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Christmas Party games?
I'm sorry for duplicates - I already posted this on the EI board - I really need help!
Every year the women in my family (about 20 of us) get together for a shopping weekend before Christmas. It is a BIG deal. We wait all year for it. Saturday night, we always have three games, that produce a winner each. The winners get to choose from one of three prizes. The prizes are really big usually, my aunts or my grandma will spend all year making them (like a hand-made christmas stocking, or an small christmas tree that is already fully decorated). It gets cut-throat and super competitive.
So.. I need help coming up with some new games. The games have to appeal to a range of ages (85-20). Can't involve too much screaming, or action, as grandma can't run, and is as cut-throat as the rest of us. The game has to produce a clear winner, and cannot be too complicated. Here are games we've played in the past:
Pin-the-nose on rudolph.
Bunco
Christmas Bingo
Pitch the pennies
Guess-how-many M&M's in the jar
Bean-bag throw
Washers
Spoons (this was a bad idea)
Christmas Trivia
Poker
Please help! Any ideas??
Re: Christmas Party games?
How about something like this: http://www.brownielocks.com/ChristmasCarolPictureQuiz.html
You can have a set time and the person to get the most in say 15 mins wins.
Jeopardy, Christmas style
Scavenger hunt
Christmas Song Scramble -- have a long list of christmas songs where the title is scramble (i.e. ibjnelsegll = Jingle Bells). Set a time to play and whoever correctly unscramlbes the most wins.
If you make the list, you can't play though. However, I'm sure you can find one online and get the answers afterward so you can stilll play.
Oh, I just thought of one. You know the game where there are pictures that make words and you try and guess the words?
For example:
ABCDEFGHIJK MNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Answer: NOEL
You could make a bunch of those. And the person who finishes them first or gets the most correct wins.
I just saw this one online, it sounds like fun:
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.