Six exciting games to play on Christmas Day

Dec 25, 2018 News

By Sauchel Giles

The Christmas season begins with lots of work. There’s cleaning, decorating, cooking and preparing to welcome a few guests. But the season is one which mostly ends with family time. And what better way to spend that time through fun games and laughter. Below are just a few fun games to help make your Christmas celebrations a bit more exciting.
Game #1: Christmas Carol Pictionary Relay – Pictionary is usually a guessing word game but this time we are using Christmas carols. To being the fun:
Supplies: List of Christmas Carols on separate cards, paper and pens
Steps:
1. The family should be split into teams (Ideas for teams: boys against girls or maybe parents against children.)
2. Equip each team with paper and pens.
3. Assign a game master (this person assigns songs to the teams and count points).
4. Each team sends one person up to the game master who gives them the name of the name of a Christmas Carol on a card.
5. The player returns to group and in the manner of Pictionary tries to get the group to guess the name of the carol by drawing only.
6. When the group knows the song, they must sing it as a group until the game master gives the thumbs up sign (about 10 – 15 seconds into the song).
7. Once they get the thumbs up, the team sends a new person for another song. Play continues until one group completes all their songs.
Christmas Carol Ideas:
 Jingle Bells
 Santa Claus is coming to town
 Here comes Santa Claus
 Joy to the world
 Mary did you know
 Silent night
 Rudolph the red nose reindeer

Game #2: Blindfold Christmas drawing
Supplies: Paper Plates, Markers, Blindfolds
Steps:
1. Assign an instructor
2. Blindfold each player
3. Let every player hold their paper plate on their heads
4. The instructor describes a Christmas scene or ornament
5. Each player draws the described object
6. The person with the most accurate drawing wins.
Game #3: Pin the nose on Rudolph
Supplies: Drawn or printed picture of Rudolph the red nose reindeer, a red circular paper (to represent his nose), thumbtack or piece of tape, paper and pen
Steps:
1. Paste or tack the picture of Rudolph on the wall.
2. Blindfold one participant at a time then spin them.
3. Allow the player to pin the nose of Rudolph.
4. Mark their the result of their attempt along with their name.
5. The person with the nose closest to Rudolph’s nose wins.
Game #4: Holiday Storytelling
Supplies: Creative minds
Steps:
1. Players should sit or stand in a circle.
2. One person begins by saying one complete sentence.
3. Each player then recites the line and adds a line of their own.
4. The story continues as long as the players remember every line.
5. Persons who do not recall all details are disqualified and the last person remaining wins.
Games #5: Gift Wrap-up
Supplies: Ribbons, Gift paper, Gifts, Tape, already wrapped gift
Steps:
1. Pair up players, two players per team.
2. Assign a judge.
3. Tie one person’s right hand to the left hand of their teammate.
4. Let the duos attempt to wrap gifts using their free hands.
5. Present the teams with the already wrapped gift and let them attempt to duplicate it
6. Assign a time limit to the players.
7. After the time limit, let the judge examine the gifts to see the best wrapped and closest one to the duplicate. That team wins.
Game #6: Christmas Charade
Supplies: A list of Christmas lines and terms from various movies
Steps:
1. Separate the family into teams.
2. Print out this list of Christmas terms to act out.
3. Get one person from each team to do the acting.
4. Like regular charades, the actors are not allowed to talk or make signals of any letters.
5. Every time a team guesses correctly within the time limit, they get one point.
6. The first team to get twenty points wins the game.

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