Christmas Party Game

November 14, 2011 by Chris

Icebreaker Game for Church Christmas Party

Here 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.

November 11, 2011 by Chris

Silly Santa Beard Christmas Party Game

This 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.

November 8, 2011 by Chris

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.

November 2, 2011 by Chris

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.

November 1, 2011 by Chris

Review: Creative Christmas Party Game Ideas for Youth Groups

I bought my own copy of Creative Youth Ideas Christmas Party Games, and so I’ll be reviewing what it is and what I got.

I’ll review the whole ebook of Christmas Party Games and tell you my thoughts about how it might help you in your Youth Ministry or Young Adult Ministry at your church.

Who is this Christmas Party Game resource for?

Flipping through several of these pages, I am sure that we will be using some of them later this year.

While the Collection of Christmas Party Games is clearly aimed at the church youth group market (youth pastors, middle school leaders, church volunteers), several of these games would be good ice breakers and discussion starters for adults at their Christmas parties.

For example, perhaps your church small groups are planning Christmas party games to help break the conversational ice among potential first time visitors.

Several of these Christmas party game icebreakers would be low key enough for adults to help develop relationships and get the ball going on helping people think about where they want to grow spiritually.

Perhaps you are hosting a Christmas party game night for your neighbor. Several of these party games for Christmas would fit the bill and provide with a way to help bring forth a Christmas conversation that shares Christ.

Read here for an example of a Christmas Party Game that opens a spiritual discussion.

What comes in the Christmas Party Game Ebook?

This 370+ page ebook would be a perfect help for someone looking for fresh and creative ideas for Christmas parties games for their youth group or young adult outreaches.

You get instant access to over 200

Icebreakers
Games
Object Lessons
Devotions
Illustrations
Humor
and Worksheets

These party games for Christmas have suggested locations (indoors, outdoors, field, table, etc) and suggested energy levels (laid back, sits down, or high energy, as examples).

He provides you a list of resources that you will need to play this Christmas party game.

Then the writer gives you clear directions for the leader what to do.

Several have variations on the theme game.

Many have some potential talking points to break the ice, dig deep, and open ways to talk about the meaning of Christmas.

Read here for an example of a Christmas Party Game that opens a spiritual discussion.

Why an ebook of Christmas Party Games?

Candy Cane Games for Christmas Parties I had a box of candy canes.

I figured I could play a party game with Christmas candy canes.

I was in an office building, away from my collection of books. Could I find a Christmas party game involving candy canes with my resource books being in another place?

The thought of manually searching for Candy Cane Christmas games through all my books gathered over the years did not appeal to me.

Been there. Done that.

I wanted an ebook format to help me scan through the 200+ ideas for Christmas parties. Open up the book and search for candy canes (I found 8 games right away – no need to open a single book to search for christmas candy cane party games.)

This Christmas Party Idea Ebook (order yours here) is

Instantly Searchable (do That with a real book).
Even if I search my laptop hard drive for “candy cane” I’ll find this ebook.
On my laptop or, phone, or anywhere else I have a PDF reader.
No space on my crowded book shelf.
No pages to curl or dog ear.
Imagine a 337 page brick taking up space to use it 1 month a year.
No shipping costs – download instantly
Conversational talking points about Christmas- no cheesy websites with stupid Christmas graphics
I can print the game I want, not bend the spine of a physical book to make a copy for my leaders.

Order your copy of Creative Youth Group Ideas for Christmas

You can buy your own copy of the Creative Youth Ideas Christmas Collection online right here. These links will take you to the sales page where you can find the Add to Cart Button.

Use my link and the author will pitch me back a thank you.

I own my own copy and think you’ll benefit from it.

As of this writing, it’s priced just under $25 USD.