# Toe Jam New Year's Eve Family Bash at the Whaling Museum > Event for families in the Providence–Warwick area (RI / MA). Times are Eastern Time. - When: Thu, Dec 31 · 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM - Where: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New Bedford, MA 02740 - Ages: Families with kids - Price: Free and open to the public - Organizer: New Bedford Whaling Museum - Official page: https://www.whalingmuseum.org/ - Last checked: Sat, Oct 24 Source: Grassy Knees is a directory of real family events, places and programs for kids across major U.S. metro areas, where every listing is researched from the organizer’s own page and shows the date we last checked it. https://grassyknees.com covers 42 metro areas as of Oct 24, 2026, with more added regularly. About: https://grassyknees.com/about Freshness: listings are re-checked on a daily research run (latest check 2026-10-24), and new events are added as organizers post them. Sell-outs, weather cancellations and time changes show up on the live page first: https://grassyknees.com/providence/activities/toe-jam-new-year-s-eve-family-bash-at-the-whaling-museum--listing-a53100253ef558851823098a ## About An early, kid-sized New Year's Eve party at the New Bedford Whaling Museum with the Toe Jam Puppet Band. The Jacobs Family Gallery turns into a dance floor for music, movement, interactive songs and puppets, with two sets (5:15 and 6:15 pm) so families can arrive after dinner and still be home for an early bedtime. Doors open at 5 pm and the family program ends at 7 pm. It is free and open to the public. Afterwards families can head into downtown New Bedford for the city's other New Year's Eve activities, including fireworks. ## Similar picks in Providence - [Holidays at the Newport Mansions](https://grassyknees.com/providence/activities/holidays-at-the-newport-mansions--listing-097a5c8a5027a062e43444d7) — Nov 21 – Jan 3 · The Breakers, Marble House and Chateau-sur-Mer, Newport · All ages · Paid · checked Oct 24. The Breakers, Marble House and Chateau-sur-Mer are dressed for the holidays with nearly 30 decorated Christmas trees themed to their rooms (Mr. Vanderbilt's tree at The Breakers… - [Christmas Festival of Lights at La Salette Shrine](https://grassyknees.com/providence/activities/christmas-festival-of-lights-at-la-salette-shrine--listing-1583499b8a6452bb70d1ced8) — Nov 21 – Jan 3 · National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette, Attleboro · All ages · checked Oct 24. The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro lights its hillside grounds with more than one million Christmas lights each season. The 2026-27 festival is themed… - [Sparkling Lights at The Breakers](https://grassyknees.com/providence/activities/sparkling-lights-at-the-breakers--listing-37c91a0a3d65a4991ccdd4b1) — Sat, Nov 21 (+19 more dates) · 4:00 PM – 8:00 PM · The Breakers, Newport · All ages · From $18 · checked Oct 24. On selected evenings from late November to the end of December, the 13-acre grounds of The Breakers become a half-mile walking path of hundreds of thousands of holiday lights… - [Christmas Preparations with the 1910 Household Staff](https://grassyknees.com/providence/activities/christmas-preparations-with-the-1910-household-staff--listing-027fc9da4fba7db56220935a) — Sun, Nov 22 · 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM · Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, Bristol · From $25 · checked Oct 24. A candlelit, self-guided holiday evening tour of Blithewold's manor with costumed interpreters playing the 1910 household staff. They explain how they readied the house and… - [Sparkle! Holiday Evenings at Blithewold](https://grassyknees.com/providence/activities/sparkle-holiday-evenings-at-blithewold--listing-b2d2097445e0803cd9cac162) — Nov 24 – Jan 3 · 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM · Blithewold Mansion, Gardens & Arboretum, Bristol · All ages · From $8 · checked Oct 24. Blithewold stays open into the evening through the holiday season. Inside the manor the lights are dimmed so thousands of ornaments on dozens of decorated trees glow by… - [Holiday Lights Spectacular at Roger Williams Park Zoo](https://grassyknees.com/providence/activities/holiday-lights-spectacular-at-roger-williams-park-zoo--listing-6fcc1a1917899ef1394f43cc) — Nov 27 – Jan 3 · 5:00 PM – 9:30 PM · Roger Williams Park Zoo · All ages · From $13 · checked Oct 24. Roger Williams Park Zoo's nightly winter walk-through light show spreads larger-than-life illuminated displays across 40 acres of the zoo, with more than 3.5 million lights. The… ## More for families - [Christmas and holiday events for kids in Providence](https://grassyknees.com/providence/christmas) (Markdown: https://grassyknees.com/providence/christmas.md) - [This weekend in Providence](https://grassyknees.com/providence/this-weekend) (Markdown: https://grassyknees.com/providence/this-weekend.md) - [Things to do with kids in Providence](https://grassyknees.com/providence) (Markdown: https://grassyknees.com/providence.md)