Christmas Party Game Ideas

Christmas Party Game Ideas

by

Icebreaker Game for Church Christmas Party

Church Christmas Party Ice BreakerHere is a sample icebreaker game for the church Christmas party.

Create a list to get points.  Points can be traded for privilege:

  • first to Christmas dessert table
  • first to receive a door prize.

Keep it Christmas themed.

Brainstorm additional ones ahead of time.

Icebreaker for Church Christmas Party

This list below is to get you started for this icebreaker for your church Christmas party.

  • 1 point if you’ve started sending your Christmas cards, and 3 points if you’ve finished them.
  • Have you started started Christmas shopping?  1 point if you have, and 3 points if you’ve finished all of your Christmas shopping.
  • Give yourself 3 points if you’ve got your Christmas Turkey bought.
  • Give yourself 3 points if you’ve got your Christmas Ham bought.
  • Are you playing Christmas music in your car or at home?  2 points.
  • 1 point if you’ve put up your Christmas tree, and an extra 3 points if it is real.
  • 1 point if you’ve begun your Christmas baking, and 3 points if you’re all done it, and 5 if you have eaten it all.
  • If you’ve started wrapping your Christmas gifts, give yourself 1 point.
  • If you’ve wrapped all your Christmas gifts, give yourself 5 points.
  • If you’ve put Christmas decorations outside your home, give yourself a point.
  • Give yourself an extra point if you’ve put up lights outside your residence.
  • Are you in a church musical performance like a cantata or Christmas eve choir? 2 points.
  • 1 point for each theme if you can name each Sunday theme in Advent.

Your Turn

Do you have some additional items to contribute to this list of icebreaker points for the church Christmas party?

Add them in the comment fields below. . . As they come in, I’ll add them to this list.

Want more Christmas Party Icebreakers?

Read my review about the  resource of Christmas Party Games for Youth.  It’s a better and more complete resource than my website and has several Icebreaker games for your church Christmas party.

 

by

Christmas Party Game: Hershey Kisses

Christmas party food and gift
Everyone enjoys Hershey’s Chocolate Kisses at their Christmas party. At my house, the red and green bags are dumped into a bowl that we pick at during the entire party.

Supplies: Bowls, bags of Hershey Kisses. Oversized mittens or gloves, one pair for each team.

Setup: Have two bowls of Hershey’s kisses at the other end of the room.

To play this Christmas Party Game

For this Christmas party game, divide your group into two teams.

Give each team one set of the oversized gloves.

The first person in line runs to the bowl of Hershey kisses. They are to take one and to unwrap the Hershey Kiss while wearing the oversized mittens/gloves and pop the kiss into their mouth (unless they are allergic to chocolate).

They run back, tag the next person in line, and exchange the mittens/gloves and the next person runs forward to get a chocolate kiss.

The winning team of this Christmas party game is the one in which all members have enjoyed a Hershey kiss.

Get more Christmas Party Game Ideas

Read more about the  resource of Christmas Party Games for Youth.  It’s a better and more complete resource than my website.

by

Silly Santa Beard Christmas Party Game

Christmas Party Game with Cotton BallsThis Christmas party game could be pretty silly relay for youth groups, and maybe your young adult group.

How about making a Santa beard as a relay race for your Christmas party?

Imagine the humor, the laughter, and the all out sillyness as your teenagers or young adults try to accomplish the goal of this Christmas party game.

Supplies: Two big bowls of cotton balls, a container of Vaseline or some similar product.

Setup: Place the bowl of cotton balls on a table at one end of the room, as the “goal” for the relay race.

Play this Silly Santa Beard Christmas game:

Put some Vaseline on the chins of each member of each team (ideally, 2 teams of about 5 people each).

The first player in line run to the bowl of cotton balls at the other end of the room. They stick their chins in the bowl. Goal is to get as many cotton balls to stick as possible, without using your hands.

The player runs to the back of their line, and the next player runs their turn.

When everyone on a team has a beard, that team wins.

Be sure to take lots of pictures of everyone wearing their Santa beards.

Cleanup: Also have plenty of towels and water to get the Vaseline off.

Want more Christmas Party games?

Read my review about the  resource of Christmas Party Games for Youth.  It’s a better and more complete resource than my website.

by

Christmas Party Game Icebreaker for Spiritual Conversation

Here is a sample Christmas Party ice breaker and conversational guide that is similar to the one found on page 38 of Christmas Party Games from Creative Youth Ideas.

You can use this icebreaker as a Christmas party game for adults, for youth, and for kids.

You can probably find this party game for Christmas everywhere on the internet but what I like is the discussion applications to help break the ice for some great conversations over the eggnog or punch.

Name of Party Game: Christmas Forward and Backward.  When I played variations of this in youth group during other seasons, I called it Move to the Left or Right.

Energy level of Christmas Party Game: Low, using chairs in a line.

How to play: Move forward or backward depending on the criteria that is called.  If someone is already occupying that chair, sit on their lap.

Example criteria:

  • Move forward if you are wearing green.
  • If you like eggnog, move forward one chair
  • If you plan to go to church on Christmas eve, move back one chair.

The actual resource of Christmas Party Games for Youth suggests 30 different criteria for this xmas party game.  That should be enough to stir your creativity for more.

As a talking point, you can talk about moving forward or moving backward in life.

As you think about your relationships this past year, have you moved forward or backwards?

As you think about your spiritual life, have you moved forward or backwards?

Did you reach any goals you may have had at the beginning of the year for your spiritual life?

Then you can ask this an application:

Take a few moments to plan where you want to be spiritually at the end of next year.

  • In relationships?
  • In your education?
  • In your career?
  • In some personal goals?
  • In your relationship to God?

This party game for Christmas can be a great ice breaker to start future conversations later over that bowl of eggnog. Your guests might volunteer with you 1-1 where they would like to grow spiritually later that year.

Read more about the  resource of Christmas Party Games for Youth.  It’s a better and more complete resource than my website.

by

Christmas Carol Mix Up Party Game

How to play:

  1. Make a list Christmas Carols and other popular songs.  A sample list is below.  Remove the funny song titles.
  2. Break your group into teams.
  3. Give one team a portion of the song titles.
  4. Each team is to take the song titles and reword it using similar language.  Examples are below.
  5. The teams take turn reading the funny title and the other team must guess the original title.

Variant:

Make some flash cards with the following funny song titles.

Give teams with a buzzer or something so that teams compete to guess the first correct title, a la Jeopardy.  The first team to hit the buzzer must give the right answer or the other teams can buzz to guess.

The group leader reads the funny title and the teams compete to be the first group to guess the correct one.

Reworded Christmas Songs:

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Experience a Joyous Tiny December 25th

O Holy Night – Oh Sacred Evening

Santa Claus is Coming to Town – A Jolly Man in a Red Suit is Arriving in Our Place of Residence

Jingle Bell Rock – Tinkling Chime Groove

All I Want for Christmas Is You – Everything I Hope for the Birth Day of Jesus is the 21st Letter of the Alphabet

Joy to the World – Bliss for the Planet

Christmas Time is Here – December 25th Has Arrived

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer – Bambi with a Clown Nose

Frosty the Snowman – Chilly the Frozen Water Guy

Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer – Mom’s Mother Got Trampled by a Sleigh Puller

Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – Dancing Circles Near the December 25th Shrubbery

Brainstorm other Christmas Carols to add to this list.

Source: Funny Titles above were found online.

by

Charades Christmas Party Game for Church Groups

This Christmas party game is a classic game of Charades that can easily be adapted to a christmas party for your church.

The only preparation or modification you need to make for younger players is in the selection of simpler one word topics.

Christmas Party Charades  for Children:

  • Select a few simple Christmas words and phrases for the children to act out.
  • Have every one of  children sit on the floor while one child stands in front.
  • Whisper to the child what Christmas word he or she is to mime and let the other children guess.
  • Once the correct answer is guessed a new actor is selected and play continues.

Christmas Party Charades for Older Children:

  • Have them Brainstorm a list of 10-15 Christmas topics that the other team will perform.
  • Screen and sort the two groups of christmas themed topics for 3 levels of difficulty.
  • Assign a higher point value for the most difficult christmas themes.  This is a game of points for the teams!
  • Then break the youth or middle schoolers into teams.
  • Each team then selects the desired difficulty level and the volunteer draws a topic from the stack that the other group made.
  • One player tries to act out the Christmas themed clue for his or her team to guess.
  • There is no stealing because the opposing teams created the clues. At the end of play, the team with the most points wins.

Variations

  • Use Christmas Carols as a category instead of broad Christmas party topics.
  • Use Christmas events from Scriptures as a choice of topics.  Some of the scenes can be broken into further scenes.  Be sure that if you have people familiar with the bible scattered among the teams.  Discuss any insights that might arise from these Christmas charades.

For a ebook resource of over 200 Christmas party games for your Church group (with discussion guides), get yours here.