Christmas Charades -

Pin The Nose On Rudolph
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Picture of Rudolph , Board , Cotton Balls as nose (Red) & Blindfolds
Description : Draw or print a picture of Rudolph and place it on a board. Make sure you have a red cotton ball or a red circular piece of paper ready. Now, blindfold each child and hand them over the nose and a thumbtack. Spin them around and have them place the nose on the Rudolph. Give every child a chance and whoever pins it most accurately, wins.

Christmas Carol Pictionary
Age group : Adults
Items required : Flash Cards or Printable Cards with names of Christmas Carols in each of them
Description : Divide your players into two teams. Take a few flash cards and write down a different carol on each flash card. Each player has to come out and draw a card from the pile of cards. Now, the person has one minute to illustrate the carol and the team who guesses it will get a point. Now continue this game until all the children have got a chance to illustrate. The team with the maximum points, wins the game.

Christmas Charades
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Chits with Christmas terms printed on them & a Basket
Description : Prepare few chits with christmas terms printed or written on each chit. Jumble the chits and place them in a basket. Now divide your players into two teams. Ask each player to take out a chit from the basket. Like regular charades, the actors are not allowed to talk or make signals of any letters. The team who guesses correctly gets a point. The first team to get thirty points, wins the game.

Stocking Fill Up
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Christmas Stocking for each player, Spoons & Candies
Description : Divide your players into two teams. Place a christmas stocking for each player on the other end of the room. This game is similar to lemon and spoon with a twist in the end. Handover each player with a spoon and place a candy on the spoon. Now each player has to deposit the spoonful of candy in the christmas stocking and return back to their team. This game continues until all the players have got their chance. Any player who drops the candy in the process will have to go back and start from the beginning. The team that deposits all the candies in the stocking first, is the winner.

Blind Christmas Tree Ripping
Age group : Adults
Items required : Green Construction paper for each player , Stickers for decorating & Blindfolds
Description : This is a perfect game for adults. For this game you will be requiring green construction paper and a thin piece of cloth for covering each player

Snow Man Slam
Age group : Kids
Items required : White Paper Cups , Markers ( Black ,Red ), Snow Balls (made of cloth)
Description : For this game you will require white paper cups, black and red marker for designing the facial features of the snow man and three snow balls made up of cloth. You can also ball up three white socks to make one snow ball. Now after designing each snow man, stack them in the form of a tower. Now ask each player to come forward and give them three snow balls. They will get three chances and in each attempt they have to toss the snow ball and knock over all the snow men. The player who has knocked the maximum snow men is the winner.

Human Christmas Tree
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Different Christmas Decors
Description : This is a fun game for adults. Have two to three representatives to serve as figurative christmas trees. Divide the other players into teams based on the number of tress. If there are three figurative trees then divide the players into three teams. Each team will have to decorate the human tree with different christmas decor. The team which has the best human christmas tree will be the winner.

Who Am I?
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Printed Cards or Post it Notes with different Christmas Characters written on them
Description : This game can be played with at least 50 people. Write down a favorite christmas character on a post it note, then stick them on each other

Penguin Waddle Game
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Balloon for each player
Description : This game can be played with any number of teams based on the number of people. All that you require is just a few balloons. Set up deadlines 15 to 25 feet apart from each team. The first player from each team has to put the balloon between their knees and waddle like a penguin down to the deadline and back. Then they will have to pass the balloon to the next team member so they can go. If any team member drops the balloon, they have to restart. The first team to complete the relay wins.

How Many Gifts are in the Gift Box?
Age group : Suitable for Office Parties
Items required : One large box ,Many smaller boxes & Wrapping paper
Description : Pass around a big gift box which has many smaller gift boxes packed inside to your guests , and ask them to guess how many gifts are there inside the big box .You can decide if you want to allow the guests to shake the big box or not. The person who guess is closest to the actual answer wins the game !

Ornament Guess !
Age group : Any Age Group
Items required : Christmas tree with many ornaments hanging on it
Description : A great way to start any Christmas party is to have guests guess how many ornaments are on your tree when they walk into your party. The winner gets to pick any one ornament from the tree as a gift !

Christmas Memory Tray Game
Age group : Any Age Group
Items required : Tray , Christmas related items ( e.g cookie cutter, sock , candy sticks, cookies, candle, Christmas Ornaments etc ) Paper, Pen & Timer
Description : Get 15 to 20 small or medium sized Christmas items and place on a tray. The more the merrier ! Please note that you can include more than one of each item . Now set the tray down or walk around with the tray and allow the guests to have a look at the tray for a minute or two and then take the tray out of the room. Now give each of the guests paper and pen and set the timer to two minutes and have them write down as many of the Christmas items that they can remember from their memory . The person who can guess the most number of items is the winner !

Siamese Gift Wrap Game
Age group : Any Age Group
Items required : Wrapping Paper & Items required for wrapping a gift ( ribbon, bow, tape )
Description : Pair up the guests . Depending on the space you can have one or more teams playing at one time . Let them know that they will be wrapping up a Christmas gift as a team using only one hand of each team member. Each team then proceeds to wrap their gift without using scissors , only using the supplies which are already provided to them ( wrapping paper, tape, bow, and ribbon ) The winning team is the team who wraps their gift the best in the allotted 5 minutes or lesser , and they get to take home a gift ! Th winner is chosen by the audience.

Stocking Guessing Game
Age group : Any Age Group
Items required : Stocking filled with Random Christmas Objects , Paper, Pen & Ribbon
Description : Firstly the host puts lots of random Christmas related objects in a stocking . Once it is stuffed, tie a ribbon or string around the top of the stocking so that nobody can peek. Have all the players sit around in a circle and pass the stocking around for them to feel it .Give each of them a paper and pen for them to note down their guesses ,as to what could be inside the stocking. The person who gets the most number of right answers is the winner !

Blindfold Christmas Drawing
Age group : Adults
Items required : Paper Plates , Markers & Blindfolds
Description : First , grab some paper plates & markers. Players are blindfolded and hold their paper plates on top of their head. One person then gives instructions while the other players try to draw what is being described onto the plate.The most accurate drawing wins !

Find Santa's Friends
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Plastic Elves
Description : Hide a variety of stuffed or plastic elves throughout the house. For the younger kids , make the items easy to find and give them a head start . Hide Santa

Holiday Storytellers
Age group : Adults
Description : Everyone stand in a circle , and one person begin a made up holiday story by using one sentence. Each player must after that recite what the previous player told and add one line of their own. If any player forgets a detail while recalling the whole story , then that person is out. The story and the game keeps building up until only one person can recall all the details in the story. That person is the winner !

Two Truths & A Lie ( Christmas Edition )
Age group : Adults
Description : Transform this classic into a Christmas game by asking the players to think of three Christmas Gifts. Two of the Christmas gifts must be gifts which the players actually received and one of the gifts should be a lie . One of the players announces their three gifts in random order while the other players try to guess which gift is a lie. This game continues until all the players have got a chance.

Take A Bow
Age group : Suitable for Office Parties
Items required : Plenty of Bows
Description : Give each guest a handful of bows at the start of the party . Their goal is to secretively stick them onto the backs of as many guests as possible while avoiding getting "bow-ed" themselves. When the time is called off , the guests have to have a shot for each bow that they have on their back !

Marshmallow Munch
Age group : Any Age Group
Items required : Mini Marshmallows , Cups & Hot Chocolate
Description : Have the players eat an entire bowl of mini marshmallows and drink a cup of hot chocolate all within a minute. The player who manages to complete this within a minute is the winner !

Candy Cane Game
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Plenty of Candy Canes, Stockings, Chopsticks & a Bowl
Description : Fill a bowl with candy canes and place it in the center of the table .You can place a cup inside the stocking to keep it open. Place the stocking on the other end of the table. Give each player a chopstick. Each player must place the chopstick in their mouth, on the start of go players must place their hands behind their back and try to hook as many candy canes on their chopstick as they can , and transfer them to the stocking. Give each player one minute to complete this task. The player who gets the most candy canes in the stocking wins !

Red Nose Reindeer Game
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Pom Pom (red) , Ribbon & Vaseline
Description : In this game you will need to provide each player with a red craft pom pom with a ribbon attached ( around 7 inches) . Each player receives a dollop of Vaseline on their nose. Players then hold the loose end of the ribbon in their mouth and on the start of go they must try and swing the pom pom and have it stick on their nose. They are not allowed to use their hands or any other body part or object to help them . The first player to complete the task wins !

Stocking Stuffers or Bluffers
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Stockings for each of the players, Chits with dares & Money
Description : Hang out assorted stockings on a string . In some stockings place different denominations of cash ( mostly smaller amounts, few large amounts and one big prize) . In other stockings , place challenges or dares . Players then take turns choosing a stocking but they must agree that if they get a challenge card they must do it. A few challenges can be as follows : " Stuff your mouth full of marshmallows and sing Jingle Bells in front of everyone" , " Wear Santa hat for the rest of the party " , " Drink a jug of eggnog in 30 seconds" and so on. The players who get the cash denominations or the big prize in their stocking get to keep it ! This is a fun game to liven up the party

Snowball Toss
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Wreath, Bucket & Marshmallows
Description : To play the game , the participants need to stand behind a designated line and toss the marshmallows onto the bucket through the wreath. There needs to be at least 10 marshmallows in the bucket to complete the task . Also , failing to complete this task in 60 seconds would result in elimination of the player. The player who completes this task within the given 60 seconds is the winner !

Ornament on a Spoon
Age group : Kids & Adults
Items required : Spoons & Ornaments
Description : Firstly divide the participants into teams which consist of 4 members each. Next you have to set up a relay course which must include obstacles as well . The first person from the team , then puts the ornament on their spoon and walks around the course , comes back and hands the spoon to the next person of their team , without using their hands. If a player drops the ornament at any time then he/she has to go through the whole course again. The team that gets all its four players to complete the course is the winning team !

Candy Cane Hunt
Age group : Kids
Items required : Candy Canes & Holiday theme bags for each of the kids
Description : The hosts or the elders of the family have to hide candy canes in the play room and living room . You can put some in places that are more accessible and some in cleverly hidden places. Now hand over holiday theme bags to the kids and ask them to go on a candy cane hunt. You can even set up a time limit for this activity. The kid who manages to get the most number of candy canes within the given time limit is the winner !