Just because the gifts are opened and the paper strewn about the living room, doesn’t mean the excitement of Christmas is over. Add some fun party games on Christmas day to extend the joys of Christmas.
If you have a large gathering on Christmas day, have fun with the hat game. When they arrive, give everyone a Santa hat. These are cheap and can be purchased for $1 at the dollar store, or less in bulk, if you plan in advance. As everybody goes about their business of getting food, talking with others and so on, the room will look extraordinarily festive with everybody wearing their Santa hats.
However, the object of this game is to not have your hat on. As people forget about the hats, the object is to get rid of your hat and not be the last one wearing a Santa hat.
Inevitably there will be one individual so wrapped up in a conversation or the buffet table, they forget to take off their hat and may be left the game’s loser. This is a game that can be played again as you head forward with the day’s festivities.
One fun memory game that children particularly like is to make everybody pay careful attention to all the gifts that are opened on Christmas day. After the gifts are removed from the room ( or you remove yourselves from the present room ) have everyone try and remember every single gift everyone got. Include stockings and any food gifts.
Tell people they just need to remember the items that were opened that day, not any gifts they received and opened before Christmas day. This may be a fun game that is especially favored by kids because they adore to relive the gift magic. In addition, if they were so dunked with their own gifts they didn’t notice any one else’s, this is a good chance for them to educate themselves about what everybody got that day.
If you want a game to keep everyone busy before dinner, try the “guess me” game. Buy some giant heavy socks, not low-rise, but the type that are worn outdoors in the winter that are thick and come at least to the calf. Put several items in the socks. Ensure identical items are in each sock. These items should be related to Christmas in some way.
You might include a little ornament, scotch tape, a pinecone, a Hershey’s kiss, and so on. Have each person feel the socks ( having two socks just makes the game go quicker, but you can play with only one sock ), and write down their estimates about what is in the socks. Be certain to tell everybody how many items are in each sock. The winner gets, you got it…one of the socks!
If you have a handful of wanna-be performers in your group on Christmas day, what about playing a little game of “Christmas Idol”? Set up a small table for the “judges” and have groups of two folk ( or individuals, if they want ) to sing a Christmas carol. Tell them to have a large amount of fun with the song, and even add a Santa hat or other dress-up items if they wish.
The winners can take home a CD of Christmas music. This game is very fun if just the kids want to perform and be judged by the adults, or if, conversely, the adults perform, and are judged by the children.
Finding the right Christmas party games selection will be easy. What you need to do is visit our Christmas party games website for readily available resources on different types of Christmas games.
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