Christmas Eve or Christmas Day Games!
1. Fill a Christmas
stocking: Hang stockings and divide
into teams. Each team has to race to fill their stocking with spoonfuls of
wrapped candy using only one of their hands. The stocking cannot be held and if
it falls on the floor, that team is disqualified from the race. Each team member
should take a turn dumping a spoonful of candy into the stocking. Race time is
3 minutes. Fullest stocking wins.
2. Gift wrap relay: Pick a judge who will not see the race in progress. Set up
assembly lines of boxes, scissors, wrapping paper, ribbon, and tape for each
team. Each team member has a task: one cuts paper, one wraps, one tapes, one
ties ribbon. Neatness counts! Then race to wrap! The judge will come in when
it's over and pick the best wrapped gift. Race time is 5 minutes. Teams have to
have gift judged in the condition the box is in when time is up
3. Christmas Carol Charades: Write out well known Christmas Carols and put them in a bowl. Have
each person act out the carol they choose.
4. Photo booth: Provide silly props and backdrop to take silly photos in front of.
These pictures will be looked back on for years to come! An idea for a backdrop
to use is a very large disposable table cloth that has a festive print on it.
You can often find silly ones that are child themed. Tape it to a wall. If
there isn't room in your house, consider doing it outside. A garage door would
be perfect. Silly prop ideas would be elf ears, blinking or glittery eyeglasses, santa beard, canes wrapped to look like candy canes, bow ties, mustaches, hats of all kinds, 2 signs with "naughty" and "nice" written on each one.
5. Two truths and a
lie: Each person tells three stories
about themselves. Two are true and one is not. Tell them about this a few hours
before you play so they can be thinking about it. They should not share their
stories with others. With family, this is especially difficult for the truth
stories because family knows each other so well. For truths, give them the idea
to think back to school, work or things that happened when they were alone. For
the lie, tell them to think of things that happened to other people that their
family does not know. Also, the stories do not have to be elaborate. Examples:
Truth: I received a random act of kindness - someone taped a $1 bill on a vending
machine for the next person.
Truth: I ate a donut and the very last bite had a hair it in. So gross.
Lie: I got so drunk that I forgot to take my pants down before I went pee.
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