.
- We can pull your float from the parade on the day if it’s not inappropriate.
- Christmas theme only– no blatant advertising. Feel free to use bubbles, water spraying, and music to entertain the crowd.
- Hand out sweets or giveaways instead of throwing them.
- There is only one Santa in the parade, and he’ll be on the Santa float. Don’t include Santa in your entry.
- Follow directions from the marshals at the start and end of the parade.