If you didn’t get your fill of rubber duck selfies on the Los Angeles waterfront this summer, or need a photo opp for your Christmas card, you’ll soon be in luck.

The 10-foot-tall baby duck that was “adopted” by the Port of Los Angeles when his six-story mother made a sensational visit to the Tall Ships Festival in August will help kick off the port’s free “Holidays by the Sea” series this weekend, complete with a scarf and ear muffs (incidentally, the Omelette & Waffle Shop on Gaffey Street beat the port to the punch at giving the rubber duck a holiday reprieve, perching one wearing a Santa hat and scarf on the restaurant’s last week.).

Santa Claus, carolers from San Pedro High School’s Glee Club and dancers from the San Pedro City Ballet will help usher in the holidays at a free 6 p.m. concert Saturday at the Downtown Harbor at Sixth Street and Harbor Boulevard in San Pedro.

The first 150 people to arrive will be treated to churros and hot chocolate from Acapulco restaurant and cookies from the San Pedro DoubleTree. Kids can do arts and crafts.

The $32 million Downtown Harbor and Town Square, which opened in June after two years of construction and hosted thousands of visitors over the summer, will also offer a prime vantage point for the procession of decorated boats making their way down the main channel in the 52nd Annual L.A. Harbor Holiday Afloat Parade.

A table will be set up with fliers promoting downtown San Pedro businesses. The nearby USS Iowa is selling tickets for a boat parade viewing party on the battleship’s fantail.

“We want to bring both sides of the waterfront to life this holiday season,” said Cynthia Ruiz, the port’s deputy executive director of external relations.

From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Wilmington Waterfront Park will be covered in 20 tons of snow for a family-friendly Winter Wonderland event.

“For a lot of these kids in Wilmington, it’s the first time they’ve ever seen snow,” Ruiz said.

The “Holidays by the Sea” series — which has no affiliation with Shakespeare by the Sea or Music by the Sea, other than sharing a popular San Pedro event name ending — also includes three weekends of light shows and holiday movie screenings projected onto the sail of a tall ship in the Downtown Harbor.

“The Grinch Who Stole Christmas” will screen at 7 and 9 p.m. Sunday, the same day of the Chamber of Commerce’s Spirit of San Pedro Holiday Parade, and there will be 7 and 9 p.m. screenings of “Jack Frost” from Dec. 12-14 and “The Smurfs Holiday Celebration” from Dec. 19-21.

The baby rubber duck will be present at all of the Holidays by the Sea events, which are designed not only for the public to enjoy, but to make the case for the waterfront as a year-round tourist destination, according to Public Relations Director Theresa Adams-Lopez.

“That’s the reason for having a different movie every week,” she said. “To bring people back.”

That means the port will be expanding on its own programming — like a Lunar Festival it has in the works — and attracting bigger name events.

“We had a lot of visitors this year, and we think this summer we really turned the corner,” Ruiz said, adding that the draw of the Tall Ships Festival and the World’s Largest Rubber Duck gave an $8.2 million boost to the local economy. “What we really learned was that once people came here, they did something else while they were here, so we need to make sure we continuously draw those crowds.”

In response to concurrent waning public confidence in the progress of Ports O’ Call Village redevelopment negotiations — the port released a feasibility last month proposing a downsized vision — Ruiz said she understands residents’ frustrations and reminded them that “the city moves slow.”

She said programming on the waterfront, including “mega” events with household names, can only add to the waterfront’s momentum.

“One of the (major events) we’re sealing the deal with, the mayor is going to roll out — that’s how big it is,” she said. “2015 is going to be epic for us.”