Visit Santa and take a carriage ride and a house tour. Visit Holiday Art Festival and then enjoy children’s crafts.  Listen to selections for Handel’s Messiah. It’s Christmas in Collinsville, a weekend of festivities organized by Downtown Collinsville, Inc. on Dec. 4 and 5 and what better way to begin the celebration than with an official Tree Lighting ceremony for the enormous blue spruce in front of the Collinsville Township building at 305 East Main Street. (You can’t miss the blue spruce driving around the corner on East Main. It is originally from an area behind the Senior Center and was cut to make way for an expansion next year).  The Collinsville Chorale and Curtains Up will provide the caroling for the ceremony and later the Collinsville Chorale presents Christmas with the Chorale at Holy Cross Lutheran Church at 7 p.m. Admission is free.