The winning team is the first to collect all 12 items. Divide into teams and ask each team to race around looking for the items. You could use Christmas cards, pictures from the internet or household items (eg, curtain rings could be ‘five gold rings’). Gather together a collection of items representing the Twelve Days of Christmas poem. So the first person might say ‘an angel’ then the second would say ‘an angel and a bauble’ and the third would say ‘an angel, a bauble and a carrot for Rudolph’ and so on until you reach Z. This is a festive variation of the game ‘I went to the moon.’ where every guest comes up with a Christmas-related word from A to B, adding an extra word as they go along. Get everyone a Christmas hat, pin the name of a Christmas character to the top of each one, ask everyone to put on a hat without peaking at the name and each person takes their turn asking questions to try to guess their identity. The winner is the person who does it in the quickest time. Christmas Tie Gameīorrow grandad’s Christmas tie and put all your guests into pairs.Īsk them to tie their partner’s tie. Then remove the tray and ask them to write down as many as they can remember. Put festive items, such as a crackers, mince pie, bauble, tinsel, etc, onto a tray and allow your guests one minute to memorise the items they’ve seen. When each person hears their word, he or she stands up, turns around and sits down again.Īnd, when you read out the words ‘Santa Claus’, everyone swaps places.Ĭhaos. Give each guest the name of something Christmassy from The Night Before Christmas (eg, reindeer, sleigh, Christmas tree) then read out the poem. This is a great way to get everyone doing their best Slade, Pogues and Mariah Carey impressions too, especially if they've had a sherry or two. Get a Christmas CD, or find a playlist on YouTube/Spotify/Amazon Music/etc, and play just a few notes of each song, asking your guests to guess the name of the tune and the artist too. ![]() Have several stockings ready if you have a large gathering at Christmas. Mystery Stocking Gameįill a large Christmas stocking with items from around the house and ask your guests to guess what’s inside without looking.Īdd in items like a carrot, a cracker, a sponge and a brush. Then take a string of Christmas lights or a strand of festive garland or ribbon, play some Christmas music and get them to do the limbo. Grab a large T-shirt, a pillow and a belt and get your guests to take it in turns to dress up with a ‘Santa belly.’ ![]() This is the limbo with a Christmas twist. ![]() This could actually be useful in the run-up to Christmas Day. The winner is the person or team with the most presents wrapped. Set up assembly lines of boxes or gifts, scissors, wrapping paper, ribbon and Sellotape then race to wrap. If you want to be even more creative, you could buy rolls of red, white and black streamers and create Santa costumes instead! Wrapping Race Divide your guests into teams and try to create the best snowman in the allotted time. Grab some toilet rolls, cotton wool balls and tape. So, we’ve come up with a dozen that don’t require much preparation. what next?Īnd you'll need plenty of ideas to carry you over into the following day as boffins have (somehow) decided that family members will start annoying you by Boxing Day afternoon - at 2.13pm precisely. If you are one of the lucky ones who'll have a decent break over Christmas and New Year, then there'll be plenty of time to indulge, telly gawp, bargain shop and catch up with friends and family.īut on Christmas Day itself, once the presents have been unwrapped, the turkey and mince pies eaten, the Baileys bottle drained and the Queen’s Speech over.
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