🗓 Weekend of February 21–22, 2026

🌸 Connecticut Flower & Garden Show

📅 Feb 19–22 | Time TBD

📍 CT Convention Center, Hartford

Stunning garden displays, vendors, workshops, and family-friendly activities. Tickets start around $17; kids 5–12 typically $5.

🌸 LunarFest Activities

📅 Feb 21 | Time TBD

📍 Whitney Ave, New Haven

Celebrate the Lunar New Year with cultural performances, family activities, crafts, and local vendors along Whitney Avenue.

🔥❄️ Fire & Ice Festival

📅 Feb 21 | Time TBD

📍 Two Roads Brewery, Stratford

A winter festival featuring fire pits, ice sculptures, live music, food trucks, and seasonal brews. Family-friendly during daytime hours.

🛷 Mount Southington Cardboard Classic

📅 Feb 21 | Time TBD

📍 Mount Southington, Plantsville

Watch racers zoom down the slopes in creative, homemade cardboard sleds—an energetic and entertaining winter tradition.

❄️ Stars Hollow Snow Festival

📅 Feb 21 | Time TBD

📍 Lutz Children’s Museum, Manchester

A cozy, family-friendly festival inspired by Gilmore Girls, featuring winter games, crafts, themed activities, and museum fun.

🧸 Downtown Mystic Onesie Takeover

📅 Feb 21 | Time TBD

📍 Downtown Mystic, Mystic

Wear your favorite onesie and explore downtown Mystic with themed activities, shopping, and playful photo ops.

🎪 Minty Fresh Circus

📅 Feb 22 | Time TBD

📍 Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield

A high-energy contemporary circus performance featuring acrobatics, juggling, and physical comedy that captivates all ages.