Create Christmas Games

Jolly up your Christmas this year with some Christmas-related games that are fun, inclusive and likely to get even the most crotchety relatives giggling––at least a little! The games can involve prizes if you want but given it's already a season filled with gifts, you might just like to play them for fun and to break the ice.

Steps

Hershey's Kisses Game

  1. Divide everyone into two (or more) groups.
  2. Provide each team with a set of oversized mittens or gloves. Have the members of each team stand in a single file line, with the first person in line wearing the gloves/mittens.
  3. Place a bowl of Hershey's Kisses on a table. If you're the first person in line, run to the bowl.
  4. Unwrap the kiss and put it in your mouth (while wearing the gloves). You may only use your hands—no teeth to unwrap the kiss.
  5. Run back to your line. You may go as soon as you have the kiss in your mouth. Tag the first person in line. Then, take off the gloves/mittens and give them to the person you tagged.
  6. Repeat the process until one group wins. A group wins when everyone in the group has eaten a chocolate kiss!

Gift Wrapping Race

  1. Choose a judge. You will be judged based on your speed of wrapping and the quality of the wrapping job.
  2. Get into teams of two. You and your partner should each choose a hand. The other one will be held behind your back.
  3. Work together to tape the box shut and wrap it. Then, tie a ribbon around it. The first team to finish with a high-quality wrapping job wins.

Gift Unwrapping Race

So, you wrapped it all in the last race. Now it's time to unwrap!

  1. Divide everyone into two teams.
  2. Give each team a present to unwrap.
  3. It is best if the gifts are really well wrapped. To make it really tough, perhaps wrap in several layers and use some tough tape.
  4. Have the unwrapper don a pair of oven mitts. The purpose is to make unwrapping difficult.
  5. Have each team sit in a circle. One person per team must roll a pair of dice.
  6. Unwrap. The first player to get roll doubles tries to unwrap the gift. In the meantime, the other teams keep rolling to try to get a double before the gift is unwrapped. If they get a double, the gift immediately passes to the winner of the roll and so on.
  7. Keep playing until the gift is completely unwrapped. The one who finishes unwrapping the gift can keep the gift if you like; this can add a sense of urgency to the game.

Santa's Beard Game

  1. Make at least two teams. Each person should evenly smear their chin area with Vaseline. Be sure that each person has about the same amount of Vaseline, to ensure that it's fair.
  2. Put one bowl of cotton balls per team on one side of the room. Then, line up with the rest of your team on the other side.
  3. If you're the first person in line, run to the bowl of cotton balls. Dunk your face in so that as much cotton as possible sticks to the Vaseline.
  4. Run back to your line. Tag the first person so that they can repeat the process.
  5. Tally up the points. Give three points to the team who finished the fastest, and then an additional point for each cotton ball. The team with the most points wins!

Marshmallow Race

  1. Divide into teams. Each team should get mittens, a bag of marshmallows, and a spoon.
  2. If you are the first person in line, put on the mittens. Then, grab a marshmallow from the bag and balance it on the spoon.
  3. Race members of other teams to a bucket across the room. Place the marshmallow into the bucket and return to your team.
  4. Tag the first person in line and give them the spoon and mittens. Repeat the process. The first team to finish wins.

Make Antlers

  1. Divide into teams of two. Each team should have an old pair of tights (no holes) and some inflated balloons.
  2. People take it in turns to fill the tights with balloons. The finished product should look like a pair of antlers.
  3. The team with the most balloons in the tights wins the game!

Pass the Parcel

  1. Wrap up a small gift. Then add another gift and another layer of wrapping paper. Continue until you have 5 gifts wrapped.
  2. Sit in a circle. Turn on some Christmas music and pass the parcel around.
  3. Stop the music every now and again. The person who has the parcel when the music stops gets to unwrap one of the gifts.
  4. The person to open the last gift is the winner.

Christmas Carols X-Factor

  1. Pick teams. Assign each team a popular Christmas carol.
  2. Rewrite the carol. You can keep the tune and change the words, or completely change the tune if you want. Feel free to make it as silly as possible.
  3. Choose judges. Have each team perform their revised version––the judges will choose a winner!

Headbandz

  1. Get as many sticky notes as you have people. Stick one on each person's head.
  2. Write Christmas-related names or draw Christmas-related objects on each one. Then,write/draw random objects on them.
  3. Write out questions according to the objects. These can be "Yes or No" or random answer questions.
  4. Sit everyone down and play (putting the sticky notes on your head of course). Each player must ask questions about their unknown image or words but only receive yes or no answers.
  5. The winner is the first person to guess correctly. However, you can keep going until the last person has guessed, for more fun!

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (RATCT)

This game is like hide and seek.

  1. Turn off the lights. Turn on the Christmas tree lights.
  2. Choose a hunter (seeker). Then, spread chairs around the room––these will serve as hiding places and diversions. If the room is big, you can also give a flashlight to the hunter.
  3. Now hide from the hunter!

Tips

  • For RATCT, the room must be spacious and the tree is best of being a small size.

Warnings

  • Keep clear of objects that could be broken or toppled when playing fast action games. Avoid using the area near the Christmas tree.

Things You'll Need

Hershey's Kisses Game:

  • Hershey's Kisses
  • Bowl
  • Over-sized gloves/mittens

Gift Wrapping Race:

  • 1 box/pair
  • Wrapping paper
  • Tape
  • Ribbon
  • Scissors

Gift Unwrapping Race:

  • A well wrapped gift
  • Oven mitts (a set per team is probably best but if you have enough for all players, that's great)
  • Pair of dice

Santa's Beard Game:

  • Vaseline
  • Cotton balls
  • Bowl

Marshmallow Race:

  • Bags of Marshmallows for each team
  • Bucket
  • Mittens for each team

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Sources and Citations

  • http:// creativechurchideaattic.blogspot.com/2007/11/christmas-party-games.html – research source
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