THE MITTEN MUNCH RELAY GAME - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Several pairs of mittens, Hersheys kisses
Eating a piece of candy is so relaxing, unless you have to wear mittens while unwrapping the candy. This relay game has kids racing to be the first team to eat candy while they have mittens on.
Game details and instructions: Divide the group into 2, 3 or 4 teams and line them up at one end of the room. Then when you say go the first kids from each team must run down to where the mittens and kisses are and put on the mittens and then take a kiss unwrap it eat it, take the mittens off and run back to their team, tag the next team member and then they do the same thing.
The relay race continues until all team members have finished the task and all are back to the starting point. If the teams are not even in number then the first person must go twice so that the numbers are even. First team done wins.
THE GIFT WRAP RELAY - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: 2 Boxes the same size, pre-cut pieces of wrapping paper, tape
Teams race against each other to see you can wrap the gift the fastest. This relay type game is fun for kids 7 - 12. Game details, instructions and variations
This works best for 3rd - 5th graders, they are capable or wrapping gifts, but havent had much practice yet. Select 2 small boxes of equal size. Gift wrap them. Cut extra sheets of wrapping paper to fit the size of the box. You will need one piece of wrapping paper for each child.
Divide the children into teams and let them know that this is a team game where each member will run down to the table unwrap the gift and then wrap it. Once done they will run back to their team tag the next person in line and then they will go to the gift unwrap it and then wrap it and so on. The first team to have each member wrap the gift wins.
To tease the teams before they start, a gift that rattles adds a fun touch. A box of macaroni and cheese works and it gives them a laugh when the first person unwraps it too.
THE STUFF SANTA GAME - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Sweatsuits (preferred red and green), red and green balloons How big would Santa be if you stuffed him full of balloons? Well find out with this team game that challenges that to stuff Santa til there is no more room! Game details and instructions: Supplies: Sweatsuits (preferred red and green), red and green balloons Divide guest into two teams green and red. Then provide 1 sweatsuit or oversized shirt and sweatpants and an equal number of balloons to each team. If possible color coordinate the sweatsuit and balloons so they are all green and all red. Each team picks one person to get into the "Santa suit" (sweatsuit) and when the time starts, they try to stuff as many balloons into the sweatsuit as possible within the time limit. The team that has the most balloons at the end of 3 minutes is the winner. The Stuffed Santa is quite a sight, so have your camera ready.
UNWRAP THE GIFT GAME - Girls Christmas Games
What's in the Box - Unwrap the Gift Game Supplies: Gift items, wrapping paper, tape, music - that can be turned on and off - varies by game. These 2 unwrap the gift games make the game a challenge and very entertaining. One version has you wearing oven mitts and a another offers a variation with challenges and prizes. Game details, instructions and variations This gift has layer and layers of wrapping paper but who will be the lucky person to unwrap the last layer and win the gift! This hot potato type game has variations that can make each unwrapping entertaining. Wrap a gift or gifts if several groups in several layers of wrapping paper. The number of layers depends on how long you want the game to last, plus the more people the more layers. Have everyone sit in a circle and give your group / groups a gift and tell them when you turn on the music to pass the gift in one direction and when you turn off the music who ever has the gift gets to take off ONE layer of wrapping paper, continue this until the last layer of paper is taken off and whoever has the gift unwrapped gets to keep it. Variation: Place a slip of paper in between each wrapping. On each piece of paper will be and Action / Challenge or Prize. Examples: Action: Hop on one foot 20 times, Blow up a balloon and pop it, etc something silly Prize: Include 1 small prize in 4 or 5 wraps Could be a candy bar or dollar store gift. By adding these twists guests dont know whether they want the gift or not! We recommend you randomly add in these pieces of paper so you dont even know what is next. Then it is a surprise for everyone. Dice Doubles - Unwrap the Gift Game Supplies: Gift, dice, various wrapping paper, tape, scissors Announce that you are going to play a game where you upwrap a gift sounds simple enough, then tell after everyone is seated and ready to go place a set of oven mitts next to the gift. Now it gets a little harder! Get a gift or gift certificate and place in a solid box. We used a hard jewelry case but most boxes will do. Then wrap the gift with paper, then masking tape, paper, masking tape, paper etc… The more layers, the harder the game will be to play and the more interesting. Sit everyone in a circle and announce how the game is played. - Each player takes a turn at rolling 2 dice. - The first person to roll doubles goes to the center of the circle put on the oven mitts/gloves and then starts unwrapping the gift with their hands. They can not use their teeth. - While the person is working on trying to unwap the gift, the dice continue to be rolled and passed until the next person rolls the dice and yells, Stop unwrapping?.
- At that point the person in the middle must put down the gift, take off the oven mitts/gloves and return to their seat. The next person now puts on the mitts and works to unwrap the gift. The dice rolling and unwrapping continues until someone finally gets through all the layers of wrapping paper and tape and holds up the gift. Then the gift is theirs to keep. Hint - to build the excitement, do not tell players that you used masking tape and several layers of paper. Dice Game Variation: Have contestants wear more clothes hat, scarf, and gloves, this just adds more prep time. Instead of changing places every time doubles are rolled, change to be every time double sixes or ones are rolled.
THE DIRTY DICE CHRISTMAS GIFT GRAB GAME - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Gifts, Dice, Timer This gift game involves rolling doubles, selecting gifts and using a timer. This is great for kids and makes the game fun and high action as you try to roll doubles. Children's variation. Game details, instructions and variation: Step 1: Everyone brings a wrapped gift and it is placed in the middle of a room. Step 2: Once everyone is seated two dice are passed to each person to roll (a larger group of people can pass two or three pairs of dice). Whoever shakes a double retrieves a prize but can't open the gift, and so on until all gifts are taken. Everyone who has a gift (some have none, some might have many) opens their gifts for everyone to see. Step 3: Now it gets dirty! A timer is set for 15 minutes and the dice keep going around the room to each person and if someone shakes a double they can steal an unwrapped prize from anyone. 'Everytime' a double is rolled, a prize gets stolen. Step 4: When the timer runs out, that is the end of the game. When we have very young children participating, the adults make sure each child is left with at least one prize. Variation Everyone Gets a Gift Step 2: Once everyone is seated, have guests start rolling the dice and when they get a pair they can pull a gift from the pile. The dice continue to be passed around to those who have not yet rolled a pair. Note: Those who already have a gift are skipped. When you get down to two people rolling dice the last person to roll a pair selects one gift and the other person gets the final present. Step 3: Now everyone has fun opening their gift and seeing what they have. Step 4: Now set a timer for 10 or 15 minutes and start the dice with the person who received the last gift. They roll the dice and if they roll a pair they can now trade gifts with anyone. However, if they roll a pair of 6s then they can trade gifts with anyone and the gift they chose is theirs to keep! No one can steal it. After they roll the dice, they then pass it off to the next play (either to the right or left). Continue playing the game until the buzzer goes off. Once the buzzer sounds, the last turn is finished and each person gets to keep their gift. Standard Holiday Gift Grab Game Decisions / Variations to change it up a bit. Select Budget for gift: Up to $5, $10, $20, etc… When to unwrap? Unwrap after gift selected from the pile or unwrap once everyone has a gift. Number of gift grabs per turn? Limit to 2, 3 or more Gift stealing 3 times and it can no longer be taken or unlimited stealing
THE CHRISTMAS STACKING RELAY GAME - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Duplicate set of wrapped boxes, items inside the boxes (optional), stools / chairs This classic game is a simple gift stacking game that involves speed and balance, plus with a variety of variations this holiday game can get more and more complex as guests race to get the presents home. - Game details, instructions and variations: These versions will get progressively harder. Divide teams in two, Team A and B Now split each team so half are at one end of the room and half at the other end. (Distance 15 20 feet.) Stack 3 gifts on top of each other. Teams are told that they must take the stack of gifts from one stool to the other stool with out dropping any gifts. Then the next person must pick up the gifts and take them back to the other stool. First team done wins.
Note if the gifts fall then the person must go back to their starting point and begin again. * Variations - Easy version for small kids use empty boxes. - A little trickier add chairs that guests must weave around (obstacles) - Harder version tell teams that they can only use one hand to carry the gifts (two when lifting off stool) - More Difficult add items into the gifts top box apple or orange! - Even more difficult increase to 4 boxes, 5 or more. * Another variation: In this version the first person races with 1 gift to their teammate, where they hand off the gift and add 1 more gift. Now the person must take 2 gifts to the other end, where the next person must take 3 gifts, etc *This continues until the first team successful carries 10 gifts from one stool to the next without dropping the gifts!
MORE GIRLS CHRISTMAS GAMES
CANDY CANE PASS (Relay race) - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: 4 candy canes per team (have a few extras due to breakage) How To Play: Player holds 4 candy canes between fingers and passes them down the line, teammate to teammate, without dropping.
PASS THE ORNAMENT - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Straw for each child Ornaments cut out of tissue paper (tree, bell, star, etc.) How To Play: Pass the ornaments down the line, teammate to teammate, by inhaling and exhaling on the straw to hang on to or release the ornament. No hands!
RUDOLPH DASH - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies:Vaseline Cut circles out of red construction paper How To Play: Have child put Vaseline on their nose and then put the red circles on their nose. Relay race to the finish with each new person adding their red nose. If nose falls, go back to bowl and add more Vaseline and reapply nose.
SANTA SAYS - Girls Christmas Games
How To Play: Played similar to Simon Says. The player up is "Santa". Player will say "Santa says hop on one foot".
The children will hop on one foot. Player will say "Stop". The children are to keep hopping on one foot until player says "Santa says stop". Repeat for additional activities such as take one baby step forward, step backwards, turn around, sit down. Sometimes Santa will say "Santa says" and sometimes he won't. It's a fun game to play with young children.
BOOK EXCHANGE - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Inexpensive book gift wrapped for each child Book- The Gingerbread Man How To Play: Children set in a circle, each one holding a wrapped book. A Room Mother reads The Gingerbread Man story. Every time the word "ran" is spoken you pass the book to the person on your right. Continue doing until the story is over. Whoever has the book on their lap at the end of the story is theirs to keep and open.
FILL THE CHRISTMAS STOCKING - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Stocking, spoon and bowl for each team. Wrapped candy. How To Play: Divide into teams. Have children line up at one end of the room. At the other end, hang a Christmas stocking for each team. Place a bowl of candy and a spoon in front of each team. Each child takes a turn taking a candy from the bowl with the spoon. They then carry the candy on the spoon to the stocking and drop the candy in the stocking. Race back to the next person in line, give them the spoon. First team to fill the stocking wins!
SANTA SANTA - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies:
Santa sleigh
How To Play: Have children sit in a large circle and blindfold one child. Another child will be given the sleigh and must say:
Santa Santa, where's your sleigh
Someone's come and taken it away
Guess who Guess who?
The blindfolded child gets three guesses. The child who has the sleigh is next to be blindfolded.
CHRISTMAS MEMORY GAME - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: 18 items in box How To Play: Show the items in the box to the children.
Remove one or more items out of the box (without children seeing you). Have the children guess what items are missing. For older children put items on large tray or cookie sheet. Cover. Remove cover for 20-30 seconds and then remove tray from room. On your mark, the children are to write down as many items that they can remember from the tray before you yell, "STOP". Most correct answers wins.
GIFT UNWRAP RELAY - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Empty boxes wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper How To Play: Divide the class into teams. Put a stack of presents at the end of each team's course. The first child in each team runs to the presents, unwraps one, and races back to the next person in line. First team finished unwrapping wins! Note: To make cleaning a little easier, parents may wish to adapt this game to where the child unwraps, throws away the paper, then runs back!
WORD FIND - Girls Christmas Games
Take a Christmas related word such as: Christmas, Poinsettia, Candy cane, etc. and find as many smaller words from it as possible before the timer runs out.
Example: Christmas
Words: sit, is, his, miss, rat, tar, this, math, chair, rim...
Example: Candy cane
Words: candy, cane, and, dance, day, nay, can, dye, an, any...
Christmas Twenty Questions - Girls Christmas Games
Teacher starts by choosing a Christmas related person, place, or thing. The teacher says, "I'm thinking of something". The children try to guess what it is by asking no more than twenty questions that can be answered "YES", "NO", or I DON'T KNOW". The student who guesses correctly is next up.
Clue Teacher thinks of person, place, or thing. Teacher gives a clue. Begin at one end of the room and work your way around allowing each student to take a turn guessing until one student solves the case. The student who solves the case goes next.
Example: Frosty Clue: I'm thinking of someone who wears a hat Clue: He loves snow Clue: He'll melt if it gets too warm outside Clues should be age appropriate for the children playing.
Freeze - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Christmas music How To Play: Begin playing music. Everyone moves and dances until the music stops then they must "freeze"
in whatever position they happen to be in.
Littlest Angel or Good Elf - Girls Christmas Games
How To Play: Challenge the children to do random acts of kindness for others for one day.
Tell them that they are not to reveal that they have done these nice things and if someone should ask them, "did you make sisters bed"?
they can reply, "Must have been a good elf". This game helps children realize we don't always have to be recognized when we do something for someone else.
If playing with preschoolers or kindergarteners, you may want to send a note home with them explaining how parents can help.
Feliz Navidad Party Ideas - Girls Christmas Games
Craft Activity/Supplies:
Write Feliz Navidad on miniature sombreros with green paint pens.
Make tiny chile peppers to hang on them for memento shelf.
Food and Decor: Cactus juice- Any green punch
Nachos- Chips & salsa
Layered Mexican dip
Flour tortillas rolled with cream cheese & salsa
Sapodillas (bought from local Mexican restaurant)
Burritos cut in half
Mexican blanket for tablecloth
Pinata for decoration
Lots of balloons
Tissue flowers
Poinsettias big holiday flower in Mexico
Three-Legged Stocking Race - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Oversized stocking that will fit two feet Tie Tape to mark finish line How To Play: Pair up kids. Have each pair put a leg in the oversized stocking and tie it at top so that it won't fall off. Make sure you have plenty of space. Put all the pairs at one end and mark a finish line at the other. On your mark the kids race to be the first pair over the line.
Pin The Nose On Frosty or Rudolph - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Big Picture of Frosty or Rudolph Red circle or orange carrot shape for each child, with adhesive on back
and their name on the front A blindfold How To Play: Blindfold the player, spin 'em around and let them try to stick the
nose where it's supposed to go. Give a prize for the player that gets the closest.
CHRISTMAS SCRAMBLE - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Index cards Paper bags. How To Play: Choose a Christmas word such as: Christmas, Candy Cane, Santa Claus, Reindeer.
Write the letters of the word on individual index cards. Do this two times, making two sets. Put each set in a brown paper bag.
Divide children into teams. Give each team a bag. The first team to decipher what the word in the bag is wins.
A variation of the game would be to divide into teams with the same number of children as there are letters in the word.
Each child gets a letter and they must hold onto the card and stand in the proper order to spell the word for all to see.
FROSTY SNOWBALL TOSS - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Large cardboard with Frosty drawn on one side with a good size hole cut-out in belly or a few small holes for older kids
Marshmallows wrapped in plastic wrap and tied Bucket to hold snowballs Tape to mark distance line How To Play:
Place cardboard Frosty a little distance from a wall with a paper box lid on floor to catch snowballs.
Mark your distance line according to age and skill of children.
Line children up behind the line and place a bucket of marshmallows beside them.
Give each child three tries to get their marshmallow snowball through the hole.
Get all three snowballs in and earn a snowball reward.
CHRISTMAS CONCENTRATION GAME - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Colored butcher paper Marker Adhesive Christmas trivia questions Stocking How To Play: On a large piece of colored butcher paper write out a message using words and symbols. Example: Have "ewe"rself a very "Mary" "Christ"mas ("pictures"). Cut into several odd shapes, turn over so words face the chalkboard. In a stocking have Christmas trivia questions. Pull out a question. Read. Player that answers correctly may turn any piece of the puzzle over. First player or team to guess what's written wins. Guess incorrectly, lose a turn. Play over and over; it's lots of fun!
BLIND SNOWMAN GAME - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper Pencil. How To Play: Give everyone a piece of paper and a pencil.
Explain to them that they will close their eyes and you will tell them what to draw. DON'T tell them they're drawing a snowman!
Draw 3 circles on top of each other. Each circle gets smaller from bottom to top.
In the middle circle draw three buttons going vertically down the center. In the top circle draw two eyes, a carrot nose, and a mouth.
Draw a hat on top of the smallest circle. Draw stick arms on both sides of the middle circle. Draw a broom in one stick hand. Open your eyes! If playing with older children you might want to devise a point system, such as:
5 points for each circle that touches the other. Points for the hat touching the head, the eyes being in the top circle, etc.
TONGUE TWISTERS - Girls Christmas Games
Supplies: Silly Christmas Phrases How To Play: Say each phrase three times as fast as you can. Let kids practice on their own or take volunteers to come up and try their best for all to hear. A candy can prize for anyone who tries. Chocolate cocoa cravings cure colds Santa sings shining star songs Sally skis super slow Big bright bells banish boredom Grumpy Grinch goes grizzly gus Pretty packages perfectly packed Tip-top tiny tot toys Sally's striped stocking's stuffed slightly Santa's super souped sleigh swiftly slides sideways Cheery cute caroling Christmas critters Candy cane cookies keep kids coming Snowball Dance How to Play: Middle School dance or higher. All the girls stand on one side, the boys on the other. One girl and one boy are chosen to dance for a minute (or two), a signal is given and the girl and the boy choose new partners. This continues until everyone is dancing.
